US election: What Trump interviews with biographer tell us

More than five hours of previously unreleased interviews with Donald Trump have been released to the New York Times. What do the tapes tell us?

The interviews, which were carried out by journalist Michael D'Antonio in 2014, were one of the last extensive conversations Mr Trump had with anyone in the media before he ran for president.
Mr D'Antonio used the interviews as the basis for his biography of the man who became the Republican nominee, called The Truth About Trump.
Here are eight things we learned from the recordings:

1. He doesn't like talking about the past

When Mr Trump is pushed on why he is "always in the present" he tells the journalist: "The problem people have with me is that I'm not in the past, I'm a person that thinks to the future.
"I learn from the past but I don't focus on the past, which I think is a very important lesson," he says, before adding that he "doesn't reflect and he doesn't want anyone else to".
In another interview he says: "I don't like to analyse myself because I might not like what I see."

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2. He likes to fight

"I was a very rebellious kind of person," Mr Trump says about his childhood in Queens, New York. "I don't like to talk about it, actually. But I was a very rebellious person and very set in my ways.
"I loved to fight. I always loved to fight," he says, before adding: "All types of fights. Any kind of fight, I loved it, including physical."