‘Salacious, harrowing’ Trump exposé awaits in niece’s tell-all book

DONALD TRUMP’S niece has reportedly written a book containing “harrowing” stories about the US president.

The Daily Beast, a US news website, reported that Too Much And Never Enough by Mary Trump, the daughter of the president’s late brother Fred Trump Jr, will include a number of damaging revelations about her uncle.

She will admit that she was the primary source for The New York Times investigation into Mr Trump’s tax affairs, according to The Daily Beast.

The newspaper found that Mr Trump received more than $400million (£354 million) in today’s money from his father’s real estate empire – undercutting Mr Trump’s claim of be- ing a self-made millionaire.

Mr Trump denied the report, which won the newspaper a Pulitzer Prize. Ms Trump, 55, reportedly will say that she handed over tax returns from her grandfather, Mr Trump’s father, and other documents to the newspaper.

She is also said to have detailed alleged comments by Mr Trump’s sister, the retired federal judge Maryanne Trump Barry, which are unflattering to the president.

The Daily Beast quoted sources with knowledge of the project saying the book will detail “harrowing and salacious” stories about the president.

It said publication has been set for

August 11 – less than three weeks before Mr Trump is formally adopted as the Republican presidential nominee at the party’s summer convention.

Simon & Schuster, the publisher of the book, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The New York Times did not comment.

Although Mr Trump is accustomed to fierce critiques of his presidency by

former advisers in books, Too Much And Never Enough would be to the first time he has had to contend with public criticism from a close family member since taking office in January 2017.

Little has previously come to light about Mary Trump’s views of her uncle during his presidency.

Her father died in 1981 after struggling with alcoholism. The president has spoken about how he decided not to consume alcohol after watching the devastating effect drink had on his older brother. “He was so handsome, and I saw what alcohol did to him even physically, and that had an impact on me, too,” Mr Trump said of Fred Trump Jr in August 2019.

♦ Donald Trump said yesterday that his former national security adviser John Bolton will have broken the law if a book he has written is published.

Mr Trump also claimed any conversation with him was classified, and writing the book was “highly inappropriate”.

Attorney General William Barr said Mr Bolton had not completed the process necessary to publish his book and the Justice Department was trying to get him to delete classified information.

The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir is set to be published on June 23. Publisher Simon and Schuster has said the book provides an insider account of Mr Trump’s “inconsistent, scattershot decision-making process”.

Mr Trump fired Mr Bolton in September amid differences on foreign policy.