Everything we know about Mary Trump, the president's niece who is a life coach, apparent Hillary Clinton fan, and is publishing a scathing tell-all about her uncle
- President Donald Trump's niece, Mary L. Trump, is publishing a tell-all book about her uncle on July 28.
- Publisher Simon & Schuster said the book will be a "revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him."
- Though Mary Trump, a psychologist, has mostly stayed out of the limelight, she is known to have not gotten along with her uncle Donald for at least 20 years.
- According to state records she is a registered Democrat, and an unverified Twitter account bearing her name includes tweets supportive of Hillary Clinton.
- Here's everything we know about the president's niece and what she reportedly plans to say in her book.
Mary Trump is set to publish a tell-all about her uncle on July 28, titled: "Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man."
Source: Simon & Schuster
She is the daughter of Fred Trump Jr., the president's older brother and once-heir apparent to the Trump family's real-estate business. Her mother is Linda Clapp, a flight attendant whom "Freddy" met while training to be a pilot.
Fred Trump Jr. and Clapp married in 1962, and had two children: Fred Trump III and Mary.
Both Mary and her brother were named after their paternal grandparents, Fred Trump Sr. and his Scottish immigrant wife, Mary Anne MacLeod Trump.
The couple's marriage was short-lived. They divorced in 1970 after eight years of marriage, as Freddy's alcoholism got more and more out of control.
Source: The Washington Post
Freddy died at the age of 42 in 1981 due to complications from alcoholism. He was considered a black sheep of the family for not taking an interest in the family's real-estate business.
Source: The Washington Post
When Fred Trump Sr. died in 1999, Mary Trump and her brother contested his will, which left them a substantially smaller inheritance than the other Trump grandchildren.
The issue at stake was how Fred Sr.'s wealth was dispersed.
Most of his fortune was split between his four surviving children. But Mary and Fred III believed they deserved what would have been their father's share of the inheritance.
Source: New York Daily News
Mary Trump bashed the decision to cut the medical benefits in an interview with the New York Daily News in December 2000, saying her "aunt and uncles should be ashamed of themselves."
Mary Trump was referring to Donald Trump, Robert Trump, and Maryanne Trump Barry, who had been named executors of their father's estate.
Source: New York Daily News
In court documents, Maryanne Trump Barry called Mary and Fred III "absentee grandchildren" who only saw their grandparents on holidays. But in her book, Mary Trump said she "much of her childhood" at her grandparents' house in Queens.
Source: New York Daily News, Simon & Schuster
Mary and Fred III's inheritance was settled privately in 2000, and Trump told The Washington Post last year that "it worked out well, and we all get along."
Source: Washington Post
Sources told The Daily Beast that Mary Trump signed a non-disclosure agreement when that case was settled, which the president may now use to try and sue to stop the book's publication.
Source: The Daily Beast, Business Insider
Mary Trump has a master's in English literature from Columbia and a master's and Ph.D in psychology from Adelphi University. Her publisher says she's "taught graduate courses in trauma, psychopathology, and developmental psychology."
A LinkedIn profile which appeared to belong to Mary said she worked as a life coach. It has now been taken down.
New York State Board of Elections records show that Mary Trump is a registered Democrat, and an unverified Twitter account bearing her name includes tweets supportive of Hillary Clinton.
https://twitter.com/MaryLTrump/status/799325585256411136
https://twitter.com/MaryLTrump/status/797995323272531968
https://twitter.com/ACLU/status/925454131854233600
https://twitter.com/williamlegate/status/925842397094748160
https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/757767826648231936
https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/757767826648231936
https://twitter.com/GiffordsCourage/status/1000082320840445952
https://twitter.com/MaryLTrump/status/821870530580119552
https://twitter.com/ValeriePestre/status/564482739005825024
https://twitter.com/MICAHMANN/status/564478497851457538
https://twitter.com/WPLyndaRobinson/status/613054384507912192
https://twitter.com/Kris_Sacrebleu/status/637138822581497856
https://twitter.com/DPJHodges/status/611943312401002496
https://twitter.com/kharyp/status/640000024752095232
https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/687097022038446081
https://twitter.com/thehighsign/status/802558517403996161
https://twitter.com/amjoyshow/status/853619587946041345
Source: Twitter
The Twitter account was active on the night Trump was elected to president. One tweet said it was "one of the worst nights of my life," and another said "the American experiment has failed."
Mary Trump currently lives in New York with her daughter, according to Simon & Schuster. Her book will be a "revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him," the publisher said.
Source: Simon & Schuster
In the book, Mary Trump will reportedly out herself as the primary source for a 2018 New York Times exposé on the president's finances, and blame her uncle and grandfather for failing to help her father in his time of need.
The Times' report found that the president was not a self-made man, as he had continuously claimed, but used more than $400 million of his father's fortune to prop up his own businesses when they were struggling, through shady tax schemes.
According to The Daily Beast, Mary Trump will say in the book that she provided The Times with tax documents and confidential family documents. The Times has declined to respond to her claim.
Among the details to be revealed in the book is also how the president mocked his father when he started to succumb to Alzheimer's in the 1990s.
Source: Simon & Schuster, Business Insider
Even though the book hasn't published, it is at the top of the charts. As of Thursday it was second on Amazon's Best Sellers list.
The first on the Best Sellers list is former National Security Advisor John Bolton's book, "The Room Where It Happened," which also contains damaging information on the Trump administration.
Here are some of the most explosive claims he's made in the book.
Source: Amazon
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