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Post by Admin on Jul 16, 2020 7:30:54 GMT
In an extended conversation with NPR on Wednesday, Mary Trump said her grandfather and family patriarch Fred Trump rewarded ruthlessness and dismissed any interests outside of the family real estate business, contributing to what she now views as an unfitness on President Trump's part to hold the office of the White House. "It's kind of ironic in the sense that the traits my grandfather came to value in Donald were the traits that were a result of my grandfather's maltreatment of Donald," she said. "The bullying, the tendency not to care about other people's feelings, the willingness to cheat, lie to get what he wanted. And eventually ... my grandfather started to see a kindred spirit. Somebody who could advance his agenda." Mary Trump, the president's only niece, describes an abusive and neglectful upbringing suffered by her father and uncles at the hand of Fred Trump, and said she will be supporting her uncle's rival, Joe Biden, in the 2020 election. A trained psychologist living in New York, she was promoting her highly anticipated new book, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man. In the book, Mary Trump describes how her grandfather's relentless business ambition was passed down to Donald Trump. "Honest work was never demanded of him, and no matter how badly he failed, he was rewarded in ways that are almost unfathomable. He continues to be protected from his own disasters in the White House," she writes in the tell-all. "But now the stakes are far higher than they've ever been before; they are literally life and death. Unlike any previous time in his life, Donald's failings cannot be hidden or ignored because they threaten us all." The White House has repeatedly dismissed the book as a money grab by the president's niece. "The president describes the relationship he had with his father as warm and said his father was very good to him," White House spokeswoman Sarah Matthews said earlier this month. "He said his father was loving and not at all hard on him as a child. Also, the absurd SAT allegation is completely false," Matthews said, referring to a claim in the book that the president cheated on the SAT by paying someone else to take the exam on his behalf. The book, which was released Tuesday, is the second high-profile expose of the president this summer. In June, former national security adviser John Bolton won a legal battle to publish a review of his time at the president's right hand.
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Post by Admin on Jul 16, 2020 18:55:51 GMT
Robert Trump, the president's younger brother, sought to have a court block Mary Trump's book release and her promotion of it. A New York judge on Monday freed Mary Trump from an existing gag order restricting her from discussing the book. A separate and earlier court ruling had already allowed the publishing house Simon & Schuster to move forward with producing the account.
Mary Trump said that while she is not afraid to speak freely about her family history, she felt there were risks associated with talking about the president unfavorably.
"Realistically speaking, Donald has a position with which comes an enormous amount of power," she said in the Wednesday interview. "He has a following which has proven to be fairly fanatical. And from what I've seen, anybody who comes forward to speak truth to power or fulfill their obligations to uphold and defend the Constitution, if that clashes with Donald's agenda, they do not fare well."
"It's a very divisive world we're living in at the moment. And I understand that what I'm doing will be misinterpreted — sometimes willfully misinterpreted. And I just need to be careful."
Mary Trump also offered her opinion of the president's mental fitness.
"If you're in a room with him for two minutes and you're paying attention, you know that he's not doing well," she alleged. "Psychologically, he's absolutely unfit. Emotionally, psychologically, he is absolutely unfit."
Mary Trump did not speak in an official capacity as a psychologist. Mental health professionals typically refrain from diagnosing public figures they have not examined.
Asked whether she would be backing her uncle in the upcoming Nov. 3 general election, Mary Trump said she would support former Vice President Joe Biden.
