{"id":29143,"date":"2020-06-24T10:13:35","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T15:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=29143"},"modified":"2020-06-24T10:13:35","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T15:13:35","slug":"how-you-know-youre-part-of-a-dysfunctional-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/06\/24\/how-you-know-youre-part-of-a-dysfunctional-family\/","title":{"rendered":"How You Know You’re Part Of A Dysfunctional Family"},"content":{"rendered":"

When your family goes to court to block a tell-all book by a family member – because it’s largely accurate<\/em>. Here’s Steve Benen<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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If you’re new to the story, Mary Trump’s book, “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man,” is scheduled to be released next month. According to her publisher, Simon & Schuster, the book is a “revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him.”<\/p>\n

It’s also likely to shed some interesting light on one of the more embarrassing revelations surrounding the president: the\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0that Mary Trump’s book is expected to say she was “a chief source” for the newspaper’s coverage of the president’s finances, “and that she provided the newspaper with confidential tax documents.”<\/p>\n

As regular readers may\u00a0recall<\/a>, the\u00a0Times<\/em>‘ exhaustive research uncovered evidence of “dubious tax schemes” and “outright fraud” that Trump exploited to receive hundreds of millions of dollars from his father. The findings painted a picture in which the president, far from the self-made man he pretends to be, relied heavily on legally dubious family handouts.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

There has to be an element of embarrassment to realize the quality of family traditions may not be up to snuff – especially for Donald J. Trump, who is reportedly driven by the opinions of those he perceives as higher on the social ladder himself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When your family goes to court to block a tell-all book by a family member – because it’s largely accurate. Here’s Steve Benen: If you’re new to the story, Mary Trump’s book, “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man,” is scheduled to be \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29144,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29143\/revisions\/29144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}