Too Much and Never Enough

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Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man is an exposé book written by Mary L. Trump , a niece of Donald Trump. It was published by Simon & Schuster on July 14, 2020 . The book 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. A legal battle over whether the book could be published was fought in the New York justice system, with an appellate judge allowing Simon & Schuster to publish the book. The German-language edition was originally supposed to be published on August 31, 2020 under the title Zu much und nie sich. How my family created the most dangerous man in the world appear in Heyne Verlag ; however, the publication date has been brought forward.

background

The book's author, Mary L. Trump, a clinical psychologist, is a daughter of Fred Trump Jr. and a granddaughter of Fred Trump Sr. According to Simon & Schuster, the editor of her book, she has PhD students in trauma, psychopathology and Teaches developmental psychology. She has written a dissertation on victims of stalking, carried out research on schizophrenia and authored parts of the popular medical manual Diagnosis: Schizophrenia. Mary's father died of a heart attack from alcoholism in 1981 at the age of 42.

After Fred Sr.'s death in 1999, Mary and her brother, Fred III, challenged Fred Sr.'s will in probate court alleging that Fred Sr. had dementia and Fred Sr.'s will "through fraud and undue influence" .'s other children, Donald, Maryanne and Robert. A week later, Donald, Maryanne, and Robert canceled health insurance for Fred III's son, William, an 18-month-old boy with epileptic spasms. In an interview with the New York Daily News, Mary said that her "aunt and uncles should be ashamed. I am sure they are not ashamed". The lawsuit was settled and Williams health insurance was reinstated. Donald explained his actions in 2016: "I was angry because they complained."

After her uncle's presidential campaign, Mary Trump came into contact with the New York Times and made tax records of the Trump family available as an anonymous source. The documents were used for a 2018 article detailing the financial fraud carried out by Trump who won the Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting for David Barstow, Susanne Craig and Russ Buettner.

Barstow pursued Mary Trump with an offer to write a book for her. He introduced her to his agent Andrew Wylie, who offered her a multi-million dollar advance. Craig and Buettner were upset when they heard about this, and the editors of the Times forbade Barstow to write the book because of ethical guidelines. In the end, she worked with Jay Mandel from WME and sold her book to Simon & Schuster at auction.

publication

Simon & Schuster initially set a publication date for August 11, 2020 and handed the exclusive report on to the newspaper The Daily Beast , which published an article about the book on June 15. Two days later, the book reached number 5 on Amazon's bestseller list. The response to the article led them to postpone the publication date to July 28th. On July 6, Simon & Schuster announced that they had moved the release date due to "high demand and extraordinary interest" on July 14, which led to The Room Where It Happened by John Bolton 1 as a bestseller no. Amazon was exceeded. 950,000 copies were sold on the first day of sales, making it the most successful book by the Simon & Schuster publishing house to date.

Donald Trump considered taking legal action against Mary , according to The Daily Beast . Donald told Axios that Mary had previously signed a "very powerful" nondisclosure agreement that "covers everything," which is why, according to Donald, she was "not allowed to write a book."

Donald Trump's younger brother Robert Trump filed a lawsuit on June 23, trying to obtain an injunction, citing Mary's nondisclosure agreement, to block publication. At a June 25 hearing, Judge Peter J. Kelly of the Queens County Surrogate Court in New York City dismissed the lawsuit on grounds of lack of jurisdiction. Robert took his case to the Dutchess Supreme and County Court, where Judge Hal B. Greenwald ordered a temporary suspension of the book's publication on June 30, while he scheduled a hearing on July 10 to determine whether the book is permanent should be blocked for publication. A New York appellate judge, Alan D. Scheinkman, overturned the lower court's decision on July 1, ruling that Simon & Schuster could proceed and publish the book pending a July 10 hearing.

On July 2, 2020, Mary Trump filed an affidavit claiming that she was not bound by the NDA clause in the settlement agreement for a number of reasons, including that the "ratings ... in ... the settlement agreement ... are fraudulent ".

content

The book reports how Mary provided the New York Times with confidential Trump family tax records, leading to the Times claiming Donald was involved in fraud and reporting that Donald made about $ 413 million in the 1990s transferred from his father's real estate businesses to support his own troubled businesses. The book also accuses Donald of paying a friend named Joe Shapiro to take the SAT aptitude test for him . Mary claims in the book that Donald and Fred Sr. neglected her father and contributed to his death from alcoholism; it is also allegedly alleged that Donald Fred Sr. vilified and disregarded the outbreak of Fred Sr.'s Alzheimer's disease.

expenditure

  • Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man. Simon & Schuster, New York 2020, ISBN 978-1-982141-46-2 .
    • Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the Most Dangerous Man in the World. Translated from American English by Christiane Bernhardt et al. Heyne, Munich 2020, ISBN 978-3-453-21815-4 .

swell

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