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Post by Admin on Jun 15, 2020 2:16:52 GMT
 Donald Trump’s niece, his deceased brother’s daughter, is set to publish a tell-all book this summer that will detail “harrowing and salacious” stories about the president, according to people with knowledge of the project. Mary Trump, 55, the daughter of Fred Trump Jr. and Fred Trump Sr.’s eldest grandchild, is scheduled to release Too Much And Never Enough on August 11th, just weeks before the Republican National Convention. One of the most explosive revelations Mary will detail in the book, according to people familiar with the matter, is how she played a critical role helping The New York Times print startling revelations about Trump’s taxes, including how he was involved in “fraudulent” tax schemes and had received more than $400 million in today’s dollars from his father’s real-estate empire. As she is set to outline in her book, Mary was a primary source for the paper's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation, supplying Fred Trump Sr.’s tax returns and other highly confidential family financial documentation to the paper. Details of the book are being closely guarded by its publisher, Simon & Schuster, but The Daily Beast has learned that Mary plans to include conversations with Trump’s sister, retired federal judge Maryanne Trump Barry, that contain intimate and damning thoughts about her brother, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Mary Trump has kept out of the public eye and has not spoken publicly in decades—but in 2000, amidst a bitter family court battle over Fred Trump Sr.’s will, she told the New York Daily News, "Given this family, it would be utterly naive to say it has nothing to do with money. But for both me and my brother, it has much more to do with that our father [Fred Jr.] be recognized," she said. Fred Trump Jr., the firstborn son and once the heir apparent to his father’s real estate empire, worked for Trans World Airlines after turning his back on the family business. He died in 1981 aged just 42 from a heart attack owing to complications from his alcoholism, leaving behind a son, Fred the 3rd, and daughter Mary, who has a Ph.D. in clinical psychology. The circumstances of Fred Trump Jr.’s descent into alcoholism are also aired in the book, with allegations that Donald and Fred Trump Sr. contributed to his death and neglected him at critical stages of his addiction. In a 2019 interview, Donald Trump admitted to pressuring his brother over his career choices but said he had come to regret it. “I do regret having put pressure on him,” Trump told The Washington Post. Discussing his brother and the family business Trump said it “was just something he was never going to want” to do. “It was just not his thing. . . I think the mistake that we made was we assumed that everybody would like it. That would be the biggest mistake. . . .There was sort of a double pressure put on him,” Trump admitted. After Fred Jr.’s children brought their messy court case against the family—contesting their grandfather’s will and alleging it was “procured by fraud and undue influence” on the part of Donald and his siblings—they highlighted Donald’s callous treatment of family members as he, along with siblings Maryanne and Robert, cut off the medical benefits to his nephew’s sick child William, who was born with cerebral palsy. The move, the family said at the time, was payback for Mary and Fred the 3rd’s challenge to the will. |
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Post by Admin on Jun 15, 2020 19:12:19 GMT
Donald Trump's niece has reportedly written a 'harrowing and salacious' book about her uncle in which she details how and why she leaked family tax information to the New York Times - and delves into family feuds. Mary Trump, 55, who has a Ph.D. in clinical psychology, is due to publish Too Much And Never Enough in August, to coincide with the Republican National Convention.  The book will reportedly lay bare how his sister, Maryanne Trump Barry, an 83-year-old retired federal judge, disapproves of Trump's presidency. Trump Barry had conversations with Mary in which she expressed 'damning thoughts about her brother,' The Daily Beast reported. The book will also allege that Trump and his father, Fred Trump Sr, contributed to the death of Trump's alcoholic elder brother Fred Trump Jr by failing to help him. Trump has previously spoken of his regret at the death of Fred Trump Jr, aged 42, in 1981.  Simon & Schuster, the publishers, are said to be remaining tight-lipped about the content of the book - the first expose of Trump written by a family member. But The Daily Beast reported that it will be an explosive account from within the Trump dynasty. The New York Times's October 2018 investigation into Trump's financial affairs - for which Mary reveals herself to be the source - punctured the carefully-curated image of Trump as a self-made tycoon. The paper found that Trump had received at least $413 million in today’s dollars from his father’s real estate empire. The Times also alleged that Trump was involved in 'fraudulent' tax schemes, allegations which the president's lawyer strongly denied.  The Daily Beast knew that Mary was the source of the family tax information, because they followed up The New York Times's report with a story about how the investigations team fell apart after one of the reporters, David Barstow, continued to pursue the story without his colleagues, with the aim of writing a book. The Daily Beast did not reveal her identity at the time. The bad blood between Trump and his niece dates back 20 years, to a fight over Fred Trump Sr.’s will, and the actions he took to cut off financial and medical support for her brother’s ill child. Trump's three surviving siblings - Maryanne; Robert, now 72; and Elizabeth, now 74 - all agreed with Trump in an argument over Fred Sr's will. Mary and her brother Fred III argued that the will was 'procured by fraud and undue influence', and that they should have had a larger share of the inheritance. Mary and Fred III were then at loggerheads with their aunts and uncles - Trump and the other three - over care for Fred III's son William, who was born with cerebral palsy. 'My aunts and uncles should be ashamed of themselves,' Mary said, in a rare 2000 interview. |
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Post by Admin on Jun 23, 2020 2:20:16 GMT
President Trump has broken his silence following the revelation that his niece, Mary Trump, plans to publish a tell-all about their family.
