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Subject: Mary Trump’s Book Wed Jul 08, 2020 12:33 am
7-7-2020
About Mary;
Mary trump has a master’s degree and Ph.D in Clinical Psychology at Adelphi University, later contributing to a 2002 book about schizophrenia.
Mary Trump’s book deserves your close attention because the president’s niece has two advantages that the small band of us who have studied Trump closely over the years do not.
First, she’s family. No one knows you like your family. Your family knows how you behaved at crucial moments when life changing events occur — births, deaths, divorces, medical emergencies and weddings — as well as mundane events like Saturday breakfast
The 55-year-old daughter of Donald Trump’s older brother is the first Trump family insider to go public about his behavior since he announced his run for the presidency more than five years ago. Her most chilling anecdote is about how as first son Fred Trump Jr. was rushed to a hospital where he died, Donald his sister Elizabeth went to the movies and the parents stayed home.
Second, she’s a clinical psychologist with a doctorate degree. Her insights are informed by her deep education into how psyches develop and, in the case of her uncle, how personalities cold, cruel, and brutally demanding parenting warps personalities. Donald was so desperate to avoid his father’s wrath, which destroyed his older brother who died of an alcoholism induced heart attack, that he never developed a conscience, only a feral instinct for self-preservation.
There’s also good reason to trust what Dr. Mary Trump writes because the anecdotes and observations in published excerpts are all consistent with my decades of reporting on Trump, as well as the penetrating works of my former New York Times colleagues Timothy O’Brien and Harry Hurt III and my good friend the late Wayne Barrett, the first journalist to expose Trump’s con games.
The new book, officially being published July 14, is also consistent with Gwenda Blair’s richly detailed 2001 book “The Trumps.” Blair showed how the Trumps have been schemers all the way back to 1885 when Friedrich Drumpf fled the German draft, came to America, changed his name, got rich running bordellos and lied to get his American citizenship.
Friedrich died during the pandemic a century ago from influence that killed 50 million people worldwide. That his grandson has no understanding of the science of pandemics, is itself a revealing insight into the utter lack of traditional family values in the self-proclaimed “very stable genius” who now resides in the White House.
The Trump White House, in a statement, attacked the book a work motivated by “financial gain.” That is a most curious charge to be leveled by Donald Trump’s minions given his lifelong indulgence and avarice and his endless false boasts that he is a multibillionaire.
Mary Trump, by any standard rich, is a very rich woman according to none other than Donald Trump. Back two decades ago, when he cut off healthcare to a newborn grandnephew, the son of Mary’s brother, he did so to leverage a settlement that would entitle him to more money from his father Fred’s estate at the expense of Mary and her brother.
He declared back then that the two children of his late older brother Fred Jr. lived luxurious lives thanks to his father, Fred Trump. Mary’s book says Trump often sees people only in monetary terms, something I observed in many conversations with him.
But that Trump would dictate to his personal publicists, who are paid by taxpayers as White House press staff, to denounce making money from a book is a reminder that Donald Trump lives in the moment and assumes no one remembers the past or checks the record.
Trump, I have often explained, lies as easily as the rest of us breathe. Mary writes that for her uncle “cheating is a way of life.” She says he even hired a pal named Joe Shapiro to take his SAT tests, something hard to accomplish today but easily done in the 1960s when proctors did not check photo IDs.
She writes of her joy – something Trump has never known – in collecting 19 boxes of Trump family financial documents and turning them over to three New York Times reporters. Those family business records furnished the basis of the newspaper’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 2018 expose establishing that Trump and his surviving siblings are, like their father Fred, major league serial tax cheats.
She also quotes Trump’s elder sister Maryanne, who did his homework for him, calling Donald “a clown” in 2015 after he announced his campaign for president. Maryanne spent years as a federal judge, but resigned to stop the judicial ethics investigation into her role in the years of Trump family tax cheating.
The family has known all this for decades. The small band of journalists who have studied him closely have also known this for decades and reported it.
Here’s one more compelling reason to believe Mary Trump. The president, through his little brother Robert, tried to block publication of the book, just as he did John Bolton’s revealing look at Trump’s incompetent and dangerous actions on national security. Both times he failed.
Like my 2016 biography The Making of Donald Trump, his niece’s book is a work of reliable information that he desperately hopes you won’t read because nothing is more dangerous to Donald than accuracy and truth.
Now at long last, one brave Trump family member has stood up to tell the truths Donald Trump has kept quiet with bribes, litigation and payoffs. Pay attention, please.
