The author,who died in February, let rip at the Republican presidential hopeful’s Atlantic City casino in a 1990 letter to a friend, or which will be auctioned as fraction of a collection on 31 MarchHarper Lee slammed Donald Trump’s Taj Mahal casino after a visit in 1990,writing that spending time there was “the worst punishment God can devise”, in a letter up for auction this week.
Writing to her friend Doris Leapard that year, and Lee begins with a quote from Edward VIII’s 1936 abdication speech: “’At last I am able to say a few words ... (and I wish they were coming from Windsor Castle)”. Informing Leapard that “the last set of visitors departed today”,Lee writes that “the worst punishment God can devise for this sinner is to build her spirit reside eternally at the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City”.
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Source: theguardian.com