Hillary 'triggered' suicide of President Bill Clinton's counsel Vince Foster when she attacked and humiliated him in front of White House staff one we

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[h=1]Hillary 'triggered' suicide of President Bill Clinton's counsel Vince Foster when she attacked and humiliated him in front of White House staff one week before his death, FBI agents claim[/h]

• Deputy White House Counsel Vince Foster shot himself with a .38 caliber revolver at Fort Marcy Park along the Potomac River on July 20, 1993

• A week before his death, First Lady Hillary Clinton held a meeting with Foster and other aides to discuss her proposed health care legislation

• Hillary violently disagreed with a legal objection Foster raised and ridiculed him in front of his peers, say former FBI agents
• 'Hillary put him down really, really bad in a pretty good-size meeting,' former agent Coy Copeland reveals
• 'She told him he would always be a little hick town lawyer who was obviously not ready for the big time.' says Copeland
• 'You have failed us,' Hillary told Foster according to former FBI Jim Clemente says
• Foster's behavior changed dramatically - he became withdrawn and preoccupied, and his sense of humor vanished

By RONALD KESSLER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 14:55, 2 June 2016 | UPDATED: 15:41, 2 June 2016

 

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Ronald Kessler, a former Washington Post and Wall Street Journal investigative reporter, is the New York Times bestselling author of The First Family Detail: Secret Service Agents Reveal the Hidden Lives of the Presidents and The Secrets of the FBI.


FBI agents investigating the death of Bill Clinton's Deputy White House Counsel found that Hillary Clinton 'triggered' his suicide when she attacked and humiliated her mentor from their former Rose Law Firm in front of other White House aides a week before he took his own life.



Vince Foster's suicide has been the focus of much speculation since he shot himself in a Virginia park in 1993, as Donald Trump pointed out in a recent interview.

'It's the one thing with her, whether it's Whitewater or whether it's Vince or whether it's Benghazi. It's always a mess with Hillary,' Trump said.


But former FBI agents believe they had the story straight.

The FBI investigation was conducted for independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr's probe of the Clintons' investments in the Whitewater real estate development

. For unknown reasons, Starr elected to conceal the FBI's findings in his final report.



But in interviews for my book The First Family Detail, the FBI agents revealed the truth about Foster's death on July 20, 1993 when he shot himself at Fort Marcy Park along the Potomac River.

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The FBI found that a week before Vince Foster's suicide, First Lady Hillary held a meeting at the White House with Foster and other top aides to discuss her proposed health care legislation during which she berated the lawyer

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Hillary violently disagreed with a legal objection Foster raised at a meeting on her health care proposal and ridiculed him in front of his peers, says former FBI agent Coy Copeland

 

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In interviewing Clinton White House aides and Foster's friends and family, the FBI found that a week before Foster's death, Hillary held a meeting at the White House with Foster and other top aides to discuss her proposed health care legislation.


Hillary violently disagreed with a legal objection Foster raised at the meeting and ridiculed him in front of his peers, former FBI agent Coy Copeland and former FBI supervisory agent Jim Clemente told me.


Copeland was Starr's senior investigator and read the reports of other agents working for Starr.


During the White House meeting, Hillary continued to humiliate Foster mercilessly, both former FBI agents say.


'Hillary put him down really, really bad in a pretty good-size meeting,' Copeland says. 'She told him he didn't get the picture, and he would always be a little hick town lawyer who was obviously not ready for the big time.'

Indeed, Hillary went so far as to blame Foster for all the Clintons' problems and accuse him of failing them, according to Clemente, who was also assigned by the FBI to the Starr investigation and who probed the circumstances surrounding Foster's suicide.


'Foster was profoundly depressed, but Hillary lambasting him was the final straw because she publicly embarrassed him in front of others,' says Clemente, speaking about the investigation for the first time.


'Hillary blamed him for failed nominations, claimed he had not vetted them properly, and said in front of his White House colleagues, "You're not protecting us" and "You have failed us," Clemente says. 'That was the final blow.'

