'He almost had the last guy killed': Trump's niece flags what should be 'much bigger news'
Lost in the sea of noise surrounding former President Donald Trump teasing his vice presidential pick — why he needs a new running mate.
That's according to Mary Trump, who urged readers to remember what happened on Jan. 6, 2021, and ask why her uncle has so many job openings despite having served an entire four-year term.
She skewered the "hysterical" media for harping on defectors of President Joe Biden's campaign — including the "star of Monuments Men" — and emphasized in her newsletter Wednesday that it should be "much bigger news that Donald has lost the support of virtually every single person who served with him when he was in the Oval Office."
That includes, she said, his one-time vice president — whom Trump's followers nearly killed at his incitement.
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"It was on that day that Donald sent his supporters to attack the Capitol in an attempt to interrupt the peaceful transfer of power for the first time in American history," wrote Mary Trump in her newsletter, "The Good In Us." "That was the day Donald’s most fanatical followers erected gallows outside the Capitol while chanting 'Hang Mike Pence.'"
She blasted her uncle, noting he "sat on his a-- and watched the attack unfold on television" while Pence and his family were moved to a secure location, "barely missing the rioters who were out for his blood."
"Who Donald picks isn’t important—it’s (sic) be another mediocre (most likely white) man. What matters is that Donald has to pick a new vice president because he almost had the last guy killed," she wrote, later noting she doesn't feel bad for Pence, whom she derided as a "shameless sycophant who polished my uncle’s boots for four years."
And Pence isn't Trump's only defector.
At least 40 of 44 members of Trump's administration said they won't support him, including former Defense Secretary Mark Esper, who called him a "threat to democracy," former chief of staff John Kelly, and former National Security adviser John Bolton.
"It’s a truism that a man is judged by the company he keeps, so it’s mystifying to me that Donald isn’t being judged for hosting fascists and Holocaust deniers, cultivating the support of Q-Anon conspiracy theorists, sucking up to autocrats and dictators, declaring his allegiance to Proud Boys and other white supremacists, and hanging out with his fellow racists, misogynists, and insurrectionists," Mary Trump lamented.
She finished with a piece of advice for Trump's future running mate — among "proven sycophants"— which is reportedly down to a shortlist of Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, and North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum.
"And that his new VP pick should ask himself what will happen if he chooses the Constitution, the rule of law, and the American people over his corrupt, despicable boss," she said Wednesday.
"Or he can just ask Mike Pence."