New York Daily News

DISHING ON

Rushed release of niece Mary’s

- BY CHRIS SOMMERFELD­T

The forthcomin­g book by President Trump’s estranged niece describes him as a “toxic” bully who practices “cheating as a way of life,” values money above anything and belittles his own family members, according to a Monday press release.

In addition to those damning details, the press release from publisher Simon & Schuster says Mary Trump’s book, “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man,” will now be released July 14, two weeks earlier than planned — even though the president’s brother is trying to block the tell-all in court.

The publisher said it is moving up the release date due to “high demand and extraordin­ary interest.”

“[It] is the story of the most visible and powerful family in the world. And I am the only Trump who is willing to tell it,” Mary Trump, 55, writes in an excerpt of the book’s prologue included in Monday’s release.

Having spent much time at the sprawling Queens home where President Trump and his siblings grew up, Mary Trump speaks from firsthand experience as she delves into embarrassi­ng accounts of the leader of the free world, the release states.

She recounts the “strange and harmful relationsh­ip” between her presidenti­al uncle and her father, Fred Trump

Jr., who died young after a long battle with alcoholism. She also recalls the “appalling way Donald, Fred Trump’s favorite son, dismissed and derided him when he began to succumb to Alzheimer’s” in the late 1990s, the publisher says.

The book includes vivid descriptio­ns of the “twisted” values and behaviors Trump picked up as a young man including:

“Financial worth is the same as self-worth; humans are only valued in monetary terms.”

“A ‘killer’ instinct is revered, while qualities like empathy, kindness and expertise are punished.”

“Taking responsibi­lity for

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