Mary Trump and her uncle Donald Trump. (Peter Serling /Simon and Schuster/Joe Raedle/Getty)
Mary Trump has warned that her uncle Donald Trump would happily throw his own children to the wolves if it meant he could avoid prosecution.
The Trump Organisation, which employs both Eric and Donald Trump Jr, is currently being investigated by authorities in New York – meaning the former president’s sons could find themselves in legal difficulty.
During an appearance on CNN’s
Cuomo Prime Time on Tuesday (8 June), Mary Trump was asked if her uncle would “take one for his kids” if prosecutors were to bring charges against them – and she didn’t hold back.
President Donald Trump’s niece offers a scathing portrayal of her uncle in a new book, blaming a toxic family for raising a narcissistic, damaged man who poses an immediate danger to the public, according to a copy obtained by the Associated Press.
Mary L Trump, a psychologist, writes that Mr Trump’s re-election would be catastrophic and that “lying, playing to the lowest common denominator, cheating, and sowing division are all he knows”.
“By the time this book is published, hundreds of thousands of American lives will have been sacrificed on the altar of Donald’s hubris and wilful ignorance. If he is afforded a second term, it would be the end of American democracy,” she writes in Too Much And Never Enough, How My Family Created The World’s Most Dangerous Man.
Mary Trump can talk about the highly critical book she wrote about her uncle, Donald Trump, despite objections from the president’s brother, a US judge ruled as he lifted an order which had blocked her from publicising or distributing her work.
State Supreme Court Judge Hal B Greenwald, in Poughkeepsie, New York, rejected arguments by Robert Trump that Ms Trump is blocked from talking about family members publicly by an agreement relatives made to settle the estate of her father after his death.
The judge said the confidentiality clauses in the 2001 agreement, “viewed in the context of the current Trump family circumstances in 2020, would ‘offend public policy as a prior restraint on protected speech ”.
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