--- title: Donald Trump Lawyer Rebukes Art of the Deal Co-Author description: The ghostwriter credited with writing the Art of the Deal was served with a cease-and-desist letter by a lawyer for Donald Trump canonical: https://time.com/4416768/tony-schwartz-laywer-trump/ author: Justin Worland article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-07-21T12:47:37.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:45:53.912Z article:section: Politics og:title: Donald Trump Lawyer Rebukes Art of the Deal Co-Author og:description: The ghostwriter credited with writing the Art of the Deal was served with a cease-and-desist letter by a lawyer for Donald Trump og:url: https://time.com/4416768/tony-schwartz-laywer-trump/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta30db8bf8627c2e6/69889d01524fc05322df8d1f/trump-art-of-the-deal-ssue1.jpg?branch=production&width=944&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 944 og:image:height: 531 og:image:alt: trump-art-of-the-deal-ssue og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Donald Trump Lawyer Rebukes Art of the Deal Co-Author twitter:description: The ghostwriter credited with writing the Art of the Deal was served with a cease-and-desist letter by a lawyer for Donald Trump twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta30db8bf8627c2e6/69889d01524fc05322df8d1f/trump-art-of-the-deal-ssue1.jpg?branch=production&width=944&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Donald Trump Hands His Ghostwriter Cease-and-Desist Letter After Criticism > Sponsored content. 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Greenblatt asked that Schwartz pay back “a certified check made payable to Mr. Trump,” according to a New York _Times_ [report](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/21/us/politics/trump-tony-schwartz-book.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cu&%5Fr=0). Schwartz had previously told the _New Yorker_ that he wrote all of _Art of the Deal_ despite claims to the contrary by Trump. Schwartz said the Trump of 2016 was evident even when he worked on the book in the 1980s. During the writing process, Trump could not stay focused, often exaggerated the truth and boasted about his own accomplishments, said Schwartz. The book would be better titled “the sociopath,” Schwartz [told the _New Yorker_](http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/25/donald-trumps-ghostwriter-tells-all). “I genuinely believe that if Trump wins and gets the nuclear codes there is an excellent possibility it will lead to the end of civilization,” he said. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4416768/tony-schwartz-laywer-trump/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4416768/tony-schwartz-laywer-trump/"},"headline":"Donald Trump Hands His Ghostwriter Cease-and-Desist Letter After Criticism","datePublished":"2016-07-21T12:47:37.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:45:53.912Z","description":"“It’s nuts and completely indicative of who he is\"","url":"https://time.com/4416768/tony-schwartz-laywer-trump/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta30db8bf8627c2e6/69889d01524fc05322df8d1f/trump-art-of-the-deal-ssue1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Justin Worland","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/justin-worland/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta30db8bf8627c2e6/69889d01524fc05322df8d1f/trump-art-of-the-deal-ssue1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"trump-art-of-the-deal-ssue","caption":"Art of the Deal - Donald Trump and Tony Schwartz","creditText":"Random House","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4416768/tony-schwartz-laywer-trump/","name":"Donald Trump Hands His Ghostwriter Cease-and-Desist Letter After Criticism"}}]}] ```