Not cool, who goes through our little community made book list, created in 2017 and is upset that their books didn’t make the list? Wtf? Welcome to 2020, the year the left eats their own.
Seriously if you read this forum, we’re just a small group of high information voters who talk about the news like a book club. We’re normal people who all have lives outside of Trump world. Seth Aberhamson and his goons can fuck right off. 
Seeing as you joined just to post this, I’m afraid the answer is no. Thanks for playing tho!
I just started “Playing with Fire”, which I saw on the list. It’s proving to be an excellent choice. I read mostly audio books due to my visual impairment, and this one was narrated by the author himself. Highly recommended for those history buffs among us. I’m including myself even though I have not always been a history buff.
List of lists for American History, anti-racist reading and the American black experience.
Personal favorite and good starting point
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1580058825/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_Xxz5EbBBSS0J8
Add your favorites or a favorite list below👇
Thx for listing these…
I have the Ibram book - How to be Anti-racist which gives good perspective on what assumptions whites have
I am reading Ghettoside, a true dtory of murder in America by Jill Leovy. Primarily about LAPD…
And a primer on White Supremacy
This book is going to be rivetting. Blood will not prove thicker than water as the tables are being turned on T.
The Washington Post: Trump says his family is unified. A niece’s book could explode that image.
Mary Trump plans to reveal the feuds that have long simmered within the family but until now have been largely masked by nondisclosure agreements and the limited public visibility of the president’s siblings, the Daily Beast reported Sunday.
The book will include Mary’s account of her conversations with Donald Trump’s sister, former U.S. appellate judge Maryanne Trump Barry, who does not speak flatteringly about her brother, according to the Daily Beast.
Mary Trump, who declined an interview request last year to speak to The Washington Post for the story about her father’s death, did not respond Monday to a request for comment.
A spokeswoman for the publisher, Simon & Schuster, confirmed that the book, called “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man,” will be published July 28, declining to comment further.
Barry, reached by phone Monday, declined to comment. The White House did not respond to a request for comment.
Mary Trump’s book, if it is as critical as has been reported, would mark a rare departure among the president’s three living siblings and extended family members, who have largely refused to comment about him and have stayed out of public view. Its publication threatens to put the Trump family’s internal tensions on prominent display months before the November election.
“They might be polite, but Donald’s personality is one of dominance, and that includes his family,” said Jack O’Donnell, a former Trump casino executive. “That is no fun for anyone.”
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O’Donnell said in an interview Monday that Donald Trump promotes the “image of a strong loyal family,” including with his parents, children and siblings. Although O’Donnell said Robert gets along with Donald, he thinks the browbeating at the Taj Mahal casino “changed forever” their relationship.
He comes T who will try to stop the publication of this tell-all with the Non Disclosure Agreement that Mary allegedly signed.
Wonder what the legal angles will be on this.
In his first public comments on the matter, President Trump told Axios that his niece, Mary Trump, is “not allowed” to write her forthcoming book about him because doing so would violate a nondisclosure agreement she signed.
Driving the news: “She’s not allowed to write a book,” Trump told me. “You know, when we settled with her and her brother, who I do have a good relationship with — she’s got a brother, Fred, who I do have a good relationship with, but when we settled, she has a total … signed a nondisclosure.”
- Trump said his niece’s nondisclosure agreement with him was a “very powerful one. … It covers everything.”
Between the lines: Trump’s comments to Axios confirm a Daily Beast story from last week, which broke the news of the NDA.
- The Beast reported: “Mary Trump signed an NDA following a 2001 settlement after litigation disputing Fred Trump’s estate, according to people familiar with the matter. That NDA states she is not allowed to publish anything regarding the litigation or her relationship with Donald, Maryanne, and Robert.”
- “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man” is slated to be published on July 28. Late on Monday night, following The Daily Beast’s story, the publisher of Mary Trump’s book, Simon & Schuster, posted the book on Amazon, where it quickly soared up the charts with pre-sale orders.
- “In the book, Mary Trump is not only expected to discuss difficult internal family dynamics and offer revelations about a younger Donald Trump; she is also expected to out herself as a primary source behind a Pulitzer-winning New York Times investigation into her uncle’s taxes,” per The Daily Beast.
Trump suggested to Axios that he and some members of his family were blindsided by the news of the book.
- “I have a brother, Robert, very good guy, and he’s — he’s very angry about it,” the president said. “But she signed a nondisclosure agreement and she’s obviously not honoring it if she writes a book. It’s too bad.”
