It's the latest unflattering insider account to target Donald Trump, but this time it was from one of his closest relatives
Donald Trump's 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 by a major US newspaper.
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 slammed her brother over his immigration policy that saw children separated from their parents at the border and sent to detention centres."His goddamned tweet and lying, oh my God.
Some 950,000 copies were sold the day of the memoir's release, with the White House calling it a"book of falsehoods".Book by Donald Trump's niece paints him as a 'lying narcissist shaped by his bullying father' At one point in the recordings, Ms 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 University of Pennsylvania because he had somebody take the exams," Barry said, adding she even remembered the man's name.
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