Meghan McCain confronted Mary Trump about her new tell-all book, accusing President Trump’s niece of trying to make a quick buck at the expense of her family.
“Look. I think I made it clear to your publishers, I don’t like books like this. I don’t like family tell-all books, especially when it comes to families with fame and power because I — they’re told from the one side, and often the subjects are villainized to the point that I don’t actually end up believing the stuff written,” McCain told Trump on ABC’s The View on Thursday.
“There have been books about my family which are complete and total garbage told from a skewed perspective and at the end of the day you get a really good paycheck out of it, but I don’t think it’s that legitimate,” McCain said.
McCain, who is the daughter of the late Arizona Sen. John McCain, asked Trump to respond to critics like herself who see the book as a “great way for you to get a paycheck.” Trump told McCain that she was entitled to her opinion, but noted she was “not some stranger” writing a book.
“If I had wanted some measure of revenge, if I had wanted to cash in as you say, I would have done this 10 years ago when Donald was still a very public figure, and it wouldn’t have — I would not have been taking the risk that I’m taking,” Trump said.
“I mean, we’ve all seen how whistleblowers fare in this administration. So, I would much have preferred not to do this, but I felt it was extremely important that the American people have all of the information they need in order to make an informed decision,” she added.
Trump accused McCain of trying to detract from the “important things” she wrote about in the book by questioning how well she knew the family.
Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man, Trump’s book, sold nearly one million copies on the first day of its release. The president has called the book “vicious” and denied much of what she wrote.
