Dr Trump, a trained clinical psychologist who earned a master’s and a doctoral degree from Adelphi University, has authored a 211-page exposé of how the Trump family “created the world’s most dangerous man” — otherwise known as Donald John Trump, the 45th President of the United States.
President Trump and his brother Robert Trump have been trying to stop the book’s publication since last month, by filing lawsuits to enforce a confidentiality agreement concerning a dispute over the estate of their father (and the author’s grandfather), Fred Trump Sr. But a New York State judge has so far refused to block the book’s publisher, Simon and Schuster, from releasing it to stores.
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Donald Trump’s sister, a future federal judge, did his college homework for him
... his grade point average placed him “far from the top of his class”.
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He paid a fellow student to take the SAT for him
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His older sister isn’t a fan of Donald or his presidency
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Judge Trump Barry, a devout Catholic, doesn’t think much of Trump’s evangelical boosters — or his North Korea diplomacy
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“The only time Donald went to church was when the cameras were there. It’s mind-boggling,” she apparently said of her brother. “He has no principles. None!”
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Diagnosing Donald Trump is impossible — especially in the White House
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Mary Trump says a second term for her uncle ‘would be the end of American democracy’
At the outset of the book, Dr Trump stresses that despite what her aunts and uncles might think, she did not write the book out of any desire for revenge or in an attempt to cash in on her uncle’s presidency.
“If either of those had been my intention,” she explains, “I would have written a book about our family years ago, when there was no way to anticipate that Donald would trade on his reputation as a serially bankrupt businessman and irrelevant reality show host to ascend to the White House; when it would have been safer because my uncle wasn’t in a position to threaten and endanger whistleblowers and critics.”
But “the events of the last three years” have “forced [her] hand,” she declares, adding that she “can no longer remain silent”.
“By the time this book is published, hundreds of thousands of American lives will have been sacrificed on the altar of Donald’s hubris and wilful ignorance. If he is afforded a second term, it would be the end of American democracy,” she warns.
“Donald, following the lead of my grandfather and with the complicity, silence, and inaction of his siblings, destroyed my father. I can’t let him destroy my country.”
