Exclusively, Mary Trump said it is “dangerous” for her uncle to lead the United States.
Speaking about her influential uncle for the first time since the publication of her new explosive book, Mary Trump, the niece of President Donald Trump, asked the president on Tuesday to resign.
“If you’re in the Oval Office today, what would you say to him?” ABC News chief presenter George Stephanopoulos asked in an exclusive interview.
“Resign,” replied Mary Trump.
After being “perverted” by the family’s deep-seated “problems”, she said, “her uncle was destined to become a man” completely incapable of leading this country, and it is dangerous to allow him to do so. ”
“I saw firsthand what focuses on the wrong things, elevating the wrong people they can do: the collateral damage that can be created by allowing someone to live their lives without responsibility,” he said. “And it is surprising to see that this continues now on a much larger scale.”
Mary Trump recalled visiting her uncle in the Oval Office three months after his inauguration.
“He already seemed very tense because of the pressures … and I only remember thinking:” He seems tired. It seems this is not what he signed up for, “he said.
Tuesday’s exclusive interview with ABC News, to air on “World News Tonight With David Muir” and more on “Good Morning America” on Wednesday, comes the same day Simon & Schuster will release their long-awaited book, ” Too Much and Never “Enough: how my family created the most dangerous man in the world”.
The book features a scathing depiction of the incumbent president, largely drawing, Mary Trump says, from the author’s memories, conversations with family members, and legal, financial and family documents.
Mary Trump’s uncle Robert, the president’s younger brother, unsuccessfully urged a court to block publication of the book. And another legal effort by Robert Trump to stop Mary Trump from publicly promoting the new book also failed, and a New York judge ruled Monday that he was free to speak in public.
In Tuesday’s interview, Mary Trump doubled down on the claim in her book that Donald Trump’s father, his grandfather, was a “sociopath.”
“He was incredibly driven in a way that converted other people, including his children [and] wife, on pawns to be used for their own purposes, “said Mary Trump.” It is impossible to know who Donald might have been in different circumstances and with different parents. But he clearly learned the lesson.
According to Mary Trump’s account, tensions within the family reached a boiling point in 1999, after her grandfather died and she learned that he had essentially excluded her and her brother from her will. When she and her brother filed a lawsuit, the rest of the family sought to “cause us more pain and make us more desperate,” ending the health insurance they had always received through their grandfather’s company, Mary Trump wrote.
They finally reached an agreement, but on Tuesday she described the agreement as unfair.
His own father, Fred Trump Jr., died in 1981. He was Donald Trump’s older brother.
The White House on Tuesday referred to ABC News on its previous statements about the book. The White House previously said: “Mary Trump and the publisher of her book may claim to be acting in the public interest, but this book is clearly in the author’s own financial interest.”
“President Trump has been in office for more than three years working on behalf of the American people. Why speak now? The president describes the relationship he had with his father as warm and said that his father was very good to him. He said his father was loving and not hard on him as a child, “the statement continued.
Lucien Bruggeman, Nadine Shubailat and John Santucci of ABC News contributed to this report.
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