What an oxymoron to be a smart and decent human being but be named Trump? That is Mary Trump’s conundrum. Oh, well, even the broken clock is right twice a day and even the worst family on the planet is likely to produce a few good people, if only by the law of averages.
Mary picks an interesting trio of characters to chat about on her Thursday podcast, done after the J6 Committee congressional hearing. I hope she is motivated to hold forth after every hearing.
Mary doesn’t mince words.
I may start tuning into this regularly. This is a breath of fresh air. God knows we need all the comic relief we can get. The truly ironic part of all this is that she’s not trying to be funny. The things she’s saying are ridiculous because they’re all too true.
She spoke to MSNBC right after the last hearing as well. Yahoo News:
Former President Donald Trump “handed down a death sentence to Mike Pence” in order to try to stay in power, said Mary Trump, the former president’s niece, per MSNBC.
Speaking to MSNBC’s Katie Phang on Friday, Trump said her uncle “wasn’t just stirring up his insurrections to create chaos.”
He also “handed down a death sentence” to former Vice President Mike Pence on January 6, 2021, she added, suggesting that it might have been part of a desperate attempt to cling on to power.
On the day of the Capitol riot, a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol chanting “Hang Mike Pence” and came as close as 40 feet from him, CBS News reported.
According to Rep. Liz Cheney, the co-chair of the January 6 House Select Committee, Trump was aware of these violent chants. She claimed that testimony will show that then-President Trump even approved of the rhetoric, per Fox News.
In her opening statement, last Tuesday, Cheney said: “The president responded with this sentiment: ‘Maybe our supporters have the right idea.’ Mike Pence deserves it.'”
This supports a report by The New York Times that two former White House staffers testified before the January 6 committee claiming that former chief of staff Mark Meadows told them he had heard Trump make these comments.
I honestly and sincerely believe that Trump would not have cared if Pence got murdered. And I honestly believe that Pence didn’t want to get into the limousine because he feared being kidnapped and possibly murdered. How else do you explain his comment to his Secret Service aide, “i trust you, Tim, but you’re not behind the wheel?”
Pence also stated that he did not want images of him leaving the capitol grounds to be seen by the public. I suspect even removing him from the premises may have allowed others to take control of congress in his stead. These thoughts are aside from the possibility of them taking his life. Just a really dark web of deceit.