Donald Trump's niece and a journalist who accuses him of sexual assault team up to write an erotic romance novel

The plot of this new literary soap opera will probably hold less attention than the name of those who wrote it. The Italian lesson, the first lines of which are revealed on the Substack platform, is an erotic-sentimental novel written by six hands, including Donald Trump's niece and the woman who has just won a lawsuit against the former president, reports The New York Times, relayed by Courrier International.

Among the signatures of this text will therefore be the names of E. Jean Carroll, the American columnist who has just won a lawsuit against Donald Trump on May 9 for sexual assault (the former president was sentenced to pay him $ 5 million ); his niece Mary Trump and Jennifer Taub, a legal scholar. In this novel, the three women detail the romance between an American expatriate "with a heavy past" in Tuscany and an Italian winemaker.

If they swear to have met “by participating in a knitting club on the zoom platform” during the Covid-19 pandemic, the budding novelists have in common to have made themselves famous by publicly opposing Donald Trump. E. Jean Carroll accused the former president of having raped her in the spring of 1996. Mary Trump, Trump's niece and psychologist by profession, had made herself known by publishing an essay, four months before the presidential election, to alert on the dangerousness of his uncle. The subtitle of these memoirs: “How my family created the most dangerous man in the world”. At the time, several members of the Trump clan had tried to prevent the publication of the book, in vain.

When they meet during the pandemic, the idea comes to them to the three authors to work together on the scenario of a romantic film. This scenario never sees the light of day. Instead, Marie Trump proposes to make a “soap novel”, which will be gradually published on a reading platform.

"Mary Trump did not feel comfortable on the romance side," says E. Jean Carroll, who has worked for the women's press for a long time, to the New York Times. It was the editorialist who was responsible for writing “the alcove scenes and the romantic aspects”. For a result that the three women are struggling to qualify. "This is in no way soft porn literature," says Mary Trump. "Believe me, there will be many erotic scenes," tempers E. Jean Carroll. The only certainty about this book: the result will have “nothing to do with Donald Trump”.