Donald Trump’s lesbian niece Mary, who is one of his most vocal critics, has lambasted the Republican president for ignoring the Capitol officers who were injured or killed during the 6 January riots – the fifth anniversary of which took place on Monday.

The clinical psychologist, who published a memoir about growing up in the Trump family in 2024, called out the president in an article published on her Substack account in which she claimed her uncle’s actions led to “chaos” and “violence” on 6 January.

The events of that day in 2021 saw a mob of Trump supporters storm the US Capitol building in an attempt to disrupt a joint session of congress formalising Joe Biden’s election victory in 2020, which left five people dead and many more injured.

More than 1,500 people were charged – but subsequently pardoned by Trump – in relation to the events of 6 January.

“Donald and the Trump regime desperately want to pretend either that January 6 was a positive thing, or to pretend that it never happened at all,” Mary Trump wrote in the piece.

“It is up to all of us to make sure that we never forget the horrors that were inflicted on this country and on our democracy on that day, all because Donald could not accept that he lost the 2020 election to his opponent, Joe Biden, by almost eight million votes.

“The narcissistic wound occasioned by the loss was too deep for him to process. Thus the big lie was born and then perpetuated by the Republican Party.”

She went on to say her uncle “spared no thought at all for officers who were injured and the five who lost their lives as a direct result of his insurrection”, adding: “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.”

“Now, the Republican Party acts as if none of it happened,” she continued. “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.”

This is not the first time Mary Trump has had choice words about her uncle and has previously labelled him a “deeply ignorant, cruel man”, after he threatened to end birth-right citizenship in the US, and following the events of 6 January called for him to be “barred from ever running for public office again”.

Concluding her piece, she wrote 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 normalise the greatest betrayal of this country since the Civil War”.

“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,” she continued.

“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.

“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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