'Donald justifies his treason': Mary Trump slams her uncle's sharing of nuclear secrets

Donald Trump's behaviors are part of a life-long pattern with many in his family and it's affecting his actions today, according to the former president's niece, Mary Trump.

Mary Trump, who recently said her uncle is getting nervous and there are "clear signs" in his behavior, wrote on Thursday that her family is known for "failing up." She also contradicts the long-believed notion that Trump himself was a self-made man who achieved a lot in business.

"It bears pointing out that the empire Donald has manage[d] to squander over the last thirty years—the one he is in danger of losing thanks to his having committed massive fraud (allegedly)—belonged to his father. It was never his," she said.

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Mary Trump continued:

"My grandfather, Fred, had long harbored aspirations to expand his real estate business across the river into Manhattan, the Holy Grail of New York City real estate, but he didn’t have the right skill-set. Donald, on the other hand, did possess the kind of brazenness and total lack of self-awareness that allowed him to bulldoze the rest of the world into believing he was some kind of entrepreneurial phenom."

She went on to say that most people in her family "also suffer from the obnoxious belief that they’re better than everybody simply by virtue of the fact that they have a lot of money, despite not having earned it."

She then took a swipe at Eric Trump's wife, Lara, before addressing the newest scandal involving information that's potentially classified.

"It's a minor point but, as we keep learning, small transgressions add up. Unaccomplished grifter sons become media celebrities who somehow end up sharing nuclear secrets with wealthy foreign nationals who paid for the privilege in the form of a country club fee. We may never find out what those secrets were. We may never know how much or what kind of damage was done by revealing them. What we do know is that Donald justifies his treason by claiming he had every right to the documents and, therefore, had every right to do whatever he wanted with them," she added. "He's been indicted for the crime of stealing highly classified government documents, yes, but he’s suffered no real consequences. His rubes continue to throw money at him which he uses to pay his legal bills, and he’s still running for president."