Book accuses Trump of ‘cheating as a way of life’
Mary Trump, President Trump’s niece, plans to publish a tellall family memoir on July 14, describing how a decadeslong history of darkness, dysfunction and brutality turned her uncle into a reckless leader who, according to her publisher, Simon & Schuster, “now threatens the world’s health, economic security and social fabric.”
The book, “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man,” depicts a multigenerational saga of greed, betrayal and internecine tension and seeks to explain how Trump’s position in one of New York’s wealthiest and most infamous real estate empires helped him acquire what Mary Trump has referred to as “twisted behaviors” — attributes like seeing other people in “monetary terms” and practicing “cheating as a way of life.”
Mary Trump, who at 55 has long been estranged from Donald Trump, is the first member of the Trump clan to break ranks with her relatives by writing a book about their secrets. Since late June, her family has been trying to stop the publication of the book, citing a confidentiality agreement that she signed nearly 20 years ago.
Here are some of the highlights from her manuscript:
As a high school student in Queens, Mary Trump writes, Donald Trump paid someone to take a precollegiate test, the SAT, on his behalf.
Her father, Fred Trump Jr. died in 1981 from an alcoholinduced heart attack when he was 42. His family sent him to the hospital alone on the night of his death. Donald Trump went to see a movie.
Mary Trump, a clinical psychologist, writes that her uncle has all nine clinical criteria for being a narcissist.
“Donald’s pathologies are so complex and his behaviors so often inexplicable that coming up with an accurate and comprehensive diagnosis would require a full battery of psychological and neurophysical tests.”