Trump says niece Mary was ‘not a family favorite’ after slamming her book as ‘stupid’ and ‘vicious’

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Donald Trump has hit out at niece Mary again, this time calling her tell all book about their family ‘stupid and vicious’. 

The president told Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace that she was not a ‘family favorite’ and that he and his loved ones ‘didn’t have a lot of respect or like for her’.

His scathing attack comes after the release of Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man in which Mary Trump, a trained psychologist, said the president suffered ‘child abuse’ at the hands of his father’. 

Mary Trump says ‘love meant nothing’ to Fred Trump Sr and he only wanted obedience, which the President was forced to give him.

Donald’s mother became ill when he was two years old, leaving him with ‘total dependence on a caregiver (Fred Sr) who also caused him terror,’ Mary writes.

But on Sunday Trump hit back, saying: ‘My father liked to win. My father was a very good man. He was a strong man.’

Rounding in on Mary, who is the daughter of his eldest brother Fred Trump, who died in 1981 due to complications from alcoholism, he added: ‘I would’ve never said that except she writes a book that’s so stupid and so vicious and it’s a lie.

Admitting that it ‘hurts’ for his family to be ‘attacked’, he said: ‘My father was a great, wonderful man.

‘It hurts me more about attacking my father, not being kind to my mother. I have a mother who was like a saint. She was incredible. She was an incredible woman and she [Mary Trump] was nasty even to my mother.

‘She’s [Mary] a very scarred person. She was not much of a family person.’ 

After admitting his dad was ‘tough on all the kids’ he said his niece was ‘not a person that I spent very much time with’ adding that he is now ‘glad’ of that fact. 

He added: ‘For her to say – I think the word she used was psychopath – what a disgrace. She ought to be ashamed of herself. That book is a lie.’ 

The president has already called Mary a ‘mess’ and claimed that his parents couldn’t stand her, while also accusing her of breaking the law.

He tweeted Friday evening, calling her ‘a seldom seen niece who knows little about me’, adding she ‘says untruthful things about my wonderful parents (who couldn’t stand her!) and me, and violated her NDA.’

Donald Trump added: ‘She also broke the Law by giving out my tax Returns. She’s a mess!’ 

Mary Trump responded to the tweet shortly afterward tweeting ‘5.23 million v. 5.11 million’, a dig at her uncle’s fascination with TV ratings. 

The number referred to reported views of Mary interview with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on Thursday versus the reported views of the president’s town hall with Fox News’ Sean Hannity in June. 

She added the hashtag #seldomseen.  

It was revealed Thursday that Mary L. Trump’s scathing memoir about her uncle has sold nearly a million copies from preorders alone. 

Publisher Simon & Schuster revealed that the book, named ‘Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man’, sold a company record of 950,000 copies in combined print, digital and audio editions as of its date of sale, earlier this week. 

Simon & Schuster were also the publishers of John Bolton’s ‘The Room Where It Happened’, which sold nearly 800,000 copies in its first week when released last month. 

Trump and his allies had tried to stop both books from coming out, alleging that Bolton had revealed classified information and that Mary Trump had violated a nondisclosure agreement. 

Judges in each case denied requests for injunctions. 

In her book, Mary Trump has claimed that she heard her uncle use the n-word and anti-Semitic slurs and that the family engaged in casual bigotry throughout her childhood.

The White House has called Mary’s allegations ‘a book of falsehoods’, adding: ‘The president doesn’t use those words.’ 

Mary described what her family engaged in as ‘a knee-jerk anti-Semitism, a knee-jerk racism.’ 

‘Homophobia was never an issue because nobody ever talked about gay people, well, until my grandmother called Elton John’ an anti-gay slur,’ she also told The Washington Post. 

In the book, she describes her grandmother Mary calling the choice to have John sing at the funeral of Princess Diana ‘a disgrace’ and said he was a ‘little’ six-letter slur.  

She said that led to her decision not to come out to her family. 

Mary Trump was secretly engaged to a woman, but had to push back her wedding because her grandfather, Fred Trump Sr., had died. 

In another explosive section of the book, in which she describes the president as being unfit for office, Mary Trump writes that her uncle paid a friend named Joe Shapiro to take his SATs for him so he could attend the University of Pennsylvania’s famous Wharton School of Business. 

Ex-tennis star Pam Shriver, the widow of Trump pal Joe Shapiro from Penn, said last week her husband never met the future president until they were at business school together – so he couldn’t have taken President Trump’s SATS. 

Mary also described President Trump’s 2016 campaign as being racist several times in the book. 

‘He did tap into a certain bigotry and inchoate rage, which he’s always been good at doing,’ she wrote, pointing to the 1989 New York Times ad the president took out demanding that the Central Park Five – a group of five black suspects who were cleared of assault and rape charges – be executed.  

Trump also discussed coronavirus ‘disappearing’ with Fox host Chris Wallace Sunday and was probed on whether he will be a sore loser should Joe Biden win the presidency come November. 

The president called into question the presumed Democratic nominee’s mental state and bragged about the results of his own cognitive test. 

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