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hlthe2b

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Tue Aug 4, 2020, 01:54 PM Aug 2020

Mary Trump stark warning re: political ambitions of Ivanka & Don Jr - & possibility of Trump Dynasty [View all]

Uggh... British interview with Mary Trump is enligtening, disturbing, and compelling.... I tried to snip the best parts, but you lose some context by not reading it all

Mary Trump has a stark warning about the political ambitions of Ivanka and Don Jr – and the possibility of a Trump dynasty


https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/trump-mary-cousin-ivanka-don-jr-family-dynasty-2020-election-a9653186.html
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According to his niece, Mary Trump, the question of her cousins’ potential dynastic ambitions is a relevant one, albeit one that “makes [her] head hurt”. --snip--

“The fact that the Republican Party is in such a state that either one of these people could be considered is quite astonishing,” says Dr Trump, who adds that of her two eldest cousins, it is more likely that Donald Trump Jr – who she calls “Donny” – will follow his father into the political arena.


“He’s tied into the base in a more fundamental way because he’s so abrasive and so vicious from what I can see online, he has no boundaries he won’t cross, and there’s nothing he wouldn’t do to advance Donald’s agenda, so I assume the same thing would be true for his own,” she explains. “But I don’t see Ivanka having the same kind of appeal to them [the GOP base] in brute force terms.” --snip--
“If Joe Biden wins, his margin has to be enormous. It has to be so big that practically nobody other than the 22 per cent to 28 per cent of people who won’t question anything Donald does – and even somebody like Mitch McConnell – isn’t going to be able to claim that it wasn’t a clean victory,” she explains, adding that a “huge and crushing” loss will cause the president to be “so narcissistically injured that he’ll have to get away from it just to protect himself from acknowledging it”. --snip--

When asked if Donald Trump would flee to one of his international properties to avoid prosecution, she says such a possibility would be “freaky” because her uncle is “so provincial”.

“But on the other hand, he almost never goes outside, so what difference does it make where he lives?
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Sins of the father Cirque du So-What Aug 2020 #1
If Trump loses decisively, I agree. I JUST CAN'T entertain the alternative, but she does... hlthe2b Aug 2020 #2
Ha ha. There is really no dynasties. Especially his. LakeArenal Aug 2020 #3
2016 Conventional Wisdom: "Donald Trump will never/could never win"... hlthe2b Aug 2020 #5
2020 is not 2016.2 LakeArenal Aug 2020 #12
As I posted in #2. The ONLY way the jerk-off kids will go anywhere but obscurity (or jail) is if hlthe2b Aug 2020 #13
Ivanka Trump Wants to Be the First Woman President no_hypocrisy Aug 2020 #4
That has to be the biggest joke of the day! She has the talent of a door mouse & the brain of a napi21 Aug 2020 #10
She's a f'en idiot spawned by f'en idiots!!! n/t RKP5637 Aug 2020 #17
Watching them both on the apprentice Beringia Aug 2020 #6
Cult 45 would back Jr. in a flash. CrispyQ Aug 2020 #7
Someone here on DU made the case that Trump wouldn't even feel anything if Mike 03 Aug 2020 #8
provincial Kali Aug 2020 #9
Yes, if elevation of his "brand" didn't force him to leave the bedroom, I do Mike 03 Aug 2020 #11
I'm more worried about rich people in general deciding to be President as a vanity project. Midnight Writer Aug 2020 #14
"Unless to the manner born"... yes hlthe2b Aug 2020 #15
As if a Hitler kid could have won election in 1960 Germany, beachbumbob Aug 2020 #16
K&R!!! n/t RKP5637 Aug 2020 #18
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