Assassination Attempt Lies & the Ugly Attacks to Take Down My Family | Eric Trump

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0:23Eric Trump:Shop Wayfair's Labor Day clearance now through September 7th at Wayfair.com. Wayfair, every style, every home. I'm pissed about what happened there. It should have never been able to happen. It's a travesty that it did. The whole country was lied to in the aftermath by Kimberly Cheadle coming out and saying, you know, they didn't have, you know, counter sniper teams on the rooftop because there was too much slope. And yet the roof was like this, like, you know, like, you know, Jared, you had old men walking across the rooftop from Congress, like, you know, two days later, like, give me a break.

0:52Eric Trump:We're, we're lied to. The fact that somebody got on a roof with a modern day rifle, with modern day optics at 130 yards from a former commander-in-chief and somebody who was very well going to be this, you know, commander-in-chief based on polls, what was insane. And they've never gotten to the bottom of it. I mean, they got into the cell phones of every January 6th protester, you know, grandmother who walked through the Capitol and took a selfie, you know, but somehow they can't get into the phones, you know, the multiple phones of somebody who tried to assassinate, you know, my father. And, you know, the body was cremated about, you know, four days later or five days later.

1:25Eric Trump:I mean, I don't know. Something doesn't feel right. and I am wholly unsatisfied. And I go into it in pretty great detail in the book.

1:38All right, I'm Dave Rubin. This is The Rubin Report. And in this case, it is cliche, but my guest needs no introduction. But I will give him an introduction nonetheless. He is the executive vice president of the Trump Organization and author of the new book, Under Siege by Families Fight to Save Our Nation. Eric Trump, how are you?

1:58Eric Trump:I'm doing well, my friend. The book just went to number one in just about every category, so I never thought I was going to be an author. But obviously we're making some kind of statement right now in the universe. I'm pretty proud of it. Is that the ultimate comeuppance for these people, that they try to destroy your family, which obviously is the whole backing of the book, and yet the book has sold well already? Is that proof that Trump has won? They try and destroy us, and yet we win. And, you know, I think people are voting with their pocketbooks at this point. And, no, it's amazing. Again, I never thought I'd be number one in, you know, biographies, number one in memoirs, number one in government, number one nationally across every category.

2:36Eric Trump:It's a lot of it's a lot of fun. But, you know, listen, I came up with the name, you know, two years ago and they tried everything they could to destroy our company, obviously, which I run. I run the Trump organization. I run every single one of our family assets. I run everything outside of Washington, D.C. They impeached my father the first time. They impeached him the second time. They made up dirty dossiers. I mean, they made up the Russia hoax. I was right in the center of that when they said that we had secret servers communicating with the Kremlin. They gagged us. They tried to silence us.

3:03Eric Trump:They threw us off of every social media platform, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook. They weaponized every DA and every AG in this country to come after us. I became the most subpoenaed person in American history, 112 subpoenas for doing absolutely nothing wrong. I was a far cry, my friend, from Hunter Biden, who has a laptop from hell and, you know, cocaine and heroin and, you know, prostitution. And yet they wanted to kill us. They wanted to debank us. And I had the title under siege. And then I saw what happened at Butler. And I saw what happened 12, you know, 12 weeks later at a golf course I run in Palm Beach, you know, when they tried to kill my father the second time.

3:39Eric Trump:And then I saw what happened to our dear friend Charlie Kirk. They want to eliminate all of us, you, me, all the independent voices, all the loud voices, the Charlie Kirks, the my fathers. They think if they do that, they can win this movement. They can destroy this movement. And they can't, and they haven't been effective, and they just had the biggest political disgrace in American history, and I could not be more proud of all of that. If you've ever been seriously hurt in an accident, your injury could actually be worth millions, and most people have no idea. Insurance companies love to lowball claims offering way less than what you deserve.

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4:55So before we get into all of that, I must ask you, since we are of a certain age, the two of us, under siege the title. I mean, is Jean-Claude Van Damme going to come at you for a lawsuit on this thing? It's a pretty solid movie. The sequel wasn't bad either on the train. I mean, how did you get the title? I'm very disappointed in you.

