Mary Trump: Everything Donald Has Done Is A 'Prelude To Worse Things To Come'

As new details seem to emerge every day and we learn more about the investigation into why the twice-impeached disgraced former president took and stored classified documents at Mar-A-Lago, we still don't really know what motivated him to take them in the first place. , there are legitimate Homeland Security concerns that keeping those documents at Mar-A-Lago, some of them the most classified and top secret our government possesses, could allow Trump to potentially leverage them with our adversaries. There is also a less dire but no less illegal explanation that he wanted to use the documents to boast, gloat and boost his own ego with the members of his golf club.

Go join us now. Mary Trump, niece of former President Donald Trump, is the host of the Mary Trump Show podcast, author of the book. and it's never enough um Mary, I haven't had a chance to talk to you since the search at Mar-A-Lago. I feel like you see the news in a different way than we do and where we are still capable of causing shock and horror. You say, well, of course he did, tell me your reaction to finding out that he took this stuff, that he made people lie on his behalf about returning it, and that he still doesn't want anyone to see what he has.

Well, of course he did. that's my reaction, you're absolutely right, there's nothing surprising here and I think we all need to honestly recalibrate and understand

everything

Donald has

done

to date as a

prelude

to

worse

things

to

come

, and if we understand it in those terms, then Hopefully, we will stop being surprised and be prepared for the worst, but also maybe do

everything

in our power to avoid the worst, unfortunately, as you have been pointing out, there always seems to be that one person who owes you a favor or who is installed or who is a sycophant willing to risk his own reputation and career to allow you to advance further.

I mean, Mary, there is one person who helps him in the room at the office desk, but then there are the thousands of Republicans who help give the green light to what he has normalized, an exception to accepting political violence and accepting the acceptance of classified documents, which was his own slogan about Hillary Clinton. I mean the hypocrisy, the lack of courage to stand up to

things

that Republicans would find candidates objectionable and other candidates Where does it all

come

from? Where does the ability to do that come from to make one of the two political parties corrupt and impotent?

Where does it come from? Unfortunately, I spend a lot of time thinking about that very question and I don't think there is a good answer, but it is a continuation of a pattern that has existed throughout Donald's entire adult life, beginning with my grandfather, who of course was his pri

mary

enabler. . I think the problem today is that Donald has never suffered any responsibility for anything. He already has and it seems like some of the crimes he's committed recently are even more serious than the crimes he's supposedly committed in the past, so what's happening is that it's not just Donald who's starting to feel impervious or who's starting to feel that there is nothing he can't get his way with and that also extends to those people who are writing their coattails and that is where we get to the point where one of our two political parties has become undemocratic, proto-authoritarian and fascist, So much of what one thinks I've filled in the blanks.

For me, it's understanding the length of the patterns, so I've only observed the patterns since he's a public figure in political life, but you've seen the patterns your whole life and everything is a Lie that if you scratch everything is false, that whatever he's accusing someone of doing is what he's

done

to others and it's particularly acute when you see the accusations about the FBI and the Department of Justice, when you look at him as if he's still sitting at the top of the Republican Party and you. Think about a second Trump term, what are you afraid of?

I'm afraid that signals the end of the American experiment. I've been saying that for a while. I think you and I talked about that before the 2020 election and it's even more true. now because we are even further along than we were two years ago, so I don't think we have two years, although I think we have until November 2022 to make sure that the Democrats retain power in the chamber and increase their majority. in the Senate because if they don't, that gives Donald a two-year runway to continue manipulating the system in his favor so that Republicans feel completely free of any rules or restrictions, so we're running out of time and I.

I wish more was done to help the American people understand that this election is about democracy, it's no longer about Republicans versus Democrats, someone who has done a lot to put the spotlight on Republicans using Republicans like Liz Cheney and I think the public hearings this summer in which she and Benny, Chairman Thompson, and committee members relied primarily on Republican Messengers. He may have had an impact by making democracy the top issue for voters, but Liz Cheney voted for Trump in 2020, so I welcome her to the fight, um, but but she thought he was a acceptable choice to be the country's commander in chief in November, what do you think about the time it takes for people to realize how dangerous he is?

Well, I think it's because it's useful to them. Liz Cheney didn't. object to most of what Donald wanted beyond this legislation or should I say what he was willing to allow in his administration for it the line was Insurrection which, as you said, was good to be welcomed into the fight, but until so she was perfectly comfortable with the destruction of the right to vote in this country, she is perfectly comfortable with the fact that American women are now second-class citizens and cannot have access to adequate health care in more than the half of the states in this country, so you already know their view of its definition.

Democracy is pretty limited and the dangers are much broader than insurrection, which is shocking because it's a pretty dangerous thing, right? But we see the Supreme Court prepared right now to continue taking a sledgehammer to the Voting Rights Act, which is just another way Republican Conforti will have the power to take down the few democratic institutions that remain. Mary, I know you don't have a crystal ball, but you do have more years of experience observing Trump and his patterns and his enablers' patterns, how do you think the Trump story ends? Um, well, obviously I don't know for sure how it ends, but I can tell you how it should end with him charged, convicted, and punished appropriately.

Don't know. that we will ever see Donald in prison, but not only him, but all of his facilitators. I mean, if we want to rescue our two-party system, if we want to fix things, then all the enablers of it must be stopped too. responsible along with those people in the Senate and House of Representatives who were perfectly happy to support an insurrection, but we cannot rule out the possibility that if justice does not come quickly enough and Donald recognizes that the danger is as serious as it really is is. will run again because he will have no choice and if that is allowed to happen we must be prepared for even

worse

things than we have seen so far in terms of inciting violence in terms of co-opting Conspiracy Theories in terms of making anything in your power to defeat us if you think it's going to fall abroad.