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The Daily DC

New Trump Book: Family Secrets and Psychoanalysis

The Daily DC

CNN

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4.4621 Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2020

⏱️ 6 minutes

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In a new book, President Trump's niece, a clinical psychologist, delves into the President's family history and makes devastating claims about his mental state. Join CNN Political Director David Chalian as he breaks down what the book means for the Presidency and the 2020 campaign. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.9

Donald Trump's niece puts him on the couch in a scathing new tell-all book.

0:36.4

Today we'll discuss that.

0:38.3

Plus, guess which Republicans are not attending the Republican National Convention

0:42.7

in Jacksonville?

0:44.0

And it's Tuesday, so people are voting somewhere.

0:46.8

Today, it's in New Jersey.

0:48.6

Hey, everyone, I'm David Chalien, the CNN Political Director.

0:51.9

This is the Daily D.C.

0:57.3

Mary Trump, the niece of the president of the United States, she is the daughter of his late elder brother, Fred, has a truly scathing tell-all book.

1:06.3

It is not usually a close family member who writes with such devastating insight into the President of the United States.

1:14.2

But that is what is happening.

1:15.5

Let's tick through some of the headlines.

1:17.9

We learn overall here a psychological profile that I don't think will surprise anybody that has observed Donald Trump in the last five years of him in the public arena.

1:29.3

A narcissist, clearly. Somebody who was looking to please his father, and this is part of the

1:36.5

Trump biography as well. And what we learn here is he observed how his elder brother was treated

1:44.1

by his father, which is not good,

1:46.6

and his father's attack on his elder brother for perceived weakness, which in Mary Trump's

1:53.9

telling seems to have informed her uncle, now the president, to never show that kind of weakness

1:59.9

and to constantly aggrandize his strength and

2:05.5

his self in the eyes of his father. Now remember, Mary Trump's a clinical psychologist. So she does

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