Mary Trump: Uncle 'unraveled' early at debate after Harris delivered 'narcissistic injury'

Donald Trump's niece applauded Vice President Kamala Harris for doing exactly what she needed to do at the debate in Philadelphia — rattling her uncle early and causing him to "unravel."

Mary Trump joined Anderson Cooper on his show Wednesday night and called her uncle's performance "incredibly validating," noting that getting under Trump's skin is the "way to go" but that no one has been able to do so — until now.

"That was the thing that she did so brilliantly," said Ms. Trump. "Vice President Harris gave both substantive answers to questions to help the American people get to know her better and what she's going to do for our country, while going straight at Donald's vulnerabilities."

Mary Trump said her uncle suffered "narcissistic injury" at the hands of Harris in the opening 15 minutes of the debate, and accomplished "exactly what it needed to do": "make him unravel."

"He couldn't recover and honestly he's not going to," she said.

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Mary Trump added that Donald Trump hasn't evolved past his childhood self. She wrote in her new book, "Who could ever love you" that as a child, he tormented his little brother Robert and appeared to have "nothing but disdain for everybody else, including, and perhaps especially, his mother."

She wrote that her uncle had a reputation for being a "thin-skinned bully who beat up on younger kids but ran home in a fit of rage as soon as somebody stood up to him."

That characterization, she told Cooper, is "one of the most damning and dangerous things" about her uncle and one of the things that makes him "most unfit."

"That's still who he is," she said, replying "absolutely" when asked by Cooper if she sees Donald Trump as the same person she knew as a child.

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