Wednesday, July 8, 2020

Today's Covid-19 number: I think we're gonna need a bigger mask!


The government Covid-19 page included this (perhaps obscure) caveat:

Trump paid a friend to take the SAT for him? Of course!

✅ Psychological disorders and family squabbles: 9 details from the book by Donald Trump’s niece

(Politico)

…Mary Trump, the daughter of the president’s deceased older brother Fred Trump Jr., accuses the president of paying a friend to take the SAT for him when he was applying to college as a teenager.

     “That was much easier to pull off in the days before photo IDs and computerized records. Donald, who never lacked for funds, paid his buddy well,” Mary Trump writes in the book. Donald Trump’s sister, Maryanne Trump Barry, also often did his homework for him during high school, the author alleges, which helped get him into the University of Pennsylvania. Matthews, the White House spokesperson, called the SAT allegation “absurd“ and “completely false.”….

✅ All in the Family Dynamics: Donald Trump’s Niece on the President’s Clan

(New York Times)

…That dysfunction is abundantly chronicled in this book, as Mary describes how the five Trump children of her father’s generation all struggled to make do in a household where their mother’s chronic health problems left them at the mercy of a patriarch who was both uncaring and controlling. The oldest, Maryanne, was the uptight good girl; Freddy was the laid-back rebel; Elizabeth was the unassuming middle child; Rob was the baby, quiet and eager to please. And Donald, the second-youngest, was Donald: ingratiating to his father, disobedient to his mother and bullying to his younger brother, stealing little Rob’s favorite toy trucks and goading him into kicking a hole in the bathroom door…. 

Roy's obituary in LA Times and Register: "we were lucky to have you while we did"

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