After waffling for a couple of weeks, I just ordered the book myself. It’s part of a larger pattern of reading that I do, and who gets royalties for it is pretty much not a factor. The author is uniquely situated and professionally credentialed, and I want to see her analysis for myself.
Also I don’t mind annoying Trump a little bit. Don’t you suppose he will hate knowing that I bought this book? Let’s imagine that for a nanosecond.
@Yellowdog, further on Shapiro: I did not say what I believe or disbelieve. I asked questions. I notice how often you ascribe a view to someone and then attack it, when it’s your own invention. You don’t pay much attention to what people actually say.
Trump’s SAT-taking would have occurred around 1963 or 1964. His widow was born in 1962. So she definitely was not on hand to know if her late husband did or did not do any particular thing in high school. I couldn’t attest to anything my husband did in high school either, even though I believe him to be an honest man, because I didn’t know him then and don’t have any independent source of information. Anything I might think I know could only be second or third hand, and might or might not be modified a little to downplay some youthful indiscretion.
Arguing about what someone would or would not have done hardly amounts to evidence about what they actually did or did not do. Why do you suppose Trump wants his school records guarded almost as closely as his tax returns? Could it be—he’s hiding something??
The fact that the accused is deceased is pretty convenient, yes: but for whom more so than Trump?