Secretly recorded audio, Maryanne Trump criticized Barry, the older sister of President Trump, her brother for his lack of principles, his lies and said, “you can not trust him.” The audio, first reported by the Washington Post and partly obtained by CBS News, was recorded between 2018 and 2019 by Mr. Cousin’s cousin. Trump, Mary Trump, who recently published a tell-all book about the president.
In one recording, which was not independently monitored by CBS News, Barry criticized Mrs’ immigration policy. Trump and his “lack of preparation” and “lies.” Barry also recalls learning that Mr. Trump proposed sending her to the U.S.-Mexico border to support his administration’s policies.
In the recording, she decides “what to do with children at the border,” and reminds her family member to say, “Well, I guess he did not read my immigration opinions.” When asked by Mary what Mr. Trump has read, Barry replies, “No. He has not read.”
In a number of recordings, Barry is heard complaining about Mr. Trump’s character. “Donald is out for Donald, period,” she said in one exchange. “All he wants is to appeal to his base,” Barry said in another recording. “He has no principles. None. None.”
“I mean, he goes to a September 11 memorial and he sees a crowd and he pumps fists,” she complains in another recording. In that same recording, Barry is heard complaining about Mr. Twitter’s account. Trump.
“I said, ‘Get rid of Twitter. Stop this,'” she reminded the president.
White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows responded to the tapes on Fox News Sunday: “Another day, another political attack. What I find interesting is each family member secretly taking 15 hours of a conversation. with someone, of course, tape would promote an agenda – she’s very bare in her support for Joe Biden. ”
In a statement issued by the White House, Mr Trump lifted the ties, referring to his brother’s recent death: “Every day is something different, who cares. I miss my brother, and I will continue to work hard. for the American people. Not everyone agrees, but the results are obvious. Our country will soon be stronger than ever. “
In another recording, Barry is heard hearing about her nomination for federal court by President Ronald Reagan. She gets hot reminders of Mr. Trump suggesting he was the reason she was nominated for the position, prompting Mary to ask what Mr. Trump had ever done on his own end.
“I do not know,” Barry replied.
“Nothing,” said Mary.
“Well, he has five bankruptcies,” Barry replied.
“Good point. He did it all himself,” Mary said.
“Yes, he did. Yes, he did,” Barry said. “You can not trust him.”
Mr. Trump has never declared personal bankruptcy, but several of his companies have filed them company bankruptcy.
Barry discusses her nomination by Reagan several times. She notes that Mr. Trump would often bring up how he called his lawyer Roy Cohn, who was close to President Reagan, to help with her nomination to the federal court. Barry says she would be nominated, even without Mr. intervention. Trump. In one recording, Barry says that she was once against Mr. Trump said that if he ever brought it up again, “I will expel you.”
The Washington Post reports that while discussing the situation with Cohn and her nomination, Barry stated, “It’s the phonony of everything. It’s the phonony and this cruelty. Donald is cruel.”
Chris Bastardi, a spokeswoman for Mary Trump, told CBS News in a statement that the recordings were made because, “Mary realized that members of her family were lying in prior decline.”
“Anticipating litigation, she felt it wise to tap into conversations to protect herself,” the statement said. “She never expected to learn much from what she heard, including the president’s sister, Federal Judge Maryanne Trump Barry, stated that Donald Trump paid someone to take a SAT exam for him.”
The claim that Mr. Trump paid someone else to take the SAT exam for him can be found in Mary Trump’s recently published book, “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Made the World’s Most Dangerous Man “, although it is not a statement she attributed to Barry in the text. The book was published by Simon & Schuster, a subsidiary of ViacomCBS.
Barry is heard discussing this in two separate recordings, although it is not clear if she had first-hand knowledge.
Barry said Mr. Trump was “a brat” and claimed she did his homework for him and he “drove him around New York City to try to get him into college.”
“He went to Fordham one year, and then he came to the University of Pennsylvania,” Barry said. “I think he had someone take the exams … SATs or whatever. … That’s what I believe.”
Barry has not publicly criticized Mr. Trump. In one recording, however, she notes that Mr. Trump “has not spoken to me for two years” at one point in her relationship. ” ”
Stephen Sanchez contributed reporting.
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