“She’s not allowed to write a book,” the commander-in-chief told Axios in an interview published Sunday evening, citing a nondisclosure agreement she signed almost two decades ago.
“You know, when we settled with her and her brother, who I do have a good relationship with — she’s got a brother, Fred, who I do have a good relationship with, but when we settled, she has a total … signed a nondisclosure,” he continued.
The agreement itself is a “very powerful one,” Trump told the outlet, adding, “It covers everything.”
According to the president, he and members of his family were blindsided last week when news of the book came to light.
“I have a brother, Robert, very good guy, and he’s — he’s very angry about it, but she signed a nondisclosure agreement and she’s obviously not honoring it if she writes a book. It’s too bad,” he said.
Trump said he continues to have a good relationship with his niece’s brother, who recently came to visit him at the White House.
“I actually had him — he was in here. He was sitting right in the seat where you are last week, unrelated to that. I didn’t even know — maybe two weeks ago. I didn’t even know about a book coming out until just the other day.”
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Post by Admin on Jun 25, 2020 6:43:11 GMT
Robert Trump, Donald’s younger brother, spent at least 10 days in an intensive care unit before being released this week and launching legal action to try and stop the publication of his niece’s explosive tell-all book, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man, according to multiple people familiar with the situation. Robert, 72, had been at Mount Sinai hospital’s neurosciences intensive care unit (NSICU) in New York since at least June 11th, being treated for a serious condition. He was discharged on Sunday and, despite his stay in the hospital, he wasted no time in filing and signing complicated legal documents aided by his celebrity attorney Charles Harder and releasing a statement.  “Her attempt to sensationalize and mischaracterize our family relationship after all of these years for her own financial gain is both a travesty and injustice to the memory of my late brother, Fred, and our beloved parents. I and the rest of my entire family are so proud of my wonderful brother, the president, and feel that Mary’s actions are truly a disgrace,” Robert said in his statement to The New York Times roughly 48 hours after he was discharged from hospital. On its website Mount Sinai boasts that its 16-bed NSICU specializes in “state of the art, compassionate care of patients who suffer from subarachnoid hemorrhage, acute ischemic stroke, intracerebral hemorrhage, subdural hematomas, coma, tumors of the brain and spine, severe or prolonged seizures, neuro-infections, [and] spinal cord injury among others.” Robert did not respond to multiple requests for comment Wednesday and his attorney, Harder, declined to comment. Mary Trump’s high-powered legal team, which includes the renowned First Amendment attorney Theodore Boutrous of the law firm Gibson Dunn, are expected to file their response in the coming days. Part of their argument in Mary’s defense will be that the settlement agreement—signed by all parties in 2001 and included in Harder’s Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) filing—contains confidentiality clauses that are in effect “double facing,” meaning that as well as muzzling Mary from speaking publicly it also was meant to have silenced Donald, Robert and their sister Maryanne Trump. The president, the argument goes, has himself violated the confidentiality agreement by publicly discussing his niece and her book, which is currently slated for a July 28th release, in an interview at the White House last week. |
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Post by Admin on Jul 3, 2020 18:32:21 GMT
The legal fight over a tell-all by President Donald Trump’s niece took another turn on Thursday when her lawyers filed papers to remove a temporary restraining order, arguing that the confidentiality agreement she signed 19 years ago was an unenforceable fraud. In an affidavit, Mary Trump said that when she inked the agreement, ending a dispute over her grandfather’s will, she believed the asset amounts in it were accurate, but learned they were bogus from a New York Times expose.  In addition, she said that she did not believe the agreement would have barred her from telling her “life story”—which just happens to include details of “the conduct and character of my uncle, the sitting President of the United States.” And, she noted, President Trump “has spoken out about our family and the will dispute on numerous occasions”—suggesting that would have rendered any secrecy agreement void. “None of the parties to the Settlement Agreement, including my uncles Donald Trump and Robert Trump, or my aunt Maryanne Trump, has ever sought my permission to speak publicly about our family or their personal relationships with me, my brother Fred, or among each other,” she wrote. |
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