1 00:00:01,920 --> 00:00:04,920 Speaker 1: They tried to bankrupt us, they tried to imprison us. 2 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:07,040 Speaker 1: And I'll never forget walking out of that jail cell 3 00:00:07,080 --> 00:00:08,879 Speaker 1: with my father in New York after the thirty four 4 00:00:08,880 --> 00:00:11,720 Speaker 1: felon accounts right which have all been overturned, and I said, Dad, 5 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:13,880 Speaker 1: we either win the White House or you and I 6 00:00:13,960 --> 00:00:17,000 Speaker 1: are in jail for doing absolutely nothing wrong. That's how 7 00:00:17,040 --> 00:00:19,279 Speaker 1: diabolical either the pendulum was. 8 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:24,040 Speaker 2: You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson. 9 00:00:23,520 --> 00:00:25,400 Speaker 3: Good Friday morning. It's so nice to have you with 10 00:00:25,480 --> 00:00:27,840 Speaker 3: us on the forty seven Morning Update, and this morning 11 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:29,760 Speaker 3: show is going to be a little bit different, and 12 00:00:29,800 --> 00:00:33,040 Speaker 3: I think you're really gonna enjoy it. Eric Trump has 13 00:00:33,080 --> 00:00:36,000 Speaker 3: a new book that is out about his family being 14 00:00:36,040 --> 00:00:40,000 Speaker 3: attacked not only by the deep state, but also by 15 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:44,159 Speaker 3: the private sector. He talks about the lawsuits against his family, 16 00:00:44,600 --> 00:00:49,159 Speaker 3: the raid of mar Lago, the debanking and deplatforming, and 17 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:54,800 Speaker 3: then the federal government and other state governments coming after them. 18 00:00:55,440 --> 00:00:59,240 Speaker 3: It is truly an incredible conversation that Senator Ted Cruz 19 00:00:59,280 --> 00:01:02,560 Speaker 3: and I had with him. So today's show will be longer, 20 00:01:02,920 --> 00:01:05,319 Speaker 3: but this is everything that he had to say about 21 00:01:05,360 --> 00:01:09,560 Speaker 3: his new book. Under siege. It's out now, but first, 22 00:01:09,959 --> 00:01:13,119 Speaker 3: Every so often something happens that reminds us just how 23 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:16,440 Speaker 3: fragile our freedoms are. We can't afford to take our 24 00:01:16,560 --> 00:01:19,720 Speaker 3: rights for granted. 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He was subpoenaed countless times, and you'll 57 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:21,560 Speaker 3: be shocked to hear him talk about how much money 58 00:03:21,600 --> 00:03:27,600 Speaker 3: it costs to defend themselves from these frivolous and ridiculous lawsuits. 59 00:03:28,040 --> 00:03:30,600 Speaker 3: Senator Cruz and I had the privilege of sitting down 60 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:32,680 Speaker 3: with Eric to talk about his new book, and I 61 00:03:32,720 --> 00:03:34,240 Speaker 3: want you to hear what he had to say. 62 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:37,280 Speaker 4: You know, Ben, I got to say We try to 63 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:41,480 Speaker 4: count on being honest and candid with our viewers and listeners, 64 00:03:42,040 --> 00:03:43,920 Speaker 4: and yet you just claim that we're going. 65 00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:45,240 Speaker 5: To take a break from politics. 66 00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:48,280 Speaker 4: And this is about as far away from taking a 67 00:03:48,280 --> 00:03:52,520 Speaker 4: break from politics as I can possibly imagine. Today, we 68 00:03:52,840 --> 00:03:56,000 Speaker 4: are very pleased to welcome our friend Eric Trump, President 69 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:58,640 Speaker 4: Donald Trump's son, who has a brand new book. A 70 00:03:58,680 --> 00:04:00,680 Speaker 4: brand new book came out this week. The book is 71 00:04:00,840 --> 00:04:04,200 Speaker 4: entitled Under Siege, My Family's Fight to Save our Nation. 72 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:07,560 Speaker 4: He is in the midst of his nationwide book tour 73 00:04:07,680 --> 00:04:11,560 Speaker 4: right now, and and in classic Trump fashion, he's on 74 00:04:12,040 --> 00:04:13,920 Speaker 4: the list. And there's only one place to be on 75 00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:15,560 Speaker 4: the list, and that is at number one. It's the 76 00:04:15,640 --> 00:04:18,120 Speaker 4: number one best selling book in America right now. 77 00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:18,880 Speaker 1: Uh. 78 00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:22,080 Speaker 5: And Eric, this is your first book. It ain't bad 79 00:04:22,160 --> 00:04:25,720 Speaker 5: debuting at number one. Congratulations and welcome mister senator. 80 00:04:25,800 --> 00:04:27,480 Speaker 1: Now it will probably be my last book as well, 81 00:04:27,560 --> 00:04:29,440 Speaker 1: because we're not I'm not doing this again. You know, 82 00:04:29,640 --> 00:04:32,080 Speaker 1: the return, the return on time of books is especially 83 00:04:32,080 --> 00:04:33,600 Speaker 1: when you put your heart and soul into it. But yeah, 84 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:35,440 Speaker 1: we're number one on Amazon, We're number one on all 85 00:04:35,480 --> 00:04:38,559 Speaker 1: the lists, and it's I mean, it just went viral. 