A new disclosure book is due to appear shortly. Donald Trump and other family members want to prevent Mary Trump's work.
Mary Trump (55) is a well-educated, highly qualified woman. She has two university degrees, one in English and one in Psychology. The 55-year-old works as a clinical psychologist, she wrote her doctoral thesis on victims of stalking and is also the scientific co-author of a book on schizophrenia.
She also knows the Trump family very well. She is the niece of incumbent US President Donald Trump (74), and what she knows about him and his clan doesn't taste good to the American head of state.
"The most dangerous man in the world"
His niece Mary has written a book and it is not a hymn of praise to my dear uncle. The title: "Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man". In German it sounds just as electrifying: "Too much and never enough: How my family created the most dangerous man in the world".
On 240 pages, Mary Trump describes "a nightmare of trauma, destructive relationships and a tragic combination of neglect and abuse," as Simon & Schuster announced. And: "She explains how certain events and general family patterns created the defective man who currently occupies the Oval Office, including the strange and destructive relationship between Fred Trump and his two oldest sons, Fred Jr. and Donald."
It is not the first, more or less revealing book about Donald Trump. So far, such revelations have beaded up on him, but now the clan is concerned and tries to prevent the appearance of the work on July 28. After all, according to the publisher, Mary Trump is "the only member of the Trump family who is ready to tell the truth about one of the most powerful and malfunctioning families in the world."
Difficult family relationships
Mary Trump is the daughter of Fred Trump Jr. (1938-1981), the eldest son of the patriarch Fred Trump Sen. (1905-1999), Donald was his brother, who was eight years younger. Fred Jr. was supposed to succeed the father as head of the real estate company, but he hardly felt like it. The fun-loving Fred had more and more difficulties with the father and finally left the family empire to become a pilot with the airline TWA. In 1962 he married the flight attendant Linda Clapp, the couple had two children: son Fred III. and daughter Mary.
But nothing came of the great pilot career. Eventually, Fred started working for the family business in 1966. Brother Donald had long since had everything under control. Fred became more and more addicted to alcohol. His marriage was finally divorced in 1971.
In 1981, Mary's father died of a heart attack at the age of 42 – probably as a result of his alcoholism. Donald Trump later said that his brother's death had a major impact on his life. Perhaps it was his and his father's fault to force Fred Jr. into the company when he didn't want him to do so, he explained in a CBS interview in 1990.
The legacy of the grandfather
In 1999 Patriarch Fred Sen. blessed the temporal with 93. He had Alzheimer's and had spent his last years in a sanatorium. Subsequently, there was a legal dispute. Mary and her brother Fred III. did not want to accept that their inheritance, at around $ 200,000 each, was significantly lower than that of the other grandchildren. The lawsuit ended in 2001 with a confidentiality agreement, according to media reports. It should now be the basis for taking legal action against the book.
Can you stop the book?
Donald Trump's younger brother Robert (b.1948) has filed an application for a preliminary injunction in court, stating that the publication would violate a declaration of secrecy that Mary Trump signed to clarify her inheritance. They get about $ 200,000 a year "without raising a finger."
Donald Trump also said that his niece was "not allowed to write the book" because of this agreement. Mary Trump's lawyer Theodore Boutrous Jr., on the other hand, argues that the President is trying to "suppress a book that discusses issues of utmost public importance."
The author herself may not comment on the recent dispute or on the US president. Her last known statement about her uncle's political career came on November 6, 2016, the day after his election. Then she tweeted: "The worst night of my life." And three days later, Mary Trump added: "I just hope we can make up for this bad mistake. I mourn our country."