Trump's niece claims he made inappropriate comments about her body
Donald Trump is attempting to ban a book due for publication next week, written by his niece – it contains allegations of sexually inappropriate conduct and other potentially damaging stories. Penned by Mary Trump, the daughter of Donald's brother Fred, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man also describes the current US president as a "narcissist" and claims he committed fraud.
On the subject of women, Mary writes (according to extracts of the book, due for publication 14 July) that her uncle made remarks about her figure when she was 29 years old. Upon spotting her breasts while wearing a swimsuit, he supposedly said, "Holy shit, Mary. You’re stacked!" which left her feeling so uncomfortable that she then covered up with a towel.
Mary also says Donald regularly provided "an aggrieved compendium of women he had expected to date but who, having refused him, were suddenly the worst, ugliest and fattest slobs he'd ever met". She also alleges he once hired her to ghost write a book for him, then fired her partway through without payment and falsely accused her of taking drugs.
The BBC reports that at the time of directing the uncomfortable comments towards his niece, Donald was married to his second wife, Marla Maples (the mother of his daughter Tiffany).
Mary also claims in her book that she provided tax documents to The New York Times in an effort to prove her uncle had committed fraud. The documents were the basis of a 14,000 word article examining Donald's "dubious tax schemes during the 1990s, including instances of outright fraud, that greatly increased the fortune he received from his parents".
Other claims from the book say that Donald Trump paid somebody to sit his SAT exams, as he was afraid of failing them and not getting into his university of choice. According to Mary, he, "worried that his grade point average, which put him far from the top of his class, would scuttle his efforts to get accepted... [and so hired] a smart kid with a reputation for being a good test taker, to take his SATs for him... Donald, who never lacked for funds, paid his buddy well."
Mary, who has been estranged from most of her family for a number of years, has a doctoral degree in clinical psychology, and says her uncle exhibits many of the typical characteristics of a narcissist too. "Donald is not simply weak, his ego is a fragile thing that must be bolstered every moment because he knows deep down that he is nothing of what he claims to be."
According to The New York Times, officials at the Trump Organization have declined to comment on the legal efforts to stop the book being published. It has been described by the publisher as a "revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him".
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