President Trump has also said that Mary Trump was forbidden from publishing the book.īooks written by those critical of the president have effectively spawned their own genre, with many coming from former members of his administration. Robert Trump claims that publication of the book violates a nondisclosure agreement that bound members of the family from publicly discussing their relationships to each other following a dispute over Fred Trump Sr.'s will.
Mary Trump is the daughter of Fred Trump Jr., the president's older brother, who died of a heart attack in the 1980s that the family has said was related to alcoholism. A spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment on the book's sales. The White House has said the allegations in the book are false. "Lying was primarily a mode of self-aggrandizement meant to convince other people he was better than he actually was," she writes.