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Barbara A. Res is an attorney, author, and engineer. Res was an executive vice president in charge of construction at the Trump Organization and has spoken out publicly against its owner Donald Trump, particularly about his treatment of women. In October 2020, Res released her memoir, Tower of Lies: What My Eighteen Years of Working With Donald Trump Reveals About Him about her experiences at the Trump Organization.

Early life and education

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Barbara Res was born Barbara Tahan in Brooklyn, New York. She attended City College of New York and graduated with a degree in Electrical Engineering in 1971. In 2007, Res earned a Juris Doctor from Rutgers Law School. Res is a Licensed Professional Engineer in New York State and is a member of the New York and New Jersey bar associations.[1]

Career

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Res started working in construction in 1971[2] and began to work for Donald Trump in a junior position during his first construction in Manhattan, the Grand Hyatt.[3]

Res joined the Trump Organization in 1980[4] and then worked for Trump over the course of eighteen years[5] as a vice president, senior vice president, and executive vice president.[6] Res was hired by Trump to lead construction on Trump Tower[4] as Vice President in charge of construction[2] when she was thirty-one years old,[3] and helped build Trump Tower between 1980 and 1984.[2] Res was the first woman to oversee a major NYC construction site,[7] and worked with Trump on some of his biggest projects, including the renovation of New York's Plaza Hotel.[8][9] Michael Kruse writes for Politico Magazine that Res quit the Trump Organization after she was "unwilling any longer to take Trump’s explosive moods and turbulent treatment."[10]

Res was selected to join the construction panel of the American Arbitration Association for arbitration and mediation in 2003.[11] Res joined Digibuild, the creator of a unique construction management software platform built with blockchain technology as Senior Vice President.[12] Res has publicly spoken about women in the construction business throughout the United States and in England.[13]

Advocacy

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Res has spoken out publicly against Trump, particularly about his treatment of women, including in opinion articles in the New York Daily News[14] and The Guardian,[15] as well as interviews with CNN,[16] Rolling Stone,[6] The New York Times,[17] and Rachel Maddow of MSNBC[18] in 2016. Information provided by Res was also included in a June 2016 Atlantic story by Dan P. McAdams, a psychology professor at Northwestern University and author of the book The Strange Case of Donald J. Trump: A Psychological Reckoning.[19]

In 2018, The Washington Post described how Res' description of her experiences at the Trump Organization offered support for Bob Woodward's book Fear and an anonymous op-ed in The New York Times that was then attributed to a senior administration official, because "Both works describe a president whose orders are not always carried out by those around him."[20] After the announcement of the formal impeachment inquiry into Trump in 2019, Res told CNN's Brian Stelter that she believed Trump was unfit for office, and he might resign "to save face," depending on the outcome of the impeachment process.[21] In a 2019 news analysis, The New York Times wrote that Res "sees in Ms. Pelosi a new challenge to Mr. Trump's lifelong tactics."[22]

In April 2020, Res wrote an opinion article in the New York Daily News that recounts an experience from her work for Trump and expresses concerns about his leadership during the coronavirus pandemic.[23] Before the November 2020 election, Res told Jane Mayer of The New Yorker that "One of the reasons [Trump]’s so crazily intent on winning is all the speculation that prosecutors will go after him," and suggested that Trump could follow through with his musing on leaving the U.S. because "he can do business from anywhere."[24]

After the November 2020 election, Res spoke with MSNBC’s Ari Melber, suggesting Trump will "do anything" to stay in office, and both The Independent and HuffPost wrote that her comments echo an op-ed by President Trump's niece, Mary Trump, in The Guardian.[25][26] People magazine also reported on Res' interview with Melber, as well as her past advocacy, and her new book, Tower of Lies.[27] In a November 6, 2020 report by Inside Edition, Res is quoted for her opinion that Trump may leave the country after Biden's inauguration.[28] In a Politico report published on December 1, 2020, about Trump's intention to restart foreign deals, Res is quoted for her opinion, including "There are two things that make him run — ego and money. Looking at it from the point of the money, he’s going to have people who give him money to build Trump towers."[29] In a December 20, 2020 article titled "Is Trump Cracking Under the Weight of Losing?" in Politico Magazine, writer Michael Kruse quotes Res for her opinion, "And he's not indestructible."[30]

