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DEAL WITH IT

BY MATTHEW COOPER

@mattizcoop

BACK TO THE SHOWERS: Even though Republicans control both the House and Senate, Trump will have a hard time delivering on some of his campaign promises.
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IN 1987, Donald Trump helped create his image as a master negotiator with his best-selling book, The Art of the Deal. Never mind that his ghostwriter, Tony Schwartz, says he wrote virtually all of it. Either way, the book includes an important lesson: Not every deal goes well. “I never get too attached to one deal or one approach,” Trump (and Schwartz) writes. “For starters, I keep a lot of balls in the air, because most deals fall out, no matter how promising they seem at first.”

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17th March 2017
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