Another Trump family public spat has erupted between the former President’s estranged niece, Mary Trump, and his son, Eric Trump. The latest row began when Donald Trump’s nephew, Fred Trump III, told journalists that his famous uncle once suggested he let his disabled son die. Fred Trump declared he intended to vote for Kamala Harris and explained that his uncle is “atomic crazy.” Fred Trump III has recently published his memoirs, and in them, he claims that during a phone call with his uncle, the former US President told him that he would have a better life if he let go of his severely disabled child and moved to Florida.
The book, entitled All In The Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way, paints Donald Trump in a highly negative light, claiming that he is a racist who uses “the N-word” and holds prejudiced views of black people– a revelation that analysts suggest could prove disastrous for Trump as he faces the first non-white Vice President in the White House race. It is the second highly critical book written by a Trump family member and joins Mary Trump’s Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created The World’s Most Dangerous Man. In that book, Mary Trump describes her uncle as a narcissist with a fragile ego that needs constant reassurance. She also wrote that the family patriarch, Fred Trump Sr., was very tough on his sons, particularly Donald, whom he wanted to follow in his footsteps as a property tycoon.
In other revelations, Ms. Trump said the former President paid someone else to take his college entrance exams because he was afraid he would not measure up. Regarding his attitudes to women, Mary Trump claimed that Donald Trump expected women to date him, and if they didn’t, he would turn against them and label them the “worst, ugliest and fattest slobs he’d ever met.”
The latest row between Mary and Eric Trump erupted after Eric tweeted his disgust at Fred Trump III’s book and the revelations contained within. Writing on Twitter, the former President’s son explained how “disappointed” he was at reading the “garbage.” He claimed his relative wrote the expose so he could cash in on the family name. Eric Trump insisted that his father had given “unwavering love, support, golf memberships, family vacations and millions of dollars,” but Fred Trump III had nevertheless decided to betray him “less than 100 days before the election.”
Mary Trump hit back with an online video and said her cousin’s tweet was filled with “lies and misinformation” and that Eric was “beneath contempt.” She went on to explain that Donald Trump and his siblings, Maryanne Trump, and Robert Trump, stole millions of inheritance dollars from other family members when Fred Trump Sr. died. A lawsuit between the siblings was settled in 2001, but Mary Trump later claimed that Donald Trump had defrauded her by falsely valuing some of the elder Mr. Trump’s assets.
The Trump campaign vehemently denied the allegations in Fred Trump’s memoirs, calling them “total fake news of the highest order.”
