Donald Trump's Niece Calls Out CNN, Praises Court In Jean Carroll Case: A Look Back At When She Called Him 'Electoral Poison'

Former President Donald Trump’s niece, Mary Trump, is an outspoken opponent of her uncle, taking to social media and podcasts regularly to call him out and criticize everything he’s involved in, from his bid for the 2024 presidency to being found liable for the sexual abuse and defamation.

On Sunday, Mary Trump called out CNN for providing the former president a stage to have "free rein—unfettered by propriety and unconstrained by the need to tell truth," juxtaposing the event against the court that held Donald Trump accountable in the case of his accuser, Jean Carroll.

Trump’s niece warned on May 6 that the 2024 election will be a choice between democracy and autocracy, insinuating that there is no hope that Donald Trump will ever change. Mary agreed during the “Michael Steele Podcast” that Trump has been able to widen his voter base by getting more people to adopt “MAGA” ideologies, something she has spoken regularly about.

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In December 2022, Mary Trump spoke to MSNBC’s Alex Witt about the psychology behind her uncle’s moves to connect himself with "fringe elements."

“He just needs to go farther and farther down the rabbit hole because fewer and fewer people are willing to stand up for him publicly,” she said.

On the heels of Donald Trump’s formal declaration to run for president again in 2024, Mary Trump saw the 45th president grappling to find support in a Republican Party that has an increasing number of its members trying to distance themselves from him.

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What Happened: "Everything that Donald does is transactional," Mary Trump answered when asked if she could explain why her uncle has increased his interactions with "fringe elements and extremists."

"And one of the things we have to realize about him is he is sort of a black hole of need. And when he is not getting what he wants from some people -- I think in this case the majority of the Republicans in Congress who have had enough and sort of see him as electoral poison, he will go wherever he needs to in order to get his fix, which is attention and sycophancy."

Although the former president "has no set of core beliefs at all," Mary Trump said, adding that he is forced to latch onto principles that will make him appear relevant as he tries to revive his political career.

“Unfortunately though, people like Elon Musk, who now has a lot of power since he took over Twitter, is also echoing these same kinds of conspiracy theories, which gives them more cache in the mind of somebody like Donald –he doesn’t believe anything except whatever in the moment is best for him,” Trump’s niece said.

In November 2022, Donald Trump met with Ye, formerly Kanye West, and white nationalist Nick Fuentes at Mar-a-Lago, despite the two guests’ histories of anti-Semitic rants on social media and in interviews. Musk reinstated both Ye’s and Donald Trump’s Twitter accounts recently, although Ye was subsequently banned and the former president has not returned, preferring to post on Truth Social.

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