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Mary Trump's Book Offers Scathing Portrayal of President

Associated Press

   NEW YORK - President Donald Trump's niece offers a scathing portrayal
   of her uncle in a new book obtained by The Associated Press Tuesday
   that credits a "perfect storm of catastrophes" for exposing the
   president at his worst.

   Mary L. Trump, a psychologist, writes that the coronavirus pandemic,
   the possibility of an economic depression and deepening social divides
   have brought out the "worst effects" of Donald Trump's pathologies,
   which were less evident when the country had a stable economy and the
   lack of serious crises.

   Those factors, along with "Donald's penchant for division, and
   uncertainty about our country's future have created a perfect storm of
   catastrophes that no one is less equipped than my uncle to manage," she
   writes in Too Much and Never Enough, How My Family Created The World's
   Most Dangerous Man.

   Mary Trump is the daughter of Trump's older brother, Fred Jr., who died
   after a struggle with alcoholism at age 42.

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