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A niece of Trump breaks the family silence in a book: “I cannot allow it to destroy my country” | International


The cover of the book ‘Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the Most Dangerous Man in the World’.JIM LO SCALZO / EFE

President Donald Trump’s family is waging a legal battle to prevent the book from being published Too much and never enough: how my family created the most dangerous man in the world. It is signed by the president’s niece, Mary Trump, 55. A doctorate in clinical psychology, Mary is the daughter of Fred Trump Jr., the President’s older brother, who died in 1981 after heart complications from her alcoholism. “Donald, following the example of my grandfather and with the complicity, silence and inaction of his brothers, destroyed my father. I can’t let it destroy my country, ”says the author in a book. that has caused so much expectation that they published it two weeks. It is slated to release on July 14. American media like CNN and The Washington Post have been able to access the text this Tuesday.

Donald Trump and his brothers were victims of a cold and dominant father, Fred Trump, who they tried to conquer through lies throughout his life, according to Mary Trump. The book clarifies that for her late father “lying was defensive, not simply a way to avoid her father’s disapproval or avoid punishment, as it was for others, but a way to survive.” The niece of the American president says that he paid someone to take the university entrance exam (SAT), which finally earned him entrance to the prestigious Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Trump was concerned that his grade point average, far from the top of his class, would be a difficulty to be accepted.

“Lying was primarily a mode of self-aggrandizement designed to convince others that he was better than he really was,” writes Mary Trump of her 74-year-old uncle. He adds that this pattern has been seen throughout his professional career, as when he appeared in the New York real estate industry as a self-made man and a great negotiator. “His comfort in portraying that image, along with his father’s favor and the financial security that his wealth brought him, gave him the undeserved confidence in what was a farce from the beginning: selling himself not just as a wealthy playboy but as a brilliant self-made businessman, “says the book. According to local media, Mary Trump relies on legal documents, bank statements, tax returns, and other papers to nurture her memories.

While watching Trump’s entry into the Republican campaign on television in 2015, the Republican’s older sister, former federal judge Maryanne Trump Barry, mocked the candidate. She called her a “clown” and assured that she would never become president. In addition, she criticized Mary Trump for using Fred Jr.’s addiction for electoral reasons. Maryanne Trump Barry retired in April 2019, ending an investigation against her into whether she had violated the rules of judicial conduct by participating in a dubious tax plot with her brothers. Multi-generational family conflicts are a central part of the book, which tries to explain Trump’s “twisted behaviors”, such as seeing other people in “monetary terms” and “cheating as a way of life.”

When Donald Trump’s father died in 1999, Mary and her brother Fred did not receive the inheritance they expected, that is, a sum equal to the amount that would have come to his father if he had lived. So both contested the will arguing that someone connected to the Trump family had forced her grandfather to change it and leave them less money. Eventually, they reached an agreement with their uncles and received an undisclosed amount. This, after signing a confidentiality agreement in which they promised never to write about any member of the family if they did not all agree.

Robert Trump, the younger brother of the US president, filed a lawsuit in May against his niece Mary and the publisher Simon & Schuster in the New York State Supreme Court, alleging a violation of that agreement signed two decades ago. He won the case and temporarily blocked publication. An appeals court the next day lifted the restraining order against the publisher because they did not sign any confidentiality agreement. But the order that commits the author remains in force, so she cannot make any public comment. Its spokesman, Chris Bastardi, said Monday: “The action of a sitting president to silence a private citizen is just the latest in a series of disturbing behavior.”

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