Trump's worldview forged by neglect and trauma at home, his niece says in new book

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6. It appears they were a very dysfunctional family at best. Perhaps mental illness was prevalent.

Children helpless trapped in a family with parents who are suffering from mental illness would make survival, let alone healthy development a challenge. The situation would only be compounded when the child had their own mental problems. From what I have read Trump had some serious issues such a stoning the next door child in a playpen, fighting and behavior that led to him being sent away to a military school that are in most cases little more than reform schools for troubled youths. It was also reported by those who knew him that he refused to be corrected and would insist that he was right regardless of the proof.