- “I have a good relationship with [Mary Trump’s] brother. I actually had him — he was in here. He was sitting right in the seat where you are last week, unrelated to that. I didn’t even know — maybe two weeks ago. I didn’t even know about a book coming out until just the other day.”
I asked the president about his niece’s allegation that he “dismissed and derided” his father when he began to succumb to Alzheimer’s.
- “It’s totally false; the opposite,” Trump said. “Actually, the opposite. I always had a great relationship. I didn’t know that she said that. That’s a disgraceful thing to say.”
Mary Trump did not respond to requests for comment. Simon & Schuster’s director of publicity, Julia Prosser, declined to comment.
No doubt the courts can set up roadblocks for the publication of Mary Trump’s book by getting a temporary restraining order and saying that the NDA would prevent Mary from revealing anything. You wonder the length which Mary might go to get this information out there with other ways - leaking, interviews etc.
President Trump’s family is seeking a temporary restraining order to try to block publication of a tell-all book by the president’s niece, Mary L. Trump.
Ms. Trump is the daughter of the president’s late brother, Fred Trump Jr., and her book, “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man,” is scheduled to be published by Simon & Schuster on July 28.
A person familiar with the matter said a request for a temporary restraining order was filed on Tuesday by Mr. Trump’s younger brother, Robert S. Trump, in Queens County Surrogate’s Court, where the estate of the president’s father, Fred Trump Sr., was settled.
The filing is against Ms. Trump and Simon & Schuster, and it seeks to stop publication on the grounds that Ms. Trump is violating a nondisclosure agreement related to the settlement of the estate.
Officials at the Trump Organization declined to comment on the legal efforts to stop the book, which is described by the publisher on its website as a “revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him.”
UPDATED 6p 6.24.20- statements from Trump family and from Mary Trump’s lawyer.
Robert Trump said in a statement that he was “deeply disappointed” in his niece’s decision.
“Her attempt to sensationalize and mischaracterize our family relationship after all of these years for her own financial gain is both a travesty and injustice to the memory of my late brother, Fred, and our beloved parents,” he said. “I and the rest of my entire family are so proud of my wonderful brother, the president, and feel that Mary’s actions are truly a disgrace.”
Theodore J. Boutrous Jr., a lawyer for Ms. Trump, said in a statement that the president and his family were trying “to suppress a book that will discuss matters of utmost public importance.”
“They are pursuing this unlawful prior restraint because they do not want the public to know the truth,” he said. “The courts will not tolerate this brazen violation of the First Amendment.”
Adam Rothberg, a spokesman for Simon & Schuster, said the attempt to prevent the book’s publication would fail.
“As the plaintiff and his attorney well know, the courts take a dim view of prior restraint, and this attempt to block publication will meet the same fate as those that have gone before,” he said.
But the book itself and the attempt to prevent it from appearing are only the latest chapter in family tensions that have divided the Trumps for years.
Mary Trump’s father, Fred Trump Jr., turned his back on his own father’s real-estate business, becoming permanently estranged from him, to work for Trans World Airlines. He suffered from alcoholism and died in 1981 at age 42.
When Fred Trump Sr. died in 1999, he all but cut out Fred Trump Jr.’s two children, Mary and her brother, Fred Trump III, from his will, leaving them only a small cash bequest. Ms. Trump and her brother contested the will and sued Donald Trump and his siblings, arguing that they poisoned Fred Trump Sr. against them and coerced him to change how he left his fortune.
It was a nasty court battle, and at one point Donald Trump and his brother and sister cut off the medical benefits to Fred Trump III’s infant child, who was born with severe medical issues requiring expensive and intense care.
In 2001, Mary Trump and her brother settled the lawsuit. The exact terms are not known, but the settlement did include a financial payment to them both. In his court filing on Tuesday, Robert Trump wrote that the settlement also included a confidentiality agreement barring Ms. Trump from writing the type of book she seems to have written.
President Trump was apparently referring to that agreement in an interview last week with Axios after the imminent publication of Mary Trump’s book was first reported.
“She’s not allowed to write a book,” he said, referring to his niece.
“You know, when we settled with her and her brother, who I do have a good relationship with — she’s got a brother, Fred, who I do have a good relationship with — but when we settled,” Mr. Trump said, she “signed a nondisclosure.”
The Trump family appears to be trying to block publication of the book before it is printed and shipped to stores and warehouses. When the Justice Department tried and failed in court to stop publication of a tell-all account of his time in the White House by the former national security adviser John R. Bolton, the book had already shipped and was set to go on sale a few days later.
