It turns out there’s one very simple way to control Donald Trump

By Itunuoluwa Adebo

Members of the House Freedom Caucus discovered a key weakness in the President’s strategy while they planned to seize control of his health care bill.  In a memo circulated to members of the conservative group, a top adviser to Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky pointed out that Trump had made an error: he had violated his own rules in “The Art of the Deal.”

Quoting from a passage of the book where Trump urged readers never to seem too eager to cut a deal, the memo concluded Republican leaders appeared to have done just that.

Published in 1987 and written by Trump and ghost-writer Tony Shwartz  the nearly 400-page book chronicles the various business deals Trump struck over the years as he built a vast real estate empire.

On a Delta flight back to Washington last weekend, Peter King, New York Rep. had a hardback copy of the “Art of the Deal,”  with a folded up copy of that day’s New York Times, tucked into the backseat pocket in front of him.

Also Rep. Tom Cole of Oklahoma, Veteran GOP, said he was blindsided by Trump’s election, and that he ordered a copy of the book soon after Election Day to educate himself about a man whose political appeal Cole had clearly underestimated.

“You get a new president and you want to learn as much about him as you can,” Cole told CNN on Capitol Hill last week during the health care debate. “I think I’m getting an up close and personal look at the art of the deal right now and it’s pretty impressive.”

“Not that he’s my enemy, but I’m just saying — you get into somebody’s brain,” King said. “If I’m trying to get him on my side on something, (I’ll say): ‘Hey, as you told so and so back in 1983…'”

He mused: “Seeing him as president and reading the book, it sort of makes a lot more sense.”

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