Writer Wayne Barrett dead at 71
Wayne Barrett spent 37 years at the Village Voice.
Click here for reuse options![Barrett] carved out a four-decade career taking on developers, landlords and politicians, among them Donald J. Trump and Rudolph W. Giuliani, died on Thursday in Manhattan. He was 71.
His wife, Fran Barrett, said the cause was complications of lung cancer and interstitial lung disease…
A 1992 book, “Trump: The Deals and the Downfall,” was, as Mr. Barrett acknowledged, a flop at first. Thanks to his subject’s improbable political ascent 25 years later, it was successfully republished and expanded in 2016 as “Trump: The Greatest Show on Earth: The Deals, the Downfall, the Reinvention.”
Mr. Barrett’s voluminous background files from the Trump biography, and his professional courtesy, made his Brooklyn home a mecca for investigative reporters during the recent presidential campaign.
“There may be no journalist in the nation who knows more about Trump than Barrett,” Jennifer Gonnerman wrote in The New Yorker just after the election.
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Hirightnow January 19th, 2017 at 20:01
Suspicious…he was only 71!
WHAT DID TRUMP HAVE TO GAIN? WHEN WILL THE LAMESTREAM MEDIA REPORT ON THE TRUTH?!?!
/rwrantmode
robert January 19th, 2017 at 22:12
I’ve read a few of his articles and agree 71 is too young unless he had some bad habits
Mensa Member January 20th, 2017 at 21:44
Earlier this week, some nutty woman talked about a supposed “Clinton body count.”
Barrett had the goods on Trump. He really did.
Conspiracies anyone?