““They did not get together after the story. Barrett’s article—published in two parts in 1979—was the first to reveal the prominent role that Fred Trump’s political connections and campaign contributions, along with legally questionable favors granted by government and bankruptcy-court officials, played in Donald’s meteoric rise. Trump’s response to the story was, compared to the media wars that would develop in the years to come, tame. He stopped taking Barrett’s calls, criticized him to other reporters.””
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