2024 Election

Mary Trump Warns Not to Count Her Uncle Out, ‘Donald Will Burn Everything Down!’

Mary Trump, Donald Trump’s niece has a stern warning for those who are confident that her uncle will lose his 2024 presidential bid: He will “burn everything down” if he thinks his grip on power is slipping, Mediaite reports.

Election Night results were disastrous for Republicans, and they blame Trump for this so he’s been getting a good kicking from them as a result. This is especially true for the more prominent members of the GOP and the media.

And that ante has been upped after Trump delivered what many believe is a lackluster speech announcing his intentions to run.

While Mary Trump may be his niece, she’s one of his toughest critics, and in an interview with MSNBC’s Ali Velshi, she said it’s a bad idea to count Donald Trump out. He may seem irrelevant now and not particularly dangerous, but that, she said makes him even more dangerous. Here’s how the interview went down, according to Mediaite:

Ali Velshi: Is he either less relevant or is he still the most dangerous person around?

Mary Trump: Well, I think it’s both, because Donald becomes his most dangerous when he fears loss of relevance, when he fears that he is no longer the center of attention, when he fears that he is no longer the one in control. And we don’t know just what kinds of information on other people in his party. What we do know is that he would be willing to use it. And, I believe we talked about this before the 2020 election. Donald will burn everything down if he feels like he’s going down. We can’t discount that. We ignore him at our peril, as we’ve been saying for a very long time now. It’s getting quite exhausting. But again; that’s why the Republican Party strategy of just deciding to turn it a different direction won’t work. One, it won’t work because he won’t let them do it. And two, it shouldn’t work because they are culpable for this… Party and the dangers this party continues to present to this country.”

Ali Velshi: But in fact, after the 2020 election, there are a lot of people, including many who watch this show or this network, who breathed a sigh of relief, who said, I don’t have to have the TV on all the time. We’ve escaped the worst of it, and I’ve been worried for two years that that’s not actually true at all. And now there are yet more Americans who feel much more relaxed this Sunday morning than they did on Tuesday morning, who think, ‘wow, we’ve done it again. We’ve dodged another bullet.’ The bullets are still flying. The anti-democratic bullets fired by Donald Trump continue to fly. The danger now is that anybody, including him, who tries it again, knows what went wrong last time and might be more sophisticated about it the next time.

Mary Trump: Absolutely, Ali. And the bullets are still flying. And we can’t keep having the most important election of our lifetime every election cycle, we can’t keep being in a position where what is at stake is democracy or fascism. And to let our guard down at this point would be missing a serious opportunity. Because, yes, it’s amazing news that the Democrats held the Senate, might even increase its margin in the Senate. They may indeed hold the House or at least lose it by a tiny margin (which is what happened). I mean, we can really call this a blue tsunami, honestly, given everything that was going against the Democratic Party. However, we need to keep in front of mind that tens of millions of Americans voted for autocratic, anti-democratic candidates who were election deniers and pro-insurrection. So that’s not going to change. The Republican Party’s message might change superficially, but what it stands for has not changed and will not change. And that’s what we need to be on our guard against.

On Sunday, Mary Trump also told Mehdi Hasan she believes her uncle will beat Florida governor Ron DeSantis in the GOP 2024 race. DeSantis hasn’t announced whether he will run. He is, however, a dyed-in-the-wool right-winger who’s a pro-life, homophobe, and transphobe who, like Trump should be taken out with the trash if he does run.

Biden has hinted at running again and it would behoove Democrats to be on their game in case Mary Trump is correct. People who are on the side of all that is good and decent can’t afford to be lazy here.

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Megan has lived in California, Nevada, Arizona, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Florida and she currently lives in Central America. Living in these places has informed her writing on politics, science, and history. She is currently owned by 15 cats and 3 dogs and regularly owns Trump supporters when she has the opportunity. She can be found on Twitter at https://twitter.com/GaiaLibra and Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/politicalsaurus

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