Donald Trump and Joe Biden are the respective nominees for the 2024 presidential race, and Trump's own niece is sticking with Biden after a disastrous first presidential debate.
Mary Trump, a critic of the former president an a member of Trump's family, said the Supreme' Court’s immunity ruling was "a chilling but compelling reminder that, while stopping Donald is our most immediate task, we also have to stop the people who enable him."
"They are arguably even more destructive to our country and, unlike Donald, their plans to dismantle our institutions go far beyond putting him back in the White House. Now that the Supreme Court has removed the guardrails, we need to factor in the need to build new ones," she said Wednesday. "That starts by putting the same amount of care, attention, and energy into down-ballot races as we do the presidential race."
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Mary Trump continued, adding that "the only thing scarier than the idea of my uncle being in the Oval Office again is the idea of the Republicans controlling the Senate and the House of Representatives."
She then added, "Both, the House in particular, would very likely be filled with even more extreme sycophants who hate the Constitution with the same blind passion with which they hate women and minorities. All the worrying in the world won’t stop that from happening."
She continued:
"Donald nominated three of the justices who overturned Roe v. Wade, destroyed the ability of federal agencies to do their jobs, and decreed the presidency a dictatorship, but he had no idea who Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, or Amy Coney-Barrett were. He was merely doing the bidding of people like Mitch McConnell and unelected officials like Leonard Leo, co-chair of the Federalist Society, and Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation. It’s very likely that the next president will have the chance to replace Sam Alito (74) and Clarence Thomas (76). The idea of having two Federalist-Society-grown embryos put on the Court to ruin the lives of the next four generations of Americans is enough to make my head explode. The best way to prevent that is to hold the Senate—and, preferably, increase our margins so we can get rid of the filibuster, too, while we’re at it."
