Tag: Mary J. Trump

Mary Trump says GOP convention ‘disturbing to watch,’ calls portrayal of preside

The president’s niece said on MSNBC that she was appalled to see her uncle described as a caring family man.

President Donald Trump’s wife and children spoke on the first three nights of the Republican National Convention — and his niece showed up for the grand finale.

Mary Trump, who wrote a devastating best-selling tell-all book about the president and his family, joined an MSNBC panel for the final night of the convention, where she mocked its portrayal of the president as a solid family man.

“The idea of passing him off like a great family man is like trying to pass him off as a great businessman,” Trump said. Continue reading.

Secretly recorded audio of Trump’s sister prompts new call for investigation into his admission to Penn

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A professor at the University of Pennsylvania has renewed a request to investigate how President Trump was admitted to the school in 1966, citing what he called “new evidence” on secretly recorded tapes in which Trump’s sister says a friend took his entrance exam.

The professor, Eric W. Orts, is one of six faculty members who asked Penn’s provost earlier this summer to launch an investigation into how Trump transferred into the school. He noted that the president’s niece, Mary Trump, wrote in her book published in July that the president paid someone to take his SATs.

The provost, Wendell E. Pritchett, replied to Orts on July 20 that “we certainly share your concerns about these allegations and the integrity of our admissions process. However, as you suggest in your message, we have determined that this situation occurred too far in the past to make a useful or probative factual inquiry possible. If new evidence surfaces to substantiate the claim in the future, we will continue to be open to investigating it.” Continue reading.