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By Rachel Dobkin
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Former President Donald Trump's estranged niece, Mary Trump, wrote in a blog post that Vice President Kamala Harris has revealed an "unsettling truth" about men in the Republican Party.
Since President Joe Biden dropped out of the election race on Sunday and endorsed Harris for president, people on the right have made relentless attacks pertaining to her race and gender.
"We've been on this road for a long time. From the day failures in the 70s to get the Equal Rights Amendment passed to Donald's getting elected despite bragging about assaulting women to his corrupt illegitimate super-majority on the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade [which, ended the national protection of abortion rights, making it a state issue], the GOP's war on women and embrace of misogyny is hardly new," Mary Trump wrote in a post published to her Substack blog on Thursday.
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"But the elevation of Vice President Kamala Harris to the top of the ticket has revealed a very simple and unsettling truth — Republican men are really bizarre when it comes to women."
Mary Trump, a fierce critic of her uncle, was presumably referring to a 2005 Access Hollywood tape that resurfaced during Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, in which Trump said, "When you're a star, [women] let you do it. You can do anything...Grab them by the p****."
Upon the video's release, Trump apologized and chalked it up to "locker room banter."
Newsweek reached out to Trump's campaign and Mary Trump via email for comment on Friday.
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After Harris became the likely Democratic presidential nominee, several social media accounts Photoshopped Harris' head onto images of scantily clad or nude women. They implied that she could only have achieved her success by distributing sexual favors.
Harris has also been labeled a DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) candidate by right-wing media. While DEI programs are meant to make the workplace more inclusive for all identities, some Republicans have used it as an insult, suggesting that marginalized people didn't earn their place in the workforce.
Mary Trump also went after Ohio Senator JD Vance, the former president's running mate in the upcoming election, for comments he made in the past about women.
"We're effectively run in this country, via the Democrats, via our corporate oligarchs, by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they've made, and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable too," Vance said on Fox News's Tucker Carlson Tonight as a Senate candidate in July 2021.
He continued: "And it's just a basic fact, you look at Kamala Harris, [Transportation Secretary] Pete Buttigieg, AOC (Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez). The entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children, and how does it make any sense that we've turned our country over to people who don't really have a direct stake in it?"
Vance got a lot of heat when the video resurfaced this week. The senator recently told Semafor's David Weigel that a friend of his mentioned to him that Washington, D.C., was one of the top cities where adults had the fewest children.
"I was like—oh, that's really odd, right?" Vance told Weigel. "The city that's governing for the rest of the country is also the place that, in some ways, is the least like the rest of the country, where most people do want to have children, and most people do start families."
Taylor Van Kirk, a spokesperson for Vance, said in a statement obtained by Newsweek on Friday morning, "Once again, the leftwing media have twisted Senator Vance's words and spun up a false narrative about his position on the issues. The Democrats are in complete disarray with the most unpopular Vice President in history as their party's nominee. The only childlessness we should be talking about are the childless parents who lost their kids to the murderous thugs and deadly fentanyl coming across Kamala's southern border."
In 2021, Biden tasked Harris with leading the administration's diplomacy with Central American countries—El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras—to address the "root causes" of migration. However, she never was in charge of border security.
Meanwhile, Vance's older sister Lindsay Lewis said in a statement given to Newsweek by the Ohio senator's press office on Friday morning: "JD was raised by some of the strongest women I know and went on to marry an incredibly strong woman in Usha. JD is a testament to the women in his life, and the attacks from the media and Democrats that assume anything otherwise is vile."
"It's instructive that even at this critical moment of the presidential campaign, Republicans are incapable of even temporarily hiding their bone-deep contempt for women. If they can't hide it during the campaign, and we elect them, they certainly will not try to hide it once they're in office," Mary Trump wrote in her recent blog post.
She added: "We have to stop Donald and J.D. Vance and the rest of the broken men who believe that they deserve to have power [over] us. Nobody who believes in democracy or equality should want Vance to be a heartbeat away from the presidency any more than they should want Donald Trump to be president."
Update 7/27/24, 1:35 p.m. ET: This article has been updated with comment from Lewis.
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