Mary Trump Says 'Utterly Incapable' President Should Resign In Scorched-Earth Interview
Mary L Trump, Donald Trump’s niece, said her uncle should resign as she gave a scorched-earth interview Tuesday to ABC News following the publication of her new book about the president and his family.
“He is utterly incapable of leading this country,” Mary Trump said in an interview with ABC host George Stephanopoulos. “And it’s dangerous to allow him to do so, based on what I’ve seen my entire adult life.”
“If you were in the Oval Office today, what would you say to him?” Stephanopoulos asked at one point in the interview.
“Resign,” she said.
EXCLUSIVE: Mary Trump, Pres. Trump’s niece spoke to @ABC News in the first interview about her explosive new book, telling @GStephanopoulos that Americans need to know that her uncle is “utterly incapable of leading.” @DavidMuir reports. https://t.co/OhIY0uVvUVpic.twitter.com/T5rhtE5Ivs
— World News Tonight (@ABCWorldNews) July 15, 2020
The full interview will air Wednesday on “Good Morning America.”
Mary Trump’s controversial book, “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man,” was published Tuesday after a highly publicised court battle. The president’s younger brother, Robert Trump, had sued for a temporary restraining order last month, saying the contents of the book violated a nondisclosure agreement she signed in 2001 to end a bitter court battle over a family estate. Her father was Fred Trump Jr, who died in 1981.
A judge, however, rejected the claim and said earlier this month that Simon & Schuster could move forward with publication and was not bound by the terms of the deal, noting thousands of copies had already been printed and shipped.
A New York Supreme Court judge also ruled Monday that Mary Trump was free to speak about the book, saying the nondisclosure agreement she signed was not specific enough to silence her.
“Too many words, with too many meanings,” the judge, Hall Greenwald, said in a terse decision. “The cost of the...