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Vince Foster shot himself at Fort Macy Park in Virginia. After the meeting with Clinton, Foster's behavior changed dramatically, the FBI agents found

 

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After the meeting, Foster's behavior changed dramatically, the FBI agents found. Those who knew him said his voice sounded strained, he became withdrawn and preoccupied, and his sense of humor vanished. At times, Foster teared up. He talked of feeling trapped.


On Tuesday, July 13, 1993, while having dinner with his wife Lisa, Foster broke down and began to cry. He said he was considering resigning.


That weekend, Foster and his wife drove to the Eastern Shore of Maryland, where they saw their friends, Michael Cardoza and Webster Hubbell, and their wives.


'They played tennis, they swam, and they said he sat in a lawn chair, just kind of sat there in the lawn chair,' Copeland says.
'They said that just was not Vince. He loved to play tennis, and he was always sociable, but he just sat over in the corner by himself and stared off into space, reading a book.'


Two days later, Foster left the White House parking lot at 1.10 p.m. The precise time when he shot himself could not be pinpointed. After Park Police found his body, they notified the U.S. Secret Service at 8.30 p.m.


Based on what 'dozens' of others who had contact with Foster after that meeting told the agents, while Foster was already depressed, 'the put-down that she gave him in that big meeting just pushed him over the edge,' Copeland says. 'It was the final straw that broke the camel's back.'


No one can explain a suicide in rational terms. But the FBI investigation concluded that it was Hillary's vilification of Foster in front of other White House aides, coming on top of his depression, that triggered his suicide about a week later, Copeland and Clemente both say.

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President Clinton, Hillary and daughter Chelsea, leave St. Andrew's Catholic Cathedral with Father George Tribou in Little Rock, Arkansas, July 23, 1993, after funeral services for Foster

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The FBI investigation concluded that it was Hillary's vilification of Foster in front of other White House aides, coming on top of his depression, that triggered his suicide about a week later, Copeland and Clemente both say.

 

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Starr issued a 38,000-word report, along with a separate psychologist's report on the factors that contributed to Foster's suicide.


Yet Starr never mentioned the meeting with Hillary, leaving out the fact that his own investigation had found that Hillary's rage had led to her friend's suicide.


Why Starr chose to not reveal the critical meeting and his own investigators' findings remains a mystery.


While the Clintons claimed Starr was out to get them, Clemente says that as his staff hanged, Starr vacillated between pursuing the investigation aggressively and pulling his punches.


For example, the former FBI supervisor agent reveals that Starr refused to allow him to try to interview Hillary about her commodities trading.


For reasons still unknown, in her first commodity trade in 1978, Hillary was allowed to order ten cattle futures contracts, which would normally cost $12,000, although she had only $1,000 in her account at the time, according to trade records the White House released.


Hillary was able to turn her initial investment into $6,300 overnight. In ten months of trading, she made nearly $100,000. She claimed she made smart trades based on information from the Wall Street Journal.


The question, Clemente says, was why she was allowed to make investments while ignoring normal margin calls that require traders to cover any losses incurred during the course of trading.

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Starr issued a 38,000-word report, along with a separate psychologist's report on the factors that contributed to Foster's suicide. Yet Starr never mentioned the meeting with Hillary, leaving out the fact that his own investigation had found that Hillary's rage had led to her friend's suicide

Starr's report recounted how the FBI ran down even the most bizarre theories about Foster's death and conducted extensive ballistics tests that refuted assertions that Foster had not committed suicide.


Starr retained Dr. Brian D. Blackbourne, a forensic pathologist who is the medical examiner for San Diego County, California, to review the case.
He concluded that 'Vincent Foster committed suicide on July 20, 1993 in Ft. Marcy Park by placing a .38 caliber revolver in his mouth and pulling the trigger. His death was at his own hand.'


Starr also retained Dr. Henry C. Lee, an expert in physical evidence and crime scene reconstruction who then was director of the Connecticut State Police Forensic Science Laboratory.


