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Excerpts from thoughts of Mary L.
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on falls close to Ancestral Tree
“[M]y grandfather [was] a sociopath….” And while, “I actually don’t diagnose Donald specifically…, he certainly exhibits sociopathic behaviors.”
Congenital Crooked Character
“In my family, being kind was considered being weak.
“Weakness” was “admitting your mistakes and apologizing for them.”
Galloping Ethnocentrism, language of the household
“[M]y family was quite anti-Semitic, along with other things.”
“I didn’t understand the animus, but it wasn’t shocking; it’s just the way it was. This is how adults in my orbit spoke and behaved.…” The language and attitude was “casual and accepted.”
“[I]t was just language that was used …, a given.”
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ervice to Country Rejected
“Donald Trump and Ivana threatened to disown Donald Trump Jr. if he joined the US military”
Papa Donald “never valued”
the US military “He could have served” his country but [this German descendant]
“chose over and over again”— taking “five deferments”— “not to serve” the
United States of America.
Predator Personified
Niece age 29 at the beach
“[I]t was just Donald, Marla
(Donald Trump and second wife Marla Maples [m. 1993; div. 1999]) and me… having
lunch on the patio outside …, way before Mar-a-Lago was a private club, … it
was pretty casual, so I felt comfortable coming from the pool with shorts and a
bathing suit on. Donald had his golf clothes on.
“[A]s I approached the table where they were already sitting, he [Trump] looks up at me, and it was as if he’d never seen me before. … He said, ‘Holy [expletive], Mary! You’re stacked!’”
“I was 29 years old and not easily embarrassed, but even that shocked. … I had known Donald my whole life [but] that shocked me. And it created a bit of awkwardness in the moment, so I quickly just wrapped my towel around myself and sat down and was mildly horrified.”
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s of October 2019, at least twenty-three women (including his former
wife, Ivana) have publicly accused Donald Trump of sexual misconduct.
There were allegations of rape, violence, being kissed and groped without consent, looking under women’s skirts, and walking in on naked women.
In 2016, he denied all accusations, calling them ‘false smears’, and alleged there was a conspiracy against him.
“In October 2016, two days before the second presidential debate, a 2005 ‘hot mic’ recording surfaced in which Trump was heard bragging about kissing and groping women without their consent, saying ‘when you’re a star, they let you do it, you can do anything … grab ‘em by the pussy.’”
Mary Trump on incident: “I wasn’t the slightest bit shocked that he said it or that he admitted to these things or that he’d actually done these things. I was horrified that it didn’t matter.” [Emphasis added]
Qualification for public office
“[W]hat has he ever accomplished?”
Aunt Maryanne replies: “Well, he has had five bankruptcies.”
“[T]hat was sort of our take on the whole thing.”
“I was horrified that it didn’t matter.”
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s audience to the Clintonesque-Obamaesque plays
Distracted Desperate Deliberately Ignorant Pliable Americans Shrug and Embrace a Veneer
“A lot of people in this country are purposely left in the dark. They make bad decisions, self-defeating decisions because they are not given access to information that would help them make better choices.”
In 2016, “nothing [candidate Trump] did or said seemed to turn anybody
off….”
Mary Trump
Daughter of flight attendant Linda Lee Clapp and commercial jet pilot Frederick “Fred” Trump Jr. (1938–1981), Mary Lea Trump, a niece of US president Donald John Trump, is a psychologist, businessperson, author, and academic, who has taught graduate courses in developmental psychology, trauma, and psychopathology [cursory search found no scholarship or academic research by ML Trump, author of popular 2020 book Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man]. She is a graduate of Tufts University (BA), Columbia University (MA), and Adelphi University (PhD)
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n the August 7, 2020 Democracy Now interview, Mary Trump said
“I wrote this book primarily to give people the kind of information [presumably US voters] did not have access to in 2016.”
In 2020, much more “is at stake than there ever has been.”
“… [T]his country is on the knife’s edge.
“I don’t want anybody casting their vote in November being able to claim they ‘just don’t know who they’re voting for.’”
Sources
Democracy Now! “‘The World’s Most Dangerous Man’: Mary Trump on Her Uncle, President Trump, & Why He Must Be Ousted” Amy Goodman interview with Mary Trump August 7, 2020 https://www.democracynow.org/2020/8/7/mary_trump_how_dysfunctional_family_shaped
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Trump
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Anne_MacLeod_Trump
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Trump
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_of_Donald_Trump#Fred_Trump_Jr.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryanne_Trump_Barry
Maryanne Trump Barry (born April 5, 1937), eldest sister of US President Donald Trump
Attorney, retired United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, appointed by President Bill Clinton
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_L._Trump
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Too_Much_and_Never_Enough
IMDb a/k/a Internet Movie Database, an Amazon company
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm11739534/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm
