'Nothing more important to him': Mary Trump reveals her uncle's biggest legal weakness

Donald Trump is being hit right where it hurts in the civil fraud case currently unfolding in New York, the former president's niece said on Saturday.

Mary Trump, who earlier in the day spilled the details about her uncle's longtime love of dictator talk, appeared on CNN Newsroom with Jim Acosta. The host asked her about Trump's feelings on the civil fraud trial, where he's reportedly expected to testify on Monday.

"How important is all of this to him?" Acosta asked. "And what do you think about the very real possibility that his businesses could just go up in smoke, depending on what this judge decides to do?"

"First of all, what Donald does not seem to understand, his expert witness not withstanding, I'm not a lawyer, but as far as I'm aware, the matter of whether or not fraud was committed has already been adjudicated by the judge," she said. "And he's the only one whose opinion matters here."

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However, Mary Trump added that her uncle is going to continue to push his false narrative about the fraud case "because this is so important to Donald."

"In fact, I think we can say safely that there is literally nothing more important to him, certainly in terms of his legal woes, than this civil trial in New York, because it gets at the heart of everything he's pretended he was for his entire life. A loss here, despite the serious financial implications, which are, of course, extraordinarily important to him, but a loss would also mean that it has finally been proven, if not to him, at least to many other people, that he is not now and never has been anything he's claimed to be. He's not a business savant, he's not a brilliant entrepreneur, or phenomenally successful real estate developer. He's a fraud..."

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