In an excerpt from her memoirs, Mary Trump, the niece of the American president, described Donald Trump as a "narcissist and a liar" who portrayed his "authoritarian" behavior.
The White House immediately responded to the accusations, describing Mary Trump's book entitled "Too Much and Never Enough: How Has My Family Made the Most Dangerous Man in the World?" As a "book of lies".
Mary Trump's memoirs are due on July 14 amid a court battle to prevent their publication, while sales have already topped Amazon on less than four months before the US presidential election.
Mary, 55, a clinical psychologist, wrote that Trump considered cheating a "way of life", according to the "New York Times." She accused the president of "arrogance and willful ignorance" from a young age.
She said he paid someone else to take the SAT exams, which helped him enter the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. The newspaper did not explain how Mary learned of these details.
"The accusation related to the ridiculous Sate is completely false," said White House deputy spokeswoman Sarah Matthews.
The 240-page book indicates that Trump was influenced by the personality of his "socially disadvantaged" father, Trump Trump, who created a harmful and shocking environment for his family at home, according to the Washington Post.
In his response to the notes, Matthews said that the president "said that his father was loving and was never cruel in his treatment of him as a child."
The book is the first unfavorable description for the president by someone from his family.
According to the New York Times, Mary Trump described how her "domineering" grandfather was "mocking" her father and how Donald Trump, seven years his junior, "learned how to lie in order to show himself" after witnessing the humiliation of his brother.
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Read more details in the Thursday, July 9, 2020 issue of the Emirates Today newspaper