Why would they give advance notice to trump when they know what he’s like? I don’t see how the hype is worth the legal battles. So what’s the end game?
Most probably? This. They know what he’s like.
So now they’ve drawn him out. He’s moving to block it. He’s making a big show of it.
Exactly what she would want.
And if it does get blocked, want to bet it gets out anyhow?
A New York judge on Thursday rejected on jurisdictional grounds a legal effort by President Donald Trump’s brother to halt the publication next month of a tell-all book by the president’s niece, Mary Trump — but the brother’s lawyer said the case will be refiled in another court.
The ruling in Queens County Surrogate’s Court by Judge Peter Kelly came just two days Trump’s brother, Robert Trump, said in a court filing that Mary Trump would be violating a non-disclosure agreement if the book is published.
The president himself recently said that his niece, who is the daughter of his late older brother Fred Trump Jr., is subject to the nondisclosure agreement, and is “not allowed to write a book.”
The NDA was signed by the clinical psychologist Mary and her brother with the president, Robert and the elder Trumps’ sister, retired federal appeals court judge Maryanne Trump Barry, as part of a settlement of a court battle over the will of the president’s late father, Fred Trump. Sr.
The deer head says it all.
i think that the book has been kept pretty well hidden from DJT 'n co. It is a month out from it’s due date, so it has been ordered, shipped and printed at this point and getting readied for that due date of July 28th. So this information would be coming out shortly.
From this article, she also changed her contractual name to Mary Compson, and named her official company as Compson Enterprises. The Wapo article describes that at college, Mary wrote and studied William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, which highlights a very dysfunctional family named the Compsons, and the corrupt moral and the emotionally stunted attributes of that family.
Mary went on to get a PHD in clinical psychology and studied personality disorders, such as schizophrenia and helped a colleague write a textbook/manual on how to deal with schizophrenics. So she is a compassionate and empathetic person herself, and considers T’s behavior as being reprehensible.
Who knows if the family suspected her leaking of the tax information to the NYT, but she may have become a ‘persona non grata’ (an unacceptable or unwelcome person) in the family at some point. Looks like they disliked her mother, Linda who her father divorced.
Mary and her brother did sue the estate from more of a share of their grandfather’s inheritance because they found their grandfather had been forced to sign off on a later version of his will while he was incapacitated. She and her brother did get a settlement.
As Donald Trump announced his candidacy in 2015, Mary Trump does not appear to have said anything publicly about him.
But when it became clear that her uncle had won the presidency, she took to Twitter. “Worst night of my life,” she wrote at least 12 times in tweets that have been deleted recently. She wrote that “We should be judged harshly. . . . I grieve for our country.”
She wants him out of office. She wants this to end by “2020” which she also tweeted about. All the negative publicity and dirty laundry that will be spilled has got to create a lot of frightening scenarios for T’ and his family.
She will help destroy his chances for re-election and can verify his narcissism and moral depravity, like no other person from outside the family. What is good for The Donald is not good for the nation.
Now there is a temporary restraining order on the July 28th release of the Mary Trump’s book. Looks like Mary’s lawyer Boutrous is appealing it and calling it very temporary.
A judge on Tuesday granted Robert Trump a temporary restraining order halting the publication of Mary Trump’s upcoming tell-all, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man .
The injunction marks the first, tentative win for President Donald Trump’s younger brother in his war to stop the publication of his niece’s memoir, which The Daily Beast revealed earlier this month would contain allegations embarrassing to the First Family. The Trump siblings have maintained that the book, to be published by Simon & Schuster, violates the confidentiality clause that Mary Trump signed off on in the settlement of family patriarch Fred Trump Sr.’s estate.
Robert Trump and his celebrity attorney Charles Harder made their first play to block the book in Queens Surrogate Court—but the judge junked the suit almost immediately, telling the elder Trumps to refile in state Supreme Court. They took the advice, and submitted a new request for a temporary restraining order in Robert Trump’s home turf of Dutchess County, in upstate New York.
Their arguments seemed to at least somewhat persuade Judge Hal Greenwald, who ordered Mary Trump and Simon & Schuster to appear before him on July 10—and barred them from disseminating her book.
A person familiar with the situation told The Daily Beast the court had declined Mary’s attorneys’ request for a public hearing.
