Mary Trump, niece of Donald, makes pitch for Biden at presidential debate

Maya Homan and Joey Garrison

Updated June 27, 2024 at 6:33 p.m.·1 min read

ATLANTA - Mary Trump, a psychologist, writer, and niece and critic of former President Donald Trump, is stumping for President Joe Biden at the CNN spin room ahead of Thursday's CNN presidential debate.

Mary Trump, who is backing Biden in the race against her uncle, will be joined by several other Democrats, including Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock, Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett, California Rep. Robert Garcia and California Gov. Gavin Newsom.

“For my whole life I have witnessed my uncle’s narcissism and cruelty,” Mary Trump said in a statement. “His sense of inferiority has always driven his jealousy and his pathological need to dominate others, and this is information that is crucially important for the American people to have in advance of the most important election of our lifetimes.”

Mary Trump, the niece of former President Trump, talking to media at Georgia Tech’s McCamish Pavilion Spin Room prior to the CNN Presidential Debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump held at CNN's studios in Atlanta.

“I’m in Atlanta tonight to remind everyone who Donald is as a person and how he would rule as a president because the stakes are far too high for us to get this wrong: We cannot afford to allow Donald Trump anywhere near the levers of power again,” she continued.

This is not the first time that Mary Trump, 59, has spoken out against her uncle publicly. In 2020, while promoting her book, "Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man" she admitted she has heard her uncle use racist and anti-Semitic slurs.

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Mary Trump, niece of Donald, stumps for Biden at debate

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