According to Schwartz in July 2016, Trump wrote none of the book, choosing only to remove a few critical mentions of business colleagues at the end of the process.
[4] Trump responded with conflicting stories, saying "I had a lot of choice of who to have write the book, and I chose [Schwartz]", but then said "[Schwartz] didn't write the book.
I wrote the book."
[4] Former
Random House head
Howard Kaminsky, the book's original publisher, said "Trump didn’t write a postcard for us!"
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