Lying, cheating, childhood trauma: 5 most controversial claims about Donald Trump in niece Mary’s scathing new book
From cheating on his SATs to get into business school to skipping his brother’s deathbed to catch a movie, Mary Trump makes some seriously explosive claims about her uncle, the US president, in her new book Too Much and Never Enough
President Donald Trump's niece Mary Trump has unleashed a host of new claims about the Trump family in her new book, highlights from which were published this week by a number of news outlets.
Mary, whose father, Fred Trump Jnr, was Donald's older brother, writes in Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man that her uncle practices bullying and cheats “as a way of life”.
“Donald, following the lead of my grandfather and with the complicity, silence and inaction of his siblings, destroyed my father. I can't let him destroy my country,” Mary Trump, a clinical psychologist, writes.
The book, published by Simon & Schuster, is set to released on July 14, two weeks earlier than originally scheduled.
The president's younger brother Robert Trump has sued to block the release of the book, citing a nondisclosure agreement Mary Trump signed in 2001 as the family determined Fred Trump Sr’s estate. But a federal appeal court ruled that Simon & Schuster is not bound by that agreement and allowed to book to move forward for release.
The White House responded to the book by claiming that Mary Trump wrote it to make a profit, rather than for the public interest, and denied her claims that the president's father, Fred Trump, was emotionally abusive.
“President Trump has been in office for over three years working on behalf of the American people – why speak out now?” White House deputy press secretary Sarah Matthews told Business Insider in an email. “The President describes the relationship he had with his father as warm and said his father was very good to him. He said his father was loving and not at all hard on him as a child.”
Trump cheated on his SAT to get into Wharton, book says
Mary Trump's family memoir includes damning accounts of how Trump uses “cheating as a way of life”, she writes, according to initial reporting by The New York Times.
One passage accuses Trump of paying someone to take the SAT college-admissions exam on his behalf to earn him a high score.
Trump received his bachelor's degree in 1968 from the esteemed Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, which established a policy in August 2019 saying that “providing false information on an application for admission, cheating on an examination, and tampering with records” are qualifying offences to revoke alumni degrees.
The White House called the claim that Trump cheated on the SAT “absurd” and “completely false”.