Trump ‘was emotionally abused as a child by dad who terrified him and left him scarred for life’, niece claims in book
DONALD Trump suffered emotional child abuse from a father who left him scarred for life, his niece has claimed in her explosive new book.
In “: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man,” Mary Trump will maintain that "love meant nothing" to Fred Trump Sr, who "terrified" the young President.
has vowed she ";had to take him down" with the tell-all book "spilling family secrets" ahead of its early release, reported.
"It wasn't enough for me to volunteer at an organization helping Syrian refugees. I had to take Donald down," she writes.
The book will claim that a two-year-old was neglected and left with a "total dependence on a caregiver (Fred Sr) who also caused him terror" when his mom got sick.
His niece – who is the daughter of his late older brother, Fred Trump Jr – is expected to discuss bombshell claims that Trump "suffered deprivations that would scar him for life" at the hands of his dad.
The highly anticipated memoir published by Simon & Schuster will hit the shelves on July 14 instead of July 28 as a result of high demand and extraordinary interest, reports say.
However, Trump's press office dismissed her claims, saying the book was published "in the author’s own financial self-interest."
"President Trump has been in office for over three years working on behalf of the American people – why speak out now?" his spokesperson Sarah Matthews told The Sun.
"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."
'CHILD ABUSE'
But a week before its release, the memoir is already No. 4 on the Amazon as of July 7.
The back of the book describes how "child abuse is, in some sense, a matter of 'too much' or 'not enough.'"
"Today, Donald Trump is much as he was at three years old: incapable of growing, learning, or evolving, unable to regulate his emotions, moderate his responses, or take in and synthesize information," it reads.
"Donald's mother became ill when he was two and a half, suddenly depriving him of his main source of comfort and human contact. His father, Fred, became his only available parent.
"But Fred firmly believed that dealing with young children was not his duty, and kept to his twelve-hours-a-day, six-days-a-week job at Trump Management, as if his children could look after themselves."
'LOVE MEANT NOTHING'
"From the beginning, Fred's self-interest skewed his priorities and his care of children reflected his own needs, not theirs. He could not empathize with Donald's plight, so his son's fears and longings went unsoothed [sic]," the book claims.
"Love meant nothing to Fred; he expected obedience, that was all," it continues.
"Over time, Donald became afraid that asking for comfort or attention would provoke his father's anger or indifference when Donald was most vulnerable.
"That Fred would become the primary source of Donald's solace when he was much more likely to be a source of fear or rejection put Donald in an intolerable position: total dependence on a caregiver who also caused him terror.
"Donald suffered deprivations that would scar him for life."
INAPPROPRIATE COMMENTS
Describing a family trip to Mar-a-Lago in her memoir, Mary alleged that her uncle commented on her body when she donned a bathing suit, saying "Holy shit, Mary. You’re stacked."
“I pulled my towel around my shoulders. It occurred to me that nobody in my family, outside of my parents and brother, had ever seen me in a bathing suit," she writes, reported .
Trump's niece also issued a scathing attack on his character, claiming he told her he "barely even knew who the f***" Eric Trump's wife Lara was until she gave a glowing speech about him – even though the couple had been married for eight years.
Mary also alleged that Trump's sister and her aunt, court judge Maryanne Trump Barry, called him a "clown" with "no principles," noting his five bankruptcies.
She described Trump as his father's “monster—the only child of his who mattered to him," claiming the President was "extremely vulnerable to manipulation by smarter, more powerful men" like , , and.
'KILLER' INSTINCT
Mary's dad Fred Trump Jr passed away in 1981 after a struggle with alcoholism.
Her controversial volume is still subject to an ongoing legal dispute between its psychologist author and the rest of the Trump clan.
In this family, "killer" instinct is reportedly revered but empathy and kindness aren't praised, which Mary likens to "twisted behaviors," reported the .
In Mary's book, she will explain how in Trump's family, "taking responsibility for your failures is discouraged" but "cheating as a way of life."
Trump even allegedly paid someone to take a pre-collegiate (SAT) test for him as a high school student, his niece claims.
His high score helped him to get into Wharton business school at the University of ’s prestigious, Mary alleged.
His press office told The Sun "the absurd SAT allegation is completely false," however.
FAMILY FEUD
The President has touted his attendance previously, saying Wharton was “the best school in the world," describing it as “super genius stuff.”
A hearing in Dutchess County, north of , is scheduled for Thursday about the explosive book.
Twenty years ago, over Fred Sr's estate and the Trump family is saying this should stop the memoir – but Mary, 51, didn't agree.
Her publishers said she has a unique insight into Trump's psyche as a person who spent a lot of time in her grandparents' Queens household observing the "toxic" family dynamics at play.
Trump previously said the book would violate an NDA and his niece.
"She’s not allowed to write a book," the president said in a previous interview with last month.
"When we settled with her and her brother, who I do have a good relationship with – she’s got a brother Fred, who I do have a good relationship with, but when we settled, she has a total… signed a nondisclosure."
TAX PROBE
The memoir is also expected to deal with reports that Mary was the primary source of the into Trump's taxes.
The October 2018 report revealed Trump pocketed more than $400 million in today's dollars from his father's real estate empire and "'fraudulent' tax schemes."
Trump’s lawyer stated that the Times’ allegations of fraud and tax evasion were “100 percent false.”
Simon & Schuster leaked details from the book that the Trump family's "financial worth is the same as self-worth; humans are only valued in monetary terms."
It's as a "revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him."
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The author Mary has PhD from the Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies and taught graduate students about trauma, psychopathology, and developmental psychology.
White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany not comment on the book's allegations during a press briefing last month.
"I haven’t seen the book," she told reporters. "The President hasn’t seen the book. So I’m not going to sit here and speculate about what it may say or what it may not say."