In an
interview with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, President Trump’s niece, Mary Trump,
alleges she’s heard President Trump use anti-Semitic slurs and the N-word. The
White House telling MSNBC “this is a book of falsehoods, plain and simple.
Book by Donald Trump's niece sells nearly 1m
copies on its first day
Mary Trump’s Too Much and Never Enough sold 950,000
copies
Legal attempts to prevent book’s publication failed
Guardian
staff
Published
onThu 16 Jul 2020 22.20 BST
The bombshell
family tell-all book by Mary Trump, the US president’s niece, sold almost a
million copies by the end of its first day on sale and remains firmly at the
top of Amazon’s bestseller list.
Trump’s
book Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most
Dangerous Man, referring to Donald Trump, was published on Tuesday and had sold
950,000 copies by the end of the first day, including pre-sales, ebooks and
audio books.
That was
after a court order by a family member, Donald Trump’s brother Robert, seeking
to block it was lifted, publisher Simon & Schuster said on Thursday.
It was a
new record for Simon & Schuster, the New York-based company said.
The book
describes Fred Trump, father to Donald Trump and his older brother Fred Jr –
Mary’s father – as a high-functioning sociopathic bully who crushed kindness
and empathy out of those around him, including the current president.
Donald
Trump took over the family property business from his father despite Mary’s
father being older. He developed an alcohol problem and died when Mary was a
child.
Mary Trump
has given numerous interviews this week after being released from a temporary
restraining order.
In an
interview with the Washington Post, released Thursday, she described the
president as “clearly racist”, and linked it to her wider family’s “knee-jerk
anti-Semitism, a knee-jerk racism”.
“Growing
up, it was sort of normal to hear them use the n-word or use anti-Semitic
expressions,” she told the Post.
During an
interview with Rachel Maddow on Thursday evening, she claimed to have directly
witnessed Donald Trump use racist language. Asked if she’d ever heard Trump use
the n-word and antisemitic slurs, Mary Trump replied: “Of course I did. And I
don’t think that should surprise anybody, given how virulently racist he is
today.”
In an
interview with ABC’s Good Morning America this week, Mary Trump called for
Donald Trump to resign the presidency, saying he was incapable of doing the
job.
In second
segment of the interview, aired on Thursday morning, Mary Trump said her father
and her uncle Donald were not close.
She also
said she believed that Maryann Trump Barry, the president’s older sister, did
not think Donald would or should be president, before he won the 2016 election
in a surprise victory over Hillary Clinton.
“She very emphatically
did not believe it would happen or think it should, because he was a man
without principle and no one would vote for him. She was horrified by the white
evangelical embrace because she knew he had no deep convictions about religion
one way or the other and considered going to church a photo op.”
Maryann
Trump Barry was a federal judge who retired in 2019, thereby ending an inquiry
into allegedly fraudulent tax schemes. Mary Trump recalled that when she, her
aunt and other family members were at the White House to visit the president in
April 2017, Maryann told an old family story about Fred Jr at 14 dumping a bowl
of mashed potato on then seven-year-old brother Donald’s head because he was
bullying their youngest brother, Robert.
“We know
that he doesn’t like the story, so it was a bit of a dig,” Mary Trump said.
She said
that Donald Trump has no sense of humor about the old tale, even now.
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