United States President Donald Trump's sister, a retired federal judge, called him a liar with "no principles" in audio recordings made public at the weekend, the latest attack on the president's character in the run-up to the November 3 election.
Maryanne Trump Barry (83) also criticised the Republican president for "phoniness" and "cruelty" in interviews that were secretly recorded by her niece Mary Trump during a series of conversations in 2018 and 2019, according to The Washington Post, which obtained the recordings from her.
The remarks surfaced days before Republicans convene to back Trump for another four years in the election against Democratic nominee Joe Biden.
Last week, more than 70 former Republican national security officials endorsed Biden, saying Trump had engaged in corrupt behavior "that renders him unfit to serve as president."
Trump dismissed his sister's remarks in a written statement.
“Every day it’s something else, who cares," he said. "Our country will soon be stronger than ever before!”
Trump Barry could not immediately be reached for comment.
In one of the recordings, some of which were also obtained by Reuters, Trump Barry addressed the president's suggestion in 2018 - while she was still a sitting judge - that he might send her to the border to deal with a surge in migrants.
“All he wants to do is appeal to his base,” Trump Barry said. “He has no principles. None."
Mary Trump, the president's niece and a trained psychologist, published a tell-all book in July in which she concluded he likely suffers from narcissism and other clinical disorders.
Chris Bastardi, a spokesman for Mary Trump, said she taped the conversations as part of a legal dispute over her inheritance following the death of Fred Trump Sr, the president's father and her grandfather, "in order to protect herself."
The Republican convention is being held later this week.
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I don't get on well with my sister either, but it doesn't effect my ability to do my job.
Such an irrelevant article!
Wow. It really is getting just like the McCartha days. First they spy on you at work, then they spy on you at home and then they get your family to denounce you.
No! Wasn't that how the KGB worked?
Humm. Seems they both work the same way. Maybe that's how social ostracisation is engineered. I'd have to check with the gossip mongers to confirm but I believe it is.
What I'm really waiting for is an article about something positive that he's done. There must be something... just one.
If not, then how about an article about how Biden has done something bad.
There must be something... just one.
Maybe the nameless Reuters writers needs unconscious bias awareness training or even explicit bias awareness training.
Hum. Could it be worse than that? Could it be that Reuters as an organization has a bias. Could it be systemic?
Could it be that those in the mass media, those that work for it, own it, run it are all suffering derangement syndrome?
Where are we to get our current information from if we can see so plainly the bias of our regular sources?
Does biased mass media provides the opening for the conspiracy theories that plague social media and the internet in general?
So her niece got the short end on an inheritance, (I know the feeling) awwwww... But she'll get her own back, anyway possible!