If Trump wins second term, US runs the risk of turning into an 'authoritarian state', warns his niece Mary
Mary Trump, the niece of Donald Trump who made the headlines in the recent months with her tell-all book about the President, has spoken out against her uncle again. On Sunday, November 1, the 55-year-old Mary said if Trump wins a second presidential term, the US could be at risk of becoming an “authoritarian state”.
A psychologist by profession, Mary, who also called the president “vile”, told MSNBC’s Joy Reid during talks on ‘AM Joy’: “We're looking at an authoritarian state if we allow him to continue unimpeded.”
As per a ‘panel of experts’ Mary said she put together last week, the message is that Trump has [apparently] done everything in his power to harm every institution in the country. Trump was in Michigan for a rally the same time when Mary uttered her words cautioning against reelection of the GOP leader.
In another interview with The New Yorker magazine, which was published as part of a report on Sunday, Mary said if her uncle is defeated by Joe Biden, he and his associates will use the time between now and the inauguration for “breaking as much stuff on the way out as they can—he'll steal as much of the taxpayers’ money as he can”.
'Trump calling on citizens to commit violence'
In her MSNBC interview, Mary, the author of “Too Much and Never Enough -- How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man” said: “He is vile. He is actively calling on American citizens to commit violence against other American citizens simply for voicing their opinions.”
“This is so dangerous,” she said, adding: “He is doing the same thing with his armed supporters to go watch the polls. And we know which neighborhoods he's sending these people to. So, it can't be clearer what he is doing. Please understand that he will allow violence to be committed in his name in order to take this election because he knows he can’t win it legitimately.”
Mary, the daughter of Trump’s elder brother Fred Trump Junior who passed away at the age of 43 in 1981, revealed a number of facts related to the president’s personal life, something the first family tried to block but in vain.
Last month, following Trump’s Covid-19 diagnosis and his controversial decision of taking a short drive-by outside Walter Reed Medical Center to wave at his supporters, Mary criticized the former to say the US has turned into a “horrible place” because the members of the first family, including Trump, perceive illness as “a display of unforgivable weakness” -- even if it is seen in themselves. Speaking to NPR’s ‘All Things Considered’, Mary said at that time: “That’s why we’re in the horrible place we’re in, because he cannot admit to the weakness of being ill or of other people being ill.”
In September, Mary filed a lawsuit accusing Trump and two family members of fraud and conspiracy. In the suit, she alleged that Trump and his siblings, Maryanne and Robert, who died in August, denied her an inheritance. She was seeking to recover millions she claims to have lost.