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Mary Trump’s attorney says that Donald Trump’s lawsuit against his niece and The New York Times is “doomed to failure” and another effort to stifle freedom of speech and freedom of the press. “This is the latest in a long line of frivolous lawsuits by Donald Trump that target truthful speech and important journalism…

UPDATE, Tuesday Mary L. Trump has responded to Meghan McCain’s request that the Trump family leave the McCain family “the f*ck alone,” with the niece and critic of Donald Trump tweeting last night: “I have plenty of respect for Meghan's parents. It's too bad she can't take responsibility for her own actions. That's…

UPDATE, with McCain tweet The View co-host Meghan McCain isn’t off to an easy final week on the ABC daytime talk show: On today’s episode, guest Mary Trump accused the departing McCain of lacking “the courage” to appear in Trump’s segment. McCain, whose final day on the show is this Friday, was on board for most of…

Mary Trump, the niece of Donald Trump and his siblings, claiming that she was defrauded out of the settlement of her share of her grandfather Fred Trump’s business holdings. The lawsuit was filed on Thursday in the Supreme Court of the State of New York. It also names as defendants the president’s sister, Maryanne…

While promoting her book Too Much and Never Enough, Mary Trump has said some harsh things about her uncle, President Donald Trump. She has said the president had someone else take his SAT. She has said he used racial and anti-Semitic slurs. She has said he should resign. But what she told Stephen Colbert on Wednesday…

Talk about adding insult to injury. Author Mary Trump, out flogging her tell-all book, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man, took to Twitter to brag about beating her uncle the President in TV ratings. On Friday, Mary Trump tweeted 5.23 million v. 5.11 million, comparing her…

Mary Trump’s interview with Rachel Maddow gave the show its highest rated hour in its history and set a record for the highest rated scheduled show on MSNBC, the network said on Friday. Watch a clip of their sit-down above. The Rachel Maddow Show pulled in 5.2 million viewers, also making it the top show on broadcast…

In her latest interview about her bestselling book, Mary Trump told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on Thursday that she has heard her uncle, Donald Trump, use racial and anti-Semitic slurs. After Maddow asked her whether she had heard Trump use the language, she responded, “Oh yeah, of course I did. And I don’t think that…

Simon & Schuster said that Mary Trump’s new book set a sales record for the publisher, selling a total of 950,000 copies through Tuesday, its first day of release. The publisher said that the sales figure includes pre-orders and first day sales of print books, ebooks and e-audiobooks. The company also ordered a 14th…

UPDATE: In her interview with ABC News, Mary Trump defended one of the headline-grabbing claims in her new book, that her uncle Donald Trump hired a friend to take the SAT as way to improve his chances of getting into the University of Pennsylvania. In a portion of the interview shown on Good Morning America on…

A New York Supreme Court judge has lifted a restraining order that prevented Mary Trump from publicizing her new tell-all book about her uncle, President Donald Trump, and his family. Robert Trump, the president’s brother, had sought a court action to stop the publication of the book, Too Much And Never Enough: How My…

As reporters rushed to post many of the juicy anecdotes and scorching analysis from Mary Trump’s new book this past week, they might have missed that the memoir also is a media critique. In Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man, set to be published by Simon & Schuster on…