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Trump should be charged with crimes for Covid-19 response, says niece Mary: 'Isn’t that negligent homicide'

'If you are actively withholding personal protective equipment from a state because a governor isn’t nice enough to you and people end up dying, how is that not a crime?' said Mary

President Donald Trump's niece, Mary Trump, has said her uncle should be criminally charged over the number of American deaths due to the coronavirus pandemic. While speaking on SiriusXM's 'The Dean Obeidallah Show', Mary said, "If you have it in your power to save somebody’s life but stand by and do nothing, isn’t that negligent homicide or something like that?" 

"If you are actively withholding personal protective equipment from a state because a governor isn’t nice enough to you and people end up dying, how is that not a crime?" Breitbart quoted Mary as saying. "I think we’re at this point where the executive has so much power, especially when one party predominates, that it’s as if anything goes. There’s no accountability, and there’s literally no reason for him to stop doing what he’s doing. Which is why when we get out of this nightmare, there has to be a reckoning like we’ve never seen before in this country."

The President had also recently said other countries had problems and compared to larger countries such as India and China, the US was doing much better in terms of dealing with the virus, as per reports.

Obeidallah then asked her, "And when you say a reckoning, do you think Donald Trump should be charged with crimes for his handling of COVID-19 crisis?"

Mary shared, "Yup, I do. I believe that he needs to be indicted for his financial crimes at the state level. I think everything needs to be looked into because part of the problem with Donald has always been that he’s allowed to get away with the small stuff, and it just snowballs over time. It matters that he violates, and his children and everybody else in the executive branch violates the Hatch Act," she pointed out. 

Mary is not the only one who has been calling out the President for his response to the coronavirus pandemic. POTUS recently gave an interview with Axios on HBO where he said that USA's staggering coronavirus death toll "is what it is." He also praised his administration for the handling of the virus. Twitter reacted in outrage to the comments made by POTUS. One such user had written, "Truly disgraceful, and the words of a psychopath. #ItIsWhatItIs."

"Who else thinks only a psychopath would say #ItIsWhatItis to over 150,000 deaths on his watch?" another commented.

We had earlier reported that Mary had also said her uncle's incapability to govern, especially amid a health crisis, could be traced back to his childhood experience.

While speaking to CNN's Chris Cuomo, she said, "Donald is a psychologically deeply damaged man, based on his upbringing and the situation with his parents. He is not going to get better and he is without question going to get worse." She also spoke about his reluctance to wear face masks and said, "I think one of the reasons he's sort of unraveling a bit now is because what he's always done in the past, that used to work, isn't really working as effectively anymore, so it has him scrambling a bit."