5:13Eric Trump:It wasn't Jean-Claude. It was none other than Steven Seagal. Oh, sorry. Steven Seagal. It was the same era. Oh, God. Now, if I named this Bloodsport, that would have been a great Seagal movie, all right? But this is named after none other than the great Steven Seagal, who was fantastic. And now I listen, I think we all grew up watching Under Siege on the on the battleship with Gary Busey and the rest of them. And but Tommy Lee Jones, Tommy Lee Jones was the bad guy. There we go. OK, man, I just lost all I blew. I was under I was under much bigger siege than that battleship was with with. Yeah.

5:52So, well, all right. So let's let's dive into some of that stuff, because, you know, you mentioned right before we started recording that you said to me, moving to Florida was the best thing you ever did. And obviously, I very publicly moved to Florida as well. But your father, obviously, you guys were in New York originally. You've always had Mar-a-Lago and all that. But that this place has become the center of freedom. And it sort of exemplifies you guys built. I lived in New York City. I lived on the Upper West with the Trump skyline on the Hudson River and, you know, Midtown and all the stuff.

6:22I mean, you help build that city. The city is about to turn into a communist nightmare, whatever adjective you want to put to it. Is that the perfect example of the divide in the country right now? Yeah. Kicking you guys out to go that direction.

6:38Eric Trump:I'm going to think, you know, Letitia James literally had an entire campaign of just, she's going to come in as attorney general and just come after our family. I mean, she said it, she, she said on video, I'm going to go in, I'm going to sue the hell out of him. I'm going to go into office in the morning. I'm going to sue him. I'm going to leave. And you know what I did? I took the company and I left New York. A state that I absolutely adore. I mean, we have skyscrapers all over New York. I built a lot of the city. My father built the entire city. I can't tell you how much of my life was dedicated to New York real estate.

7:04Eric Trump:I know it as well as anyone. And yet I pulled all our executives out there because I said, I can't do it. I had the same thing with one of my kids in school. I mean, the indoctrination, the nonsense. When my father went to Walter Reed, I talk about in the book, he has COVID. And I'll never forget, I got a call from the principal, actually a text message from her in the middle of the night. She probably had a couple of glasses of wine. Don't even think about dropping your kids off at school. I go, excuse me, like, why not? Our faculty is petrified of getting COVID from your family. I go, listen, my father's a Walter Reed, but you know, I live in New York.

7:34Eric Trump:I live like 230 miles away from him. And I go, this is insane. I mean, the great irony is a week later, she got COVID and had to shut down the entire school. But but this is the craziness we were dealing with. I mean, we were dealing with Alvin Bragg. We were dealing with Letitia James. They were coming after us. They were trying to bankrupt the Trump organization. They were trying to get us debanked in every way possible. Every day I was getting another subpoena. And finally, I just look at Laura and I say, what the hell? Why are we still here? And honestly, moving to Florida has been the greatest thing I've ever done.

8:03How was that first round? You know, 10 years ago, your dad comes down the escalator. He had been through a lot of the battles before. But, you know, I know your brother a bit better than I know you. How was that for you guys when it really started to turn into hate? Because it's one thing for your dad to dive in, having the career he had, been through all the media stuff. Obviously, you guys had been on TV and were well known, but you're younger. You're still you have young families, all of that stuff. Like when it first started, because now you've been through it, so it's easier to talk about.

8:34But what about that beginning phase when it started going crazy?

8:37Eric Trump:Well, I think honestly, we were all naive, everybody. But I do remember when my father called me, he goes, you know, get the kids, bring them up to my office, you know. And that's obviously when he told us he was going to run for president. And he goes, honey, we're, you know, kids, we're gonna learn who our true friends are. We're gonna do so very quickly. You know, we're gonna learn who our true friends are. And we went down that escalator. And I think you could safely say that there's probably no one that stood on the stage like I did, right, among anyone. I mean, I was on the stage the entire 10 years.

9:03Eric Trump:I was everywhere with him. You know, I was, I mean, I did thousands of events in every swing stage. I was on TV every single night. I never thought they were gonna lash out the way they did. I mean, he asked me to obviously run the Trump organization. And I thought I'd be building hotels and doing great things. Instead, I was keeping the animals off of the company. I mean, I literally spent 80 % of my time, you know, keeping the Russia hoaxes, all this fake nonsense away from our company as they were trying to indict employees for doing absolutely nothing wrong, as they were, you know, calling up every single big bank, Capital One, to try and de-platform us for doing absolutely nothing wrong.

