Mary Trump, the psychologist, podcaster and niece of former President Donald Trump, has said her uncle will likely call for violence as the walls close in on him.
Mary was speaking Saturday morning on MSNBC’s The Katie Phang Show. She has long been a fierce critic of her uncle, documenting family secrets in her book about him, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man.
Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residency in Florida was raided by the FBI in early August. The agency was searching for classified documents Trump allegedly took with him from office when he departed the White House. Besides this, a grand jury in Georgia is investigating his claims of election fraud, and his business and tax affairs are still under investigation in New York.
“The window of opportunity for Donald to squirm out of this is closing because of the seriousness of the potential charges that are coming his way,” Mary Trump said.
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“And what have we seen in the past? He goes to violence. When he said that President Biden was calling for political violence, he was, as usual, projecting. That was what Donald’s going to be calling for as he gets more and more cornered.”
Donald Trump blasts Bill Barr
Since the FBI search, some leading figures from the Trump administration have spoken out against him. An increasing number of Republican lawmakers also appear to want to distance themselves from him.
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Donald has used his Truth Social platform to lash out at some of them, including former attorney Bill Barr.
Barr said last week the legally executed search was justified. He said the DOJ probably had “pretty good evidence” to warrant the search. Donald Trump subsequently blasted Barr.
“Bill Barr had ‘no guts,’ and got ‘no glory.’ He was a weak and pathetic RINO, who was so afraid of being Impeached that he became a captive to the Radical Left Democrats,” he said on Truth Social.
Mary Trump referenced Barr during her talk with MSNBC.
“On the one hand, Bill Barr was his staunchest defender at one point; acting like his private attorney,” she said. “But, on the other hand, because of the egregiousness of Donald’s behavior, even people like Bill Barr can’t stand with him anymore.”
Donald Trump’s Wilkes-Barre rally
Mary’s comments came before Donald Trump took the stage at a rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania on Saturday night. It was his first rally appearance since the FBI search.
The speech supposedly took place to drum up support for Pennsylvania GOP candidates Mehmet Oz and Douglas Mastriano. However, they played second-fiddle to Trump, who rambled on for two hours to a crowd of ardent supporters.
During his address, Trump blasted President Joe Biden as an “Enemy of the state”. He called the Department of Justice “vicious monsters” who executed a “shameful raid and break-in of my home in Mar-a-Lago.” Trump also called the search “one of the most shocking abuses of power by any administration in American history.”
He went on to make baseless claims about Oz’s rival, Democrat John Fetterman.
“Fetterman supports taxpayer-funded drug dens and the complete decriminalization of illegal drugs, including heroin, cocaine, crystal meth, and ultra lethal fentanyl. And by the way, he takes them himself,” Trump said.
This prompted a response on Twitter from Fetterman’s director of communications, Joe Cavello.
“More and more lies from Trump and Dr. Oz; another day, but it’s the same shit from these two desperate and sad dudes.”
More and more lies from Trump and Dr. Oz; another day, but it’s the same shit from these two desperate and sad dudes.
— Joe Calvello (@the_vello) September 4, 2022
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In another section of his speech, Donald Trump said Facebook’s CEO, “weirdo” Mark Zuckenberg, visited him in the White House “last week” and “kissed my ass”.
Trump says Mark Zuckerberg came to the White House last week and kissed his ass pic.twitter.com/QT7zBHjedy
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 4, 2022
still_onthemark
So Mark Zuckerberg “last week” “came to the White House” to visit… Trump? What year does he think it is? Someone may have a drug problem and it ain’t Fetterman.
Doug
Wondering why Zuckerberg hasn’t refuted this by now.
Den
People talk about how the right is so good at projection. This then is more evidence that Trump definitely has a drug problem, AND is the one showing real signs of dementia, not Joe (pretty obvious Joe is just just fine neurologically).
Mack
Trump thinks Mar-a-Lago is the White House and that he’s still President.
LumpyPillows
Trump never was very sane, and now he is in rapid decline as his made up world falls apart.
Diplomat
I believe the DOJ is offering to cut a deal with Trump: come out and admit all your lies or go to jail for life with zero outside contact. I believe the latter considering Teflon Don’s looney nature, and violence will ensue. Tho I don’t think anything will happen til after the mids.
Den
A moderate progressive I follow (David Pakman, who has an excellent perspective on things) feels that nothing will happen until after the midterms, but that Trump will be indicted, as will a bunch of his legal staff and cronies. But he feels (while hoping he is wrong) that Trump will not spend any time in prison.
Personally, I believe that if things get really bad for him, he goes to trial and is found guilty, with prison time or at least loss of the possibility of running for office; he will write a long manifesto calling for civil war and kill himself. He is definitely stupid, demented and unbalanced enough for that. And he lacks the necessary adult daycare to prevent it.
humble charlie
Den, we can only hope that he has the ethical clarity of Adolph Hitler.
