- Mary Trump told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on Thursday that she witnessed how her uncle, President Donald Trump, used the N-word and anti-Semitic profanities.
- “Of course I do,” the president’s niece told Maddow. “And I don’t think that should surprise anyone given how virulently racist it is today.”
- A more general statement followed that such terms were commonly used in the Trump family, making it unclear whether Donald Trump was involved.
- Mary Trump has released a memoir that describes decades of Trump family dysfunction. The White House has denied that the claims in the book are true.
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Mary Trump in an interview with Rachel Maddow of MSNBC on Thursday confirmed that she had overheard her uncle, President Donald Trump, use racial slurs, including the N-word.
He added specificity to a claim in an earlier interview with The Washington Post, where he said such terms were often used in the Trump family, without specifying who did it.
She is “growing”, it was normal to hear them use the N word or anti-Semitic expressions. ”
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Maddow asked him if he had specifically witnessed his uncle using the expressions, and Mary Trump said yes.
“Of course I do,” replied the president’s niece. “And I don’t think that should surprise anyone given how virulently racist it is today.”
Mary Trump’s book, “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the Most Dangerous Man in the World,” was published in early July following attempts by the Trump family to block him.
In the book, Mary Trump, a clinical psychologist, describes decades of dysfunction in her family that she says left her uncle with psychological scars. She says he has such toxic personality traits that a second term with him in office would herald the “end of American democracy.”
The White House has rejected the book’s claims as false.
A White House spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Mary Trump’s claim Thursday, which is not included in the book.
Trump has long been accused of deliberately provoking racial grievances as an electoral strategy. Former employees, including his former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, have alleged that the president made racist comments in private.
The president’s allies defended him against the charge, with the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Ben Carson, in July, as quoted by Politico, alleging that the president had fought for “Jews and blacks to be included in the clubs they were trying to exclude them. ” ”
