Politico | Psychological disorders and family squabbles: nine details from the new book by Donald Trump’s niece

Here are some of the most revelatory and incendiary passages from Mary Trump’s new book

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US President Donald Trump. File photo: AFP

Published: 12:51pm, 8 Jul 2020Updated: 1:47pm, 8 Jul 2020

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Daniel Lippman on politico.com on July 7, 2020.

A new book by Donald Trump’s niece Mary Trump describes the president as a person likely afflicted by multiple psychological disorders who is profoundly unsuited to be US president.

Mary Trump is the daughter of the president’s older brother, Fred Trump Jnr, an airline pilot who suffered from alcoholism and died of a heart attack at 42. She is a clinical psychologist who holds a PhD from Adelphi University in New York.

The president’s younger brother, Robert Trump, is trying to stop publication of the book, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man, copies of which have already been distributed to the press. Publisher Simon & Schuster on Monday moved up the publication date to next Tuesday.

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany told reporters on Tuesday that the book was full of “falsehoods and that’s about it”.

A copy of the book was shared with POLITICO. Here are some of its most revelatory and incendiary allegations:

Trump cheated on the SAT

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