He reported that after a 'careful review of the crime scene photographs, reports, and reexamination of the physical evidence, the data indicate that the death of Mr. Vincent W. Foster Jr. is consistent with a suicide. The location where Mr. Foster's body was found is consistent with the primary scene,' meaning the place where he committed suicide
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But in his report, Starr never referred to the meeting where Hillary humiliated Foster in front of aides, nor to the change in his disposition after that.



Starr never told Copeland or Clemente why he decided to exclude the material from his report, and the former FBI agents can only speculate on his reasoning.


'Starr was a very honorable-type guy, and if it did not pertain to our authorized investigation, he did not want to pursue it,' Copeland says. 'And I think he felt that Hillary's personality and her dealings with subordinates in the White House were immaterial to our investigation.'


'Starr didn't want to offend the conscience of the public by going after the first lady,' Clemente says. 'He said the first lady is an institution. He acted most of the time as a judge instead of as an investigating prosecutor, and then he hired attorneys who went to the other extreme.'


Asked why he excluded the reasons for Foster's suicide from his report, Starr did not respond. A spokesman for Hillary Clinton had no comment.


While Starr refused to allow FBI agents to try to interview Hillary, Copeland recounts one encounter with her. It underscores why, as detailed in The First Family Detail, Secret Service agents consider being assigned to Hillary's detail a form of punishment because she is so nasty.


As he was serving a subpoena in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building adjacent to the White House, Copeland says, another FBI agent working on the Foster investigation made the mistake of saying hello to Hillary as she passed him.


'She had a standing rule that no one spoke to her when she was going from one location to another,' Copeland says. 'In fact, anyone who would see her coming would just step into the first available office.'

 

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Former FBI supervisory agent Jim Clemente (above) told Ron Kessler Hillary violently disagreed with a legal objection Foster raised at the meeting and ridiculed him in front of his peers


But the agent 'didn't know the ground rules,' Copeland says. 'He dared to speak to her in the hallway,' he says. 'As he was leaving, she got out of the elevator and was approaching him.'
'Good morning, Mrs. Clinton,' the agent said.


'She jumped all over him,' Copeland says. "How dare you? You people are just destroying my husband."


'It was that vast right-wing conspiracy rant. Then she had to tack on something to the effect of, "And where do you buy your suits? Penney's?'


For many weeks, the agent told no one about the encounter.


'Finally, he told me about it,' Copeland says. 'And he said, "I was wearing the best suit I owned."'

 

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She comes across as a very nasty piece of work,and you can see why Bill strayed,the woman is heartless.

 

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there are so many real and easy to see warts all over her body, I prefer to pick the low hanging fruit

when we start to speculate and reach for issues which are easy for her to deflect, it diminishes the much more credible arguments and it lets her dismiss her real problems as part of a "vast right wing conspiracy"

 

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'You have failed us,' Hillary told Foster - No, she has failed us.

 

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Kessler is a joke. Terrible job Superbeets

 

[Coldweather]

Sounds like some reliable FBI Agents feel Hillary may have been the trigger. This is very bad and she should be put into jail for this too imo!

Who in the hell do she think she is! I think she is a bad person and a ca ca head! :youmad:

 

[Acebb]

Remember:

I was a lifelong Democrat. The Clintons drove me to become an Independant. As long as they headed the party, it wasn't my Democratic party. I am very anti Bush, and am strongly supporting and voting for Kerry, and if he wins, I will likely re-register as a Democrat as the Clintons will be done with in my party. I cannot stand Hillary. She is a liar. She is a phony. She is an opportunist. She has no morals.
Based on my readings, she was involved in the death of Vincent Foster.
In the Monica garbage, she had the gall to try and blame it on a vast right wing conspiracy when her husband couldn't keep it in his pants and lied to the people, and she knew very well he was lying because he had done it for the last 20 years. She was an enabler. Be honest. If you have an open marriage, or no marriage, say it. I couldn't care less, and I would have respected the honesty. Yet she came on TV the day after his lie and tried to politicize it. That absolutely disgusted me, and there was no chance I could ever support her after that.

