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Mary Trump, President Donald Trump’s niece, said on Thursday that she’s heard her uncle use the n-word. This was along with other racist and anti-semantic slurs.
Mary Trump is the author of a new book about her uncle, “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man.” During an interview with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, she spoke out about slurs she often heard from President Trump as she was growing up. The allegations are scathing.
Mary Trump recently made comments to the Washington Post, where she said Trump is “clearly racist.” She also spoke out about how she grew up in a family of “knee-jerk” racism. Maddow questioned those comments, asking Mary Trump whether she’d heard comments from her uncle herself. Or, if it was just a generalization of her family’s casual bigotry as a whole.
“Oh yeah, of course, I did,” said Mary Trump. “And I don’t think that should surprise anybody given how virulently racist he is today.”
Mary Trump also confirmed that she’d heard the president use the n-word. This, along with other anti-semantic, racist terms.
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A spokeswoman from the White House, Sarah Matthews, rebutted Mary Trump’s claims against the President.
“This is a book of falsehoods, plain and simple,” said Matthews in an emailed statement. “The President doesn’t use those words.”
However, there have been other claims that allege that President Trump has used those words. For example, on “The Apprentice,” Bill Pruitt, the original producer, hinted as much. In 2016, he said that there are tapes of Trump using “far worse” language than when Trump was recorded boasting about grabbing women by their genitals during the Access Hollywood tape.
Former Apprentice contestant Omarosa Manigault Newman also claims that several people have corroborated hearing those tapes of the president using the n-word behind the scenes of the show.
However, Trump denied the allegations in an August 2018 tweet, saying he wouldn’t use “such a terrible and disgusting word.” He added, “I don’t have that word in my vocabulary and never have.”
The use of divisive words by the president has long been a fixture of his politics since he first announced his candidacy. For example, when he called Mexican immigrants criminals and “rapists.” He also failed to condemn neo-Nazis in 2017 when they descended on Charlottesville.
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