As I read the summary of Mary Trump's book, I detect that grassy scent of BULLSH!T wafting over.
Leave aside the psychoanalysis, which was unethical when applied to George Dubya and just as unethical to Obama. The whole field of psychology is forefront in the Reproducibility Crisis. My nostrils got seriously burnt from this barely-English sentence: When his poll numbers started to rise he may have received tacit assurances from Russian President Vladimir Putin that Russia would do everything it could to swing the election in his favor, the appeal of winning grew.
"Tacit assurances" means, NO assurances, where not backed up by facts and, indeed, are flagged as speculative: may have...
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What Mary Trump does here is what I've been calling an Appeal To The Gallery, just the gallery to the left this time. The audience for this book wanted the RUSSIARUSSIARUSSIA meme to be true, they lost that struggle, so they're out for more comfort-food. More: loading up the book with lies was a deliberate strategy. Mary Trump and her publishers have assured themselves of an angry reaction from the book's victim, leaving him no choice but to head to the courts to salvage his name. Thus allowing the criminals to stick that "the book THEY don't want you to read" label on the slander.
This book is bad and Mary Trump should feel bad, as the saying goes; and her publisher is also bad, and her readers should feel bad.
Although, in an irony, since Mary Trump has proven herself a sociopath; #NeverTrump can use Mary's example toward something Deeply Wrong in the Trump genome.
UPDATE 7/16: Cernovich spots the tells.
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