Thankyou)(&

 

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Guesser is voting 3rd party or sitting this one out?

 

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Guesser is voting 3rd party or sitting this one out?

3rd party for sure. I don't sit out elections. Probably Gary Johnson, although I like Jill Stein of Green also. But Libertarians have a real shot to get double digits this cycle, with how pathetically bad Hillary and Drumpf are, so I'll probably go there, unless Johnson/Weld say or do something where I just can't vote for that ticket.

 

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[h=6]- JUNE 01, 2016 -[/h][h=1]I WAS WRONG: TRUMP WILL BE THE NEXT PRESIDENT[/h]CNBC
A few months ago, I wrote that Donald Trump would win the GOP presidential nomination – but that would be the end of the line for him. I was sure that Trump just couldn't shore up enough of the already too small Republican base to win in November, thus nearly guaranteeing not only a loss but a big loss to Hillary Clinton in the general election.
Well, I was wrong.
In the 80-odd days since I wrote that piece, I've been seeing more and more evidence of why my predictions for Trump's demise were wrong — and that his chances of winning in the general election look pretty decent.
The biggest reason is something very familiar to CNBC's audience: management. In this case, it's the kind of disruptive management that refuses to accept all the conventional wisdom and truly disrupts the status quo.
Trump, a supposed political neophyte, seems to understand the Republican base better than party leaders. Trump may have failed to win over all the conservative elites represented by people like Bill Kristol and the National Review editorial board. But what I and others forgot was that on Election Day, there's not enough of that conservative elite base to fill a phone booth. Securing their support is no way to win a general election.
And, as Mitt Romney found out the hard way in 2012, even being a more moderate mainstream conservative with experience winning and running a liberal state like Massachusetts isn't good enough to win the White House anymore. And it's also impossible to hold down the conservative support and expand the potential Republican voting base at the same time.
What Trump and his advisers clearly realized a long time ago was that it would have to really disrupt the hardened "red/blue" divide to win. America's demographics, news media, and educational establishments have all successfully destroyed the traditional Republican message for at least a generation.
As someone who had never run for office before, Trump already had the best chance to run away from that party title and shrinking base to create a new coalition of voters. But he had another advantage I missed in this area: his bluntness.
To use the kind of blunt language Trump is so fond of, the current Republican Party is a "loser." So, Trump has to regularly prove he's not a part of that losing team while still getting the Republican National Committee's money and ground-game support on Election Day.
So far, that disruptive strategy has worked. He started by successfully capturing the attention of blue collar and union workers with his attacks on open borders and U.S. manufacturers outsourcing to Mexico and China. The coarseness of that message successfully separated him from more cautious Republicans. And by grabbing hold of a populist pro-blue collar message, he defused a traditional Democratic Party weapon. He continued by raising concerns about Muslim immigrants and even Muslim tourists in light of the San Bernardino Jihadist shootings. That blunt talk was considered foolish and even politically suicidal at the time, but it undoubtedly helped spur not only Trump's primary victories but also record participation in the Republican primary process. No Republican has done anything like this since Richard Nixon stole the Democrats' thunder in 1972 by not only withdrawing quickly from Vietnam but also making his historic trip to China.
Base? Trump doesn't need no stinking base.
And it hasn't ended there. Trump is still breaking conventional rules by recently insulting New Mexico Governor Susan Martinez, a GOP "golden child," because all the conventional wisdom says Republicans need more women and Latino voters to have a future. But remember, Trump is trying to make sure you don't primarily identify him as a "team player" Republican anyway. That team is a losing team and Trump wants little part of it. And he's probably also aware that it's a waste of time for any non-Democrat to run after elusive female and Latino voters anyway. It sounds crazy to slam Martinez, but as Trump is proving over and over again, Trump's campaign is crazy like a fox.
