Mary Trump, a clinical psychologist and the lesbian niece of President Donald Trump, criticized the president for ignoring the U.S. Capitol police officers who were injured or killed during the January 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riots, which the president encouraged by telling his followers to “fight like Hell” to help him overturn the “stolen” election.

“Donald spared no thought at all for officers who were injured and the five who lost their lives as a direct result of his insurrection,” Mary Trump wrote in a recent post. “The amount of trauma those officers, as well as members of Congress, and others in the Capitol suffered on that day was exacerbated in the aftermath of the insurrection when the Capitol police officers were betrayed by their government.”

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After Donald Trump‘s “Stop the Steal” rally, Trump encouraged his followers to march to the U.S. Capitol, where they then incited an attempted insurrection.

“When I initially heard that Donald had planned to walk to the Capitol as well, I didn’t believe it. He is a physical coward and there is no way he would have put himself in any kind of danger,” Mary Trump wrote.

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Five people died during the attempted coup, and roughly 140 police officers were injured. The injuries included a broken spine, a lost eye, lost fingers, brain damage, and multiple cases of PTSD.

While ransacking the Capitol, the rioters chanted “Hang Mike Pence,” shattered windows while trying to access congressional chambers, smeared feces in a hallway, and stole computer equipment, potentially constituting a national security breach. Trump pardoned all rioters earlier this year.

Mary Trump noted that U.S. Capitol Officer Brian Sicknick suffered two strokes hours after two men sprayed him with a powerful chemical irritant and that four other officers who served that day died by suicide in the days and months following the event.

“Now, the Republican Party acts as if none of it happened,” she added. “It is as if those police officers did not risk their lives, did not suffer grievous injuries, did not have their lives and careers upended while protecting the people who have since turned their backs on them. As Donald and the cowards in the Republican Party would have us believe, the real heroes in this story, the true patriots, are the insurrectionists.”

“During all of this, Donald did nothing except watch the events he put into motion on television. He was urged by those in his inner circle to do something to defuse the situation, not realizing he was getting exactly what he wanted. Those insurrectionists, the people in that mob, were fighting for him; they were fighting to restore him to a presidency he believed belonged to him because he was incapable of accepting the truth and, at least to a degree, had come to believe his lie.”

Mary Trump then criticized congressional Republicans for choosing to protect “the one man who has done more to weaken our institutions and destroy our constitutional order” rather than punish the rioters and the president who riled them into insurrection.

“In the years since that horrific day, the corporate media, along with the Republican Party, Donald, and his inner circle, have done Yeoman’s work in trying to normalize the greatest betrayal of this country since the Civil War,” she wrote.

“We cannot allow that to stand. It is up to us to remember how many people were involved in protecting our Capitol and the people in it, how many people tried desperately to hold the insurrectionists to account, and how much damage has been done by Donald and the Republicans in Congress not only to our democracy, but to our sense as Americans of what our country stands for.”

“We must remember the lengths they have gone to to undermine the American people’s faith in free and fair elections, in the rule of law, and in justice of any kind,” she concluded. “We are the keepers of these memories, and we can never allow the memory of that tragic, horrific, treasonous day to fade.”

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