Mr. Trump traces his epistolary habits to his attempt to win over Franklin M. Jarman, who controlled a Manhattan department store that Mr. Trump wanted to buy in the 1970s to make way for Trump Tower. “It truly captured the strength, the will and the soul of the Polish people,” Mr. Trump wrote. “Now I know why the press always treated you so badly — they couldn’t stand you,” Mr. Trump wrote. Mr. Jarman rarely replied to Mr. Trump’s letters, but he had, in fact, read them, Mr. Trump wrote in his book “The Art of the Deal,” laying the groundwork for an agreement. In the 1990s, Mr. Trump occasionally fawned over New York’s brash mayor, Rudolph W. Giuliani.

Source: New York Times June 02, 2016 09:00 UTC