It also sounds crazy to a lot of people that Trump has been actively going after the white vote. Why does a non-Democrat ever have to do that? Because white voter turnout has been down in recent elections. Trump knows he needs to energize lots of white voters who have recently stopped voting. He did that in the primaries and it's all still working now.
GOP Chairman Reince Priebus is still coming along nicely and showing more support for Trump day by day. According to the latest NBC/WSJ poll, 86 percent of registered Republicans now support Trump over Clinton, up from 72 percent a month ago. By the end of the GOP convention in July, that number should be close to 95 percent. The remaining 5 percent of Republicans who will never support Trump won't matter. The conventional wisdom about shoring up your base was all wrong.
The second biggest mistake I made about Trump is something else the CNBC audience should appreciate: I didn't think his incredible abilities and experience at self-promotion would translate very well from the business and entertainment media world to the political arena. But I forgot that Trump has been a master business marketer for decades and has also been working closely with some of the best writers in reality TV for more than 15 years. And probably the best talent those writers have is making events and comments sound truly off the cuff and natural even when they are really completely planned and strategically weighed.
I don't think Trump has said one thing or sent out even one tweet during this campaign that didn't sound like something he truly believed and would naturally say or write. Even if you've hated 100 percent of the things Trump has said and written, it's important to understand that Trump has won a crucial marketing and persuasive victory simply by convincing you that what he's saying and writing is his genuine voice and authentic personality. It's called building a clear and identifiable brand. Winning an election is still very much about connecting personally with key voters and you can only do that if you present a clear personality or brand to the voters in the first place. If you're the person who sees Trump's personality/brand and have decided you hate everything about it, I have news for you: You're not the target audience. But you're still proof that Trump's messaging is at least very clear and that's often more than half the battle in business and politics.
And that brings me to my last mistake about Trump's chances: I underestimated how bad Hillary Clinton's campaign would be. To be fair, I never thought Clinton was a particularly strong candidate. But at every essential task of marketing and messaging, the Clinton campaign has been surprisingly bad.
We all know Trump's key slogan/promise is "Make American Great Again." I'm still not sure what Hillary Clinton's key slogan/promise is and I follow her campaign very closely. Is it "I'm with Her?" If so, it's not very good in that it doesn't seem to have anything in it for the person who isn't "her."
Clinton's Twitter feed and website are helping Trump immensely as they seem to pump out phrases like "a Trump presidency," and "President Trump" more often than Trump does himself. These kinds of messages present and reinforce the idea of an actual President Trump in our subconscious brains. This is why the old TV commercials for consumer products when we were growing up used to avoid naming competing products as anything other than "brand x."
Clinton is frankly being poorly served by campaign manager Robby Mook, who has worked on campaigns his entire career. Mook and his staff going up against master private-sector marketers like Trump and company have little chance to win in that arena. Heck, this group can't even put away Bernie Sanders, who, in contrast, is also a candidate who presents a lot more clear messaging and the appearance of a more authentic personality. And the worst news for Clinton is that it may already be too late to hire a new staff and present a new image to the public.
Of course, this election is still not over. But what is over is any notion that Trump is going to lose by some kind of landslide. I predict many more of my fellow pundits will come to this realization in the coming weeks.

