Donald Trump's niece claims she knows 'real reason' he ordered attack on Iran
Donald Trump's niece has alleged that her uncle has an ulterior motive for waging war on Iran.
The commander-in-chief, 79, claimed that there were four core reasons behind the US' decision to launch devastating strikes on the nation alongside Israel.
On Monday (2 March), he outlined his aims to destroy Iran's nuclear programme, missile capabilities and navy, as well as 'ensuring' the country 'cannot continue to arm, fund and direct terrorist armies outside of their borders'.
However, according to his niece, Mary Lea Trump, 'there is one reason and one reason alone' that the president took aim at Iran.
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Although they share a surname and the same blood, Mary does not share the same ideologies as her controversial relative and is an open critic of him.
The psychologist, author, and political commentator, 60, is the daughter of Donald's late older brother, who suffered a fatal heart attack in 1981, Fred Trump Jr.
She also runs a YouTube channel titled 'Mary Trump Media', where she publishes 'political deep dives and brutal takedowns of the Trump regime'.
The description for it reads: "You might know Donald Trump as the authoritarian conman wrecking the country from the Oval Office. Mary Trump just knows him as her f***ing loser uncle. This channel is where fake news goes to die."
In one of her latest videos shared on Tuesday (3 March), Mary dissected her uncle's decision to launch strikes on Iran - and laid out how she believes he 'declared war to save himself'.
The author kicked off the nearly nine-minute clip by listing off an array of broken promises that Donald has made since taking office, such as replacing the Affordable Care Act and ending Russia's four-year invasion of Ukraine.
"None of that has come to pass," Mary said, while describing it as 'absurd' that Donald dubs himself a 'peace president'.
"Now, Donald is telling us that he declared war on Iran over the weekend, in part, because the country is developing nuclear weapons that 'could soon reach the American homeland'," she went on.
"Donald has also floated the idea that this war we are now in, thanks to him, is about bringing regime change to Iran.
"The Iranian people have suffered long and horribly under the cruel and repressive authoritarian theocracy currently in power. They deserve to be free and they deserve the ability to determine their own system of governance.
"But the man who is bombing their country has no interest in them, and he has no plan to create the conditions in which they can become free or support the efforts to create an alternative to the current regime."
Mary claimed her uncle does not care 'about the future of the Iranian people' and that 'there is no plan' for him to help them.
"Donald wreaks havoc and then he expects other people to pick up the rubble of his destruction," she said.
"And here we are in a war of choice, of Donald's own choosing, with Iran - without the consent of the American people, without congressional authorisation."
Explaining what she believes her uncle's true motivations are, Mary continued: "For Donald, there is one reason and one reason alone.
"He's in trouble, and he knows it. This isn't simply about changing the subject. That, of course, would be bad enough.
"This is to keep himself and the world from knowing what an inept, depraved, compromised fraud he is. This is about his unfathomable desperation to avoid being humiliated.
"Donald Trump has taken us to war at the behest of Saudi Arabia and Israel. But that wouldn't have been enough of a reason if doing so didn't also coincide with his own self-interest."
Discussing the rising death toll across the Middle East, Mary added: "All because Donald is a desperately weak man who needs to distract people from that fact, just as he needs something to shore up his failing ability to feel powerful. That is a difficult tight rope for the weakest man I've ever known to be walking. And yet, somehow, he has been allowed to walk it for his whole life. His whole miserable, useless, selfish life."
Fact check: Did Iran try to assassinate Trump?
On Wednesday (4 March), Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that US forces had killed an unnamed Iranian official, who is accused of leading a plot to assassinate the POTUS in 2024.
Speaking to press during a briefing at the Pentagon, Hegseth said Trump has had the 'last laugh', explaining: "Also, yesterday, the leader of the unit who attempted to assassinate President Trump has been hunted down and killed.
"Iran tried to kill President Trump and President Trump got the last laugh."
Hegseth added that tracking down and killing the alleged leader of the plot was 'not the focus of the effort by any stretch of the imagination' in the US' war with Iran.
Tehran has denied allegations that it targeted the president or other US officials.
Topics: Donald Trump, World News, US News, Iran, Israel
Olivia Burke