Donald Trump’s lesbian niece, Mary Trump, was asked during a Q+A whether she could remember a time her uncle was kind to any woman in her family, and she did not hesitate to answer.

“Not really,” she said, laughing. “I mean, not in a deep, genuine way.”

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“I have no desire to create any sort of compassion for him because he’s a monster,” she continued, “but, and this is also true of my aunt Maryanne… Both of them, at one point, did have impulses to be kind, empathetic people, especially Maryanne, but it was so deformed by my grandfather’s abuse that they just couldn’t do it.”

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“For Donald, it just completely… it was so weak. That impulse was so weak, and there were so many people, including my grandfather, fueling the opposite impulses that it just couldn’t last. There’s literally no kindness or empathy left in this person at all.”

Mary Trump has made a name for herself by speaking out against her uncle. She recently wrote a scathing pair of blog posts responding to Donald Trump’s address to Congress, calling the speech “grotesque.”

She said the president said “exactly what we should have expected,” but that actually seeing the words come out of his mouth was a shock to the system.

“The endless mendacity; the incalculable cruelty and unceasing violence; the assaults on our allies, on the most vulnerable among us, on our rights, on our home–it was difficult to take. The ways in which Donald downed the American people in vile poison that is his vision of America, and indeed, of humanity, is something I will never forget.”

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