Condé Nast
•68% Informative
Donald Trump was doggedly covered by the Village Voice, the New York City alternative newspaper founded in 1955 by Norman Mailer, Ed Fancher, and Dan Wolf.
Over his 37-year career at the Voice, Wayne Barrett hounded New York’s most powerful figures, including Rudy Giuliani, Rudy Giuliani and Al D’Amato.
In the late seventies through the eighties and nineties, Trump would become a flashy figure in high society, much to the benefit of gossip columnists and his own public profile.
Village Voice reporter Wayne Barrett met with Donald Trump several times over the next few months, taping fifteen hours of energetic monologue, riding with him in his limo, and relaxing through expansive interviews on his penthouse couch.
After getting to know him, Barrett realized that his deals are his life, not his lifestyle or his personality.
Wayne Barrett focused on the relationship between Donald Trump and Roy Cohn.
The Voice had been threatened with a lawsuit by Trump's lawyer/consigliere, who also was Rupert Murdoch's guy.
Cohn would complain about the Voice, but he never sued us, nor did Trump, and neither did Trump.
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