Donald Trump's nephew breaks silence on 'cruelty' within the family: 'Up to now I've stayed quiet'

Going back through the family’s history, Fred recounted all the “cruel, low-down, vicious, heartless things [that] my relatives could do” in his book All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way, due to be published in the US on July 30.

Beginning with his grandfather, Fred Sr, Trump’s nephew stated that he “wasn’t the easiest man to get along with”, and notes the “terrible relationship” between his own father and Fred Sr.

Fred recounted the personalities and roles of the 45th President’s siblings, including a “cruel” Maryanna, who died last year, and the “chameleon” Robert, who he claims often involved himself in family drama.

Turning to Donald, he described his uncle as “the one most like their father, whose ferocious ambition and drive had to compensate for a lack of compassion and subtlety”.

“Many of Donald’s adult traits – his determination, his short fuse – first displayed themselves in childhood. He learned early that he could get away with things. Stupid kid stuff at first, taking toys from other children. Throwing cake at a birthday party,” he wrote in his book, in an expert seen by The Telegraph.

He recounted the time his father dropped a toy snake into his brother’s bed. “If that prank sounds immature, it was,” he said. “But Donald was the kind of child who could drive almost anyone around the bend.”

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Detailing the key events within the family, including his own father’s alcohol addiction, which resulted in his death, and Donald’s rise to fame, Fred said that as he grew up, “plenty of people recoiled at the Trump name”.

One of his claims is that Donald told Fred that he should let his disabled son William die, then “move down to Florida”, comments he labels as “appalling”.

Fred, who is a successful New York real estate executive, claimed that he received a letter stating that his family’s medical insurance, that they received through a policy provided by his grandfather, was being cut off.

“Of all the cruel, low-down, vicious, heartless things my relatives could do, this was worse than anything I could imagine. Which, I suppose, was the point,” he said.

“I had an infant son, desperately in need of medical care as he fought for his life, and my closest relatives had decided to kick him – and us – to the curb. If this wasn’t evil, I couldn’t say what might qualify.”

A judge overturned Donald’s decision, but William’s condition continued to worsen. Fred went to speak with Donald about money and when asked by his uncle what was wrong with his child, he said: “The doctors don’t know exactly but it’s some kind of genetic thing.”

“Not in our family,” Donald replied: “There’s nothing wrong with our genes.”

Later, Donald made a shocking statement. “‘I don’t know,’” he finally said, letting out a sigh. ‘He doesn’t recognise you. Maybe you should just let him die and move down to Florida.’”

The book also includes a description of the former President using the N-word in the 1970s. In an expert seen by the Guardian, Donald raged about damage to his car outside his parents’ home in Queens.

‘N*****s,’ I recall him saying disgustedly. ‘Look what the n*****s did.’”

When his grandfather died, Fred and his sister Mary were effectively disinherited by their uncles and aunts. Mary published her own tell-all memoir Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man, in 2020.

The pair filed a lawsuit against the former president out of cutting them out of their grandfather’s will in 1999.