Mary Trump, the president's niece and a clinical psychologist, says Donald Trump's favourite insults describe him. In her newsletter, The Good in Us, on Friday 16 October, she wrote that 'every accusation Donald makes is really a confession.' Her post appeared 18 days before the midterm vote that decides who runs Congress.
Mary Trump calls the pattern projection, a defence mechanism in which people attribute their unwanted traits to others. She cites a Reuters count of her uncle's false claim of a 2020 win. The total reached at least 107 in the six months to May. On 16 October, Trump repeated the claim at a rally in Georgia.
