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American judge (1937–2023)
Multiple news accounts and family members have publicly said dementia has appeared in the Trump family — most repeatedly pointing to Donald Trump’s father, Fred Trump Sr., who was reported to have Alz...
Mainstream fact‑checks find no reliable evidence that Mary Anne MacLeod Trump — Donald Trump’s mother who died in 2000 — said the widely shared line “Yes, he’s an idiot with zero common sense … I just...
Donald Trump is one of five children of Fred and Mary Anne Trump; his siblings include Maryanne (a former federal judge), the late Fred Jr., Elizabeth (the lone surviving sibling as of multiple profil...
There is no verifiable, contemporary record that Mary Anne MacLeod Trump publicly called her son Donald Trump “an idiot” or said he would be “a disaster” in politics; major fact‑checks and archive sea...
Maryanne Trump Barry publicly criticized her brother in recorded interviews and leaked conversations, calling him “cruel,” “an unprincipled phony,” and saying he “has no principles,” remarks reported ...
Donald Trump was one of five children of Fred and Mary Anne Trump; his siblings each followed distinct trajectories — Maryanne into law and the federal bench, Fred Jr. into aviation and a tragic battl...
Available reporting documents that members of Donald Trump’s family — notably his grandfather Frederick Trump Sr. — had Alzheimer’s/dementia, and relatives and journalists have described other family ...
that paid someone to take the SAT for him originates with his niece ’s 2020 book and audio recordings she provided to reporters; beyond her account and excerpts of family recordings, there is no publi...
Four siblings—Robert, Fred Jr., Maryanne and Elizabeth—shaped different corners of Donald Trump’s private life and business orbit: Robert as the closest business confidant and operational manager, Fre...
built a large, largely -and--focused real‑estate empire and used its capital, connections, and management structures to seed his children into public roles and private wealth — most consequentially en...
Maryanne Trump Barry’s long federal judicial career — from her 1983 district appointment through a Third Circuit judgeship and senior status until her 2019 retirement — supplied the media with both a ...
Maryanne Trump Barry’s most widely reported direct quotations about Donald Trump come from secret audio recordings her niece published; they include calls that he “has no principles,” is “cruel,” is a...
Yes. Reporter and archive sources document audio recordings and multiple broadcast interviews in which Mary L. Trump and Maryanne Trump Barry discuss Donald Trump. Mary L. Trump has given on‑camera in...
Mary Trump’s book and secretly recorded audio clips made public in 2020 prompted renewed allegations that Donald Trump paid someone to take his SATs, and those recordings include . Media reporting and...
’s released recordings principally capture private family conversations in which retired Judge criticizes President and members of his family; major outlets — notably , / and others — published excerp...
The quoted remarks attributed to former federal judge Maryanne Trump Barry — calling Donald Trump “cruel,” saying he “has no principles,” accusing him of lying and phoniness, and claiming he had someo...
Fred Trump Sr.'s documented cognitive decline in his later years helped create legal and familial fault lines that reshaped control and perception of the Trump family's real-estate empire, feeding law...
There are no news reports in the provided sources that identify private letters or emails from Maryanne Trump Barry criticizing her brother; instead, multiple outlets reported that Mary Trump secretly...
Donald Trump is a scion of a large, multigenerational family rooted in real estate and public life: he is the fourth of five children of Fred and Mary Anne MacLeod Trump, the father of five children s...
Available reporting shows multiple instances in which Mary L. Trump has publicly insulted relatives — she called Donald Trump Jr. “the stupidest one” and has called Eric Trump a “moron” in published i...