Mary L. Trump

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Mary Lea Trump (born May 3, 1965 in New York City ) is an American psychologist , businesswoman and author . She is the only niece of President Donald Trump . Her book about him and the family, Too Much and Never Enough , published in July 2020 , sold nearly a million copies on the first day of sales.

Life

Mary L. Trump was born in May 1965 to Fred Trump Jr. and Linda Lee Clapp, a flight attendant. She has a brother, Frederick Trump III. With her family, she lived the first years in a "seedy" apartment in the district of Jamaica in Queens . Her father died of a heart attack related to alcoholism when Mary was 16 years old. Trump graduated from Ethel Walker School in 1983. She completed her undergraduate studies in English literature at Tufts University . She earned a masters degree from Columbia University and studied the works of William Faulkner and his dysfunctional fictional Compson family. In 2003 she earned a master's degree in psychology from Adelphi University , where she also received her PhD in clinical psychology in 2010 . She is a registered supporter of the Democratic Party and supported Hillary Clinton in the 2016 US presidential election . After an inheritance dispute with her uncle Donald Trump in 2000, their relationship with each other is broken. Mary Trump was married to a woman from whom she divorced. She lives in New York City with her daughter .

Career

Trump was a co-author of Diagnosis: Schizophrenia , published by Columbia University Press in 2002. She has taught graduate courses in developmental psychology, trauma, and psychopathology. She is the founder and CEO of Trump Coaching Group , a life coaching company, and has also had a number of small businesses in the northeastern United States.

Conflicts with the Trump family

When Fred C. Trump died of Alzheimer's disease in 1999 , Mary and her brother Fred III were fighting. her grandfather's will. In his will, Fred Sr. bequeathed the majority of his fortune to his children in equal parts. He left each of his grandchildren $ 200,000. When Mary's father, before the death of her grandfather Fred Sr. passed away, the lawyers of Fred sen. recommended that his will be changed so that Mary and her brother Fred III should inherit larger shares than the grandchildren of living parents. They assumed that the will of Fred Sr. would be challenged if not changed by descendants who would argue that it was his intention that each child would eventually leave part of their share of the estate to their own descendants.

Shortly after Fred Sr.'s death, Mary's sister-in-law gave birth to a son with a rare disease that would require expensive medical care for life. Fred Sr. had set up a foundation that paid his family's medical expenses. After Mary and Fred III. Mary and Fred III had filed a lawsuit against Donald Trump and two of his siblings. informed that the medical foundation would no longer cover their medical expenses. The lawsuit was settled in 2001. In the final settlement of the dispute over the division of the estate of Fred sen. they were not awarded the share that their father would have inherited if he had been at the time of Fred Sr.'s death. would have been alive. However, she re-established her family's medical expenses.

The 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting was presented to David Barstow, Susanne Craig and Russ Buettner of the New York Times for “an extensive 18-month investigation into Donald Trump's finances that exposed his claims of self-made wealth and revealed a tax evasion empire ". Mary was reportedly an important source of information for this study as she came into possession of Donald Trump's tax records during the discovery process of her grandfather's estate dispute.

Following the announcement of Mary's book Too Much and Never Enough in June 2020, her uncle Robert S. Trump attempted to prevent publication by stating that she signed a nondisclosure agreement during the 1999 litigation. The filing of an injunction against Mary was dismissed by a New York court for lack of jurisdiction, and the book was published on July 14, 2020.

Disclosure book

The written by her tell-all book Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man (dt. Output Too much and never enough: How my family created the most dangerous man in the world ) was born on 14 July 2020 by the publisher Simon & Schuster published. It describes how the author was the anonymous source forwarding Trump's family tax returns to the New York Times; reporting was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2019. In the book and in TV interviews, she also claims that a friend of Donald Trump's sat the university entrance exam for him . A lawsuit over whether the book could be published was fought in the New York justice system, with an appellate judge allowing the publisher to publish the book. The book sold 950,000 times on its first day of sale.

Publications

  • Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man . Simon & Schuster, New York 2020, ISBN 978-1-98214146-2
German translation: Too much and never enough: How my family created the most dangerous man in the world . Heyne Verlag, Munich 2020, ISBN 978-3-453-21815-4

swell

  1. ^ Mary Lee Trump - shining a light on family secrets. In: star4cast.com. Marjorie Orr, June 18, 2020, accessed July 20, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Book written on US President Donald Trump by niece sells nearly million copies on first day thestatesman.com , July 17, 2020, accessed on July 18, 2020 (English)
  3. ↑ The Inside Story of Why Mary Trump Wrote a Tell-All Memoir nytimes.com , July 7, 2020, accessed on July 20, 2020 (English)
  4. ^ What to Know About Donald Trump's Niece Mary, Who Fought Him in Court & Is Writing a Tell-All. Retrieved July 17, 2020 .
  5. ↑ a b Michael KranishcloseMichael KranishNational political investigative reporterEmailEmailBioBioFollowFollow: Mary Trump once stood up to her uncle Donald. Now her book describes a 'nightmare' of family dysfunction. Retrieved July 17, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Michael D'Antonio: The psychologist in the Trump family speaks. Retrieved July 18, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Too Much and Never Enough . 2020, ISBN 978-1-982141-46-2 ( simonandschuster.com [accessed July 18, 2020]).
  8. ^ Alan Feuer, Michael Rothfeld, Maggie Haberman: The Inside Story of Why Mary Trump Wrote a Tell-All Memoir . In: The New York Times . July 7, 2020, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed July 18, 2020]).
  9. ↑ Lynn Sweet: Mary Trump says uncle Donald may have 'undiagnosed learning disability' in new book. July 7, 2020, accessed on July 18, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Meet Mary Trump businessinsider.com , July 4, 2020, accessed July 19, 2020
  11. ↑ ABC News Exclusive: Mary Trump Interview with Stephanopoulos youtube.com , July 16, 2020, accessed on July 18, 2020 (English)
personal data
SURNAME Trump, Mary L.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Trump, Mary Lea (full name); Trump, Mary (short form)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American psychologist, businesswoman and author
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City