President Donald Trump’s estranged niece, Mary Trump, ripped into her uncle’s legal history Friday and observed the irony behind his effort to overhaul policing in the nation’s capital.
“The simplest way to look at it is that this is a blatant usurpation of power in a very specific way,” Mary Trump told SiriusXM host Dean Obeidallah on his show Friday. “What is being done is that the will of D.C. residents is being overturned.”
The Trump administration declared a “crime emergency” on Monday, invoking the D.C. Home Rule Act of 1973 to take over the city’s police force and activate 800 National Guard troops. However, the administration reversed course on Friday following a lawsuit and directed local officers to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement.
The president has also threatened to deploy troops and enact a police takeover in Democrat-run cities like New York City, Baltimore, Chicago and Oakland.
On Saturday, West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey (R), announced he was sending an additional 300 to 400 National Guard members to D.C.
Mary Trump said she is “deeply alarmed” by her uncle’s “latest power grab.”
“How is it that Democrats are soft on crime when it is Republicans who are led by one of the most prolific criminals in American history, and somebody who has been found to be an adjudicated rapist, was convicted on 34 felony counts,” Mary Trump argued.
She went on to call the Republican party “fascist” before slamming her uncle for having the “audacity to claim that the real criminals are the Black and brown people in big liberal cities.”
She then accused the administration of “committing crimes in service of exercising control in the name of reducing crime.”
“It is such a scam. It is another in a very long line of scams that they’ve got going on,” Mary Trump said.
She concluded the segment by suggesting Trump’s health is deteriorating.
“He’s 79. He’s a deeply unhealthy person,” Mary Trump said.”He’s under enormous amounts of stress, and he’s got serious, serious, untreated psychiatric disorders, plus, God knows what else is going on with his health.”
