President Donald Trump unleashed a series of tweets attacking his niece Dr. Mary Trump amid the release of her new book, “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man.”
The president took to Twitter on Friday with a number of tweets accusing his niece of releasing his tax returns while describing her as “a mess.”
He tweeted, “Next up is Mary Trump, a seldom-seen niece who knows little about me, says untruthful things about my wonderful parents (who couldn’t stand her!) and me, and violated her NDA. She also broke the Law by givng out my tax returns. She’s a mess!”
I am the ultimate member of The Book of the Month Club. First I have lowlife dummy John Bolton, a war mongering fool, violating the law (he released massive amounts of Classified Information) and an NDA in order to build badly needed credibility and make a few dollars, which
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 17, 2020
….Tax Returns. She’s a mess! Many books have been written about me, some good, some bad. Both happily and sadly, there will be more to come!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 17, 2020
Trump’s tweets came days after the release of Mary Trump’s book and just hours before her appearance on CNN’s “Cuomo Prime Time” with host Chris Cuomo.
During the interview, Mary Trump was asked about the tweets and she noted that the court ruled she did not violate any non-disclosure agreement. She also said she had never had possession of Donald Trump’s tax returns but that the documents she does have are hers legally.
At one point during the interview, Cuomo inquired about Trump’s mental state.
“The president benefits greatly from traits of his being ascribed as strengths when, to me, they scream out as weaknesses,” Cuomo said. “You know who he is at his core when there is no camera around and the people who have been around him in his formative stages. Give some context to me about what that means to you as a clinician.”
Mary Trump responded by describing her uncle as “a psychologically deeply damaged man.”
“The simplest way I could put it, which may be one of the more effective ways to put it is that Donald is a psychologically deeply damaged man based on his upbringing and the situation with his parents,” Mary Trump answered. “He is not going to get better, and he is without question going to get worse.”
She later added:
“He’s untreated, he’s not interested in being treated, he has no insight, he has no psychological awareness of his situation and, again, one of the most devastating things is that people who claim to care for him aren’t helping him. If they truly cared for him, the last place in the world they would want him to be is the Oval Office. And yet they do nothing.”
See Mary Trump’s remarks below:
https://twitter.com/CuomoPrimeTime/status/1284302094456049665
Mary Trump’s book was released on Tuesday.