Mary Trump Shares ‘Best Concern’ About Supreme Court docket’s Donald Trump Ruling

Mary Trump, the estranged niece of Donald Trump, not too long ago shared on-line what she sees as a serious menace following the Supreme Court docket’s presidential immunity ruling.

“My best worry earlier than the choice on presidential immunity was handed down was not that the justices would grant absolute immunity to whomever occupied the Oval Workplace however that they’d, as they did in Bush v. Gore, use a sledgehammer and a scalpel to profit solely Donald Trump,” she wrote Thursday in a Substack put up.

Final week, the Court docket issued its ruling in response to Trump’s claims of presidential immunity after his federal indictment for election interference, amongst different prison instances towards him.

In a 6-3 resolution, the Court docket stated former presidents have absolute immunity for official acts however no immunity for personal acts. The Court docket despatched again the case, which was introduced by Division of Justice particular counsel Jack Smith and targeted on Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election outcomes, to a decrease courtroom in Washington, D.C., to determine what constitutes an official act.

The Court docket’s resolution overturned a February appeals courtroom ruling that rejected Trump’s presidential immunity claims. The three-judge panel of the U.S. Court docket of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit discovered that immunity doesn’t apply to Trump as a result of he’s now not president.

It is doable Trump, who maintains his innocence, will nonetheless face trial for prices within the case if among the acts within the indictment should not deemed official. However his supporters see the ruling as a victory as a result of it makes it much less possible the case will go to trial earlier than the November election.

“BIG WIN FOR OUR CONSTITUTION AND DEMOCRACY. PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN!” Trump wrote in a TruthSocial put up following the ruling.

Newsweek reached out to Trump’s spokesperson through e mail for remark.

Mary Trump has been a longtime critic of her uncle. In her Thursday put up, she stated the Court docket’s resolution bestowed “upon him not solely heretofore unthinkable energy but additionally retroactively and prospectively making it not possible to carry him criminally accountable for something.”

She continued: “We will must remind the Supreme Court docket and my uncle, who actually has the ability on this nation. We have to dump some metaphorical tea within the metaphorical harbor and declare our independence from the ignorant, merciless and harmful right-wing zealots who’re on a mission to strip our rights and our nation away from us.”

In one other Substack put up, she expressed one other certainly one of her fears forward of the election.

“The one factor scarier than the thought of my uncle being within the Oval Workplace once more is the thought of the Republicans controlling the Senate and the Home of Representatives,” she wrote.