Donald Trump’s estranged niece Mary Trump has said Kamala Harris’ domination of the former president during the ABC debate was “surgical.”
Mary Trump, the daughter of Donald Trump’s older brother Fred Jr, has long been a vocal critic of her uncle, whom she has described in the past as a “a racist, a misogynist [and] a liar.”
In a Thursday blog post titled “Dominance and Catharsis,” Mary Trump praised Harris for her precision in standing up to Donald Trump and “calling out his lies” during the debate.
Donald Trump’s niece Mary L. Trump speaks at a ceremony on January 20, 2023 in New York City. Mary Trump has praised Kamala Harris for her “surgical” domination of Donald Trump during the debate.
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“And Harris did it in a way that was not just masterful, it was almost surgical. She dominated Donald from the outset, crossing the stage to his lectern and forcing him to do—shake her hand,” wrote Mary Trump.
“And then, while addressing policy issues and giving us substantive answers to the moderator’s questions in a way that underscored how incapable Donald was of doing the same, she slid the knife in again and again. She told him to his face in front of the world that he is a disgrace. She looked at him with bemused condescension, pity, and outright contempt. She called out his lies and, worst of all for him, she mocked his rallies.”
Newsweek has contacted Mary Trump via Facebook and the Trump campaign by email for comment.
The vice president’s jibe that supporters were leaving Trump rallies early out of boredom and exhaustion was, according to Mary Trump, a “bit of rhetorical evisceration.”
Describing the overall feel of the debate according to her, Mary Trump wrote of the “validation, the satisfaction, the sheer joy of watching a man who so richly deserves it to be humiliated, eviscerated, and dominated.” She also said the debate “gave millions of us something we have needed for almost a decade—catharsis.”
She also praised Harris for “laying out” the former president’s “decades’-long patterns of racist, corrupt, and disturbing behaviors that are utterly disqualifying.”
Mary Trump ended her blog post by urging readers to vote for Harris in “such massive numbers that Donald’s claims that the election was stolen will be believed by nobody but his most deluded followers” and also ensure Democratic majorities in the House and Senate.”
During an appearance on MSNBC‘s Deadline: White House on Wednesday, Mary Trump also dealt out some strong criticism of her uncle. She told host Nicolle Wallace that her uncle would “never get over” the “narcissistic injury” caused by Harris saying that crowds were leaving his rallies early.
“He will continue to defend himself against that even if he never says a word about it again. That is how thin-skinned he is, that is how incredibly fragile his ego is,” Mary Trump told Wallace.
“In light of his resounding defeat last night, he knows he might be going down,” added Mary Trump during the interview. “And if he feels that that’s the case, he will take all of us down with him, and we need to be vigilant.”
“It means that he and those around him, and his enablers in the Republican Party, will do their best to cheat in this election,” she said. “We’ve already seen it, he’s already pre-rigging it by calling into question results we don’t even have yet.”
