Nephew claims Trump said ‘disabled people should die’

Fred C. Trump III, nephew of former President Donald Trump, claims in an excerpt from his upcoming memoir that his uncle told Americans with disabilities, including his own son, “just die.”

The book, “All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Became This Person,” due for release on July 30, is expected to include a scathing portrayal of the former president, including racist slurs, as seen in excerpts published Wednesday by Time magazine and The Guardian.

In the excerpt, Trump’s nephew reveals that his son, William, has been diagnosed with infantile spasms, a rare condition that affects his physical and cognitive development. The diagnosis has inspired him and his wife to push for better education, investment and research to understand how to most effectively help people with disabilities.

While his uncle was in the White House, Trump reportedly reached out to his cousin Ivanka, who was an adviser to his father at the time, to help him arrange meetings with members of the Trump administration.

Trump’s nephew said he spent 45 minutes in the Oval Office with his uncle, health care advocates and doctors discussing the challenges facing families and patients with disabilities, and after the meeting, the Republican nominee asked to speak with him privately.

“Those people,” the uncle reportedly said, “with their situation, with all the expenses, maybe those kinds of people are better off dead.”

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“I really didn’t know what to say. He was talking about costs. We were talking about human lives. I think for Donald it was really about costs. We were there to talk about efficiency, smarter investments, and human dignity,” Fred Trump’s grandson wrote in his memoir.

Time and USA Today reached out to the former president for his reaction to his nephew’s account of the incident but did not receive a response.

This is not the first time a Republican candidate has been accused of making insensitive remarks about people with disabilities.

During the 2015 presidential campaign, Trump mocked New York Times reporter Serge Kovaleski, who has a joint disorder, and after he was criticized for imitating the reporter’s tremors, Trump said he was criticizing the reporter’s journalism, not his disability.