JanDivine
I don’t think Trump will kill himself, people with malignant narcissism don’t do that. It would be admitting he made mistakes and he can’t do that. I also don’t think will go to any kind of incarceration even if he is tried and found guilty. There is no prison in the US that can safely contain him. He can’t interact with other inmates without being constantly monitored. Honestly, at his age and stress level, I would not be surprised if he dies in the near future of natural causes. Honestly, I think it’s his only way out. Sad.
Den
I don’t think Hitler had any sort of ethical clarity (if he had any sense of ethics they were warped beyond recognition). He just couldn’t face failure, so deep was his sociopathy. Trump is similar that way. Ethics are the furthest thing from his mind. He may be starting to see a big neon sign flashing LOSER…LOSER…LOSER in his mind’s eye. He’s certainly acting like he is cornered.
I would love to see him live to suffer humiliation and ignominy rather than evade it by ending his own life.
LumpyPillows
He will, at some point, declare he is running for president to try to avoid indictment. He will believe it will keep him out of court. When that fails, Trump will call for a civil war, I have no doubt. His ego and self-love will not allow him to commit suicide. When his civil war fails miserably and only ends up destroying a few thousand of his nutty sycophants, I predict he will flee the country.
This will not end well, but it should end.
Den
Several columnists/pundits have rightly noted that Mary has been estranged from the family long enough that it is unlikely she has any insight beyond that available to anyone following the media. This is supported by the fact that she is saying nothing that has not also been said by other perceptive writers. She’s been right, they’ve been right. She is highly intelligent, they are highly intelligent.
But given her estrangement following the theft of her inheritance, she is no longer an insider.
And of course Trump will incite violence! He is cynical, dull scum; that and telling lies (transparent and foolish ones in the last few weeks!) is all he knows how to do.
Cam
She isn’t stating “This happened on this day”, she is stating this as somebody who has been trained in psychology and grew up knowing the man.
LMG
Delusional, fraudulent, bloated, inarticulate, obese, ignorant, deadbeat, untrustworthy, narcissistic, insurrectionist LIAR – and these are Donald Trump’s Good points! Enough said.
bachy
It’s not unusual for people who have engaged in criminal acts to spin, spin, spin, deny, deny, deny and lie, lie, lie. But Failure 45’s access to media puts this tsunami of lies front and center in the American public discourse. I don’t know about anyone else, but I find it horribly demoralizing to be continually subjected to this torrent of sewage. I’ve often wondered how interviewers and biographers of criminal masterminds manage to stay sane!
I remember feeling as though an enormous weight was lifted when he was banned from Twitter. Sincerely hoping this monster is finally imprisoned and that the cesspool of insanity he continually dumps on the American conversation is permanently eliminated.
dgsea06
The FBI did not “Raid” Mar-al Lago.
shva08
LOCK HIM UP!!!
inbama
Accelerates?
That corrupt judge he appointed in Florida just handed him a lefe raft.
Den
The decision allowing the appointment of a Special Master by that Judge is shameful! That he even took documents that were not his to take, and obstructed the retrieval of them for months, even lying about their presence is a crime, regardless of the security level of some of the documents.
We can only hope the Special Master is not a toady as the federal judge is.
still_onthemark
I was hoping the “Special Massa” would have a WHIP and maybe some thumbscrews, tar & feathers, etc. – alas, no.
humble charlie
What an exciting time in history and for the future history books that will be written! As America Implodes!
Den
“Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residency in Florida was raided by the FBI in early August.”
COME ON MR. HUDSON, WHY THE HELL ARE YOU GIVING CREEDENCE TO RIGHT WING TALKING POINTS WITH NO BASIS IN REALITY? THE FBI EXECUTED A LEGAL SEARCH WARRANT, DOING NOTHING THAT WAS CONTRARY TO PROCEEDURES. Police used to RAID gay bars, the actions of January 6th constituted a RAID. The FBI was engaged in legal activity which would have remained moderately discreet, had Trump and his people not decided to freak out and begin a random volley of lies about it.
oinkndoink
….trump will announce that he is “running,” so that he can grift as much money as he can from his cult members—thenwill pull out of the race at the last minute……..
I don’t see him committing suicide—too much of a coward, and wouldn’t be able to see the fallout or “glory” afterwards: that would be oxygen to him!
Besides, he wouldn’t do anything to ruin his “perfect body”!!!!!
….I predict that he will defect to Saudi Arabia!!!!!
johncp56
After his hateful white house stay, I,m glad to watch his meltdown and tax law troubles, we have all seen blowhearts cons creeps it is so fun to see true hateful people go down