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Subject: Re: Mary Trump’s Book Wed Jul 08, 2020 12:36 am
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Subject: Re: Mary Trump’s Book Wed Jul 08, 2020 12:38 am
Mary Trump’s book, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man, paints her uncle the president in a horrifying light and reveals explosive details about his character and disparaging comments made by his sister, retired federal judge Maryanne Trump Barry.
“If he is afforded a second term, it would be the end of American democracy,” Mary bluntly declares in the book. “Donald, following the lead of my grandfather and with complicity, silence, and inaction from his siblings, destroyed my father. I can’t let him destroy my country.
The book, obtained by The Daily Beast, opens with a family dinner at the White House in April 2017 to celebrate the birthdays for Mary’s aunts, Maryanne and Elizabeth.
As Mary was walking through the halls of The White House, she recalls passing life-sized paintings of former first ladies. “I stopped in front of Hillary Clinton’s portrait and stood silently for a minute. I wondered again how this could have happened.”
At the dinner, just a few months after her uncle had moved into the White House, Mary recounts how Donald gestured towards Eric Trump’s wife, his daughter-in-law. “Lara, there,” he said. “I barely even knew who the fuck she was, honestly, but then she gave a great speech during the campaign in Georgia supporting me.” The couple had been together for eight years.
Don Jr. went on to give a toast to his father, at which point Mary got a waiter’s attention. “Can I have some more wine?” she asked. When the server returned with two bottles, and asked red or white, Mary responded “yes, please.”
Mary says she asked her aunt, “Does anybody even believe the bullshit that he’s a self-made man? What has he even accomplished on his own?”
“Well,” Maryanne responded, “he has had five bankruptcies.”
Maryanne also reportedly lashed out at Donald for using the death of her other brother, Fred Jr., for political gain when addressing the opioid crisis. “He’s using your father’s memory for political purposes,” Mary says Maryanne told her, “and that’s a sin, especially since Freddy should have been the star of the family.”
When white evangelicals such as Jerry Falwell Jr. started endorsing Donald for president, Maryanne, a devout Catholic, allegedly remarked: “What the fuck is wrong with them?”
“The only time Donald went to church was when the cameras were there. It’s mind boggling. He has no principles. None!”
Mary also relays details from a combative phone call Maryanne had with her presidential brother, shortly after the election, in which Trump asked his older sister to assess his performance, seemingly assuming her response would be unequivocally positive.
“When she said, ‘Not that good,’ Donald immediately went on offense,” Mary writes.
“‘That’s nasty,’ he said. She could see the sneer on his face. Then, seemingly apropos of nothing, he asked her, ‘Maryanne, where would you be without me?’” The jab, Mary writes, was “a smug reference to the fact that Maryanne owed her first federal judgeship to Donald because Roy Cohn had done him (and her) a favor all those years ago.”
Mary continued: “My aunt has always insisted that she’d earned her position on the bench entirely on her own merits, and she shot back at him, “If you say that one more time, I will level you.”
In another disturbing anecdote, Mary Trump writes that her father, Fred Trump Jr.—a heavy drinker who ultimately quit working for his father in favor of a job as a pilot for Trans World Airlines—died alone at the hospital in 1981 following an alcohol-induced heart attack. He was just 42.
The night his family sent him to the hospital alone, President Trump had gone to see a movie, she said.
Mary Trump also contends the president is a narcissist, meeting all nine criteria for the personality disorder, and potentially incapable of surviving “in the real world.”
“Donald’s pathologies are so complex and his behaviors so often inexplicable that coming up with an accurate and comprehensive diagnosis would require a full battery of psychological and neurophysical tests that he’ll never sit for,” she writes.
She calls her uncle his father’s “monster—the only child of his who mattered to him—[who] would ultimately be rendered unlovable by the very nature of Fred’s preference for him. In the end, there would be no love for Donald at all, just his agonizing thirsting for it.
“After the election, Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong-Un, and Mitch McConnell, all of whom bear more than a passing psychological resemblance to Fred, recognized in a way others should have but did not that Donald’s checkered personal history and his unique personality flaws make him extremely vulnerable to manipulation by smarter, more powerful men,” Mary writes. “His pathologies have rendered him so simple-minded that it takes nothing more than repeating to him the things he says to and about himself dozens of times a day—he’s the smartest, the greatest, the best—to get him to do whatever they want.”
