Mary Trump released a sequel to her tell-all book about the Trump family in the form of a massive fraud lawsuit against her aunt and uncles.
The lawsuits that the president’s niece filed in a state Supreme Court in New York allege that her aunts and uncles conspired to defraud her of millions by working to “con her into signing her interests away” after the death of her father, Fred Trump Jr. President Trump, his sister Maryanne Trump Barry, and his late brother Robert Trump were all listed in the lawsuit.
“Fred Trump Jr. died in 1981 when Mary was just sixteen years old,” the lawsuit reads. “Upon his death, Mary inherited valuable minority interests in the family business. Donald, Maryanne, and Robert committed to watch over her interests as fiduciaries. They lied.”
“Rather than protect Mary’s interests, they designed and carried out a complex scheme to siphon funds away from her interests, conceal their grift, and deceive her about the true value of what she had inherited,” it continued.
Mary Trump said she was unaware of the alleged fraud until she reviewed reporting from the New York Times about “suspect tax schemes” in the Trump family. The lawsuit was filed two months after Trump’s tell-all book about her family was published. President Trump has dismissed the claims made in the book and said that Mary has not been close to the family.
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany dismissed the allegations made in the lawsuit during a press conference on Thursday.
“The only fraud committed there was Mary Trump recording one of her relatives. She’s really discredited herself,” McEnany said, referring to Mary’s recording of Maryanne Trump Barry.
Among the many allegations leveled against the Trump siblings, Mary claimed that her aunts and uncles cut her and her brother, Fred Trump III, out of the family health insurance. She also claimed that they forced her to sell her stake in a real estate venture to pay off legal fees she had accumulated while attempting to contest her father’s will in 2000.
Mary said she hopes the lawsuit will help her get the millions of dollars she claims her family swindled out from under her.
“I am bringing this case to hold them accountable and to recover what is rightfully mine,” she said.
