- United States President Donald Trump said Friday that his niece, Mary Trump, is saying “false things” about him and his deceased parents.
- In a series of tweets, the president said Mary Trump was a “rarely seen niece” who “violated her NDA.”
- The president’s outburst came after his niece began giving interviews about his book “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the Most Dangerous Man in the World.”
- On Thursday, Mary Trump told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow that she heard the president use the N-word and anti-Semitic profanities.
- “Yes, of course I do,” he said when asked if he heard Trump use racial slurs. “I don’t think that should surprise anyone given how virulently racist it is today.”
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The President of the United States attacked his niece in a series of tweets on Friday, alleging that she is a liar, but also that she is revealing information that violates a confidentiality agreement.
Amid a surge in coronavirus cases, President Trump spent an apparently angry Friday night online about a new book by his niece Mary Trump.
Describing her as a “rarely seen niece who knows little about me,” Trump accused his relative of saying “false things about my wonderful parents (who couldn’t bear it!”), Despite supposedly minimal contact, “and me.” . he tweeted. The president also claimed that his niece “violated her NDA.”
On Thursday, Mary Trump appeared on MSNBC to discuss her revealing new job, “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the Most Dangerous Man in the World.” Almost a million copies of the book have already been sold.
In the appearance, Rachel Maddow of MSNBC asked her if she had ever heard her uncle, Donald Trump, use the N-word and anti-Semitic profanities.
“Yes, of course I do,” she replied. “I don’t think that should surprise anyone given how virulently racist it is today.”
On Friday, she responded to the president’s “rarely seen” attack, noting that her ratings on MSNBC exceeded the ratings for her June town hall event on Fox News.
—Mary L Trump (@MaryLTrump) July 18, 2020
The White House has denied Trump’s use of racial slurs and the content of the book.
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