m’y stupid liberal brother posted this on a family text, so thought you’d liked to know what’s incoming. I haven’t read it all because I get sick reading anything from CNN, so pull the lies apart guise
The psychologist in the Trump family speaks
By Michael D'Antonio
Author of revealing new book about Melania Trump speaks out 07:16
Michael D'Antonio is the author of the book "Never Enough: Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success" and co-author with Peter Eisner of "The Shadow President: The Truth About Mike Pence." The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion on CNN.
(CNN)Born into a fabulously wealthy family of seemingly continuous intrigues, betrayals and conflicts, Mary L. Trump did not seek the spotlight. She earned a master's in literature at Columbia and a doctorate in psychology at Adelphi University.
These disciplines seem to have prepared her to understand and reveal deep truths in a way that would make the family's secret-keepers freak out. It's safe to assume they are freaking out now.
In late July Dr. Trump will publish a book, ominously titled, "Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man."
Most readers won't need any more clues about her subject – her uncle, President Trump. But those who do could consult the cover, which features a photo of a young Trump before he became the figure who now lumbers upon the world stage and lurks in so many nightmares.
Three and a half years into the Trump era, endless words have been spent illustrating the chaotic and cruel personality that can, to cite just one example, schedule a huge ego-gratifying rally in the middle of a deadly pandemic caused by a viciously contagious virus.
According to her publisher, Mary Trump will bring her special perspective insider, psychologist, writer to bear on incidents and information never before revealed.
Having devoted years to the study of the man and the Trump clan, I can say that the bits teased so far suggest that Mary Trump has the goods. To begin with, she's the daughter of the President's eldest sibling, Fred Trump Jr., who may have been the original victim of Donald Trump's bullying.
As publisher Simon and Schuster put it: "She recounts in unsparing detail everything from her uncle Donald's place in the family spotlight and Ivana's penchant for regifting to her grandmother's frequent injuries and illnesses and the appalling way Donald, Fred Trump's favorite son, dismissed and derided him when he began to succumb to Alzheimer's."
Warm and easygoing, Fred was, by all accounts, ill-suited to play the role of cutthroat real estate baron, which was what his father expected of him. Happy to step in, Donald did all he could to prove that he was the more deserving son.
When Fred Jr. finally ceded first position among the heirs to the family business, he became an airline pilot. Donald mocked his profession. "What's the difference between what you do," he would ask, "and driving a bus?"
After Fred Jr. died at age 42 from complications of alcoholism, Donald turned his death into an object lesson that reflected well on himself. Donald pointedly abstained from tobacco and alcohol because of his brother's struggle, saying, "I watched him. And I learned from him."
The cruelty didn't stop with Fred Jr.'s death in 1981. Later, when the paterfamilias Fred Trump Sr. died, heirs learned that his will distributed his estate among his children and their offspring "other than my son Fred C. Trump Jr." The children of Fred Jr. sued, noting that an earlier will, written prior to Fred Sr. being diagnosed with dementia, had granted them proper shares.
Soon after the suit was filed, Donald changed a health insurance policy, taking away coverage for a disabled infant born to Fred's own son, Fred III. (A second telling anecdote from author Harry Hurt III, who has written about the Trumps, describes Donald briefly considering evicting his brother and sisters from their rent-free homes in a Trump building unless they paid cash for the property.)
When asked in 2000 whether withdrawing the child's insurance was cold-hearted, the man who claimed to be a billionaire said, "I can't help that. It's cold when someone sues my father."
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