Mary Trump came to the defense of her brother Fred Trump III after his narration was released Tuesday angered his cousin Eric Trump.
In “All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way,” Fred paints his famous uncle, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, as a narrow-minded man who lacks compassion.
Fred claims that when he needed financial help to support his disabled son, Donald Trump suggested that health care might not be worth the cost.
Trump’s middle son, Eric, responded to that characterization on social media, calling the author a misfit who happily accepted money, gifts and “decades of unwavering love,” only to “cash in” on a book deal with the presidential election just four months away.
Mary Trump – who also wrote a book nag at his uncle 2020 – responded to the attack on her brother, calling Eric “beneath my contempt” and then taking a few shots at him anyway.
“If Eric had any sense of self, he would have shut up,” she said a video posted on YouTube late Thursday.
Mary claims that after their father, Fred Trump Jr., died in 1981, she and her brother later became swindled his share of family patriarch Fred Trump’s inheritance and blames the rest of the family for Fred III needing money to support his son. She also accuses Eric Trump of using his position of influence to “put down” his brother.
“He’s weak and he’s cruel in the way of small, unaccomplished men,” Mary Trump said.
Eric previously dismissed Mary as a loose cannon when her book came out four years ago.
“Every family has one,” he wrote on X in July 2020.