Works

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Res is the author of the 2013 book All Alone on the 68th Floor: How One Woman Changed the Face of Construction,[31] a self-published memoir about her experiences in the construction business, which includes descriptions of her work with Donald Trump.[10][3]

In October 2020, Res released a book entitled Tower of Lies: What My Eighteen Years of Working With Donald Trump Reveals About Him.[32] The Los Angeles Times reports that in her book, Res "recounts racist, anti-Semitic and sexist behavior, along with Trump’s ability to lie "so naturally" that "if you didn’t know the actual facts, he could slip something past you.""[5] Newsweek, The New York Daily News, and The Times of Israel write that Res' book joins a collection of books by former Trump associates that recount their experiences.[33][34][35] A HuffPost report on an excerpt from Tower of Lies describes Res as "a persistent thorn in her former [employer]’s side since before the 2016 election."[36] In a review for The Berkshire Edge, Mickey Friedman writes, "Unlike so many of those who have written about President Trump, Barbara Res tells a story that is far more personal than political," and that this is why, "in many ways, this is one of the most interesting portraits of Donald Trump."[37]

C-SPAN's Washington Journal interviewed Barbara Res to discuss Tower of Lies, in an episode scheduled to air on December 26, 2020.[38]

Awards

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  • Townsend Harris Medal by the City College of New York in 1991 for her role as a pioneer among women engineers[1]
  • Emily Roebling leadership award by Professional Women in Construction for her achievements in the Construction Industry[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Barbara A. Res". Goodreads. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
  2. ^ a b c Vagianos, Alanna (January 23, 2017). "This Woman Helped Build Trump Tower. Here's Why She Marched". HuffPost. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
  3. ^ a b c Daly, Michael (April 13, 2017). "Trump's Female Tower Boss Talks About His Half-Billion Dollar Debt, Womanizing, and How He Learned to be Shameless". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
  4. ^ a b Solo-Lyons, Natasha (November 3, 2020). "Barbara Res helped build Trump Tower. She says she saw Donald Trump ignore experts and disrespect employees in her 18 years working with him". Business Insider. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
  5. ^ a b Bierman, Noah; Megerian, Chris (October 16, 2020). "New book by former Trump aide alleges early racist comments". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
  6. ^ a b Stuart, Tessa (March 29, 2016). "Ex-Trump Employee Speaks Out on His Treatment of Women". Rolling Stone. Retrieved November 20, 2020.
  7. ^ Greer, Stuart (October 1, 2018). "Female engineer behind Trump Tower gives insight into working with POTUS". Manchester Evening News. Retrieved November 20, 2020.
  8. ^ Breslow, Jason M. (September 27, 2016). "The FRONTLINE Interview: Barbara Res". PBS Frontline. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
  9. ^ Nuzzi, Olivia (July 12, 2017). "Former Donald Trump Executive: 'He's a Supreme Sexist'". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
  10. ^ a b Kruse, Michael (August 22, 2018). "'He's Unraveling': Why Cohen's Betrayal Terrifies Trump". Politico Magazine. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
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  12. ^ Digibuild http://www.digibuild.com. Retrieved 20 January 2021. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  13. ^ "Barbara Res". Big Speak. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
  14. ^ Res, Barbara (February 9, 2016). "Donald Trump, my boss: The billionaire developer gave women like me a chance, but he also leered at attractive employees and only let the prettiest secretaries greet guests and serve coffee". New York Daily News. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
  15. ^ "Trump hired me as a powerful woman. I saw how sexism became his trademark | Barbara Res". the Guardian. April 27, 2016. Retrieved November 20, 2020.
  16. ^ Krever, Mick (March 16, 2016). "Trump a 'very angry man,' says former executive". CNN. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
