Donald Trump Does Not ‘Give a Damn’ About Unity: Mary Trump

Former President Donald Trump does not actually “give a damn” about unity, his estranged niece Mary Trump said on Friday, following his speech at the Republican National Convention (RNC) this week.

“Let me say this as simply as I can: The man who launched a violent attack on the United States Capitol because he couldn’t handle losing an election does not actually give a damn about unity,” Mary Trump wrote about her uncle in her newsletter, “The Good In Us.”

The former president in currently involved in two criminal cases related to his alleged efforts to overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election, which sparked a riot at the U.S. Capitol building. Trump claimed without evidence that the election was stolen from him via widespread voter fraud. The former president has pleaded not guilty to all criminal charges against him.

“Donald Trump is no more capable of unifying this country than he was of being presidential. And yet, far too many people in the corporate media keep waiting for it to happen. Indeed, they cynically keep assuring us it’s going to happen,” Mary Trump wrote in her newsletter.

She went on to rail against the news organizations that she said bought her uncle’s re-brand after he called for “unity” before attacking his political rivals during his speech on the final day of the RNC in Milwaukee on Thursday following an assassination attempt on his life the previous week at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

“Why? Why do they ignore his words, his threats, and his record in order to present him as a man who simply does not exist: a man who is reasonable and measured, humbled and godly?” Mary Trump wrote.

She added: “Even after that rambling, self-aggrandizing, delusional speech; newspapers this morning portrayed Donald as if he were a new person, the kind of guy who wants to bury hatchets and do what’s best for all Americans.”

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“As Americans, we are bound together by a single fate and a shared destiny,” Trump said in his speech Thursday night. “We rise together or we fall apart. I am running to be president for all of America.”

Ahead of his appearance, the former president told the Washington Examiner that he had changed his speech after he was shot in the ear on Saturday, narrowly avoiding death.

“The speech I was going to give on Thursday was going to be a humdinger,” he said.

“Had this not happened, this would’ve been one of the most incredible speeches,” aimed mostly at the policies of Biden, he added, according to the newspaper. “Honestly, it’s going to be a whole different speech now.”

Despite his less aggressive tone, his speech was criticized by some for failing to heal the division between Republicans and Democrats, with columnist Philip Bump writing in The Washington Post: “It was clear that Trump’s ‘unity’ message did not mean he was embracing an opportunity to reconsider his divisive politics. It was, instead, a potential opportunity to absorb the sympathy being expressed by Democrats in the moment and use it to demand that they be nicer to him.”

The former president’s niece agreed that her uncle’s speech was not a sign of change, writing that he showed himself to be “the same cruel man I have always known.”

“The cruel man I saw last Thursday night was the same cruel man I have always known,” she wrote, before listing a number of instances that allegedly demonstrate his cruelty.

“He is the man who got 173 police officers injured when he sent an army of violent insurrectionists to attack the Capitol,” she wrote. The Capitol Police union said 140 police officers were injured during the Capitol riot.

“He is the man who, after rigging the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade, claims that refusing to allow women carrying non-viable fetuses to get an abortion and forcing 10-year-old rape victims to carry their pregnancies to term is ‘a beautiful thing,'” she added, referring to comments previously made by Trump in which he said it is “a beautiful thing to watch” states enacting their own abortion laws.

Mary Trump continued her list, writing: “He is the same man who hates anyone who doesn’t worship him. And that is a very short list of all the horrible things he’s done and is capable of doing.”

Mary Trump has been a staunch critic of her uncle, previously calling him “unhinged” and saying “democracy will be over” if he becomes president again. She previously published a book about the former president titled, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man.