Too Much and Never Enough

Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man is an upcoming tell-all book written by Mary L. Trump, the niece of Donald Trump. The book is scheduled to be published on July 28, 2020, by Simon & Schuster. The book details how the author was the anonymous source who revealed Trump family tax returns to The New York Times; the reporting won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize.[2]

Too Much and Never Enough
AuthorMary L. Trump[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
SubjectDonald Trump and his family[1]
PublishedJuly 28, 2020[1]
PublisherSimon & Schuster[1]
Pages240[1]
ISBN9781982141462 (Hardcover)[1]

Background

Mary L. Trump, a clinical psychologist, is the oldest child of Fred Trump Jr., and the oldest grandchild of Fred Trump Sr.. Mary's father died in 1981 at the age of 42 from a heart attack due to alcoholism.[3]

Following the death of Fred Sr. in 1999, Mary and her brother, Fred III, contested Fred Sr.'s will in probate court, claiming that Fred Sr. was suffering from dementia, and the will was "procured by fraud and undue influence" by Fred Sr.'s other children, Donald, Maryanne, and Robert. A week later, Donald, Maryanne, and Robert terminated the medical coverage for Fred III's son, William, an 18-month old with epileptic spasms. In an interview with the New York Daily News, Mary said that her "aunt and uncles should be ashamed of themselves. I'm sure they are not."[4] The suit was settled, with William's health insurance reinstated.[5] Donald in 2016 explained his actions: "I was angry because they sued."[6]

After her uncle's presidential campaign, Mary Trump came into contact with The New York Times, and provided tax documents from the Trump family as an anonymous source. The documents were used for a 2018 article that detailed financial fraud by Trump that won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for David Barstow, Susanne Craig, and Russ Buettner.[7][2]

Barstow pursued Mary Trump with an offer to ghostwrite a book for her. He introduced her to Andrew Wylie, his agent, who offered her a multi-million dollar advance. Craig and Buettner were angry to find out about this, and the editors of the Times forbade Barstow from writing the book due to its ethical guidelines. She ended up working with Jay Mandel of WME, and sold her book to Simon & Schuster at an auction.[7][2]

Release

Simon & Schuster initially set a release date of August 11, 2020, and gave the exclusive report about it to The Daily Beast, which published an article about the book on June 15.[3][7][8] Two days later, the book reached No. 5 on Amazon's bestseller list.[9] The response to the article led them to move the publication date up to July 28.[7][10]

Donald Trump, according to The Daily Beast, discussed the possibility of taking legal action against Mary.[11] Donald told Axios that Mary had previously signed a "very powerful" non-disclosure agreement that "covers everything", therefore according to Donald, she was "not allowed to write a book".[12] Robert Trump filed suit on June 23, attempting to secure a preliminary injunction and a temporary restraining order to block publication, citing Mary's non-disclosure agreement.[13] In a hearing on June 25, Judge Peter J. Kelly of the Queens County Surrogate Court in New York, dismissed the case over lack of jurisdiction.[14]

Overview

The book reportedly covers how Mary provided The New York Times with confidential tax documents from the Trump family, resulting in the Times alleging that Donald engaged in fraud, as well as reporting that Donald transferred approximately $413 million from his father's real estate businesses to aid his own struggling businesses during the 1990s.[3][8][15] Mary reportedly alleges in the book that Donald and Fred Sr. neglected her father and contributed to his death from alcoholism; also reportedly alleged is that Donald had disparaged Fred Sr. upon the onset of Fred Sr.'s Alzheimer's disease.[8][15]

References
  1. "Too Much and Never Enough". Simon & Schuster. Retrieved June 25, 2020.
  2. Klein, Charlotte (June 15, 2020). "Trump's niece leaked his tax secrets to The New York Times; report". Vanity Fair. Retrieved June 24, 2020.
  3. Cartwright, Lachlan (June 14, 2020). "Revealed: The Family Member Who Turned on Trump". The Daily Beast. Retrieved June 16, 2020.
  4. Evans, Heidi. "Inside Trumps' bitter battle - Nephew's ailing baby caught in the middle". New York Daily News. Retrieved June 16, 2020.
  5. D'Antonio, Michael (June 17, 2020). "The psychologist in the Trump family speaks". CNN. Retrieved June 17, 2020.
  6. Horowitz, Jason (January 6, 2016). "For Donald Trump, Lessons From a Brother's Suffering". The New York Times. Archived from the original on October 27, 2017. Retrieved June 24, 2020.
  7. Pompeo, Joe (June 16, 2020). ""She Feels Very Determined": How Mary Trump's Coming Bombshell Was Built". Vanity Fair. Retrieved June 17, 2020.
  8. Stieb, Matt (June 15, 2020). "Trump's Niece to Make a Big Addition to the Genre of Tell-all Trump Books". Intelligencer. Retrieved June 16, 2020.
  9. Mangan, Dan (June 17, 2020). "Trump-bashing books by president's niece and John Bolton are Amazon bestsellers even before release". CNBC. Retrieved June 17, 2020.
  10. Haberman, Maggie (June 23, 2020). "Trump Family Asks Court to Stop Publication of Tell-All by President's Niece". The New York Times. Retrieved June 24, 2020.
  11. Suebsaeng, Asawin; Cartwright, Lachlan (June 17, 2020). "Trump Considers Suing His Niece Over Her Tell-All Book, Saying She Signed an NDA". The Daily Beast. Retrieved June 17, 2020.
  12. Swan, Jonathan (June 21, 2020). "Trump says niece "not allowed" to write book because of nondisclosure agreement". Axios. Retrieved June 25, 2020.
  13. Trachtenberg, Jeffrey A. (June 23, 2020). "Trump's Younger Brother Tries to Block Book by President's Niece". The Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Archived from the original on June 25, 2020. Retrieved June 24, 2020.
  14. Darcy, Oliver (June 25, 2020). "Court dismisses motion by Trump's brother to block tell-all book by President's niece". CNN. Retrieved June 25, 2020.
  15. Vigdor, Neil; Alter, Alexandra (June 15, 2020). "Trump's Niece to Publish Book With 'Harrowing' Revelations". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on June 25, 2020. Retrieved June 16, 2020.
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