Speaking to CNN’s Chris Cuomo hours after Trump’s tweet, Mary Trump echoed earlier comments describing her uncle as racist and dismissing the President’s accusation that she was a family outcast.
Although she admitted that it was difficult to maintain relationships after her grandfather’s death due to an intra-family lawsuit, Mary Trump noted that the president had asked her to ghost write her second book. She also added that she and her grandmother were “very close”.
“My grandfather really had no positive feelings for anyone except maybe Donald,” he said.
In response to the President calling it a “disaster,” Mary Trump replied, “I think it is just an attack that predominantly targets women and I am honestly in very good company. I think he has said the same thing about Nancy Pelosi and I’m fine with that.”
Mary Trump also responded to the President’s tweets with one of her own, writing: “5.23 million v. 5.11 million #seldomseen” accompanied by a thoughtful emoji.
The numbers are a reference to the reported views of Mary Trump’s interview with Rachel Maddow of MSNBC on Thursday versus the reported city council views of the president with Fox News’ Sean Hannity in June, and a dig in the fascination. of the president with television ratings.
During the explosive interview with Maddow, Mary Trump said she had heard the President and other members of his family use anti-Semitic language and a derogatory insult against blacks.
As of Friday night, Trump had yet to respond to the last side of his niece.
Mary Trump’s book is not the first damning account of the President, but his unique perspective from within the family has fueled his popularity and intrigue. “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man” is currently No. 1 on Amazon’s bestseller list, selling more than 950,000 copies on its first day of release.
The Trump administration has denied the accounts in the book on behalf of the president, and White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany characterized it as an opportunistic work of fiction, claiming that the president maintained a healthy relationship with his parents.
“It is a book of falsehoods, and that’s it,” McEnany said last week. “They are ridiculous and absurd accusations that have absolutely no relation to the truth.”
The Trump family tried to sue to stop publication of the book, citing a 2001 family financial deal as the basis for stopping Mary Trump and its publisher, Simon & Schuster, from publishing or discussing the book. But New York state courts ruled that the publisher was free to publish the book, which she did earlier this week, and that Mary Trump could discuss and publicize her work, a point Mary Trump emphasized during her interview with Cuomo. .
Trump also chased his former national security adviser John Bolton, who had written his own account of his time in the White House. Bolton’s highly anticipated book, published in June, alleged that Trump committed numerous acts of presidential misconduct, such as offering favors to foreign heads of government and requesting Chinese aid in his reelection.
The Trump administration attempted to stop Bolton’s book, saying it revealed secrets related to national security, but a federal judge allowed the book to be published.
In his tweets on Friday, Trump called his former adviser “John Bolton, the fool of low life, a fool of war, breaking the law” who wrote the book “to build much-needed credibility and earn a few dollars.”
The president had previously attacked Bolton in the wake of his book, calling him “stupid” and a “heartless guy.”
