Donald Trump has been in a state of “panic” and utter disbelief because the FBI raided his Mar-a-Lago residence to retrieve Nationwide Archives paperwork, his estranged niece Mary Trump stated Monday night.
Mary Trump, a psychologist who wrote the Trump household tell-all e-book “Too A lot and By no means Sufficient,” instructed MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell her uncle’s offended public assertion about Monday’s raid was revealing.
“That is simply one other instance in a really lengthy line of examples of Donald’s narcissism and sense of entitlement,” she instructed O’Donnell. “He could have been instructed it was coming, however he couldn't presumably imagine it was coming — as a result of it by no means has.”
“So I believe that’s the place that panic is coming from, and naturally he’s additionally pivoting the place he at all times pivots — to undermining the legitimacy of any investigation into his potential wrongdoing,” she added.
She additionally famous that whereas Trump was in all probability knowledgeable of the search beforehand, he was nonetheless probably shocked Lawyer Common Merrick Garland’s Justice Division truly adopted by.
“Merrick Garland is the epitome of the form of man that Donald is contemptuous of,” she stated. “So it by no means occurred to him that Garland would have the intestinal fortitude to — properly, not go after him — to do his job, fairly truthfully, and maintain Donald accountable.”
O’Donnell then learn from Peter Baker and Susan Glasser’s new e-book “The Divider,” which incorporates an anecdote by which Donald Trump complained to White Home chief of employees John Kelly about his supposedly disloyal generals earlier than unfavorably evaluating them Adolf Hitler’s high brass.
“Yeah, properly that’s one thing we’ve recognized about for a very long time,” stated Mary Trump. “I believe it ought to remind us that, to begin with, Donald has at all times been contemptuous of service members but in addition has placed on a pedestal generals and admirals and what have you ever.”
Donald Trump believes “that’s what individuals are for, to be loyal to him, to do his bidding,” she stated, and that he has a “clear affection for the autocrat, the authoritarian.” Whereas she rejected the notion that her uncle is shedding sleep over the raid, Mary Trump advised he was extra pressured than ever.
“As a result of there’s been so many issues dogging him within the final a few years,” she instructed O’Donnell. “He was in New York immediately as a result of he wants to sit down for deposition in one other case. So it’s all coming kind of quick and livid, and has been for fairly a while.”
“There’s rather a lot we don’t know, however I really feel that it's vindicating that lastly Donald has … been handled as somebody who just isn't above the regulation,” she added. “That’s a very long time coming.”
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