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Post by Admin on Jul 17, 2020 7:48:33 GMT
Mary Trump, the niece of President Donald Trump, thought that her uncle would be surrounded by smart people who would protect him and the country against his "worst impulses," she told MSNBC's Rachel Maddow on Thursday. "Clearly I was wrong," she said. "I can't say that there was a last straw because there had been so many straws," the president's niece said. "But certainly the horrors at the border — you know, the separating of children from their parents; the torture, the kidnapping, and the incarceration of them in cages, was unthinkable, unbearable, and when an opportunity presented itself to me to do something, I needed to take a leap." Mary Trump's book, "Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man," came out earlier this month, revealing what she claims is a long family history of racism and deceit. In the interview, Mary Trump was asked if she ever heard President Donald Trump use the N-word or any anti-Semitic slurs. "Yeah, of course I did," she said. "I don't think that should surprise anybody given how virulently racist he is today." She also addressed her uncle's response to the coronavirus. "I want people to understand what a failure of leadership this is," she told Maddow, "and the reason he's failing at it is because he's incapable of succeeding at it." That, she said, is because President Trump is incapable of admitting a mistake or accepting responsibility. "More people are getting sick, and more people are going to die," she said. "Instead of taking it seriously, instead of standing aside and letting the experts take over, Donald is hawking black beans. It would be absurd if it weren't so devastating."
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Post by Admin on Jul 18, 2020 4:57:53 GMT
President Donald Trump on Friday broke his silence on a tell-all book that dives into the president's upbringing and family life, distancing himself from his author niece and calling her a "mess." "Mary Trump, a seldom seen niece who knows little about me, says untruthful things about my wonderful parents (who couldn’t stand her!) and me, and violated her NDA," Trump wrote on Twitter. "She’s a mess! Many books have been written about me, some good, some bad. Both happily and sadly, there will be more to come!" The book by Mary Trump, daughter of the president's late older brother, Fred Trump, Jr., is an unflattering portrayal of a president the author alleges is a serial liar suffering from multiple psychological disorders as a result of a fraught relationship with his parents. Speaking with CNN's Chris Cuomo hours after Trump's tweet, Mary Trump echoed previous comments in which she described her uncle as a racist and dismissed the president's accusation that she was an outcast from the family. Though she conceded it was difficult to maintain relations after her grandfather's death due to an intra-family lawsuit, Mary Trump pointed out that the president had requested she ghost write his second book. She also added that she and her grandmother were "very close." "My grandfather didn't really have positive feelings for anybody except perhaps Donald," she said. In response to the president calling her a "mess," Mary Trump replied: "I think it's just an attack he hurls predominately at women and honestly, I'm in very good company. I believe he's said the same thing about Nancy Pelosi and I'm fine with that." Mary Trump also responded to the president's tweets with one of her own, writing: "5.23 million v. 5.11 million #seldomseen" accompanied by a pensive emoji. The numbers are a reference to the reported views of Mary Trump's interview with MSNBC's Rachel Maddow on Thursday versus the reported views of the president's town hall with Fox News' Sean Hannity in June, and a dig at the president's fascination with TV ratings.
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Post by Admin on Jul 19, 2020 22:49:34 GMT
President Trump told Fox News’s Chris Wallace he considered the content in his niece Mary Trump's memoir about his parents to be more hurtful than the material about the president himself.
Asked by Wallace if it “hurt ... at all” to be “attacked in such personal terms” by a family member, Trump responded, “It hurts me more about attacking my father, not being kind to my mother. I have a mother who was like a saint.”
“Let me just tell you, my father was — I think he was the most solid person I’ve ever met. And he was a very good person. He was a very, very good person. He was strong but he was good. For her to say the kind of things, a psychopath, that he was a psychopath, anybody that knew Fred Trump would call him a psychopath?” the president added.
Trump went on to defend his father as “tough on me, he was tough on all of the kids. But tough in a solid sense, in a really good sense.”
Mary Trump’s memoir describes Trump’s father as a “high-functioning sociopath” who fostered an “atmosphere of division” among his children.
Mary Trump, a clinical psychologist, wrote that her uncle’s “pathologies are so complex and his behaviors so often inexplicable that coming up with an accurate and comprehensive diagnosis would require a full battery of psychological and neuropsychological tests that he’ll never sit for.”
Trump attacked his niece in a series of tweets over the weekend, calling her “a seldom seen niece who knows little about me, says untruthful things about my wonderful parents (who couldn’t stand her!) and me, and violated" a nondisclosure agreement she signed as part of a settlement of Fred Trump’s estate. He also accused her of breaking the law by allegedly providing some of his financial information to The New York Times.
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