Mary Trump: Why has president's niece penned damning memoir?

US President Donald Trump's niece is set to publish an unflattering tell-all memoir about him. So who is she and why has she come forward now?

On 28 July, Mary Trump is due to release Too Much And Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man, Simon & Schuster announced on Monday.

The book will hit the shelves just weeks before the Republican National Convention, when her uncle will accept the party's nomination for his re-election bid in November.

The memoir will reportedly reveal how she supplied the New York Times with confidential documents to print a sprawling investigation into Mr Trump's personal finances.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning exclusive alleged the president had been involved in "fraudulent" tax schemes and received more than $400m (£316m) in today's money from his father's real estate empire.

[bbc.com]

Mary Trump, Donald’s niece, studied English at Tufts and Columbia and clinical psychology at Adelphi University in Long Island, New York. In 2000, she gave a rare interview to the New York Daily News, in which she said her “aunt and uncles should be ashamed of themselves” for their behaviour over Fred Trump Sr’s will, and their treatment of a nephew with cerebral palsy. Mary Trump was reportedly a key source for the New York Times’ Pulitzer prize-winning coverage of the family’s tax affairs.