“Pending the hearing and determination of Petitioner Robert S. Trump’s within motion for a preliminary injunction, Mary L. Trump and Simon & Schuster, Inc., together with their respective members, officers, employees, servants, agents, attorneys, representatives and all other persons acting on behalf of or in concert with either or both of them, are hereby temporarily enjoined and restrained,” the jurist ordered. “From publishing, printing or distributing any book or any portions thereof including but not limited to the book entitled: ‘ Too Much and Never Enough, How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man ,’ in any medium containing descriptions or accounts of Mary L. Trump’s relationship with Robert S. Trump, Donald Trump, or Maryanne Trump Barry.”
This decision is only preliminary, leaving the book’s ultimate fate up to a later decision on the merits of the lawsuit.
Mary Trump’s attorney, Theadore Boutrous Jr., told The Daily Beast in a statement, “The trial court’s temporary restraining order is only temporary but it still is a prior restraint on core political speech that flatly violates the First Amendment. We will immediately appeal.”
A person familiar with the matter told The Daily Beast the book, to be published by Simon and Schuster, is already on its third print run and the publishing giant are working to get the tome, which is currently Number Four on Amazon’s best-seller list, out to bookstores ahead of its July 28th release.
A spokesman for Simon & Schuster, Adam Rothberg, said they were disappointed in the court’s decision. “We plan to immediately appeal this decision to the Appellate Division, and look forward to prevailing in this case based on well-established precedents regarding prior restraint,” he said.
Harder said in a statement, “Robert Trump is very pleased with the New York Supreme Court’s injunction against Mary Trump and Simon & Schuster. The actions of Mary Trump and Simon & Schuster are truly reprehensible.
“We look forward to vigorously litigating this case, and will seek the maximum remedies available by law for the enormous damages caused by Mary Trump’s breach of contract and Simon & Schuster’s intentional interference with that contract. Short of corrective action to immediately cease their egregious conduct, we will pursue this case to the very end.”
A little more pressure then…
Mary Trump book: Family tell-all publication date moved up to July 14
@Pet_Proletariat @MissJava. Will u move to reading plz??? Thx!!
More on her book
Here are some of the highlights from her manuscript:
Cheating on a College Entrance Test
As a high school student in Queens, Ms. Trump writes, Donald Trump paid someone to take a precollegiate test, the SAT, on his behalf. The high score the proxy earned for him, Ms. Trump adds, helped the young Mr. Trump to later gain admittance as an undergraduate to the University of Pennsylvania’s prestigious Wharton business school.
Mr. Trump has often boasted about attending Wharton, which he has referred to as “the best school in the world” and “super genius stuff.”
Sending a Brother to the Hospital Alone
It has long been part of the Trump family’s lore that the eldest child of Fred Trump Sr., Fred Trump Jr., who was better known as Freddy, was the black sheep of the dynasty. Freddy Trump was a handsome, garrulous man and a heavy drinker who, after a miserable experience working for his father, left his job in real estate to pursue a passion for flying, becoming a pilot for Trans World Airlines.
Donald Trump has often remarked that his brother’s departure from the family business opened space for him to move into and succeed. “For me, it worked very well,” Mr. Trump told The New York Times during his presidential campaign about serving under his father. “For Fred, it wasn’t something that was going to work.”
Fred Trump Sr. could be brutal to his namesake, shouting at him once as a group of employees looked on, “Donald is worth ten of you,” Ms. Trump writes.
Freddy Trump died in 1981 from an alcohol-induced heart attack when he was 42, and Ms. Trump tells the story in her book about how his family sent him to the hospital alone on the night of his death. No one went with him, Ms. Trump writes.
Donald Trump, she added, went to see a movie.
“No Principles,” a Sister Says
Even at the start of Mr. Trump’s campaign, his sister, Maryanne Trump Barry, a retired federal appeals court judge, had deep reservations about his fitness for office, Ms. Trump writes.
“He’s a clown — this will never happen,” she quotes her aunt as saying during one of their regular lunches in 2015, just after Mr. Trump announced that he was running for president.
Maryanne Trump was particularly baffled by support for her brother among evangelical Christians, according to the book.
“The only time Donald went to church was when the cameras were there,” Ms. Trump quotes her aunt as saying. “It’s mind boggling. But that’s all about his base. He has no principles. None!”
Donald Trump, Narcissist
Ms. Trump, a clinical psychologist, asserts that her uncle has all nine clinical criteria for being a narcissist. And yet, she notes, even that label does not capture the full array of the president’s psychological troubles.
