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Two weeks before the election, Mary Trump described her uncle Donald’s campaign to me in stark terms: “He knows he’s in desperate shape, so he’s going to burn it all down, sow more chaos and division…[and] if he’s going down, he’s going to take us all down with him. I worry about what Donald’s going to do in that time to lash out.”
The storming of the Capitol still shocked her. “What struck me first was how degrading it was. That amount of desecration. She describes the people vandalising offices, carrying Confederate flags, wearing Camp Auschwitz T-shirts – and yet Trump’s message to them was how much they were loved.
“It was the last four years in real time, distilled to its very essence, proving how much the very worst people among us have been so enabled and emboldened. It hit me later that the next people in line for the presidency were in the same room, and how unfathomably dangerous that was.”
The ramifications need addressing now, she says. “This is not a time to deliberate. It’s time to act quickly.” She believes the 25th amendment should be invoked, not that she thinks it will be by Mike Pence (“because he’s the biggest coward on the planet”). What legacy will this leave for Republicans?
“If they don’t vote to convict him, they will own this disaster for ever. It will burn them down.”
And it’s not that her uncle believes he won legitimately, she argues. “He’s never had a legitimate win in his life. All that matters is getting the win, no matter if there’s an asterisk next to it.”
With this in mind, we shouldn’t underestimate him. “In less than two weeks, he won’t have the Oval Office to protect him from lawsuits, bankruptcies and criminal indictments. I don’t know what he’s going to do, but we need to understand he’s capable of doing anything. And the clock is ticking.”
Rawr
Article URL : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/10/mary-trump-my-uncle-is-unstable-he-needs-to-be-removed-immediately