Cindy Adams defends Donald Trump, says niece Mary is ‘drawing blood to make money’ with tell-all book
Cindy Adams, a longtime friend and supporter of Donald Trump, has come out in support of the president in the wake of the impending publication of his niece Mary Trump's tell-all memoir about his life, and said she was "drawing blood to make money."
Mary, a licensed clinical psychologist, had been embroiled in a legal battle with the Trump family over the publication of her tell-all book about Trump's life titled 'Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man'.
However, this past week, a New York Supreme Court judge lifted a restraining order that prevented her from promoting it, with her attorney Ted Boutrous praising the decision and stating the "court got it right in rejecting the Trump family's effort to squelch Mary Trump's core political speech."
Adams, on the other hand, suggested in a column for Page Six that the book was nothing more than a cash grab. She called into question some of the claims Mary had made, including how Trump's sister, Maryanne Trump Barry, a retired federal appeals court judge, had expressed concern when he announced he was running for the presidency.
"He’s a clown -- this will never happen," Mary quoted her aunt saying during one of their regular lunches in 2015, adding that Maryanne was particularly baffled about the support for him among evangelical Christians. "The only time Donald went to church was when the cameras were there," Maryanne reportedly told her. "It’s mind-boggling. But that’s all about his base. He has no principles. None!"
Adams said she also had dinners with Maryanne and even saw the judge at Trump's inaugural but had "never witnessed her hostility or ingratitude."
"What I’ve witnessed is that money, estates, inheritances, trusts and wills turn families evil. So, to make a buck you make a book," she wrote. "This is a vendetta written by a zero who’s scratching for 10 minutes of fame."
She went on to compare the memoir to the one recently published by Trump's former National Security Advisor John Bolton, who had spectacularly claimed that President Trump had "pleaded" with China's Xi Jinping during a 2019 summit to help him in his re-election.
"Like Bolton, who can’t hold a job and wants to cash in, these losers are literary medics. Drawing blood to make money," Adams said.
She also questioned Mary's portrayal of Trump's relationship with his father, Fred Trump Sr., whom she termed a "sociopath." In a passage, the psychologist said Trump Sr. prioritized business over all else and that "love meant nothing" to him.
"Fred firmly believed that dealing with young children was not his duty, and kept to his twelve-hours-a-day, six-days-a-week job at Trump Management, as if his children could look after themselves," Mary wrote, adding that his self-interest "skewed his priorities and his care of children reflected his own needs, not theirs."
Adams said Mary was "wrong" and highlighted what she said was the only time the president had been angry at her in the decades they had known each other.
"Only once was Donald angry with me. Bitterly angry. Why? Because I had not attended the invitation to his father’s funeral. I remember his words: 'You disrespected my father,'" she shared.