Winslow to Trump: Put Up or Shut Up

I like Don Winslow’s idea, but I suspect that blowhard Donald Trump won’t take part in this “duel of the Dons.” From The Guardian:

Crime novelist Don Winslow has issued a challenge to Donald Trump to debate his plans for a border wall on Fox News—a provocation that horror author Stephen King has offered to fund.

Winslow, whose latest book is called The Border, the third novel in his Cartel trilogy, made the offer on Twitter: “Dear @realDonaldTrump. Let’s debate the Trump wall and let the people decide. I’ll even do it on your own network—@FoxNews. Any show. Any anchor. Any time. You debated 18 Republicans during your presidential campaign, I am sure you can handle one writer. Let me know.”

King was quick to react, telling Winslow that he would “pay $10,000 to see that!”. Trump, however, has yet to respond.

Winslow has a history of publicly criticising the president and his border policy. Two years ago, he took out a full-page ad in the New York Times, which said that “rather than make a real effort to address the drug problem at its roots—at a time when more Americans die from opiate overdose than from car accidents—Trump and [then Attorney General Jeff] Sessions hand us fantasies such as the border wall, which will do absolutely nothing to slow the flow of drugs”.

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