Trump Biographer Busts Trump's Biggest Myth About Himself Wide Open

Donald Trump biographer Tim OBrien on Wednesday laid bare what he sees as the facade of the former president as a business guru.

OBrien, appearing on MSNBC s Deadline: White House, reflected on what he said was the former presidents yearslong practice of stripping average folks from their paychecks after The New York Times reported that more than $100 million of Trumps legal fees had been paid from money fundraised off of his peddling of 2020 election lies.

OBrien published TrumpNation: The Art of Being the Donald in 2005 and previously was executive editor of The Huffington Post.

Trumps Atlantic City casino business busted average working-class folks on the premise that maybe they get rich, OBrien said. Of course, some of them were going there for fun, but a larger sort of mojo of the business was selling a false dream to these folks.

The four-times-indicted presumptive GOP nominees Art Of The Deal book was meant to be a Bible about how to be successful in business, when in the real world hes a serial bankruptcy artist, he continued.

Trump presented himself on his NBC business reality show The Apprentice as an entrepreneurial guru to the masses and the hardest working corporate executive in America when in fact hes lazy and he plays golf most of the time and hes not particularly bright, OBrien said.

Trump later monetized his presidency whether its his hotel near the White House or now, in a really grand mal, grotesque way, taking campaign finance donations and using to pay his personal legal bills, he added.