“Bill Barr has gutted the Justice Department. Mike Pompeo has gutted the State De…” — Mary L. Trump

Growing up, I never known anybody in my family actually to interact with a person of color.

My grandfather, I don't think was really, had real positive feelings towards anybody except perhaps Donald.

Donald's monstrosity is the manifestation of the very weakness within him that he's been running from his entire life. For him, there has never been any option but to be positive, to project strength, no matter how illusory, because doing anything else carries a death sentence; my father's short life is evidence of that.

I can't say there was a last straw because there have been so many straws, but certainly the horrors at the border, separating children from their parents, the torture, the kidnapping and the incarceration of them in cages was unthinkable, unbearable. When an opportunity presented itself to me to do something, I needed to take a leap.