Donald Trump's second ex-wife, Marla Maples, has been famously tight-lipped on her thoughts about her billionaire ex-husband and his run for president. Despite being quoted in the London-based Telegraph in 1999 as saying, "If he is really serious about being president . I will feel it is my duty as an American citizen to tell the people what he is really like," Maples and her daughter, Tiffany Trump, have mostly kept to themselves this election season. (Maples, for her part, denies giving the quote to The Telegraph.)
Maples says she keeps mostly mum about Trump so as not to come between her daughter and her daughter's father — but she also, more obliquely, references a possible non-disclosure agreement. But Maples finally spoke out in an interview with The Daily Beast — and while she doesn't necessarily criticize her ex, she certainly talks around him:
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