The must-read Rushdie interview
November 03, 2017  13:44
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Around 15 years ago, Salman Rushdie was leaving the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. The city had just become his adopted home. He was heading towards the exit when he spotted a figure approaching along the corridor. The figure was Donald Trump.


"This was a long time ago," Rushdie recalls. "Long before he had expressed any political ambitions. When he was just this lummox, this kind of New York buffoon.'Trump began gesturing at Rushdie.


"He did this thing where he pointed at me with his shapely and very long index fingers.' Rushdie mimes Trump's take on "finger guns'."Then Trump said, 'You're the man.''  Read the full interview here
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