'What Donald did they see?' Mary Trump slams media for downplaying 'grotesque' RNC event
Former President Donald Trump's niece assailed him and the media's apparent acceptance of a new-and-improved rebrand at the Republican National Convention, which she called a "grotesque spectacle."
Mary Trump wrote Friday in her newsletter, "The Good In Us" that her uncle, the man accused of inciting a violent Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, did so because he "couldn’t handle losing an election does not actually give a damn about unity."
"Donald Trump is no more capable of unifying this country than he was of being presidential. And yet, far too many people in the corporate media keep waiting for it to happen. Indeed, they cynically keep assuring us it’s going to happen," she wrote.
A flabbergasted Ms. Trump railed against news organizations that bought Trump's post-assassination re-brand after Trump called for "unity."
"Why? Why do they ignore his words, his threats, and his record in order to present him as a man who simply does not exist: a man who is reasonable and measured, humbled and godly?" she asked.
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Mary Trump blasted headlines and The Boston Globe and The Dallas Morning News, which read “In departure, Trump calls for unity, healing in America" and "Trump emphasizes unity," respectively.
"Even after the grotesque spectacle of WWE and UFA domestic abusers, racists, and misogynists; even after that rambling, self-aggrandizing, delusional speech; newspapers this morning portrayed Donald as if he were a new person, the kind of guy who wants to bury hatchets and do what’s best for all Americans," she wrote.
Ms. Trump later added: "What convention were they watching? What Donald did they see? And how do they all manage to forget that this convicted felon, adjudicated fraud and rapist, is still out on bail in three jurisdictions."
She called her uncle "cruel" and insisted he remains the same man she has always known: The one who incited an insurrection, rigged the Supreme Court, is an adjudicated rapist and "sold out our country to his fellow authoritarians."
But not if you read the headlines, she said.
"The corporate media would have us forget all of this, just as they would have us forget the reason Donald needed to pick a new running mate or that he was preceded onstage by a man who uses the n-word and introduced by another who hits his wife," she said. "And we’re supposed to trust this media to steer us through the increasingly dangerous waters of this election? Seriously?"