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A statement ostensibly written by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in his 1987 book The Art of the Deal is frequently circulated on social media, recalling an incident in which a young Trump allegedly punched his music teacher: This passage does appear in The Art of the Deal, although it's missing the sentenced immediately preceding and following it: Whether this passage describes an actual event from Donald Trump's childhood is doubtful. While the GOP candidate reportedly got into trouble as a child and has often talked about how he loved to fight in his youth, some skeptics have cast doubt on his story about his giving his second grade teacher a black eye, and even Trump himself has since backpedaled on it: Additionally, The Art of the Deal was not actually authored by Donald Trump, but by a hired ghostwriter, Tony Schwartz, who observed afterwards that Trump was often untruthful and seemed to remember almost nothing of his youth:
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