  17. ^ Barbaro, Michael; Twohey, Megan (May 14, 2016). "Crossing the Line: How Donald Trump Behaved With Women in Private". The New York Times. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
  18. ^ "The Rachel Maddow Show, Transcript 6/10/2016 Guests: Bob Shrum, Barbara Res". MSNBC. June 10, 2016. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
  19. ^ McAdams, Dan P. (June 2016). "The Mind of Donald Trump". The Atlantic. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
  20. ^ Wagner, John; Fahrenthold, David (September 12, 2018). "Trump asked to have Braille removed from elevators in early 1980s, executive says". The Washington Post. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
  21. ^ Zhao, Christina (October 6, 2019). "Ex-Trump Organization VP Predicts Trump Will Resign or Make a Deal During Impeachment Process to 'Save Face'". Newsweek. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
  22. ^ Buettner, Russ; Haberman, Maggie (January 20, 2019). "In Business and Governing, Trump Seeks Victory in Chaos". The New York Times. Retrieved 19 December 2020. One blind spot [Res] observed was that Mr. Trump "believes he's better than anyone who ever lived" and saw even the most capable of women as easy to run over. "But there was never a woman with power that he ran up against, until Pelosi," she said. "And he doesn't know what to do with it. He's totally in a corner."
  23. ^ Res, Barbara (April 13, 2020). "How Trump decides, and doesn't: I watched his supposed executive skills up close for years". The New York Daily News. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
  24. ^ Mayer, Jane (November 1, 2020). "Why Trump Can't Afford to Lose". The New Yorker. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
  25. ^ Crump, James (November 12, 2020). "Former Trump exec warns: 'If all else fails, he'll burn down the house'". The Independent. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
  26. ^ Moran, Lee (November 12, 2020). "Ex-Trump Org Exec Warns What Comes Next: 'If All Else Fails, He'll Burn Down The House'". HuffPost. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
  27. ^ "Former Trump Organization Executive Says President 'Can't Deal' With Losing". People Magazine. November 12, 2020. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
  28. ^ Staff (November 6, 2020). "What's Next for Donald Trump?". Inside Edition. CBS. Retrieved 8 January 2021.
  29. ^ Kumar, Anita (December 1, 2020). "Trump to restart foreign deals, breaking a post-presidency norm". Politico. Retrieved 8 January 2021.
  30. ^ Kruse, Michael (December 20, 2020). "Is Trump Cracking Under the Weight of Losing?". Politico Magazine. Retrieved 20 December 2020.
  31. ^ Res, Barbara A. (2013). All Alone on the 68th Floor: How One Woman Changed the Face of Construction. Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. ISBN 9781523712564.
  32. ^ Res, Barbara A. (2020). Tower of Lies: What My Eighteen Years of Working With Donald Trump Reveals About Him. Graymalkin Media, LLC. ISBN 978-1-63168-305-3.
  33. ^ Martin, Jeffrey (October 16, 2020). "In New Book, Ex-Trump Employee Claims President Didn't Want Black People to Work on Trump Tower". Newsweek. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
  34. ^ Niemietz, Brian (October 16, 2020). "'Tower of Lies' written by Barbara Res — another longtime Trump associate — trashes the president in new book". The New York Daily News. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
  35. ^ TOI Staff (October 17, 2020). "New book by ex Trump aide alleges anti-Semitic, racist remarks". The Times of Israel. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
  36. ^ Moran, Lee (October 17, 2020). "Former Trump Exec Alleges Yet More Examples Of His Early Racism In New Book Excerpt". HuffPost. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
  37. ^ Friedman, Mikey (November 14, 2020). "BOOK REVIEW: 'Tower of Lies: What My Eighteen Years of Working with Donald Trump Reveals About Him'". The Berkshire Edge. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
  38. ^ "Barbara Res Discusses Her Book "Tower of Lies"". Washington Journal. C-SPAN. December 26, 2020. Retrieved 25 December 2020.
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