Watching Rachel and Dr. Mary Trump last night, I found the last minutes chilling and horrifying.

[niyad]

The fact that the question "Are you afraid?" clearly had to be asked is further evidence of how far we have fallen. "Are you afraid that the person in the WH will react like a mob boss or autocratic thug and kill you?" is the unspoken rest of that question.

Dr. Trump was very clear, and very brave in her answer. She knows, knew when she decided to write, what could happen. I salute her.

[sop]

1. Putin's critics routinely fall from 4th story windows or die of polonium poisoning.

[niyad]

13. I would not recommend plane travel, either.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Trump doesn't have to do anything.

He'll just tweet some bullshit about lies and fake news, and without giving explicit instructions leave it to his MAGAts to take care of bidness. "Who will rid me of this meddlesome priest?" I hope she has bodyguards.

[Nevilledog]

3. +1

[riversedge]

4. Mary Trump said she is taking necessary precautions. That was scary to me.

[niyad]

6. And to me.

[Patterson]

5. That would be a bad look if Trump has his niece killed.

[niyad]

7. Do you think he cares? He is clearly nuts, and reacting like a cornered, wounded rat.

[Enoki33]

35. Not disputing he is nuts. Putin's plan to change our democracy

into a dictatorship requires a two term presidency. As tRump’s chances of a second term becomes increasingly remote the timeline has to be dangerously compressed, giving the impression of a cornered rat. Check out the Pinochet like street disappearances of Portland, OR peaceful protesters. Expect more of this nationally. Just my paranoia on display.

[orangecrush]

36. Yup.

[Rural_Progressive]

23. You can bet she's got some good stuff tucked away

She knows how this family work, she's got a deadman switch set up and has made sure the family cabal knows about it.

[Peacetrain]

8. I had that same chill go down my back

[customerserviceguy]

9. Every dollar

spent on her book is a dollar that is not going to elect a Democratic candidate in the fall.

[Mr. Ected]

10. So is every dollar spent on an internet connection

I don't understand your message.

[ZZenith]

14. If you've followed "customerserviceguy" long enough

You’ll know he’s saying, “Please don’t buy Mary Trump’s book!”

[customerserviceguy]

18. Some things are necessities

Making one of the offspring of Fred Trump wealthy is not one of them in my budget.

[Mr. Ected]

20. I tend to judge someone based on their own behavior and attributes

And not on a family lineage that was not of her choosing.

[customerserviceguy]

22. She waited

until the optimum time to tell her story, after the primaries were over with, and progressives would feel like they had a few spare bucks to give her for being a burr under her uncle's saddle.

I don't need Mary Trump to tell me what an asshole Donald Trump is. Anybody who needs a bit more persuasion to come to that conclusion should be able to get it from Joe Biden and his running mate this fall.

[sprinkleeninow]

25. I don't intend to buy one. Just not a pressing thing. Also, watching my $$.

Have no qualms with others wanting one.

She's saying enuff details on the circuit.

[Mr. Ected]

28. She explained why she waited and her explanation was quite compelling

But if you want to dismiss someone because of their last name and ascribe ill intentions to their every move, then we needn't converse any longer. I have my hands full with conservatives who carry on in the same manner.

[customerserviceguy]

30. Don't put me in the same bucket

with the conservatives you're talking about. They don't believe her, and won't believe her, whereas I already know that Trump is poison. I just don't need to see Mary Trump becoming a millionaire in the process.

We're being suckered, in my opinion. All of the interview time taken up by Mary Trump should be going to Joe Biden or those considered to be on his short list of running mates. I'm much more interested in what they have to say.

[Rural_Progressive]

29. Apparently she didn't know her NDA was invalid

Until she found about about the fraud committed by her aunt and uncles in their roles as trustees.

There is a trump family inner circle and an outer circle. Outer circle people seem pretty normal, kind of like her dad. Inner circle are the creeps. I've got a little personal experience with a situation like that. Try not to hold the outer circle in the same contempt the inner circle deserve.

My mother did the same sort of thing to her father that trump did to Fred. She took advantage of his illness and infirmity to manipulate him into changing the break down of his estate to her and her daughter's favor. In the process she completely cut out my grandfather's younger brother who was desperately trying to hold his family together in a town that had just gotten destroyed by the demise of the railroad. I got screwed as well and yet when I tried to reach out to my great uncle's family they completely shunned me.

[JI7]

40. Nobody is forcing you to buy anything. the Book doesn't cost anything . People spend far more money

on things they don't need everyday .

[customerserviceguy]

41. Ok, well then

let's all celebrate another Trump scamming the masses.

[JI7]

42. There is no scamming. And she isn't like her trashy family

You seem upset that she is being critical of them and especially him.

[demigoddess]

31. some of us can afford both.

I intend to buy a copy and leave it to my grandchildren. In case the history books don't get it right.

[Owl]

33. I also intend to buy a copy.

[bullwinkle428]

15. So you're not spending a single dime (aside from food, housing, health)

on any kind of hobbies or recreational pursuits at all, and funneling all of that into campaign donations?

Man, I can tell you right up front that I won't come anywhere near passing the purity test, as you define it!

[customerserviceguy]

19. I just

don't think anybody should spend good money on this book. Let her tell her story for free if it's all that important.

[soldierant]

24. Well, there are libraries.

Not everyone who reads the book has spent money on doing so.

[customerserviceguy]

26. Over 900K copies of this book have been sold

I don't know what royalties an author gets these days, but I'd bet it's at least a couple of dollars per book sold at full price. I don't see the point in making another Trump into a millionaire to tell us things we already know about her infamous uncle.

[soldierant]

39. Exactly why I suggested libraries.

[obamanut2012]

16. lol

[JI7]

43. +

[Amaryllis]

11. What did she say? i had to leave before the end.

[niyad]

12. Dr. Trump said she is taking all necessary precautions. But she knows that is a very real

Possibility.

[flibbitygiblets]

17. Mary said, "I'm not scared. I'm taking precautions because I'm not deluded about potential scenarios

Dr. Trump also said "I know he's in a position of great power and I know my family to be quite vindictive, and Donald has a rather passionate following. But that aside, I felt I needed to do this, I felt it was my responsibility, my obligation. And whatever the consequences are, I'm prepared to deal with them as best I can."

Rachel also mentioned that she asked the WH about Dr. Trump's claim of Donald using the N word and other antisemetic slurs that the WH responded "this is a book of falsehoods...POTUS doesn't use those words". Rachel pointed out that Mary Trump's claim about Donald's language didn't appear in the book, it only was brought out in the interview (and upon pressing several times by Rachel). I bring this up because Mary Trump would have LED with that information in the book if her only intention was to smear or be vindictive.

[Paladin]

21. Stunning interview.

I hope that book lands a lethal blow on the trump crime family.

[Mike 03]

27. It was an excellent interview and at times bone-chilling. The craziest thing is: It's her uncle!!

That question had to be asked of a niece about her own uncle!

Insane is this moment in history.

[TNNurse]

32. I applaud her bravery.

I thought she did very well last night.
I did enjoy that she never called him "my uncle" or the President", but just always "Donald".

[LudwigPastorius]

34. I'm convinced that the fundamental reason Trump has such admiration for...

authoritarian scum like Putin, Kim, and Duterte is because they intimidate, jail, and assassinate their political opponents.

Trump very badly wants to be able to do this. (Reports from Portland indicate some trial runs being attempted.) If he steals the election, I would think those sorts of things will shift into high gear.

[niyad]

37. . . .

[niyad]

38. . . .