Who is Mary Trump, the president's niece who promises to reveal family secrets in her memoir?
REBEL Daughter of the elder brother of the president and holder of a thesis in clinical psychology, Mary Trump is set to make waves with less than five months before the presidential election
This is the first of the Trump clan to challenge the US president so head-on. Mary L. Trump, the White House tenant's only niece, is set to publish her memoir, editor Simon & Schuster has confirmed. Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man, will be released on July 28.
Mary Trump, 55, is the daughter of Fred Trump Jr, the elder brother of the Republican billionaire, who died in 1981 at the age of 42 of alcoholism. In this 240-page book, she recounts events she witnessed at her grandparents' New York home, where Fred and Mary Anne Trump's five children grew up. "She describes a nightmare of trauma, destructive relationships, and a tragic mix of neglect and abuse," says the publishing house.
Specialist in clinical psychology
Mary Trump, a clinical psychologist, says the president "rejected and ridiculed" his father, Fred Trump, when he began to suffer from Alzheimer's disease. She explains "how particular events and family patterns created the damaged man who now occupies the Oval Office," including "the strange and dangerous relationship" between Fred Trump, who died in 1999, and his two first sons, Fred Jr and Donald.
"She is the only one who can tell this fascinating and disturbing saga, not only because of her closeness to the subject but also because she is the only Trump ready to speak the truth about one of the most powerful and dysfunctional families of the world, ”says the publisher.
New York Times source on Trump's finances
According to the Daily Beast news site, which announced the book's release on Sunday, Mary Trump should also reveal that she is the main source of a major investigation into Donald Trump's finances published by the New York Times in late 2018. The daily Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation claims the president received the equivalent of $ 400 million today, inherited from his father's real estate empire, largely through fraudulent financial arrangements .
So far, Mary Trump had managed to escape the limelight. Almost nothing online, except for a recently deleted LinkedIn profile, and a Twitter account that appears to have been hers since 2015, through which she has shown her support for Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi.
Le compte qui semble appartenir à la nièce de Donald Trump (qui prépare un mémoire à charge sur la famille) le jour de l'élection du président américain: "L'une des pires nuits de ma vie" pic.twitter.com/NgTMh7AZOp
— Philippe Berry (@ptiberry) June 17, 2020
In its description, the hashtag #blacklivesmatter, the rainbow flag and the feminine pronoun "she" ("she"). Mary Trump initially mainly tweeted pictures of kittens, but on the night of her uncle's victory she repeatedly wrote that it was "one of the worst nights of [her] life." The settling of scores promises to be bloody.
