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Mary Trump Describes Abusive Trump Family Home, Says She Will Vote For Biden

In an interview with NPR, the president's niece says the cruelty of the president's upbringing was eventually mirrored in his own actions, making him unfit for office in her view.
A display of Mary Trump's new book about her uncle. A judge freed President Trump's niece this week from a restraining order restricting her from discussing the book.

In an extended conversation with NPR on Wednesday, Mary Trump said her grandfather and family patriarch Fred Trump rewarded ruthlessness and dismissed any interests outside of the family real estate business, contributing to what she now views as an unfitness on President Trump's part to hold the office of the White House.

"It's kind of ironic in the sense that the traits my grandfather came to value in Donald were the

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