President Trump’s niece asserted that he is less likely to attempt to “hold onto power” if he suffers a “crushing defeat” to presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden.
Mary Trump joined MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on Thursday night to discuss her new book Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man. During the appearance, she was asked if she shares the concerns of some that the president may try to retain his office even if he loses November’s general election.
“I think it’s perfectly reasonable to worry about that,” she responded. “But how he responds depends a lot on how, if he loses, how badly he loses. I think the more resounding a Joe Biden victory, the less likely it is for Donald to stick around.”
“He, as a — you know, somebody who needs to be right all the time and needs to be winning all the time, will need desperately to spin away from a crushing defeat, and I don’t know what form that would take, but that, as far as I’m concerned, is the only way to, not guarantee, but at least give us a better possibility that there will be a peaceful transition after the election on Nov. 3,” she added.
When pressed on the possibility of the president being reelected, Mary Trump warned it would “be the end of the American experiment.”
“This is beyond partisanship. This is so beyond party. We need to be thinking about this as Americans. We need to be thinking about who we want to be as a people going forward. I hear people say all the time, ‘This is not who we are.’ This is exactly who we are right now. So, continuing along this path, which is exactly what would happen if Donald were to be elected in 2020 would, I absolutely believe, be the end of the American experiment,” she said.
“I do not believe there is any coming back from this,” she continued. “There are too many enablers who are, for whatever reason, continuing to enable him. Bill Barr has gutted the Justice Department. Mike Pompeo has gutted the State Department. We are in serious, serious danger here. And unfortunately, that is no longer hyperbolic. That’s just the way it is.”
Some Democrats, including Biden and 2016 presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, have suggested that the president may refuse to leave office if he loses the forthcoming election. The former vice president has even said that the military may need to be called in to remove him from the White House.
Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man, released this week, sold nearly 1 million copies the day it hit bookstores.
