By AFP More by this AuthorWashingtonDonald Trump's older sister described the US president as cruel and a liar whose lack of principles meant he could not be trusted, according to secretly made recordings published Saturday. Maryanne Trump Barry, a former federal judge, slammed her brother over his immigration policy that saw children separated from their parents at the border and sent to detention centres. "All he wants to do is appeal to his base," she said in recordings obtained by the Washington Post. AdvertisementSecretly madeThe recordings were secretly made by the president's niece Mary Trump, who published last month a bombshell memoir of the "toxic family" that produced him. At one point in the recordings, Barry said to her niece: "It's the phoniness of it all.

Source: Daily Nation August 23, 2020 06:33 UTC