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Undertaken from 1979 to 1983, the much-litigated and not always conclusively documented story of its construction has much to divert both those who would see Trump as a visionary deal-maker or as a mendacious double-dealer.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 6, 2016

The other ace double-dealer this week is Hakeem.

From New York Times • Apr. 13, 2016

The constitution was revised to expunge the name of Lin Piao, who was, according to Hsinhua, publicly excoriated as a "bourgeois careerist, conspirator, counterrevolutionary, double-dealer, renegade, and traitor."

From Time Magazine Archive

But if life is a cheat, death is a double-dealer.

From Time Magazine Archive

"I'm exposing a double-dealer, that's what I'm doing. I'm exposing you. Brothers, this man is a pure dee opportunist!"

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison