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Mary Trump to release new book on ‘America’s national trauma’ // "Donald Trump a des troubles psychologiques qui vont s’aggraver", prévient sa nièce Mary
Mary Trump to release new book on ‘America’s
national trauma’
Book by president’s niece will be published in July
2021
The Reckoning follows tell-all of her dysfunctional
family
Martin
Pengelly in New York
@MartinPengelly
Tue 1 Dec
2020 16.30 GMT
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/dec/01/mary-trump-book-the-reckoning-presidents-niece
Donald
Trump’s niece Mary Trump will follow her bestselling exposé of her
dysfunctional family life with a new book on “America’s national trauma”, her
publisher has announced.
The
Reckoning will be published by St Martin’s Press in July 2021. According to St
Martin’s, it “will examine America’s national trauma, rooted in our history but
dramatically exacerbated by the impact of current events and the Trump
administration’s corrupt and immoral policies”.
Mary Trump
is the daughter of Fred Trump Jr, the president’s older brother who died aged
42 in 1981, from illness relating to alcoholism. Much of Mary Trump’s first
book, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most
Dangerous Man, was informed by her father’s treatment by his siblings and
parents.
The Trump
family sought to block publication but the book, published by Simon &
Schuster, became an enormous hit, selling 1.35m copies in its first week alone.
The
president’s niece, a trained psychologist, has since emerged as a prominent
critic.
“I don’t
think he has any political ideology,” she told the Guardian in July. “I would
say he behaves like a white supremacist, certainly.”
In a
statement on Tuesday, Mary Trump said: “For four years, Donald Trump has
inflicted a series of traumas upon the American people, targeting anyone he
perceived as the ‘other’ as an enemy.
“Women were
discounted and derided, the sick were dismissed as weak and unworthy of help,
immigrants and minorities were demonized and discriminated against, and money
was elevated above all else.
“Finally,
he demonstrated his stunning lack of concern for the American people with his
willful mishandling of the pandemic and the ensuing economic collapse. In
short, he transformed our country into a macro version of my malignantly
dysfunctional family.”
Trump is
currently refusing to concede defeat to Joe Biden, while making baseless claims
of electoral fraud, pursuing long-shot lawsuits and encouraging rumors that he
may run for president again in four years’ time.
Jennifer
Enderlin, St Martin’s president and publisher, said Mary Trump was “uniquely
positioned … to make sense of the consequences of our living through what could
be the greatest mental health crisis we have ever experienced as a nation.”
St Martin’s
Press said: “America is suffering from PTSD – a new leader alone cannot fix
us.”
Farmers' protests in India intensify | DW News
The Indian
government has invited leaders of farm groups protesting newly enacted
agricultural laws near the capital city of New Delhi for talks on Tuesday, two
days before they were originally scheduled to take place. The
government, in a statement issued late Monday, announced the meeting was
advanced due to the coronavirus pandemic and the extreme cold weather. The
government has already held two rounds of talks with the farmers with the last
one held on November 13. "At that time too, we had urged them not to go
for agitation and that the government is ready for talks," Agriculture
Minister Narendra Tomar said on Monday. Tomar said that farmers had
misconceptions about the farm laws and the government was committed to
discussing the issue with their representatives without any preconditions. This
comes after the farmers rejected Home Minister Amit Shah's offer to advance the
date of talks in exchange for them moving their protest to a designated site on
the outskirts of Delhi.
The farmers' protest, the biggest the country has seen in
recent years, intensified over the last five days. Thousands of farmers have
marched to the national capital, with many more trickling in, threatening to
block five entry points to Delhi. "Delhi Police has strengthened its
presence at various border points in the wake of farmers protest. All internal
(Delhi Police) and outside (paramilitary) forces have been mobilized to the
maximum," a senior police official was quoted as saying by Indian news
website News 18. Last week, hundreds of farmers clashed with police while
trying to enter the capital. The police used tear gas and water cannon to try
and stop protesters while the farmers used tractors to try to clear the
barriers that police had constructed using concrete blocks, shipping
containers, and horizontally parked trucks.
In September, India's parliament passed three controversial
agriculture bills aimed at liberalizing the country's farm sector. They were
subsequently signed into law, sparking farmers' protests across the country.
The government argued that the new laws will give freedom to farmers to sell
their produce outside regulated markets and enter into contracts with buyers at
a pre-agreed price. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) insists that the
laws will fetch better prices and free farmers from traditional middlemen who
dominate the trade. The government hopes that its new policy will double
farmers' income by 2022. Indian farmers have held huge rallies across the
country in the past few years to protest against the government's
"neglect" of the agriculture sector amid increasing privatization.
Once accounting for a third of India's gross domestic product (GDP), the
farming sector now produces only 15% of the country's $2.9 trillion (€2.4
trillion) economy. More than half of India's farmers are reportedly in debt,
with 20,638 committing suicide in 2018 and 2019, according to India's National
Crime Records Bureau.
Iran vows to retaliate for killed nuclear scientist Fakhrizadeh | DW News
Iran on
Monday held a funeral service for the scientist who founded the country's
military nuclear program, and repeated previous claims that the assassination
had been carried out by Israel. The secretary of the country's Supreme National
Security Council, Ali Shamkhani, used the event to claim that Israel had used
"electronic devices" to remotely kill military physicist Mohsen
Fakhrizadeh. Meanwhile, the defense minister said Iran would continue
Fakhrizadeh's work "with more speed and more power." Hatami referred
to the killing as a "heinous assassination." The funeral began with a
religious singer praising Fakhrizadeh, whose coffin was covered with the
Iranian flag. An honor guard carried the coffin containing his body. State
television showed high-ranking Iranian officials, including Defense Minister
Amir Hatami and Revolutionary Guards chief Hossein Salami, who were present for
the funeral. The socially-distanced funeral was held in an outdoor part of the
Iranian Defense Ministry in Tehran and was closed to the public.
Israel,
which is alleged to have killed several Iranian nuclear scientists over the
past decade, has declined to comment on the attack. According to the defense
ministry, Fakhrizadeh died after assailants targeted his car and engaged in a
gunfight with his bodyguards outside Tehran. Fakhrizadeh, who was a member of
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard, is believed to have led Iran's nuclear
program, which Israel and the West have claimed was a veiled military operation
to construct a nuclear weapon. Iran has long maintained that its nuclear
program is peaceful. There were debates on Sunday over how to respond to the
assassination. Parliament demanded a halt to international inspections of the
country's nuclear sites by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
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