Mary Trump Lobs New Accusation Against Joe Biden and Democrats

Mary Trump, President-elect Donald Trump’s estranged niece, accused President Joe Biden and the Democrats of “complicity” as they transition into a Trump-led White House and Republican-led Congress.

After Trump won last week’s presidential election, Mary Trump, who has been a staunch critic of her uncle, talked about how America is entering into a fascist regime and it needs to be stopped.

Mary Trump said in a YouTube video two days after the election, “We have to remember that fascism takes hold when we are silent. Fascism grows stronger when we obey and advance…There is so much to be done.”

She also wrote in a post-election blog post: “The fascism is here, and we have to confront it head-on.”

While she may have accused the incoming Trump administration of bringing fascist rule, she said Biden and the Democratic Party are complicit in it.

“To President Biden and all elected Democrats: Stop playing by rules that no longer exist. At this point, it’s not just spinelessness, it’s complicity,” she wrote on X, formerly Twitter, on Friday night.

Mary Trump expanded on this idea during a livestream of her show Nerd Avengers earlier this week.

“I do not understand how we can be sitting here listening to Democratic leaders pretending that this is just business as usual,” she said.

On Wednesday, Biden met with Trump in the Oval Office as is tradition for a peaceful transfer of power. He took the president-elect’s hand and congratulated him on his election victory, telling Trump that he’s looking forward to a “smooth transition.”

Trump did not offer Biden the same meeting when he lost in 2020. Instead, he unsuccessfully tried to overturn Biden’s victory, which culminated in the riot at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Trump claimed without evidence that he lost the election due to widespread voter fraud.

Mary Trump said on her livestream that Biden’s meeting with Trump “horrified” her.

“I guess if we were talking about…some non-seditionist Republican who won who wasn’t an adjudicated rapist, and convicted felon and who hadn’t stolen government documents…Okay, I guess we could say that it’s very important that we continue to go by the traditions and the rules and a peaceful transfer of power but why go out of our way to normalize this stuff?” Mary Trump said.

Newsweek has reached out to Trump’s communications director, Steven Cheung, and the White House via email for comment Saturday morning.

Trump Called Fascist by Ex-White House Officials

Meanwhile, Trump has been called a fascist by those who worked in his administration, including former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley who described Trump as being “fascist to the core.”

John Kelly, Trump’s former chief of staff and a retired general, said Trump “certainly falls into the general definition of fascist, for sure,” in an October interview with The New York Times.

More than a dozen former Trump administration officials have signed a letter supporting Kelly’s statements.

Trump has denied the allegations, and at a campaign rally a week ahead of the election, he told the crowd, “I’m not a Nazi, I’m the opposite of a Nazi.”

Steven Cheung, Trump’s campaign spokesperson, told Newsweek in late October that the letter “is nothing more than disgruntled, former low-level employees who had remarkably undistinguished careers in government and are now trying to survive as Never Trump pundits fighting over cable news contracts. The fact remains they did not serve their country and President well, and will have to live with that dishonor for the rest of their miserable lives.”

Trump’s Legal Troubles

Trump was ordered to pay $88.3 million between two different lawsuits by writer E. Jean Carroll after a jury found him liable for sexually abusing Carroll in the mid-1990s. Trump has appealed both lawsuits and maintains his innocence.

Meanwhile, he was found guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records relating to a hush money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels shortly before the 2016 presidential election. Trump, who maintains his innocence, has moved to dismiss the case on the grounds of presidential immunity.

Mary Trump also brought up Trump’s government documents case in which the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) accused him of mishandling classified documents upon leaving the White House in 2021 and obstructing the government’s efforts at retrieving them.

Trump pleaded not guilty to the charges and U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, whom Trump appointed when president, dismissed the case in July on the grounds that the lead prosecutor in the case, DOJ special counsel Jack Smith, was not properly appointed to the case.