In an interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour, Mary Trump — a psychologist and niece of Donald Trump — was pressed to explain what happened to her uncle as he grew up that recently led a world leader to call the former president "creepy."
In a recent interview, former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull told a panel that he was put off by the former president's demeanor around Russian President Vladimir Putin, saying "... he’s like the 12-year-old boy who goes to high school and meets the captain of the football team. ‘My hero,'” before adding, "It’s really creepy.”
Amanpour asked Trump's niece why the former president is that way around oppressive dictators.
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"I'm really stunned by how what you said and I didn't know what you're going to say about his childhood matched exactly what a former prime minister of Australia witnessed," the CNN host prompted.
"Yeah, and I think what's important to know, that most people certainly wouldn't, it is really no laughing matter when at that point the leader of the free world is being described as a pre-pubescent child with a crush on an older, more powerful person," the psychologist replied before adding, " What the consequences are."
"It's not simply that Donald knew that by fulfilling his father's demands to be the quote, unquote killer, to be the successful one, it was understanding what would happen to him if he failed to do those things because he had an object lesson in my father, who was quite literally destroyed by his inability to fill the role my grandfather required of him."
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