The wife and children of President Donald Trump spoke the first three nights of the Republican National Convention – and his niece appeared before the grand finale.
Mary Trump, who wrote a devastatingly best-selling storybook about the president and his family, joined an MSNBC panel for the last night of the convention, where she mocked the image of the president as a solid family man.
“The idea of dismissing him as a great family man is like trying to make him look like a great businessman,” Trump said.
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She said the convention was “disturbing to look at” because of her attempts to portray the president as a compassionate person who cares about women. There is “so much evidence that he does not care for other people” or even “people in the family,” she said.
“I’m not sure why the American people continue to be deceived by the rhetoric,” she said.
Mary Trump called her uncle’s use of a full lawn in the White House with people sitting close together and not wearing masks for the last night of the convention “inappropriate,” but she added that he “had his life “was rewarded for bad behavior.
Asked if her uncle was worried that some of his supporters might die from COVID-19 because of the busy situation in the White House, she said, “Not at all.”
“He does not feel ashamed. He has no humility. And that is part of the reason we are sitting in the mess we are in,” Trump said.
Mary Trump made a splash right before the convention, as well – releasing audiotapes from conversations she had with her aunt Maryanne Trump Barry about the president.
In secret recordings, Barry, the president’s sister, said, “Donald is cruel,” and she also called him a liar.
“He has no principles. No. None. And his basis, I mean, my God, if you were a religious person, you want to help people. Don’t do this,” Barry said at one.
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Jason Miller, a senior adviser to the Trump campaign, said on Sunday on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” that it was “shameful” for the recordings to “literally the day after the funeral for Robert Trump, the younger of” the President, to be publicly released. brother.
Chris Bastardi, a spokeswoman for Mary Trump, said she made the recordings because she “realized that members of her family had lied in previous depositions.”
“Prior to lawsuits, she felt it was wise to tap into conversations to protect herself,” he said.
