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elleng

(130,964 posts)
Tue Jul 7, 2020, 09:59 PM Jul 2020

In New Book, Trump's Niece Describes Him as Still a Child, Seeking Attention.

The release of Mary L. Trump’s “Too Much and Never Enough” has been widely anticipated.

'President Trump’s niece describes him in a much-awaited tell-all book as a child in an adult’s body, someone psychologically brutalized and damaged by his “sociopath” father and who developed defenses of anger and distrust to mask his own chronic insecurities.

“Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man,” by Mary L. Trump, presents a portrait of the president familiar to readers of other books as a transactional narcissist and accidental commander in chief.

But Ms. Trump, a clinical psychologist, offers a particularly dark picture of Mr. Trump’s father and her grandfather, Fred Trump Sr.

“From the beginning, Fred’s self-interest skewed his priorities,” Ms. Trump writes. “His care of his children, such as it was, reflected his own needs, not theirs. Love meant nothing to him, and he could not empathize with their plight, one of the defining characteristics of a sociopath; he expected obedience, that was all.”'>>>

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/07/us/politics/donald-trump-mary-book.html?

The Bad Seed came from the father, it seems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Trump

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In New Book, Trump's Niece Describes Him as Still a Child, Seeking Attention. (Original Post) elleng Jul 2020 OP
I think she is being very kind from what I BigmanPigman Jul 2020 #1

BigmanPigman

(51,608 posts)
1. I think she is being very kind from what I
Tue Jul 7, 2020, 10:16 PM
Jul 2020

have heard so far. She could have been a lot meaner but she puts a lot of the problems on Fred's crazy behavior and beliefs as a father.

We already knew he is a pig and pervert to women, that he lies non stop, that he only loves himself, cheats and steals compulsively, is dumber than a rock, doesn't care for religion and the military, is a total hypocrite, is crazy as a bedbug, etc.

The cheating on taxes and lies to the govt is what he may have to deal with...finally!

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