Elsewhere in the book, in an excerpt first reported by The New York Times, Mary Trump describes her uncle as a man who practiced cheating “as a way of life,” even allegedly hiring someone to take the SAT for him when he was a high-school student in Queens. His high score would eventually help him get into Wharton business school at the University of Pennsylvania, she said.
Growing up, Donald Trump sought to win his imperious father’s approval, lying as a means of “self-aggrandizement” and seeking to differentiate himself from Fred Jr., whom their father saw as weak. “By limiting Donald’s access to his own feelings and rendering many of them unacceptable, Fred perverted his son’s perception of the world and damaged his ability to live in it,” Mary Trump writes, according to an excerpt reported by The Washington Post. She recalled how Donald Trump would hide his younger brother Robert’s toys and threatened to destroy him when he wouldn’t “stop crying” over it.
First Lady Melania Trump also makes an appearance, with Mary writing that after her uncle Robert and his then-wife Blaine had met Melania for the first time, “Rob told me that Melania had barely spoken throughout the entire meal.
“‘Maybe her English isn’t very good,’ I said.
“‘No,’ he scoffed. ‘She knows what she’s there for.’”
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Subject: Re: Mary Trump’s Book Wed Jul 08, 2020 12:26 pm
We are making progress! A Trump that the left loves..so far.
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Subject: Mary Trump Free To Speak About Her Family Book--- Mon Jul 13, 2020 6:33 pm
I had a thread about Mary Trumps book- It is going to offer much to talk about.. It is about the WHOLE TRUMP FAMILY.. Not just Donald.. the Judge ruled Mary free to talk about the Family. the FAMILY of her book.. But- somehow the Mary Trump thread disappeared.
Today;
Mary Trump Free to Dish on Her Family and Tell-All Book, Judge Rules
A judge has freed Mary Trump from a gag order, allowing the president’s niece to speak freely about her family and promote her hotly anticipated tell-all.
The book—Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man, which people close to the project say has already sold close to 1 million copies and is on its third print run—is due out on Tuesday.
In a statement to The Daily Beast, Mary Trump’s attorney, Theodore Boutrous Jr. said, “The court got it right in rejecting the Trump family’s effort to squelch Mary Trump’s core political speech on important issues of public concern.
The First Amendment forbids prior restraints because they are intolerable infringements on the right to participate in democracy. Tomorrow, the American public will be able to read Mary’s important words for themselves.”
As The Daily Beast first reported, less than 48 hours after getting out of the hospital’s NSICU in New York, Robert, 72, launched legal action to try and stop the publication of his niece’s explosive tell-all book.
Dutchess County Supreme Court Judge Hal Greenwald accused Robert of making an “attempt to misinterpret the agreement” that settled the estate of family patriarch Fred Trump Sr., with his claim that it forbade Mary Trump from publishing any account of the family’s internecine dramas. He criticized the language of the settlement for a lack of clarity.
Perhaps more significantly, Greenwald slapped down the elder Trump’s assertion that the agreement barred publisher Simon & Schuster from printing and distributing the book. The judge noted that Simon & Schuster was neither a signatory to the settlement agreement, nor “an agent of Mary L. Trump.” He found Harder’s arguments that the company knew of constraints on the scion’s ability to publish a memoir unconvincing.
“Plaintiff has not demonstrated any impropriety on behalf of S&S in obtaining the publishing rights to Mary L. Trump’s memoir or that S&S did not lawfully obtain the information,” Greenwald wrote. “Plaintiff fails to provide proof sufficient to show that there is an agent-principal relationship between S&S and Mary L. Trump, or that S&S was acting in concert with Mary L. Trump to breach the agreement.”
Further, the jurist seemed to scoff at the suggestion that the elder Trump would suffer “irreparable harm” with the book’s publication.
He noted that a court recently refused to seize copies of former National Security Adviser John Bolton’s book, which contained “information pertaining to national security.''
By contrast, Greenwald pointed out that Simon & Schuster—if forced to cancel or delay the release—would lose millions, and the American people would lose access to a vital source of information about their commander-in-chief.
Greenwald seemed to acknowledge that the president might suffer irreparable harm from the book’s publication, but it was his less prominent and powerful brother who brought the suit.
“At this juncture, when there has been heightened media attention from all sources and multiple comments made by a variety of Trump family members about the agreement, it may be moot to enjoin publication and dissemination of Trump family laundry,” he wrote. “The real possibility here is for S&S and the public to be irreparably harmed if the book was enjoined.”
