As Donald Trump prepares to surrender himself to authorities in Miami at 3PM today after being charged by the feds for his alleged mishandling of classified documents stored in the bathroom at Mar-a-Lago, his his pesky lesbian niece, psychologist and bestselling author Mary Trump, has been on the media circuit talking about her crazy uncle’s frantic state of mind during this truly disgraceful moment in American history.
“I don’t think there’s any case that can be made in defense of his actions,” she told The New Republic this week ahead of today’s arraignment, adding that he’s likely “feeling terrible fear” and lashing out because it “has always worked before.”
“For Donald, it has almost always been about running out the clock,” Trump notes, adding that he’s always been able to weasel out of situations with more money and more lawyers.
This time, however, feels different.
Probably because the ex-president is up against the U.S. Department of Justice, which has a 99.6% conviction rate in these sorts of cases, according to data published by the Pew Research Center in 2019.
In a follow-up interview with Lawrence O’Donnell on MSNBC last night, Trump was asked about how afraid her crazy uncle might be of going to prison right now.
“I don’t think that he allows himself to believe that’s a possibility,” she replied. “It is literally beyond him to imagine a situation in which he would be held accountable to such a degree that he would lose him freedom.”
“If he could comprehend that that was a viable possibility, he would be terrified in a way that he hasn’t been,” she continued, before adding, “Donald lives his life in fear. He just does everything in his power to cover the fear over with anger most often, and sometimes [with] that blend of arrogance and self-aggrandizement that we often seem him traffic in.”
Later in the interview, she said things like temper tantrums and “refusing to acknowledge reality” have worked for him when it comes weaseling out of situations, however “he may have reached the end of that particular road.”
The ex-president is accused of 31 counts of willful retention of national defense information; one count of conspiracy to obstruct justice; one count of withholding a document or record; one count of corruptly concealing a document or record; one count of concealing a document in a federal investigation; one count of scheme to conceal; and one count of false statements and representations for a grand total of 37 counts. He has denied any wrongdoing.
Meanwhile, here’s what other people are saying about the whole thing on Twitter…
ShaverC
Why is anyone listening to this woman, she obviously has no contact with Donald or his kids so she really knows nothing.
Built4funn
By all accounts, you are correct, she does not have any current/recent contact with the felonious lying thieving grifting branch of her Trump family tree. Her experiences are likely from a long long time ago. However, do you believe that uncle Donald was demonstratively different in his behaviors, morals, actions, thoughts, etc “back in the day” compared to how he is today? Also, let’s not discount that fact that she is a trained psychologist who has the education and credentials to offer her insights on what motivates his warped and broken brain.
abfab
Shaver, you’re ripe for some deep psychoanalysis and she’s accepting new patients. Since you already ”know” her it should be an easy fit.
dbmcvey
Why would anyone listen to you? The only contact you have with Trump is in your wet dreams.
ShaverC
dbmcvey, I’m not making money off a relative I despise.
LeBlevsez
ShaverC –
We only have your word for that. And your word doesn’t carry much weight.
So….
abfab
Shaver…there’s a blog out there especailly for you! goptrolls dot com
You can hang with all the other sad gay republicans who are completely deranged and under educated.
dbmcvey
Shave, so you’re a Republican shill for free?
So what if she makes money? That’s the American Way, and the person she hates is a dangerous monster.
gcjrandall
Spot-on Built. I lived in Manhattan in the early 90s and Trump was renowned for being 3 things:
(1) a liar
(2) a cheat
and
(3) a serial philanderer.
A zebra can’t change its stripes, and neither has the Orange Moron. Period. LOCK HIM UP already!
Kangol2
You forgot “media hog.” He was constantly craving public attention and sought it out at every chance. In the 80s, 90s, early 2000s, etc.
abfab
Just for one day I found him helpful. He repaired Wolman Rink in Central Park when NYC just couldn’t.
I forget what year that was. I’d like to forget it all, but our GOPTROLLs here won’t let us.
JTinToronto
This is the best show out there. It’s my favourite. It should win best comedy. Today’s episode should be hilarious. This show reminds me that I am so glad I’m Canadian.
mildredspierce
You mean Pollivere is not as entertaining??
abfab
And let’s not forget your Joni Mitchell at The Gorge this past weekend.
abfab
Just watched the piece of shit’s aircraft (god that fuselage must stink) depart Miami and the thing was heading right into stacks of thunderhead clouds. Fingers crossed!
