Mary Trump, Donald Trump’s lesbian psychologist niece, had a pithy response to a column insinuating that President Joe Biden is a criminal because one of his ancestors was.
Mary Trump was responding to a column in The Hill by conservative Jonathan Turley about Biden’s great-great-grandfather Moses J. Robinette, born in 1819. Robinette, according to Turley, was found guilty of attempted murder at age 42 in 1964 after he stabbed a man who was angry that he was “bad mouthing him to a female cook.”
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Turley says this reflects poorly on Biden nearly 200 years later, saying that Robinette was much like Biden in that they were both “married and described as ‘full of fun, always lively and joking.'” Robinette was sentenced to two years of hard labor but was pardoned by then-President Abraham Lincoln, which Turley called “quintessentially Bidenesque.”
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“Whatever the true merits, it showed the importance of having friends in high places,” Turley wrote, trying to connect Biden to events that occurred before he was born. “Or, as the president once put it more bluntly, ‘No one f**ks with a Biden.’ It is family scripture that runs from Moses to James to Joseph.”
On social media, Turley said that Robinette’s actions show that “evasion of accountability may be something of a family trait acquired through generations of natural selection.”
“Now do my family,” Mary Trump responded.
She may have been referring to her grandfather’s and Donald Trump’s father’s multiple arrests. Fred Trump was arrested at a Ku Klux Klan rally in New York in 1927. It is unclear if he was a member of the Klan or if he was a bystander.
Fred Trump was also arrested in 1976 over the horrible conditions of a Maryland apartment building that he owned, which included a rat infestation. He refused to pay for repairs mandated by county officials, so his housing license was revoked, and he was banned from signing on new tenants. When he met with officials in Maryland, he was arrested upon arrival.