From Trump to Khuda: secrets of Australia’s most-connected director

Mark Barnaba met a brash, young New York property developer in 1988. Donald Trump had sold the iconic St Moritz hotel in Manhattan to Alan Bond for $US180 million. Barnaba was Bond’s young executive assistant.

“Even then, Trump was just extraordinarily firm in his own views regardless of what others thought,” Barnaba says. “He’s not easily persuaded.”