Iran Press/ America: US President Donald Trump's niece Mary Trump a psychologist whose recently published book criticizes the President and his family asserted Friday that her uncle's childhood is affecting his ability to govern in a crisis.
"Donald is a psychologically deeply damaged man, based on his upbringing and the situation with his parents," she told CNN.
"He is not going to get better and he is without question going to get worse," she added.
The stinging assertion is another blistering comment from one of Trump's family members who has been interviewed often this week after her book, "Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man," went on sale.
The book paints the President in an unflattering light and traces his governing style back to his childhood.
When asked if the President was known among family members as someone who didn't tell the truth, Mary Trump asserted that he "does on some levels know what he's doing" and pointed to issues such as not wearing a mask.
She said her uncle is not anti-science but will ignore facts in order to spin his preferred narrative.
"I think one of the reasons he's sort of unraveling a bit now is because what he's always done in the past, that used to work, isn't really working as effectively anymore, so it has him scrambling a bit," she said.
Trump, after days of silence about her, called her "a mess" earlier on Friday and alleged that she wrote "untruthful things."
In a series of tweets Friday, he accused her of breaking an unspecified law and lambasted her for criticizing his parents who, he added, "couldn't stand her!"
She called the assertion that she was a mess "an attack he hurls, predominantly, I think, about women."
She has faced litigation from Robert Trump, the President's brother, who argued in court that the book violated a confidentiality agreement related to Fred Trump's estate. But a New York judge ultimately allowed its release. It sold a staggering 950,000 copies by the end of its first day on sale, publisher Simon & Schuster said Thursday.
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