Mary L. Trump
Mary L. Trump
Interviewed In 2021
Mary L. Trump (MAY 3, 1965) is the niece of President Donald Trump. She is a psychologist and author. She released The Reckoning: Our Trauma and Our Nation's Way To Heal and Too Much and Never Enough. Her books have sold over one million copies and are available on Amazon.com.[13][14]
Education
She earned a Master's degree in literature at Columbia University and a doctorate in psychology at Adelphi University. [3]
Relationship to Donald Trump
Mary Trump is the daughter of Donald Trump's older brother Fred Trump Jr. making her the niece of Donald Trump. She is also the eldest grandchild of Fred Trump Sr.
Social Media
Mary L. Trump is active on Twitter, where she has a following of over 23,000 under the account "@MaryLTrump". In her bio she states that she supports the Black Lives Matter movement. [7] She joined Twitter in December 2012. [7]
Too Much And Never Enough
Book cover of Too Much and Never Enough How My Family Created The World's Most Dangerous Man (July 2020)
On July 24, 2020 Mary Trump will be releasing her book, Too Much and Never Enough on July 28, 2020. One of the alleged revelations Mary will detail in the book is how she played a critical role helping The New York Times print startling revelations about President Trump’s taxes, including how he was involved in fraudulent tax schemes and had received more than $400 million in today’s dollars from his father’s real estate empire. [2]
Mary L. Trump plans to include conversations with Trump’s sister, retired federal judge Maryanne Trump Barry, that allegedly contain intimate and damning thoughts about her brother, U.S. President Trump. [2]
Donald Trump told Axios (website) in an interview published on June 21, 2020, that Mary Trump was "not allowed" to publish a book because she had signed a nondisclosure agreement when he settled a lawsuit brought on by her and her brother, Fred Trump III.
He also said the book had taken members of their family by surprise, and he contested one of the book's claims. The settlement Trump was referring to was an issue over his father's estate.[9]
Mary's father, Fred Trump Jr., died at the age of 42 in 1981 because of alcoholism. When Fred Trump died in 1999, Mary Trump and Fred Trump III contested the will, saying they should have received what would have been their father's share of the will had he outlived his father. The case was settled privately. [9]
Donald Trump said the nondisclosure agreement was a "very powerful one" and "covers everything."[9]
On July 6, 2020, he publisher Simon & Schuster announced that the book would be published two weeks earlier than expected. "Due to high demand and extraordinary interest in this book, 'Too Much and Never Enough' by Mary L. Trump will now be published on July 14, 2020," Simon & Schuster said.[10]
The publisher has already printed 75,000 copies of the book, according to court filings.
Subtitled "How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man," it is currently the No. 1 best-selling book on Amazon.com, surpassing John Bolton's memoir "The Room Where It Happened." [10]
In the prologue to the book, Mary Trump writes: "In addition to the firsthand accounts I can give as my father's daughter and my uncle's only niece, I have the perspective of a trained clinical psychologist.
Too Much and Never Enough is the story of the most visible and powerful family in the world.
And I am the only Trump who is willing to tell it."
Simon & Schuster published the back cover of the book for the first time on July 6, 2020.
It is an excerpt of Mary's writing, stating that "today, Donald is much as he was at three years old: incapable of growing, learning, or evolving, unable to regulate his emotions, moderate his responses, or take in & synthesize information."[10]
Robert Trump's Case
When the existence of Mary's book was revealed, the President's younger brother Robert took legal action to block its publication.
He is being represented by one of the President's attorneys, Charles Harder, who has worked for Trump and Trump's re-election campaign for years. After losing in Queens County Surrogate Court, Robert Trump took his case to the New York Supreme Court and briefly prevailed, winning an injunction against Mary Trump and Simon & Schuster. [10]
But an appellate court lifted the temporary restraining order against the publisher the very next day.
The restraining order is still in place against Mary Trump, so she is unable to comment publicly.
She has a spokesperson, Chris Bastardi, who said on July 6, "The act by a sitting president to muzzle a private citizen is just the latest in a series of disturbing behaviors which have already destabilized a fractured nation in the face of a global pandemic.
If Mary cannot comment, one can only help but wonder: what is Donald Trump so afraid of?" [10]
Mary's attorney Ted Boutrous said on "Reliable Sources" that he is confident that the restraining order will be lifted. "The Supreme Court has never upheld a prior restraint in any case in history where political speech was involved. That's what this is," he said. "It's an important book about the President of the United States."
The next hearing in the case is scheduled for July 10, 2020.
In a legal brief on her behalf, Boutrous and her other attorneys said that the book is her "own story about life as a member of the Trump family - a story that includes information about financial and familial misdeeds by the President of the United States and his siblings."
"This Book addresses issues of profound importance to our country, with critical insights concerning the President of the United States, his formative years, and his family's financial dealings," the legal filing said.
"Ms. Trump offers a personal perspective on President Trump - valuable eyewitness source material for historians and citizens."[10]
Personal Life
Mary L. Trump currently resides in New York.