Mary Trump, the estranged niece of President-elect Donald Trump, warned on Thursday of "dangers" ahead after her uncle's election victory.
Trump was elected to a second term in a decisive victory against Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee, earlier this week, securing more than the required 270 Electoral College votes, as well as the popular vote.
In a YouTube video posted on Thursday titled "Understanding Trump's Shocking Win - Mary Trump's Path Forward," the vocal critic of her uncle discussed how despite Trump's win there are others who "understand the dangers we are facing."
"This is a blow. I can't sugar coat it. This was a tragic blow to the American experiment. We also have to remember that we do have allies across the world who are aligned with us and will be there for us if we need them, and we will. There are a lot of people out there who understand what we are going through who understand the dangers we are facing and understand the fight ahead of us," Mary Trump said as she showed several TikTok videos of women from other governments around the world post their support for American women.
She added: "We have to remember that fascism takes hold when we are silent. Fascism grows stronger when we obey and advance...There is so much to be done."
Newsweek has reached out to Trump's campaign via email for comment.
This is not the first time Mary Trump has spoken out against her uncle following this week's election outcome as she previously warned in a blog post after Election Day that her uncle's election victory "is much worse than 2016."
"There's no false hope; no silver lining," she said about the coming years under the Trump administration. "I think it's fair to say it will be much worse for those of us who fought as hard as we could to make sure we never had to wake up to this nightmare," she said.
"The fascism is here, and we have to confront it head-on," Mary Trump said of the incoming administration.
President-elect Trump has been called a fascist by those who worked in his administration, including former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley who described Trump as being "fascist to the core."
John Kelly, Trump's former chief of staff and a retired general, said the incoming Republican president "certainly falls into the general definition of fascist, for sure," in an October interview with The New York Times.
More than a dozen former Trump administration officials have signed a letter supporting Kelly's statements.
Trump has denied the allegations, and at a campaign rally a week ahead of the election, he told the crowd, "I'm not a Nazi, I'm the opposite of a Nazi."
Steven Cheung, Trump's campaign spokesperson, told Newsweek in late October that the letter "is nothing more than disgruntled, former low-level employees who had remarkably undistinguished careers in government and are now trying to survive as Never Trump pundits fighting over cable news contracts."
The statement continued, "The fact remains they did not serve their country and President well, and will have to live with that dishonor for the rest of their miserable lives."
An ABC News/Ipsos poll before Kelly's comments were publicized found that nearly half of Americans see Trump as a fascist. However, supporters of Trump argue that he simply represents a strong form of nationalism rather than fascism, adding that he worked within the framework of the U.S. Constitution.
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