Horror writer Stephen King would so relish watching President Donald Trump debate the border wall issue with another critically acclaimed author that King offered in a tweet Saturday to pay $10,000 to see it happen.
King was responding to a tweet by Don Winslow , author of a new book coming out later this month called The Border . The book is the final offering of Winslows fictional trilogy on drug wars involving the Mexican cartels.
Winslow has researched extensively life at the southern border for his books. He says he has walked every mile of it. He believes that Trumps wall comes from cuckoo land and that the president has concocted a fictional emergency stringing together a handful of real events to create a fake world of chaos and crime.
The narrative that Trump and his allies create is a flat-out lie about chaos on the border, when the people who live there, as I do, have reported the opposite, Winslow wrote last month in New York Magazine.
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After two bestselling novels set along America's Southern border, author @donwinslow thought he'd exhausted the topic of the drug trafficking trade. But there is more story to tell, inspired by President Trump's controversial plan to build a wall. @JeffGlor reports pic.twitter.com/Z8oe03nphK
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After two bestselling novels set along America's Southern border, author @donwinslow thought he'd exhausted the topic of the drug trafficking trade. But there is more story to tell, inspired by President Trump's controversial plan to build a wall. @JeffGlor reports pic.twitter.com/Z8oe03nphK
And Winslow has challenged Trump to a debate on the wall.
Lets debate the Trump wall and let the people decide, Winslow tweeted to the president, adding: Ill even do it on your own network Fox News . Winslow noted: You debated 18 Republicans during your presidential campaign, I am sure you can handle one writer. Let me know.
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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.
Dear @realDonaldTrump ,
Don Winslow (@donwinslow) February 16, 2019
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 piped up on Twitter: Id pay $10,000 to see that! One of Kings Twitter followers offered an extra $20. Someone else offered 20 euros, and another follower offered to raise Kings offer by $5,000.
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