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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMary Trump explains how former president will throw his kids under the bus
"No, he wouldn't...I think if that were to happen, if prosecutors were to go after his children, he would fully expect them to take a hit for him, to benefit him. What he probably doesn't understand is that's not really how it works. [Prosecutors] "always try to get people to flip so they can go after the bigger target," said Mary Trump.
"But Donald would never imagine in a million years that his children would do that, although I'm fairly sure they would," the former president's niece added. "So if that indeed happens, it's going to be fascinating because he would never do anything to protect them if it were at his expense."
[link:https://www.rawstory.com/mary-trump-cuomo/|]
Emphasis mine
As the legal sharks circle the Trump kids must know that they are at real risk and that unlike the average father out there, there is no sacrifice however small he would make to save his kids over himself. No way would he admit wrongdoing to ensure his kids were not gone after.
Wonder who is going to break first...
gab13by13
(21,438 posts)unless Allen Weisselberg flips, or to put it correctly, tells the truth.
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)For all his false bravado, he's a weakling, just like his Daddy Dearest. Eric would fold up like a two-legged card table as well. I think Jared and his Barbie doll would distance themselves from the whole thing. They don't have to rely on Donnie's money, because they have Jared's father's money.
FakeNoose
(32,805 posts)The NY state and the feds are both targeting Ivanka and I'm sure they're finding a lot. She hasn't been particularly smart in the way she has conducted her business, none of them have. They've always assumed that Daddy's name will be their Get Out of Jail Free card.
I agree that Don Jr. will probably be the first to crack. Seems like he's just a loose cannon, and that girlfriend will sing like a canary too.
Retrograde
(10,163 posts)and cry phony tears and go on and on about how she was just on the sidelines and she's being targeted because she's a woman and everyone is just jealous and she's never actually made a decision on her own....
drmeow
(5,027 posts)Jared knows what being in jail is like from his father and doesn't really owe Trump a thing. We'll see how much he loves his wife!
gab13by13
(21,438 posts)his kids names were on the various projects, like the MF45 tower in Azerbaijan, Ivanka's name was on that tower that never opened but did launder money for the Iranian Republican Guard.
tanyev
(42,634 posts)She might want to use her time right now to take some acting lessons.
multigraincracker
(32,733 posts)do a 180 on him with zeal.
tRump's new tv show....Family Feud.
mgardener
(1,822 posts)That his children would take a hit for him?
I believe they are as self-centered as he is.
Joinfortmill
(14,479 posts)Bettie
(16,132 posts)and tearfully declare over and over that she was a victim of their various machinations.
NJCher
(35,761 posts)it works in certain cases.
robbob
(3,538 posts)I think she might have a case.
I don't think she'd have a hard time with that plea at all.
Blue Owl
(50,526 posts)As for Gums and Junior -- fuck 'em...
Harker
(14,055 posts)resentment.
Self preservation will dictate the course of events.
Jon King
(1,910 posts)We get it, the family dynamic has been well laid out for decades. Any of us can speculate and probably be pretty close to the truth at this point. Then she goes into explaining how prosecutions work, which she would have zero expertise on at all.
How would she know anymore than anyone else what his 'children would do'. She hasn't had contact with them in decades and likely even back then they never traveled in the same circles.
At this point she has become tiresome and needs to go live her life. Just one more Trump taking up oxygen in the news.
North Shore Chicago
(3,334 posts)gab13by13
(21,438 posts)Phoenix61
(17,020 posts)with which to make a determination on how they will act. FBI crime scene analysts, commonly referred to as profilers, have much less data and are able to determine someones actions amazingly well.
PortTack
(32,806 posts)Manipulated and used his family
She has been spot on in what she has said regarding her uncle and his family
Ilsa
(61,700 posts)Needy Amin is too self-absorbed to even want to overcome narcissism. He is who he always has been. I would trust both MT's knowledge and speculation about him.
FakeNoose
(32,805 posts)... not only in her own lawsuit against the family (namely Donald) for having cheated her and her brother of their rightful share of inheritance, but also her testimony as a professional licensed psychologist.
You're being rather cruel and heartless, as well as incorrect. Mary has been in contact with her cousins frequently, and contact with her uncle Donald less frequently, until a few years ago. Case in point: when he became President 5 years ago, Mary was included in the Trump family dinner held at the White House.
Deminpenn
(15,290 posts)that he believes Trump will be the first one to throw everyone under the bus, including the kids.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)After all hes taught them well. So then hell continue to protect them. But in the end they might throw him under the bus.
spanone
(135,898 posts)DBoon
(22,401 posts)We have 600,000 dead for his efforts