’Tower of Lies’ written by Barbara Res — another longtime Trump associate — trashes the president in new book

By the time he’s done, President Trump may have turned out more writers than any university.

Longtime Trump associate Barbara A. Res is the latest author to pen a tell-all about her time with the president and it’s called “Tower of Lies.”

According to the Los Angeles Times, which scored a copy of the tome that’s due out next week, the stories are new, but the central character if the same old lying, cheating, sexist, racist leading man featured in books by the president’s niece, former lawyer and numerous other associates.

“He was able to control others, through lies and exaggeration, with promises of money or jobs, through threats of lawsuits or exposure," writes Res, who spent 18 years working for Trump’s real estate company. "He surrounded himself with yes-men, blamed others for his own failures, never took responsibility, and always stole credit. These tactics are still at work, just deployed at the highest levels of the U.S. government, with all the corruption and chaos that necessarily ensue.”

Res also writes that Trump instructed her not to have black people visible in his building’s lobbies or on work sites. According to Res, that’s not what Trump thought people coming in to buy expensive apartments wanted to see.

She went to work for Trump in 1980 and parted ways with his organization in 1998. Res said Trump kicked around the idea of becoming president when she knew him, but she never took the suggestion seriously.

Trump’s campaign director reportedly dismissed the latest book about Trump as fake news coming from a disgruntled former employee. When Res spoke against Trump’s candidacy in 2016, he reportedly boasted that working for him had been a great opportunity for her.

According to CNN, former White House staffer John Kelly also joined the ranks of former Trump subordinates with a low opinion of their former boss.

“The depths of his dishonesty is just astounding to me," the retired four-star general reportedly told associates. "The dishonesty, the transactional nature of every relationship, though it’s more pathetic than anything else. He is the most flawed person I have ever met in my life.”

Kelly, 70, served as the president’s chief of staff from July 31, 2017 to January 2, 2019. Prior to that, he spent six months as the U.S. secretary of homeland security.

Trump said in July that Kelly couldn’t handle the pressure of being his chief of staff and “didn’t do a good job.”

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