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kpete

(71,984 posts)
Mon Jun 15, 2020, 07:42 AM Jun 2020

Trump's niece set to publish tell-all this summer

—and to reveal that she was a primary source for The New York Times’ investigation into Trump’s taxes.

Details of the book are being closely guarded by its publisher, Simon & Schuster, but The Daily Beast has learned that Mary plans to include conversations with Trump’s sister, retired federal judge Maryanne Trump Barry, that contain intimate and damning thoughts about her brother, according to people with knowledge of the matter.



The bad blood between President Trump and his niece dates back 20 years to the fight over Fred Trump Sr.’s will and the actions he took to cut off financial and medical support for her brother’s ill child. Now that feud is about to spill out into the public eye during a critical election year, with the president struggling to shore up his plummeting popularity.

“My aunt and uncles should be ashamed of themselves,” Mary Trump said about Donald Trump and his siblings in that rare 2000 interview, which provides a preview of the tone of her book. “I'm sure they are not.”


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SWBTATTReg

(22,112 posts)
1. and rump did this to his own family (ripped them off, cut off an ill relative off of financial ...
Mon Jun 15, 2020, 08:19 AM
Jun 2020

and medical support...nice! (by the way, this doesn't shock/surprise me at all, considering all of the stories about families doing unto others in their families similar treatment (stealing monies, cutting off support, etc.) on reddit, and other youtube channels).

So rump had training on how to rip off people, prior to his getting into business, eh? Why am I not surprised? Why am I not surprised that this is the normal mode of operation for a lot of republicans, being the Ayn Rand style of economic tickle down (which is NO tickle down) seems to be their mode of operation?

Kid Berwyn

(14,876 posts)
8. Scheissnozzle stole a baby with cerebral palsy's inheritance.
Mon Jun 15, 2020, 10:43 AM
Jun 2020

His own nephew. The guy is sick in the head, heart and soul.

Collimator

(1,639 posts)
4. Good point.
Mon Jun 15, 2020, 08:59 AM
Jun 2020

But it is not as though she is writing her book because of an overabundance of conscience. She is probably operating from the same mind-set of "What can I get out of this?" that seems to be threaded into the family DNA.

I don't give a damn about any "salacious" details of Donald Trump's life. I just want him stripped of his power to harm others and I want him to suffer just One. God. Damned. Consequence. in his fucking, ignorant, smug life.

SergeStorms

(19,193 posts)
6. "I started with a small ($1 million) loan from my father"...
Mon Jun 15, 2020, 10:27 AM
Jun 2020

That's Trump's standard, boiler-plate "autobiographical" bullshit he always spreads around about himself.

<snip> "Mary Trump, 55, the daughter of Fred Trump Jr. and eldest grandchild of Fred Trump Sr., is scheduled to release "Too Much And Never Enough" on Aug. 11, just weeks before the Republican National Convention.

One of the most explosive revelations Mary will detail in the book, according to people familiar with the matter, is how she played a critical role helping The New York Times print startling revelations about Trump’s taxes, including how he was involved in “fraudulent” tax schemes and had received more than $400 million in today’s dollars from his father’s real estate empire."
<snip>

Almost half a billion dollars (I'm sure it's more than that with the other scams and "loans" Trump weaseled from his father, especially during his casino "career" ) is quite a bit more than the "small $1 million "loan" that started Donald on his "self-made-man" lie.

Trump is nothing more than a carnival huckster, leveraged up to his fake hair-do, owing far more than he's supposedly worth, and balancing everything on a pillar of lies. His children are going to be just like him, fighting each other for the scraps of what's left when Trump finally kicks the bucket. Hopefully that will be very soon. Then we'll see this family of cockroaches scatter when the light of day is finally trained on them. I'm sure Malaria and Barron will get most of what's left. She has "paper" (newly renegotiated since Trump's ascendancy to the presidency, reportedly) while his adult children do not. People like this get very mean and vindictive when they've never had to work for anything in their entire lives. It'll be total carnage, and very entertaining.

yellowcanine

(35,699 posts)
9. So did Donald screw Fred Jr. out of part of his inheritance from Fred Sr.?
Mon Jun 15, 2020, 10:47 AM
Jun 2020

You know he probably did. He screws everybody. Why would his own brother be exempt?

UTUSN

(70,683 posts)
10. Won't buy BOLTON's book, but just might this one
Mon Jun 15, 2020, 11:27 AM
Jun 2020

When SHITLER is gone out of our lives, the clean-up and attempt to put the country back together will be the only “legacy” he will have. He INFLICTED his loathsomeness on us and will disappear like the pus of a lanced boil, all relief afterwards and soon forgotten. His zombie followers will still be here, unfortunately.

I thought SHITLER always said he’s a teetotaler because of brother Fred Junior’s alcoholism, making it sound like a lesson from life, but it turns out Junior’s problem was exacerbated by SHITLER. Besides that it’s unlikely that SHITLER was chemical-free during all the years of partying with Roy COHN at Studio 54, and even today ADDERALL being suspected.

At his despicable appearance at West Point Saturday, he droned on stupidly in his TelePrompter mode. Somebody said that he was given a valium and forcibly told NOT to deviate from the text. Oh how the wingnuts used to mock OBAMA about TelePrompters. Yeah, we’ll still have wingnuts after SHITLER is gone.






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