'Cleaning up after Donald': Mary Trump slams GOP for whitewashing her uncle's threats

Former President Donald Trump's niece Mary Trump slammed MAGA senators in her latest email blast for trying to paper over one of her uncle's most ominous recent threats to the democratic system.

Specifically, Trump proclaimed to a group of far-right Christians at the latest Turning Point USA gathering that "You won't have to do it anymore, four more years."

"You know what? It'll be fixed. It'll be fine. You won't have to vote anymore. My beautiful Christians, I love you, Christians," he said.

Trump subsequently tried to say in an interview this week that he didn't mean there would be no more voting, just that he'd fix everything and reduce the immediate necessity for his supporters to vote to save the country.

And that's what Republicans are now trying to run with — but they don't sound convincing, Ms. Trump said.

"He's essentially saying, 'If you put me back in. I'm going to fix everything so you'll have your way forever. You're not going to have to worry about that pesky thing called voting every four years,'" she wrote.

Ms. Trump said that those who "understand what's really going on here, take the threat seriously."

"You would think a sitting senator would as well, but when Tom Cotton (R-AR) was asked about Donald's comment, he laughed it off."

He and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) dismissed it, with Graham saying, “He is trying to tell the Christian community ... the nightmare that we're experiencing will soon be over. ‘Give me four more years and I'm going to right this ship called America and pass it on to the next generation.’ We will have democracy, God willing, for a very long time in this country. But what President Trump is trying to tell people, ‘I did it once. I can do it again. These problems can't be solved.’”

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"Did anybody hear Donald say anything about passing a torch to the next generation?" asked Ms. Trump. "No, Graham was lying. This is what other Republicans and the media often do as well. Graham was cleaning up after Donald. He was pretending that Donald said one thing when he really said another."

This notably comes after Trump has made a number of other comments raising similar alarms, including that the Constitution should be "terminated" if necessary to get him back in office, and that he would be a dictator, but only "on day one."

"First, he started the big lie by claiming the 2020 election was rigged against him, he didn't actually lose, and Joe Biden stole it from him," wrote Ms. Trump. "Second, he incited an insurrection against his own government. I don't think his canceling elections in the future, if he gets back into the White House, is a bridge too far for him. I can easily imagine that that’s exactly what he has planned. I don't think it's too much to say that that's actually what he meant."