 

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[h=1]The Donald Trump I Know, by Natalie Gulbis[/h]

Photo: Getty Images[h=3]Natalie Gulbis and Donald Trump posed with competitors (including Paula Creamer, right) and sponsors at the 2006 ADT Championship at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Fla.[/h]

by Natalie Gulbis Posted: Thu Jun. 2, 2016


I've been fortunate to meet my fair share of influential people over 16 years on tour. But never can I remember any of them (several U.S. presidents included) garnering more attention than Donald Trump. Now more than ever, no matter where I go, people want to know about The Donald.
What's he like? How's his golf game? Do you still keep in touch? The list goes on.

In short, I've played many rounds with him. He's a good player (and a sneaky-great putter). He has always made time for my calls, and has offered some great advice over the years. If I could only tell you one thing about him, it's that he's probably the hardest working individual I've ever met.



But I want to go a little deeper. The commentary that follows is not about policy or who I think you should vote for in November. Instead, it's one woman's story about Donald Trump written in hopes that you might get to know him a little better through my experiences. I realize he has made his share of controversial remarks, but in my experience, I have found him to be gracious, generous and inspiring. He encouraged me to look at myself as a brand and as a professional golfer with a huge platform to grow the game of golf, regardless of my gender. Because of that, I have always found political rhetoric about Trump's misogynistic "war on women" to be inconsistent with the Trump I know.
The first time I met Donald I was 21 years old playing in my first Tour Championship at Trump International in West Palm Beach, Florida. I had just finished my practice round and was walking to the locker room—which looked more like a five-star spa—when I saw Mr. Trump chatting with a group of men in suits.
"Natalie! Congratulations on making it to your first Tour Championship," he said in a booming voice. "I see you're leading the tour in birdies this year. What do you think of the course?" How did he even know that? If he knew that I also led the tour in bogeys that year, he didn't mention it. I replied nervously, "It’s beautiful! And I'm trying to stay away from the gigantic waterfall left of 17." He laughed. As far as first impressions go, he could not have been a better host. All 30 players stayed at his mansion at nearby Mar-a-Lago during the event. He strolled around in an immaculate suit and tie—even at breakfast—and chatted with players about golf and life, making a point of knowing each person's name and making everyone feel important.
Days later when I played my first round with Donald, he offered me a simple idea that changed my life forever. We talked marketing and business. He has a way of cutting through small talk and digging into areas where he can have an impact. When he asked me about my goals—which would become a recurring theme in future conversations—his advice was simple: "Never fear challenging the status quo." Not only does that advice seem to be something he is following with great success in his campaign, but it's also something I've taken with me to the sports marketing world. Donald was adamant that in endorsement deals I should request and fight for equal pay that men were receiving. He believed any notion that I should accept less money than a PGA Tour player for appearances or endorsement contracts was just plain wrong. His advice proved invaluable for me in my career, and I owe much of my success to his idea of staying true to my convictions and not being afraid to rock the boat.
Several years later, I was playing with him again at Mar-a-Lago when he turned to me and said, "Have you seen my television show? We're going to do a celebrity version of it and I'd love for you to be on it."
I had seen "The Apprentice." Who hadn't? It was cutthroat and competitive, and it featured a lot of arguing, so I wasn't sure I was a fit. But Donald said that as a participant I would achieve three things: grow the game of golf, draw positive attention to the LPGA, and raise money to start my own Boys and Girls Club, which he knew was one of my life goals.

"You're going to be on prime time for two hours on the highest-rated show on television," he said. "You'll raise so much money."
Sounds like Donald, right? So, I signed the contract to appear on the second season of "Celebrity Apprentice," and we began filming October 1, 2009, shortly after my LPGA Tour season ended. I had no idea who else would be on the show, or how it would all come together. I just trusted that Donald would be able to keep his promise.
During our first day, I was in a room with three other people: Khloe Kardashian, Dennis Rodman and the late Joan Rivers. I wanted to run away. What was I thinking? How would I be raising money? Eventually, the rest of the cast rolled in, we began filming, and many of us became friends. One year later, largely because of the money and awareness Donald helped me raise on that show, I opened my own Boys and Girls Club in Henderson, Nevada. It's my greatest professional accomplishment, and it wouldn't have been possible without Donald and his passion to raise money for charity.
As you can tell, he has had a tremendous impact on me, both as a female golfer and an entrepreneur. He's helped me think of new ways to grow women's golf, advised me to never accept the first offer, and emphasized time and again that there's room for women's golf in a crowded sports world.
I last saw Donald at the 2015 Women's British Open at Turnberry. My husband, Josh, and I sat with Donald, his children and their spouses. Donald had a stack of papers he was reviewing in preparation for the first debate. Most of the talk was about Turnberry, Donald's renovation project. He was also interested to hear about Lydia Ko—our top ranked player. "What makes her so good?" he asked.
As usual, he wanted to know more about winners. That never-ending desire to learn more about and from the best in any field, that's the Donald Trump I know.