President Donald Trump hugs an American flag at CPAC 2020. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images Trump recently hinted he would run for president again in 2024. However, his niece Mary Trump has predicted he will only 'pretend' to run in order to raise money. "I don't think he's going to let that grift go quite so soon," she told MSNBC. Visit the Business section of Insider for more stories. Donald Trump will only "pretend" to run again for president in 2024 in order to raise money before ultimately dropping out of the running, his niece Mary has predicted.Trump has sought to remain the focus of political attention within the GOP since leaving the White House in January.He teased a 2024 run at the Conservative Political Party on Saturday, falsely telling an audience that he beat the Democrats last year and saying he "may even decide to beat them for a third time."Mary Trump, who last year published a highly critical book of her uncle, told MSNBC on Monday that Trump would continue to tease a presidential run in the build-up to the 2024 presidential contest because he had raised large amounts of money from supporters since he lost the election to Biden by falsely claiming that he had won the election.The former president raised at least $150 million in donations challenging the results of November's election as it continued to push baseless claims of widespread voter fraud to Trump's supporters.Most of the money will be spent on financing the president's political future, Insider's Ashley Collman reported."I think he's going to pretend to [run], for sure," Mary Trump told MSNBC's Mehdi Hasan."Think about how much money he's made off the big lie over the last few months.