Trump niece takes aim with ‘toxic family’ book
Disclosures to include details of president cutting off support for disabled great-nephew in feud
DONALD TRUMP has warned his niece against releasing a tell-all book on their “toxic” family as details of a damaging lawsuit at the centre of the Trump family feud emerged.
The lawsuit dates back to the early 2000s, when Trump and his siblings were accused of cutting off financial support for their disabled great nephew, calling it “expensive babysitting”.
The family feud has come back into the spotlight as the US president is facing the fallout from another tell-all book by his former national security adviser, John Bolton, as well as political pressure over poor turnout at a recent rally.
Mr Trump’s niece Mary, daughter of the president’s late brother Fred, is releasing her own tell-all book, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man, at the end of July.
Speaking to the website Axios, the US president said Ms Trump was violating a non-disclosure agreement she signed as part of a legal settlement with him, saying: “She’s not allowed to write a book”.
The bombshell book, due for release on July 28, is described by its publisher Simon & Schuster as a “revelatory, authoritative portrait” of Mr Trump “and the toxic family that made him”.
The agreement was signed in 2001 as part of a legal settlement after Mary and her brother Fred Trump III filed a lawsuit against Mr Trump and his two siblings disputing their inheritance from their grandfather’s estate.
The pair filed another lawsuit after their health insurance, which had been provided by the Trump company for decades, was cancelled in apparent re
taliation. Details of that lawsuit have now come to light, revealing the full extent of the bitter relationship between the president and his eldest brother’s offspring.
In the lawsuit Mary and Fred III accused the president and his siblings of refusing to pay for the healthcare of Fred III’S disabled son William, despite the fact that he was born with a disorder known as Infantile Spasms, which can cause violent seizures and slow down a baby’s development.
According to copies of the lawsuit seen by Mail Online, Donald Trump and his siblings claimed William did not need round the clock care, which they labelled “expensive babysitting”.
Instead, the Trump family argued that Fred III should take a CPR course from the American Red Cross in case baby William suffered another cardiac arrest and required resuscitation.
They also claimed that Mary and Fred III had already received millions of dollars from them saying that rather than suing them, a “thank-you would be extremely appreciated”. Fred III and Mary claimed the Trumps acted in “retaliation” for them challenging the will of Donald Trump’s father, Fred Trump Senior, who died in 1999.
♦mr Trump is suspending a host of visas for high-skilled workers which would prevent hundreds of thousands of foreigners taking up jobs in the United
States. The president will also extend a ban on the issuing of new green cards outside the US until the end of the year. A senior Trump administration official estimated the restrictions would stop up to 525,000 people entering the country during the rest of 2020, freeing up half a million jobs for US citizens.
The temporary ban includes H-1B visas which are used by major US technology companies to bring in foreign employees and their immediate families. Also included are J-1 visas for research scholars, exchange students and camp counselors. The US is also suspending L-1 visas, which are used by executives in multinational corporations transferring to posts in the US.