9:39Eric Trump:And they put a siege on our family, but they were also putting a siege on him. They were putting a siege on the movement. They were putting a siege on our country, all because we dared to stand up and fight for basic things like the Constitution, the First Amendment, freedom of religion, you know, wanting to not get absolutely ripped off by every country around the world. believing in red, white, and blue, thinking that's an absolute disgrace to have people like Colin Kaepernick kneel for the national anthem when you're making$30 million a year and so on and so forth. We were a family that did not need politics and we were doing this because we were fighting for the heart and soul of this nation and they came after us viciously.

10:16Eric Trump:They wanted to see us in jail. They wanted to see us bankrupt. They wanted to see us destroyed. They wanted to see our family split up and they would use every bit of law enforcement to do it, whether it's raiding Mar-a-Lago, whether it's raiding Melania's closet, whether it's raiding Baron's room, whether it's subpoenaing me. You know, we probably spent$400 million in defense of the company on sham cases, all because they were trying to take us out. And honestly, Dave, obviously it didn't work and we won in spectacular fashion. Were there any moments where you thought they actually were going to get you guys on something?

10:53One moment that I know really turned me because I did not support your dad the first time around. I voted for the libertarian candidate, which I totally regret in retrospect. But I remember once when I started to come around, it was during the height of the Russian nonsense and there was some congressional hearing about it and you and your brother were live tweeting it. And I was like, there is no way that any of this could be legit and they'd be live tweeting about it. It would be such a ridiculously legal, insane thing to do. I was like, there's just no way. But was there any moment that you thought they're going to get him on?

11:27Not that he did anything, but they'll just figure out a way or they're going to get us or we're going to lose the business or any version of that.

11:34Eric Trump:So many. I mean, I sat with my father every day in those courtrooms in New York, you know, the Mershon, the, you know, the the Ingorin trials. And I'll never forget, you know, I sat there and everybody in that courtroom, every journalist left and right, you know, knew knew that the case was a sham. And we've had all of them overturned since. And they got up and they read 34 felony counts, guilty, guilty, guilty, 34 times. My father stands up, turns around. We shake hands. We walk out of that courtroom. We actually went right to a fundraiser. That's how hard we are working. We'd be in court by day and fundraising and on TV by night.

12:09Eric Trump:But in the car, I'll never forget. He goes, honey, I don't know how, but we're going to win this thing. And he wasn't just talking about the court case. I mean, he was talking about the entire election. And I said, we either win the White House or we're all in jail. And by the way, Dave, and that's for doing nothing wrong. That is that's the system that was weaponized against us. We either win this. We either win the White House. It's a White House or a jail cell. And that's what they wanted for for all of us. And, you know, here you are, you know, a year later, a year and a half later, and we've won every single one of the cases.

12:38Eric Trump:I mean, they also imposed a six hundred million dollar penalty on us for doing nothing wrong when, you know, every bank that we ever had in a company went in and testified that we were the greatest borrower that they've ever had. And they've never enjoyed an account more than ours. And somehow using a crooked judge through a crooked system, they get a six hundred million dollar penalty. Again, another thing that's totally been reversed by the appellate courts. But, yeah, there were a lot of dark moments. I mean, Butler was another dark moment when I see my father on the ground bleeding, you know, with blood flowing down his face and his arms.

13:05Eric Trump:And, you know, there were a lot of dark moments. And exactly 48 hours after that moment, I was a Republican delegate. You know, I was a delegate for the state of Florida. They made my father the Republican nominee for president of the United States. And so you want to talk about highs and lows in a campaign. We saw every single one of them. That Butler Day. So tell me a little bit more on the personal side about that, because we all think of him as the president and the leader of the country. And he's become sort of an avatar of everything that people either love or hate and all of those things.

13:37But he's your dad. He's the grandfather to your kids.

