Donald Trump speaks during an event about regulatory reform on the
South Lawn of the White House on July 16, 2020 in Washington, DC.
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Donald Trump’s older sister described the US president
as cruel and a liar whose lack of principles meant he could not be
trusted, according to secretly made recordings published
Saturday.
It was the latest unflattering insider account to target the
president, only instead of a jilted aide or business associate, it
was from one of his closest relatives.
Maryanne Trump Barry, a former federal judge, slammed her
brother over his immigration policy that saw children separated
from their parents at the border and sent to detention centers.
Trump walks to board Air Force One prior to departure from Austin
Straubel International Airport in Green Bay, Wisconsin, June 25,
2020. SAUL LOEB / AFP
“All he wants to do is appeal to his base,” she said in
recordings obtained by the Washington Post. “He has no principles.
None.”
“His goddamned tweet and lying, oh my God.”
The recordings were secretly made by the president’s niece Mary
Trump, who published last month a bombshell memoir of the “toxic
family” that produced him.
The president’s younger brother Robert, who died last week, went
to court to try to block its publication — arguing that Mary was
violating a non-disclosure agreement signed in 2001 after the
settlement of her grandfather’s estate, but to no avail.
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Some 950,000 copies were sold the day of the memoir’s release,
with the White House calling it a “book of falsehoods”.
At one point in the recordings, Barry said to her niece: “It’s
the phoniness of it all. It’s the phoniness and this cruelty.
Donald is cruel.”
The recordings also shed light on the source of an embarrassing
claim in the memoir that the president paid someone to take a
college entrance exam for him.
“He got into the University of Pennsylvania because he had
somebody take the exams,” Barry said, adding she even remembered
the man’s name.
In response, the White House released a statement to US media
from Trump that said: “Every day it’s something else, who cares. I
miss my brother, and I’ll continue to work hard for the American
people.
“Not everyone agrees, but the results are obvious. Our country
will soon be stronger than ever before!”
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