Executive Vice President of The Trump Organization Eric Trump passionately refuted “The Daily T” host Tim Stanley on Thursday when he suggested that the attacks against his family were ordinary in politics.
Trump published “Under Siege: My Family’s Fight to Save Our Nation” in October, which recounts the tribulations his family has faced since his father, President Donald Trump, entered the political arena. When Stanley asked Trump on the podcast whether he could “accept” that certain aspects of what the family faced were typical in politics, he immediately rejected the notion.
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“[S]ome of the siege that you faced — and I understand why it was very personal and distressing — can you accept that some of it was just people legitimately disagreeing with your father’s policies and using every lever available, as people generally do in politics, in order to push back?” Stanley asked.
“No, no, no,” Eric Trump replied. “Hold on one second.”
The president’s son acknowledged that politics involves debates over contentious issues like abortion, gun rights and free speech, but said what his family endured went far beyond the bounds of normal political discourse.
“That’s different than raiding somebody’s house. That’s different than subpoenaing their children with the intent to literally try and bankrupt a company,” he said. “That’s different than calling every financial institution and telling them to debank a person. That’s different than making up dirty dossiers saying that there were golden you-know-whats happening with prostitution when it was totally fabricated and paid by the opposition.”
Trump was referring to the now-discredited Steele dossier, which former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign funded, alleging the president colluded with Russia during the election.
“That’s different than saying that there were secret servers in the basement of a building communicating with the Kremlin when we don’t know a damn person in the Kremlin,” he added. “We don’t know anybody in Russia. We had nothing to do with Russia. That’s different than having people take him off the ballot in states so that democracy could not prevail in those states, having radical justices strip him off. That’s different.”
The president’s son also noted that his father had faced unprecedented criminal indictments.
“That’s criminal-type behavior. That’s not democracy,” he said. “That’s not the debate of ideas where people can have different perspective.”
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