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Trump's niece Mary says his reelection would spell 'the end of American democracy'

President Donald Trump's niece wrote in her new book that "it would be the end of American Democracy" if her uncle is reelected in November.

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  • Mary Trump 's "Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man" is being published July 14. Some outlets have published excerpts of the book.
  • Mary also claimed she turned down her uncle's invite to attend his election night party in 2016, because she was rooting for Hillary Clinton to win.
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President Donald Trump's niece has offered a stern warning about her uncle four months before the 2020 elections.

"Lying, playing the lowest common denominator, cheating and sowing division are all he knows," she wrote, according to the AP.

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"By the time this book is published, hundreds of thousands of Americans will have been scarified on the altar of Donald's hubris and willful ignorance," she added.

Mary Trump's book is due to be released by Simon & Schuster on July 14.

She is the daughter of the president's late older brother , Fred Trump Jr., who died in 1981 at the age of 42 from complications due to his alcoholism.

Mary Trump had a big falling out with her uncle 20 years ago, when her grandfather died and she and her brother disagreed with the rest of the Trump family on how his estate was being divided up.

However, she still got an invite to attend her uncle's election night party in New York City in 2016, she wrote, according to the AP.

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Trump said she turned the invite down, because she feared she "wouldn't be able to contain my euphoria when [Hillary] Clinton's victory was announced."

Instead, she stayed home as her uncle was elected the 45th president of the United States, realizing voters "had chosen to turn this country in to a macro version of a malignantly dysfunctional family."

However, she wasn't the only person in the family not supportive of her uncle's bid for president, the book said.

She said her aunt, Maryanne Trump Barry, the president's sister and a retired federal court judge, didn't take his campaign seriously either.

"'He's a clown,' my aunt Maryanne said during one of our regular lunches at the time. 'This will never happen,'" Mary Trump recalled her aunt saying.

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