- Mary Trump, the niece of President Donald Trump, asked her to resign in her first public appearance since she published a scathing revelation about the President and the Trump family.
- Mary Trump spoke in an exclusive interview with ABC News on Tuesday after the publication of her new book, “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the Most Dangerous Man in the World.”
- Three years ago, she told her uncle not to let his critics “put him off,” after seeing how “tense” he was from “pressure” from the presidency.
- “I just remember thinking,” He seems tired. This is not what he signed up for, “even if he knows what he signed up for,” said Mary Trump, recalling the three times she visited her uncle in the Oval Office.
- “I thought his response was actually more enlightening than my statement. He said, ‘They won’t understand me,'” he continued. “And so far, it seems like she’s right.”
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Four months into Donald Trump’s presidency, his niece Mary Trump told him not to let his critics “depress him.”
Three years later, he only has one tip: “Quit.”
Mary Trump spoke in an exclusive interview with ABC News on Tuesday, her first public appearance since she published a scathing revelation about the President and the Trump family, titled “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man.” “
“Four months later, he already seemed very tense from the pressures,” Mary Trump told George Stephanopoulos of ABC News. “I’ve never been in a situation before where I wasn’t fully protected from criticism, accountability, or the like.”
“I just remember thinking,” He seems tired. This is not what he signed up for, “even if he knows what he signed up for,” he continued, recalling the three times he visited his uncle in the Oval Office.
Mary Trump went on to say that she was candid in her advice to the president, but not in the sense of “I want you to keep doing what you’re doing and get away with it,” she said.
“I thought his response was actually more enlightening than my statement. He said ‘they won’t understand me,'” he said. “And so far, it seems like she’s right.”
However, after the past three years of Trump’s presidency, Mary Trump said today that she would instead call her uncle to resign as president. She told ABC News that Trump was “perverted” by the “problems” of the Trump family, which made him “completely unable to lead this country.”
“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 told ABC News. “And it is surprising to see this continue now on a much larger scale.”
Mary Trump’s father, Fred Trump Jr., was Donald Trump’s older brother. In her book, Mary Trump claimed that she and her brother were removed from the will of her grandfather, who died in 1999, due to her father’s untimely death in 1981, as her grandfather’s assets were mainly divided among her children. .
Mary Trump wrote in her book that she and her brother filed a lawsuit to reclaim part of her grandfather’s assets.
He later stated in the book that the lawsuit caused the rest of the Trump family to “cause us more pain and despair” by cutting off access to the health insurance he had previously provided through his grandfather’s company.
Mary Trump faced rejection from her other uncle Robert Trump, Donald Trump’s younger brother, who twice tried unsuccessfully to block the publication of his book. However, a New York judge lifted the restraining order against the publisher, saying the book had “legitimate public interest” and raised a gag order against Mary Trump allowing her to discuss the book.
White House representatives did not immediately respond to Business Insider’s request for comment. Previously, White House deputy press secretary Sarah Matthews 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 I’ve been in office for more than three years working on behalf of the American people, why speak now? “
