Who is Mary Trump and what did she write in her tell all book?
FORMER President Donald Trump is suing his 56-year-old niece, Mary L. Trump and The New York Times for improperly obtaining and using his tax documents to write her tell-all book Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man.
Mary Trump's book, published in 2020, claims former President Trump's father neglected, manipulated, and emotionally abused him.
The former president filed a lawsuit in 2020 in an attempt to block the release of Mary L. Trump's book. The lawsuit was dismissed, and the book was published on July 14, 2020.
This is not the first time Donald Trump sued the author of a tell-all book. Former national security adviser John R. Bolton faced a lawsuit prior to publishing "The Room Where It Happened." Donald Trump filed the lawsuit claiming that Bolton breached a non-disclosure agreement. The lawsuit was later dismissed.
In Mary's book, she claimed Donald Trump suffered emotional child abuse from his dad, who she said, left him scarred for life.
In the book, Mary maintained that "love meant nothing" to Fred Trump Sr, who "terrified" a younger Donald Trump.
"It wasn't enough for me to volunteer at an organization helping Syrian refugees. I had to take Donald down," she wrote.
The book claimed 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.
In her book, Mary L. Trump said, "Honest work was never demanded of him, and no matter how badly he failed, he was rewarded in ways that are almost unfathomable.
"President Trump has been in office for over three years working on behalf of the American people – why speak out now?
"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."
Mary L. Trump described Donald Trump as his father's “monster—the only child of his who mattered to him."
How is Mary Trump related to Donald Trump?
Mary is the daughter of former President Trump's late older brother, Fred Trump Jr - who passed away at the age of 42 in 1981 from a heart attack.
Fred's death came after his struggle with alcoholism.
In the book, Mary wrote: "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 obtained her bachelor's and master's degrees from Tufts University and Columbia University.
She also earned another master's degree and a Ph.D. at Adelphi University.