⁍ President Donald Trump’s niece says her uncle’s childhood is affecting his ability to govern in a crisis.
⁍ ‘He is not going to get better and he is without question going to get worse,’ she said.
⁍ Mary Trump said her uncle ‘does on some levels know what he’s doing’ and pointed to issues such as not wearing a mask.
⁍ She said her uncle is not anti-science but will ignore facts in order to spin his preferred narrative.

– Mary Trump says her uncle is a “psychologically deeply damaged man” and “without question going to get worse” as a result of his upbringing. In an interview with CNN’s Chris Cuomo Friday, the president’s niece called him a “naive and dangerous” man. “I think one of the reasons he’s sort of unraveling a bit now is because what he’s always done in the past, that used to work, isn’t really working as effectively anymore, so it has him scrambling a bit,” she said. “Knowing, not knowing; educated, not educated as you say—ultimately it is irrelevant,” she added. “Just as in the grand schemes of things—although I think it’s extremely useful in some ways to understand his psychology—it’s irrelevant compared to what he’s doing, that’s what we need to focus on.” The comments come in the wake of the release of Mary Trump’s book, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man, in which she criticizes her uncle for using racial slurs and says she’s heard him use the n-word. In a series of tweets Friday, President Trump called her a “mess

Source: https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/17/world/coronavirus-newsletter-07-17-20-intl/index.html