Game Of Thorns: The Inside Story of Hillary Clinton's Failed Campaign and Donald Trump's Winning Strategy by Doug Wead

Author:Doug Wead
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781785902284
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
Published: 2017-03-15T04:00:00+00:00

DONALD TRUMP FINDS A LINK

Where did Donald Trump fit? What was his path to the White House? How could he, as a brash New Yorker with three marriages, compete in the farm belt, faith-based state of Iowa, where Rudolph Giuliani could not?

The fact was that the Trump family had been faithful Presbyterians in Queens. After moving to Manhattan, Donald Trump had surprised himself by becoming hooked on the powerful, positive preaching of an American icon—the Reverend Norman Vincent Peale. The great Marble Collegiate Church on Fifth Avenue became home for Trump. It was there, not at a nightclub, were he reportedly met his second wife, Marla Maples, the mother of his daughter Tiffany.20 Rev. Peale knew how to punch the buttons of the struggling businessman, who at times was taking on the whole city of New York single-handedly.

Notwithstanding his profane and mischievous personality, Trump’s latent spirituality was always near the surface. After the death of Peale in 1993, Trump missed the upbeat, affirmative message that God was not against him but for him.

Donald Trump was in his golden tower, high above Manhattan, flipping through the television channels one day when he saw a buoyant, attractive Florida televangelist named Paula White. “Faith causes changes,” Paula White was famous for saying. “Anytime there is change, there is opportunity, including the opportunity to fail. But failing can be a step toward completion of a goal. You can fail your way to success.”21

Trump was transfixed. He immediately called to tell her that she was fantastic. The two met on her next trip to New York City and became close friends thereafter.22 Paula White, who had been married three times herself, was not quick to offer judgment about Donald Trump’s personal life. But she would be his link to a religious world beyond the gray walls of the Marble Collegiate Church, a link to a world that he had never known.

“I can absolutely tell you that Mr. Trump has a relationship with God. He is a Christian, he accepts Jesus as his Lord and savior,” said Paula White.23 Nobody in New York paid attention or cared.

Meanwhile, an October 2014 Bloomberg–Des Moines Register poll showed that the contest for the GOP nomination was wide open. Likely caucus goers favored Mitt Romney 17 percent; Ben Carson 11 percent; Rand Paul 10 percent; Mick Huckabee 9 percent; House Speaker Paul Ryan 8 percent; Ted Cruz and Rick Perry 7 percent; Chris Christie 6 percent; Rubio, Bush, and Walker 4 percent; Rick Santorum 3 percent.24 But Mitt Romney had declared unequivocally that he was not going to run.

From the sidelines, anxious, planning daily, Trump was watching closely.

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