Source: Politics<\/p>\n
Another Trump has decided to enter the political arena following the 45th president\u2019s departure from office. It\u2019s just not the one most people expected. <\/p>\n
Mary Trump, a ferocious critic of the uncle she\u2019s called cruel and traitorous, is joining the board of LPAC, an organization that supports LGBTQ+ female candidates running for office. And she\u2019s doing so, she says, partially driven by the belief that her uncle nearly destroyed America\u2019s democratic system of governance. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe came really close to losing our democracy \u2014 and I may sound melodramatic but it happens to be true,\u201d Trump said in an interview on Thursday. \u201cI feel it\u2019s the beginning of the fight because we came so close to losing everything, and we\u2019re also faced with a situation in which there\u2019s this fight over the filibuster, and it\u2019s important we understand this is about representation across the board.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trump, who worked with LPAC before the election, was asked to join the group as it works to recruit candidates for office and raise funds ahead of the 2022 midterm elections. In this political moment, she said, she hopes to use her name and platform to \u201cmove away from what has been one of the worst administrations in this country\u2019s history on almost every level.\u201d<\/p>\n
LPAC helped elect Democratic Sens. Tammy Baldwin and Kyrsten Sinema as well as Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot. There are only 11 openly LGBTQ members of Congress, including Baldwin and Sinema. <\/p>\n
\u201cIf it\u2019s only men making decisions about womens\u2019 issues or straight people making decisions about LGBTQ issues, then that\u2019s where we run into problems and we\u2019ve seen this,\u201d Trump said. <\/p>\n
A trained clinical psychologist, Trump is currently finishing her second book \u201cThe Reckoning,\u201d which will examine \u201cAmerica\u2019s national trauma, rooted in our history but dramatically exacerbated by the impact of current events and the Trump administration\u2019s corrupt and immoral policies.\u201d Her bestselling first book, \u201cToo Much and Never Enough,\u201d was a memoir of her life in the Trump family, her recollections of her famous uncle and her scathing and deeply personal depictions of family behavior and motivations that ultimately serve as a political cautionary tale. <\/p>\n
Her feelings toward her family haven\u2019t improved since then. She accused her uncle of committing \u201csedition\u201d and doing \u201ceverything in his power to steal this election.\u201d As for her cousins \u2014 Ivanka, Don Jr., and Eric \u2014 she scoffed at the notion that they could potentially run for elected office, too. <\/p>\n
\u201cI think we should all resent having to have that conversation. Because they are, despite being \u2014 let\u2019s put it this way, they have no qualifications, they have no skills,\u201d she said. \u201cIvanka and Jared just spent the last four years allegedly as employees of the government using their position to make hundreds of millions of dollars which isn\u2019t how it\u2019s supposed to work. I hope they\u2019ll be sitting next to their dad in depositions for the next few years.\u201d <\/p>\n
While the former president is indeed navigating legal drama in his life out of the White House, he has also continued to tease another run for the presidency, all while acting as a Republican kingmaker in Palm Beach. Reflecting on her uncle\u2019s future, Mary Trump said she did not expect him to seek the presidency again. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s not going to run,\u201d she said. \u201cHe\u2019s going to pretend to run and keep grifting where he can off the people who will support him. But I think his most time-consuming job in the next couple of years is going to be as a defendant.\u201d <\/p>\n
A request for comment made to the former president’s office was not returned. <\/p>\n
Should Donald Trump defy his niece\u2019s predictions, she will undoubtedly be there to try and prevent him from winning election once more. Though she was silent in his 2016 campaign, she played a high-profile role in trying to bring him down in 2020. It wasn\u2019t just in speaking out. She also admitted, in her first book, to contributing to Trump\u2019s current legal quagmire by leaking financial documents to a team of reporters at The New York Times who went on to write a 14,000-word expos\u00e9 of the Trump family\u2019s business dealings. The work went on to win a 2019 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting. <\/p>\n
But even though those documents are now part of the record for Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance\u2019s investigation into the former president, Mary Trump said she has not been involved or contacted by investigators since. She also made clear she has not been in touch with anyone from her family since she decided, last year, to go public with their dirty laundry and dysfunction. <\/p>\n
\u201cNo,\u201d Trump said and laughed. \u201cI think it\u2019s mutual. Both sides are generally fine with not being in touch. Ah, families.\u201d<\/p>\n