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Subject: Re: Mary Trump’s Book Mon Jul 13, 2020 9:21 pm
Subject: Re: Mary Trump’s Book Mon Jul 13, 2020 10:40 pm
The Wise And Powerful wrote:
Temple wrote:
I had a thread about Mary Trumps book- ///
But- somehow the Mary Trump thread disappeared.
Look harder next time, Temple.
Thank you.. I did try - I put mary trump in the search, nada. I knew you'd find it.. heh
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Subject: Re: Mary Trump’s Book Fri Jul 24, 2020 1:07 am
7-23-2020
Watch: Mary Trump on Why Donald Trump Lies, Why He’s “Racist,” and Why She Wrote Her Book
In the interview, Mary, who has a PhD in clinical psychology, discussed her main thesis:
David Corn- Mother Jones; (youtube-
I’ve pondered for years: Does Donald Trump believe his own lies? After all, does Trump truly think he is the smartest guy of all time, that he knows more than the generals, that he’s been more right about the coronavirus pandemic than anyone else, that his polls are great, that he has achieved more than any other president, and blah, blah, blah?
“Very often he is lying to himself,” Mary said. “It depends on the circumstances.” She continued: “The more stress he’s under, the more besieged he feels, the more likely it is that the distance between the telling the lie and believing it is the truth is decreasing. We’re getting to the point it’s instantaneous.”
I pressed her on this point. Does he lie (so much!) as a means to get what he wants and knows this is what he is doing—or is he delusional?
“It’s a combination,” she said. “Is it just delusion or is it a tactic? I think it might start out as a tactic but it ends up being a delusion because his need to perpetuate a narrative about himself—a very specific narrative about himself as the winner, as always being right—is decades old. It’s a defense mechanism to protect him against the reality of who he really is… If he had any insight into that, I don’t know that he could bear it.”
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Subject: ‘Making The Court Jester the King’: Editor The Apprentice Wed Jul 29, 2020 11:28 pm
7-29-2020
‘Making the court jester the king’: Why Donald Trump truly is ‘the world’s most dangerous man’
Watching the news from Portland, Oregon, where night after night anonymous Federal forces in combat gear and camouflage continued to go after protesters with tear gas, flashbangs, rubber bullets and batons, doing their damnedest to make a tough situation worse, I was again reminded of a simple fact. It will come as a shock to no one other than the most credulous: Reality TV isn’t real!
Mark Burnett, executive producer of The Apprentice, molded a willing Trump into a realty TV monster from the Planet Television, the place where nothing “real” is real. As per Mary Trump, when the show began in 2004, “Donald’s finances were a mess… and his own ‘empire’ consisted of increasingly desperate branding opportunities such as Trump Steaks, Trump Vodka and Trump University… The Apprentice… despite all evidence to the contrary, presented him as a legitimately successful tycoon.”
An editor on the show said, “Most of us knew he was a fake. He had just gone through I don’t know how many bankruptcies. But we made him out to be the most important person in the world. It was like making the court jester the king.”
We know from other reporting that the editors often had to “reverse engineer” episodes of the series when Trump impulsively changed his mind in the middle of shooting and a scramble ensued to undo the damage.
Katherine Walker, one of the producers, told Patrick Radden Keefe of The New Yorker, in a 2018 profile of Burnett, that they often “struggled to make Trump seem coherent, editing out garbled syntax and malapropisms. ‘We cleaned it up so that he was his best self,’ she said, adding, ‘I’m sure Donald thinks that he was never edited.’
However, she acknowledged, he was a natural for the medium: whereas reality-TV producers generally must amp up personalities and events, to accentuate conflict and conjure intrigue, “we didn’t have to change him—he gave us stuff to work with.”
His profane gift for manipulation and dissembling was further nurtured and encouraged at The Apprentice and now the nation and world suffer. Lashing out, in fear of losing reelection, he’s used the lessons he learned from reality TV to mean and violent effect in Portland.
“Welcome to the world of performative authoritarianism,” The Atlantic’s estimable Anne Applebaum writes, “a form of politics that reached new heights of sophistication in Russia over the past decade and has now arrived in the United States.
Unlike 20th-century authoritarianism, this 21st-century, postmodern influence campaign does not require the creation of a total police state. Nor does it require complete control of information, or mass arrests. It can be carried out, instead, with a few media outlets and a few carefully targeted arrests…
On Fox News, Sean Hannity has already denounced Portland as a “war zone.” Tucker Carlson has spoken of protesters as “mobs” who keep liberal Democrats in power.