13:41Eric Trump:Yeah. Well, I go into it in great detail in the book because I'm pissed. I'm pissed about what happened there. It should have never been able to happen. It's a travesty that it did. the whole country was lied to in the aftermath by kimberly cheadle coming out and saying you know they didn't have you know counter sniper teams on the rooftop because there was too much slope and yet the roof was like this like you know like you know jerry at you had old men walking across the rooftop from congress like you know two days later like give me a break we're we're lied to the fact that somebody got on a roof with a modern day rifle with modern day optics at 130 yards from a former commander-in-chief and and somebody who was very well going to be this you know commander in chief based on polls what was insane and they've never gotten to the bottom of it i mean they got into the cell phones of every january 6 protester you know old you know grandmother who walked through the the capital and took a selfie you know but somehow they can't get into the phones you know the multiple phones of somebody who tried to assassinate you know my father and you know the body was cremated about you know four days later or five days later i mean i don't know something doesn't feel right and i i am wholly unsatisfied and and i i go into it in pretty great detail in the book.

14:46How did you explain what happened to your kids or what, what kind of conversations were there around that sort of thing?

14:51Eric Trump:Well, my kids were sitting on my lap. Uh, we were at home. I was, I was working on email and, uh, you know, and obviously it was in the background. You, you'll remember that was the, you know, Butler was, was all the channels were speculating that that's when he was going to pick his vice president. So everybody was live streaming it. And my kids were on the lap and, you know, they're watching, you know, grandpa as they see him go down, they see the blood and Laura grabbed them and ran them into the other room and I'm sitting there, my face is practically touching the TV screen. I mean, I'm trying to see if he has chest wounds.

15:20Eric Trump:I'm trying to see if, you know, he's wearing a dark suit. So, you know, you get hit in a certain spot, you're not going to be able to see it because of the dark color of your suit. You're not going to be able to see the blood. And, you know, I mean, thank God he turned his head when he did. But again, you know, I remain wholly unsatisfied about what happened there. Debt from credit cards isn't an accident. It's a system designed to keep you down. The bank's profit, the creditors win, and hardworking families lose. But there's another side to the story. PDS Debt has already helped hundreds of thousands of Americans fight back, cutting debt, ending the relentless calls, and putting money back where it belongs in your pocket, not the banks.

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16:37But also the family stuff versus you guys, who I feel like I know decently well. The last time I saw you was probably about six months ago at Mar-a-Lago because you guys do curativity and you take care of all of these kids that have cancer. I mean, it was one of the most wonderful events I've been to in the last couple of years. Like seemingly such a good group of people. And that's such a complete stark difference between the Biden thing. And yet you're treated in completely the reverse ways. Like it's almost it's almost beyond it's beyond the pale in a sense.

17:06Eric Trump:Well, I mean, I think I took four cases up to the Supreme Court over the emoluments clause. And I'm laughing about that. You sold a glass of wine to somebody at market rates who walked into Trump International Hotel, sat down the bar. You didn't know who they were. Emoluments clause, emoluments clause, right? And yet, I've never seen somebody have so many entities for somebody that doesn't have a business. What does Hunter Biden do? What does Joe Biden do? What product do they have? You know what I do. I sell hotel rooms, right? We're in the golf business. We're in the commercial real estate business.

17:37Eric Trump:We're in, you know, we're in residential and everything else. I mean, what product are they selling? Why do you need, you know, dozens of entities that are all linked in kind of clandestine ways, you know, this web of entities? What's he selling? Like, where's Hunter Biden's website? I know he's selling very expensive paintings for access for his dad, right? I mean, you know what? I'm sure I could be a phenomenal painter. I ought to start finger painting and and maybe I should start selling paintings right now. And by the way, if I start selling paintings right now, I'm sure the media would have no problem with it, right?

18:12Eric Trump:If I found some nice Chinese national and sold them a nice painting for a million dollars, I'm sure the media would be A-OK with it because I'm a wonderful artist. I mean, give me a break. No one buys it. It's disgusting. It was the greatest cover-up. But Dave, here's what I'll tell you, and I say this all the time and no one's focused on this. The media has lost all their juice. If you go back to 2016, the media had real power. The media has no power anymore, And that's because of independent voices like you and because I was willing to stand on the stage and people like my father and people like Charlie Kirk and the Joe Rogans of the world and, you know, Patrick Davids of the world.