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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJournalist who's covered Trump for 35 years explains why you should take Mary Trump's book seriously
https://www.alternet.org/2020/07/investigative-journalist-whos-been-covering-trump-for-35-years-explains-why-you-need-to-take-marys-trumps-book-seriously/First, shes family. No one knows you like your family. Your family knows how you behaved at crucial moments when life changing events occur births, deaths, divorces, medical emergencies and weddings as well as mundane events like Saturday breakfast.
The 55-year-old daughter of Donald Trumps older brother is the first Trump family insider to go public about his behavior since he announced his run for the presidency more than five years ago. Her most chilling anecdote is about how as first son Fred Trump Jr. was rushed to a hospital where he died, Donald and his sister Elizabeth went to the movies and the parents stayed home.
Second, shes a clinical psychologist with a doctorate degree. Her insights are informed by her deep education into how psyches develop and, in the case of her uncle, how personalities cold, cruel, and brutally demanding parenting warps personalities. Donald was so desperate to avoid his fathers wrath, which destroyed his older brother who died of an alcoholism induced heart attack, that he never developed a conscience, only a feral instinct for self-preservation.
Theres also good reason to trust what Dr. Mary Trump writes because the anecdotes and observations in published excerpts are all consistent with my decades of reporting on Trump, as well as the penetrating works of my former New York Times colleagues Timothy OBrien and Harry Hurt III and my good friend the late Wayne Barrett, the first journalist to expose Trumps con games.
The new book, officially being published July 14, is also consistent with Gwenda Blairs richly detailed 2001 book The Trumps. Blair showed how the Trumps have been schemers all the way back to 1885 when Friedrich Drumpf fled the German draft, came to America, changed his name, got rich running bordellos and lied to get his American citizenship.
Friedrich died during the pandemic a century ago from influenza that killed 50 million people worldwide. That his grandson has no understanding of the science of pandemics, is itself a revealing insight into the utter lack of traditional family values in the self-proclaimed very stable genius who now resides in the White House. . . .
2naSalit
(86,646 posts)There's no identification of the author in the OP.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,005 posts)malaise
(269,054 posts)about this monster
calimary
(81,318 posts)2naSalit
(86,646 posts)niyad
(113,341 posts)I keep wondering why she is not addresses as Dr. Trump, nor is that on the book.
RVN VET71
(2,692 posts)"Donald was so desperate to avoid his fathers wrath, which destroyed his older brother who died of an alcoholism induced heart attack, that he never developed a conscience, only a feral instinct for self-preservation."
Wow. Just wow. Perfect, chilling, frightening.
I have felt this way about him since back in the last century.
I have encountered others like him, my father for one, and he has so many pathological issues, it's hard to identify them all.
RVN VET71
(2,692 posts)In my case it was an older brother. Unlike Trump, he wasn't mistreated by our parents. He just never developed a conscience and was, thus, driven in life by the pursuit of his own pleasures. He died young, and I can add "thankfully" to it only because of the emotional and psychological burden his death lifted from our family. And he left behind 3 or 4 sons (we're not absolute certain one of them was his) at least one of whom has had and is still leading a very successful and happy life.
MiniMe
(21,717 posts)I would never think about buying Bolton's book. I don't want to contribute anything at all to Bolton. But Mary is a little different.