ShaverC
abfab, Why is it always the “left” that wishes death on people they don’t agree with? I thought you were party of acceptance and peace?
abfab
The fact that YOU take this literally, actually says that you are an imature fool.
dbmcvey
Hey Shave,
The reason you think only the left wishes death on people is that you’re not paying attention. Right wingers regularly pray for all of our LGBT deaths.
abfab
Exactly, but this is way too much information for shaver, ronboy, obama, diploid, monty other trolls, etc. But what an excellent response, dbee, you kept it on a level they might actually understand. ox
Fahd
Glad that Mary is able to apply so much of what she learned in her course in psychological theories of deviant behavior; but after all these years of the Count of Monte Crisco being in the newscycle it all seems rather obvious.
His indictment is being used by news services all over the world to feed the “Americans are so dumb that [fill in the blank}” narrative. This time it’s Americans are so dumb that this guy, despite everything, is still the leading candidate in the Republican primaries for president 2024.
Willl the judge do anything to ensure that he doesn’t flee the country? Confiscating his passport won’t be sufficient. On the other hand, if he spends his remaining years at a Russian Black Sea resort, the better off all Americans will be.
Jimmynj
Trump is a lifelong criminal and traitor. He and those MAGA idiots deserve every bad thing happening.
abfab
The Village Idiots from The Villages are all throwing tantrums…try and see the docu on this place. Some scary people.
woodroad34
There’s a video out there of a little girl just screaming and crying and turning red in the face. Then you hear her mother from behind the camera saying, “Would you like your picture taken?” and the little girl immediately stops crying and turns to the camera in a pose. Trump reminds me of that screaming brat. BTW, Mary mentioned a few days ago that if anyone wants to get under his skin, they should bring up how Trump’s father dumped some mashed potatoes on his head in front of everyone when he acted up as a kid. I now see him as Mr Mash Potato Head.
abfab
He’s still picking bits of spud crust out of his mangy scalp.
Joshooeerr
Trump will never go to prison. He’ll continue to deploy every trick in the Roy Cohn playbook to obfuscate, delay, counter-sue, appeal, intimidate, bribe or buy-off witnesses, etc. He can easily drag all of this out for another ten or twenty years. He’ll be dead before there’s any kind of verdict. And the US judicial system is so hopelessly corrupt and broken that it will allow him to do it with ease, laughing all the way, and bilking his dimwitted followers to pay for it all.
abfab
Truth.
ShaverC
The Biden crime family won’t go to prison either. That is where everything needs to change, if it’s a real crime, then hold them accountable.
Kangol2
The “Biden crime family [sic]” is a figment of the ShaverC/FauxNews imagination. Just because you keep repeating to yourselves in your feedback loop doesn’t make it true. Propaganda, yes, truth, no.
abfab
Saver..if only you had stayed in school.
dbmcvey
Hey, Shave, what “crimes” has the Biden family committed?
You should stick to hyping anti-gay politicians from Florida and Texas.
scotty
i find her much more entertaining than her buffoonish, boor of an uncle.
LeBlevsez
@GaysforTrump….?
@GaysforTrump….you there?
Where are you @GaysforTrump?
Huh.
abfab
I can’t wait to see the Gays For Christy group.
Kangol2
There was a whole pack of right-wing GOP trolls who besieged Queerty after Don the Con won the presidency in 2016, and they were convinced he would clean house in the 2018 midterms, which didn’t happen, and that he would trounce Grandpa Joe in 2020, which didn’t happen, and then again that there’d be that red wave etc. in 2022, which didn’t happen. Most have vanished, though a few do post on specific things (the racists come out for certain posts, etc.), but for the most part, they’ve gone silent as Don the Con’s lies and treacheries and criminality doom him. Shaver, winemaker, and a few others do try to keep up the front.
dbmcvey
Maybe they all went back on their meds.
johncp56
wow what does it take, your king is a creep con grifter, and is it not illegal to make money while in office his daughter and son-in-law fact-check me, were given 2 billion dollars from Iran!!!
please explain