The next stage will implicate Joe Biden in this same story: The president’s aides have told journalists that Biden, if he wins, will “allow left-wing fascists to destroy America.” Protesters, mobs, chaos, fascists, the left, the “Dems,” Biden—they’re all one narrative. The Trump administration will show people pictures of its uniformed troops pushing back against them, restoring order with a strong hand. And it will use the kind of language that appeals to that part of the population that prizes safety over all else.
This all is meant as talking points for right-wing TV and radio and for Trump’s campaign ads, and as a diversion from 150,000 COVID deaths (although it also may be a dress rehearsal for election trouble in November). Some say he’s trying to scare suburban voters leaning toward Biden as Richard Nixon did in 1968 following urban uprisings after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the police riot in Chicago at the Democratic National Convention. Others, including Amy Walter of The Cook Report and the PBS NewsHour, think it’s more about stiffening the spine of his faltering base.
So now the Trump administration has agreed to begin withdrawing the Feds from Portland on Thursday if state and local law enforcement secure Federal buildings and assuming conditions “significantly improve”—this despite Trump’s claim Thursday morning, “We’re not leaving until they’ve secured their city.”
Regardless, he knows he already has the footage he needs to for what he thinks will help him most. A handful of protesters late at night made noise and trouble with lasers, bottles and fire in a small area around the courthouse even though the vastest majority of ongoing demonstrations in Portland have been peaceful, as moms, dads and veterans march in support of Black Lives Matter and against the Federal presence on Portland’s streets.
“Perhaps most crucially, for Donald, there is no value in empathy, no tangible upside to caring for other people,” Mary Trump observes in Too Much and Never Enough. “… This is another crisis in which it would have been so easy for Donald to triumph, but his ignorance overwhelms his ability to turn to his advantage the third national catastrophe to occur on his watch. An effective response would have entailed a call for unity, but Donald requires division. It is the only way he knows how to survive.”
That’s the reality. There’s many a good reason her book is subtitled “How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man.”
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Subject: Re: Mary Trump’s Book Thu Jul 30, 2020 12:11 am
Obi-- the article is NOT about Marys Trumps book.. there is a small quote from her book from others, It is about the producers the editors Burnett The Apprentice their speak about trump and ‘Making the court jester the king’:by The Atlantic’s estimable Anne Applebaum speaks and-right-wing TV and radio quotes by Mary Trump from others, not her. about20th-century authoritarian/trump it's about reality TV by the Aprentance people. it is not about Mary Trump /her book. you really need to get up on your toes.
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Subject: Re: Mary Trump’s Book Thu Jul 30, 2020 12:31 am
Temple wrote:
Obi-- the article is NOT about Marys Trumps book.. there is a small quote from her book from others,
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As per Mary Trump, when the show began in 2004, “Donald’s finances were a mess… and his own ‘empire’ consisted of increasingly desperate branding opportunities such as Trump Steaks, Trump Vodka and Trump University… The Apprentice… despite all evidence to the contrary, presented him as a legitimately successful tycoon.”
Subject: Re: Mary Trump’s Book Thu Jul 30, 2020 1:56 am
The Wise And Powerful wrote:
Temple wrote:
Obi-- the article is NOT about Marys Trumps book.. there is a small quote from her book from others,
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As per Mary Trump, when the show began in 2004, “Donald’s finances were a mess… and his own ‘empire’ consisted of increasingly desperate branding opportunities such as Trump Steaks, Trump Vodka and Trump University… The Apprentice… despite all evidence to the contrary, presented him as a legitimately successful tycoon.”
by other FROM her book but not about her book.other are saying about her book little pargraf. there are others in the article, its mainly about their speak, not hers.
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Subject: Re: Mary Trump’s Book Thu Jul 30, 2020 2:41 am
Temple wrote:
The Wise And Powerful wrote:
Temple wrote:
Obi-- the article is NOT about Marys Trumps book.. there is a small quote from her book from others,
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As per Mary Trump, when the show began in 2004, “Donald’s finances were a mess… and his own ‘empire’ consisted of increasingly desperate branding opportunities such as Trump Steaks, Trump Vodka and Trump University… The Apprentice… despite all evidence to the contrary, presented him as a legitimately successful tycoon.”
by other FROM her book but not about her book.other are saying about her book little pargraf. there are others in the article, its mainly about their speak, not hers.
Temple, do yourself - and us - a favor. Stop reading wing nut bullshit, and then trying to pass it off as being "newsworthy".
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