Mary Trump is slated to take covers off a myriad of damaging stories about Donald Trump in her upcoming book. This could be the first time the POTUS will have to prevail against uncomplimentary revelations by a member of his own family.
Dubbed as "Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man," Mary Trump is slated to release the book on July 28, her publishers Simon & Schuster revealed. Originally reported by The Daily Beast on June 14, the book claims Ms. Trump was the source for The New York Times’s coverage of the president's finances, aside from providing the newspaper with off the record tax documents.
On June 14, a spokeswoman for The Times opted to remain tight-lipped when asked about Ms. Trump's claims. Three journalists from The Times were given the Pulitzer Prize for analytical reporting in 2019 for their work giving a never-seen-before glimpse of the Trump family's finances and disaffirming Donald Trump's status as a self-made billionaire.
Mary Trump is the daughter of Donald Trump's older brother Fred Trump Jr., who died in 1981. Ms. Trump has remained out of the limelight, except for coming in the public eye during a family feud over the will of the Trump family patriarch, Fred Trump Sr. who died in 1999.
This will not be the first book that shows the president in a bad light. A large of former White House staffers and Trump administration members have published books that have proved to be problematic for the POTUS, including an anonymous official who wrote a harsh allegation, raising questions about Trump's eligibility for the office.
Aside from that, the former F.B.I director James Comey, a former deputy F.B.I. director Andrew G. McCabe, former Trump aide Cliff Sims, has written books that proved to be problematic for Trump. Publishers have made a significant amount of money by publishing these pieces of writing as well as journalistic investigations into the current administration.
Simon & Schuster has released a few books in the past that damaged the president and his family's image. Among these books, Bob Woodward’s "Fear: Trump in the White House" sold over a whopping one million copies in its first week. The publication has also released a book entitled “Unhinged: An Insider’s Account of the Trump White House,” which is written by reality TV star and Trump's former adviser Omarosa Manigault Newman.
Simon & Schuster is slated to release a memoir by John Bolton, who served as Trump’s national security adviser. The book's release is plagued with controversies over what the president's administration deems as classified information.