Mary Trump, the niece of President Donald Trump, has asked her uncle to step down as he breaks his silence after publishing a memoir that describes him as a “sociopath.”
“Resign,” Mary Trump replied when asked by ABC News chief presenter George Stephanopoulos what message he would have for his uncle if he were in the Oval Office.
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 this continue now on a much larger scale.”
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Mary Trump broke her silence in an interview that will air on Wednesday. A preview clip of the interview was released Tuesday (above)
George Stephanopoulos interviews Mary Trump for ABC’s ‘Good Morning America’; the full interview will air on Wednesday morning
In the interview, Mary Trump also recalled visiting her uncle in the Oval Office several 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.
A clip of the interview was released Tuesday, and the full interview is scheduled to air on Wednesday morning. It is the first time that people can hear the author about life in the Trump family.
It comes after Judge Hal Greenwald of the New York State Supreme Court stopped the Trump family’s attempt to incite Mary Trump to speak about her book: “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created Man most dangerous in the world, “which was released on Tuesday.
It has already topped Amazon.com’s best-seller list, and the publisher sent advance copies to various media outlets, including DailyMail.com.
Mary Trump, seen sitting at the resolved desk in the Oval Office during a visit to the White House in April 2017, is slated to appear on ABC’s ‘Good Morning America’ show on Wednesday.
Mary Trump’s book about her famous family is published Tuesday, despite family concerns.
Mary Trump was unable to speak personally about that after Robert Trump, the brother of President Trump, argued that the book violated a confidentiality agreement related to Fred Trump’s estate.
Mary Trump is the niece of President Trump, the daughter of her older brother Fred Trump, who died in 1981 of complications from alcoholism.
However, the courts ruled in her favor, both in publishing the book and in allowing her to discuss it.
Judge Greenwald ruled that stopping the publication was a “moot point” because the book had already been distributed to sellers and published in the media.
“ Even though the book has been published and distributed in large numbers, imposing Mary L Trump at this time would be wrong and would be of no use. It would be debatable, ” she wrote.
Robert Trump, who is barely mentioned in the book, led the lawsuit that tried to prevent Mary Trump from publishing it, citing a settlement he signed after a financial settlement after his grandfather’s death.
Greenwald refused to apply a broad view of the estate settlement, saying “what was confidential was the financial aspect.”
‘The parties agreed to keep the agreement sealed. That’s it, ‘Greenwald wrote of the deal that was executed at a time when’ the Trump family were New York-based real estate developers and not much else. ‘
The White House has disputed the book’s claims, which includes the allegation that the President cheated on his SATs.
Mary Trump’s book hit stores Tuesday and sold out quickly on Amazon.com
Mary Trump’s book is the second internal Trump account to be published this summer. Former national security adviser John Bolton published his memoirs of working at the White House last month, a book that the administration tried to prevent from being published.
Mary Trump, a trained psychologist, explores in the book the role the president’s father, Fred Trump, played in his life and development. She wrote in the book that she has no problem calling Donald a narcissist: he meets the nine criteria outlined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
He also calls the president a “sociopath” and claims that his life’s work has been an effort to please his difficult father, Fred Trump Sr, whom he also describes as a “high-functioning sociopath.”
Mary Trump, in her book, calls Trump’s father (above) a ‘high-functioning sociopath’, marked by a lack of empathy, ease of lying, and lack of interest in others.
The White House has disputed the book’s claims, which includes the accusation that the President cheated on his SATs, paying a friend to take them away so he could attend the famous Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
A spokesperson said the book was written “clearly in the author’s own financial interest.”
“The president describes his relationship with his father as warm and said that his father was very good to him,” White House spokeswoman Sarah Matthews said earlier this month. “Furthermore, the absurd SAT charge is completely false.”
The book paints a dark portrait of the Trump family and says the president’s father, Fred Sr, neglected him so much that it amounted to ‘child abuse’.
According to Mary, the psychological damage was such that Donald became a sociopath, a narcissist, and a threat to the entire country.
Mary, 55, portrays the family as deeply damaged people, beginning with Fred Sr and his wife Mary Ann and filtering down to their five children.
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