Donald Trump a cruel liar, says sister Maryanne for niece’s memoir

Donald Trump’s sister described the US President as cruel and a liar whose lack of principles meant he could not be trusted.

Donald Trump and Maryanne Trump Barry in 2008. Picture: AFP

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 a secretly-made recordings published on Sunday.

Maryanne Trump Barry slammed her brother over his immigration policy under which children were separated from their parents at the border and sent to detention centres.

“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, whose memoir on the “toxic family” was published last month.

The President’s younger brother Robert, who died on August 15 and whose funeral was held at the White House at the weekend, went to court to block its publication, arguing Mary was violating a non-disclosure agreement signed in 2001 after the settlement of her grandfather’s estate, but to no avail.

About 950,000 copies were sold the day of the memoir’s release, with the White House branding the memoir as a “book of falsehoods”.

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 a 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,” Ms Barry said, adding she even remembered the man’s name.

AFP