“The fact is,” she writes, “Donald’s pathologies are so complex and his behaviors so often inexplicable that coming up with an accurate and comprehensive diagnosis would require a full battery of psychological and neurophysical tests that he’ll never sit for.”
At another point she says: “Donald has been institutionalized for most of his adult life, so there is no way to know how he would thrive, or even survive, on his own in the real world.”
Like other critics of the president, Ms. Trump takes issue in the book with the notion that Mr. Trump is a strategic thinker who operates according to specific agendas or organizing principles.
“He doesn’t,” she writes. “Donald’s ego has been and is a fragile and inadequate barrier between him and the real world, which, thanks to his father’s money and power, he never had to negotiate by himself.”
Oh boy, the press is not getting copies of Mary Trump’s book and various reviews are coming out and ALL are very damning. This is going to rattle T a LOT…and KellyAnne is trying to give cover for him…and projecting about her own daughter’s revealing of what is going on in their family.
The Daily Beast links to Wapo and NYT - gives a lot of excerpts.
“If he is afforded a second term, it would be the end of American democracy,” Mary bluntly declares in the book. “Donald, following the lead of my grandfather and with complicity, silence, and inaction from his siblings, destroyed my father. I can’t let him destroy my country.”
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“He’s a clown,” Maryanne allegedly confided in her niece. “This will never happen again.
Mary Trump paints a disturbing portrait of her uncle, saying he paid a friend to take his SATs so he could get into college and grew up bending the truth to promote himself. The future president’s father was a “high-functioning sociopath” and his mother “emotionally and physically absent.”
“Honest work was never demanded of him, and no matter how badly he failed, he was rewarded in ways that are almost unfathomable. He continues to be protected from his own disasters in the White House,” writes Mary Trump, the daughter of the president’s eldest brother, Fred.
“But now the stakes are far higher than they’ve ever been before; they are literally life and death. Unlike any previous time in his life, Donald’s failings cannot be hidden or ignored because they threaten us all,” she adds.
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Fred Jr., often called Freddy, had been expected to take over the family real estate business, but he was uninterested and Fred Sr. ended up favoring Donald instead.
“Donald, following the lead of my grandfather and with the complicity, silence, and inaction of his siblings, destroyed my father,” Mary writes. “I can’t let him destroy my country.”
She writes that no family members went with Freddy when he was taken to the hospital at the end of his life. On the night he died, Donald went to the movies, she writes.
Donald is the fourth of five siblings, and their parents were “problematic,” Mary writes.
Their mother, also named Mary, was “emotionally and physically absent,” and Fred was worse, she argues.
“Fred seemed to have no emotional needs at all,” the book says. “In fact, he was a high-functioning sociopath.”
Because of this, “Donald suffered deprivations that would scar him for life,” the book says, and he developed personality traits that included “displays of narcissism, bullying, grandiosity.”
He also became practiced at bending the truth, a precursor to a president who has uttered falsehoods and mistruths thousands of times since taking office.
“For Donald, lying was primarily a mode of self-aggrandizement meant to convince other people he was better than he actually was,” Mary writes.
Trump got his older sister, Maryanne, to complete his school homework, and he paid a friend to take the standardized College Board admission tests known as SATs for him, according to the book.
“That was much easier to pull off in the days before photo IDs and computerized records,” Mary writes. “Donald, who never lacked for funds, paid his buddy well.”
When Fred Jr. failed to meet his father’s expectations, Fred Sr. treated him harshly, an experience that Donald internalized.
“He had plenty of time to learn from watching Fred humiliate his older brother and Freddy’s resulting shame,” Mary writes. “The lesson he learned, at its simplest, was that it was wrong to be like Freddy: Fred didn’t respect his oldest son, so neither would Donald. Fred thought Freddy was weak, and therefore so did Donald.”
The book is the first from a member of Trump’s family, but several former senior members of Trump’s inner circle have shared withering criticism of the president as he seeks reelection.
What Mary Trump leaked to the NYT - the family taxes
Ooo thanks, haven’t read this one yet!
One more book - this one is from the inaugural party manager - Stephanie Winston Wolkoff where she was paid an astronomical $26 million dollars, or they said she was in an attempt to inventory/account where all the inaugural funds went.
’Melania and Me: My Years as Confidant, Advisor and Friend to the First Lady’ will be released on September 1 and detail ‘chaotic’ White House
Press Spokesperson MnEnany
“I have yet to see the book, but it is a book of falsehoods”
Portrait of a President
