Donald Trump's niece to campaign for Biden

"I have witnessed my uncle’s narcissism and cruelty," the niece and frequent critic of Trump said ahead of a debate

Published June 27, 2024 8:05PM (EDT)

Mary L. Trump speaks during Jim Owles Winter Pride Gala Award Ceremony at Hard Rock Cafe - Times Square on January 20, 2023 in New York City. (Johnny Nunez/WireImage)
Mary L. Trump speaks during Jim Owles Winter Pride Gala Award Ceremony at Hard Rock Cafe - Times Square on January 20, 2023 in New York City. (Johnny Nunez/WireImage)

Donald Trump’s niece, Mary Trump, will join the Biden campaign in the “spin room” after the Atlanta presidential debate, doubling down on her sharp criticism of her uncle.

The "Too Much and Never Enough" author, who made waves with her scathing condemnation of her uncle during the 2020 election cycle, was tapped by the Biden campaign to speak out against the former president.

“For my whole life I have witnessed my uncle’s narcissism and cruelty,” Mary Trump said in a statement, per USA Today. “His sense of inferiority has always driven his jealousy and his pathological need to dominate others, and this is information that is crucially important for the American people to have in advance of the most important election of our lifetimes.” 

Trump's niece, who made an appearance on CNN hours ahead of the debate to tease her spin room spot, speaks candidly of her uncle beyond a partisan level, recalling personal and familial memories that she says outline the character that makes him unfit for office. 

“I’m in Atlanta tonight to remind everyone who Donald is as a person and how he would rule as a president because the stakes are far too high for us to get this wrong,” she said.

Mary Trump joins Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Texas, Rep. Robert Garcia and Gov. Gavin Newsom of California, and Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock as the Biden surrogate team tasked with unpacking the president’s debate performance to media outlets immediately after the event.

Speaking as a psychologist, she previously begged supporters of the then-president to keep him out of office for not just the sake of the nation, but his own.

“If you really care about this person, the last place you would want him to be is in the Oval Office, because it's having a serious adverse effect on him, on his mental stability and on his physical health," she told Salon in 2020.

Ahead of a Biden-Trump rematch, her advice to voters remains constant: don’t vote for my uncle.

“We cannot afford to allow Donald Trump anywhere near the levers of power again,” Mary Trump added in the statement.


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