Who is Mary Trump and what did she write in her tell all book?
FORMER President Donald Trump is suing his 56-year-old niece, Mary L. Trump and The New York Times for improperly obtaining and using his tax documents to write her tell-all book Too Much and Never Enough: .
Mary Trump's book, published in 2020, claims former President Trump's father neglected, manipulated, and emotionally abused him.
Why is Donald Trump suing Mary L. Trump?
The lawsuit, filed by former president Donald Trump amounts to $100million and alleges Mary L. Trump broke a non-disclosure agreement by releasing tax documents to The New York Times. The documents paved the way for the 14,000 word investigative article, published October 2, 2018.
Donald Trump claims Mary L. Trump and The New York Times used the information "as part of a 'personal vendetta' against him," the reported.
The former president filed a lawsuit in 2020 in an attempt to block the release of Mary L. Trump's book. The lawsuit was dismissed, and the book was published on July 14, 2020.
This is not the first time Donald Trump sued the author of a tell-all book. Former national security adviser John R. Bolton faced a lawsuit prior to publishing "The Room Where It Happened." Donald Trump filed the lawsuit claiming that Bolton breached a non-disclosure agreement. The lawsuit was later dismissed.
What has she said in the book?
Despite Donald Trump attempting to stop "Too Much and Never Enough" from being published, it was listed as No. 1 on the bestseller non-fiction list on July 5, 2020.
In Mary's book, she claimed Donald Trump suffered emotional child abuse from his dad, who she said, left him scarred for life.
In the book, Mary maintained that "love meant nothing" to Fred Trump Sr, who "terrified" a younger Donald Trump.
vowed she "had to take him down" with the tell-all book "spilling family secrets" prior to its early release, reported in 2020.
"It wasn't enough for me to volunteer at an organization helping Syrian refugees. I had to take Donald down," she wrote.
The book claimed a two-year-old was neglected and left with a "total dependence on a caregiver (Fred Sr) who also caused him terror" when his mom got sick.
In her book, Mary L. Trump said, "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.
"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."
She claims that Trump's dad, Fred Trump Sr, neglected, manipulated, and emotionally abused him, however, the allegations were dismissed by Trump's press office.
Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Matthews told in 2020, "Mary Trump and her book’s publisher may claim to be acting in the public interest, but this book is clearly in the author’s own financial self-interest.
"President Trump has been in office for over three years working on behalf of the American people – why speak out now?
"The President describes the relationship he had with his father as warm and said his father was very good to him. He said his father was loving and not at all hard on him as a child."
Mary L. Trump described Donald Trump as his father's “monster—the only child of his who mattered to him."
She claimed Trump was "extremely vulnerable to manipulation by smarter, more powerful men" like , , and.
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How is Mary Trump related to Donald Trump?
Mary is the daughter of former President Trump's late older brother, Fred Trump Jr - who passed away at the age of 42 in 1981 from a heart attack.
Fred's death came after his struggle with alcoholism.
In the book, Mary wrote: "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.”
Mary obtained her bachelor's and master's degrees from Tufts University and Columbia University.
She also earned another master's degree and a Ph.D. at Adelphi University.