11/ He almost tricked his father into signing a codicil to his will that would give Donald control.
The siblings caught it in time.
Donald’s sister Maryanne later said this about the incident:
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12/ Donald’s attempt to cheat his siblings was prelude to the four surviving siblings cheating Mary and her brother (the children of the deceased sibling) out of their share.
Mary learned that she and her brother had been disinherited after her grandfather died.
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13/ Mary and her brother took steps to challenge the will and hire a lawyer.
To punish them, Maryanne (Donald’s oldest sister, the one who became a federal judge) got the idea to cut off their health insurance, even though Mary’s brother’s son, a baby, had serious health needs.
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14/ Mary and her brother settled. They were told that the estate was worth 30 million.
Later Mary discovered that in fact, the estate was worth close to a billion, and Donald (the “deal maker”) sold the entire estate for cash in a stupid deal that left $300 million on the table.
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15/ As part of the settlement, Mary got access to the financial documents.
That’s when she discovered tax crimes.
She was watching her uncle unravel American democracy, and decided to live up to the hyperbole of her grandfather and uncle by being the very “best” at something.
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16/ What could she do on a grand scale? What could she do that might make a difference?
In her words: “I had to take Donald down.”
She called the New York Times and handed over all 19 boxes of documents and (obviously) decided to write this book.
nytimes.com/interactive/2018…
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17/ Mary, who holds a PhD in clinical psychology, thinks the armchair psychologists and journalists miss the mark: While she has no problem calling Donald a malignant narcissism, she says, “the label only gets us so far.”
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18/ She also suggests sociopathy (criminality, arrogance, disregard for the rights of others), dependent personality disorder, and perhaps a long un-diagnosed learning disorder, and even caffeine induced sleeping disorder. Ultimately, she says, there's no way to know because ⤵️
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Looks like I'll have to finish this analysis tomorrow.
I'll add: The book is well written.
In fact, Donald hired her to ghostwrite his third book. He had his publisher fire her when she couldn't figure out what he did all day 🤣
Till tomorrow . . .😴
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17/ This book is so much more ⤵️. This thread no way captures the essence of the book.
nitter.net/deweyswak/status…
The book has a Tolstoy-like quality: It's about family rituals and dynamics, and how families hurt each other.
It also reads like a lurid beach novel.
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