86 00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:40,080 Speaker 1: I think you know, people in this country are pissed 87 00:04:40,120 --> 00:04:42,280 Speaker 1: off and and mister Centaer, you you've done a better 88 00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:44,800 Speaker 1: job fighting against a weaponization of government that I would 89 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:47,120 Speaker 1: say just about anybody other than maybe Donald Trump, right, 90 00:04:47,160 --> 00:04:49,599 Speaker 1: who's had to face all of this. And you know, 91 00:04:49,640 --> 00:04:51,680 Speaker 1: I became the pinata in this whole fight because I 92 00:04:51,720 --> 00:04:53,839 Speaker 1: was the one guy who didn't have constitutional protections. I 93 00:04:53,880 --> 00:04:55,800 Speaker 1: was a civilian, you know, I was the guy that 94 00:04:55,839 --> 00:04:57,680 Speaker 1: was running the Trump organization. I was the guy that 95 00:04:57,960 --> 00:05:00,560 Speaker 1: ran everything that was outside of Washington in DC from 96 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:03,479 Speaker 1: my father when he went into the White House. And 97 00:05:03,560 --> 00:05:05,520 Speaker 1: what they tried to do to us, what they tried 98 00:05:05,520 --> 00:05:07,359 Speaker 1: to do to our family, what they tried to do 99 00:05:07,440 --> 00:05:09,360 Speaker 1: to this nation, what they tried to do to you 100 00:05:09,960 --> 00:05:12,640 Speaker 1: and all your viewers on this show is unthinkable, and 101 00:05:12,680 --> 00:05:16,200 Speaker 1: somebody had to materialize it because there's the greatest governmental 102 00:05:16,200 --> 00:05:17,720 Speaker 1: corruption this nation has ever seen. 103 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:22,600 Speaker 4: Well, you're right, and they launched everything they had at 104 00:05:22,640 --> 00:05:27,240 Speaker 4: your father, at your family, four separate indictments. On top 105 00:05:27,320 --> 00:05:30,000 Speaker 4: of that, the asinine case from the New York Attorney 106 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:37,520 Speaker 4: General trying to argue that somehow global international banks are 107 00:05:38,120 --> 00:05:41,919 Speaker 4: innocent wifes who are deceived and are apparently are unable 108 00:05:41,920 --> 00:05:44,400 Speaker 4: to value real estate because you know, giant banks have 109 00:05:44,480 --> 00:05:48,039 Speaker 4: never had to value real estate in the past. I 110 00:05:48,080 --> 00:05:52,120 Speaker 4: will confess for me, maybe the most absurd moment of 111 00:05:52,160 --> 00:05:55,880 Speaker 4: all of it was when the idiot judge in New 112 00:05:56,040 --> 00:05:59,600 Speaker 4: York valued bar a Lago at eighteen million dollars, which 113 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:01,560 Speaker 4: I'll confess I saw it. 114 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:02,520 Speaker 6: I would have bought it for that. 115 00:06:03,279 --> 00:06:06,000 Speaker 4: I saw your dad not shortly after that, and I 116 00:06:06,040 --> 00:06:08,480 Speaker 4: offered it on the spot. I said, mister President, I'll 117 00:06:08,520 --> 00:06:09,680 Speaker 4: give you twenty million right now. 118 00:06:10,160 --> 00:06:14,240 Speaker 6: Well they too, I mean, as you as you know. 119 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:16,440 Speaker 4: You can't buy a hot dog stand in Palm Beach 120 00:06:16,880 --> 00:06:20,479 Speaker 4: for eighteen million dollars. And and that notion that to me, 121 00:06:20,560 --> 00:06:23,720 Speaker 4: it was the most ludicrous. It was a relatively small 122 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:28,960 Speaker 4: detail of what was a pile of idiocy upon idiocy, 123 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:34,000 Speaker 4: But you guys were the targets of it, and and it. 124 00:06:32,560 --> 00:06:33,760 Speaker 5: It cannot have been fun. 125 00:06:34,880 --> 00:06:35,320 Speaker 6: Mister Center. 126 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:37,920 Speaker 1: I became the most opeenion man in American history for 127 00:06:38,080 --> 00:06:41,120 Speaker 1: doing absolutely nothing wrong. I'm not Hunter Biden. I never 128 00:06:41,160 --> 00:06:43,120 Speaker 1: had a speeding ticket in my life. I've lived a 129 00:06:43,240 --> 00:06:46,520 Speaker 1: very straight, very good life, hard working guy, no games, 130 00:06:46,600 --> 00:06:50,200 Speaker 1: never even approached a line. You know, raised right, you know, 131 00:06:50,320 --> 00:06:52,400 Speaker 1: and and they tried to destroy us. I was the 132 00:06:52,400 --> 00:06:54,120 Speaker 1: one that was ganging calls from the FBI. You remember 133 00:06:54,120 --> 00:06:55,920 Speaker 1: the Rushia hoos very well because you were probably the 134 00:06:55,960 --> 00:06:58,560 Speaker 1: best person at fighting against it. Eric, I hear you 135 00:06:58,600 --> 00:07:01,680 Speaker 1: have secret servers in the basement Trump Tower communicating directly 136 00:07:01,680 --> 00:07:03,560 Speaker 1: with the Kremlin. I go, excuse me, I literally started 137 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:05,960 Speaker 1: mister center. I started laughing. I started laughing. I go, 138 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:08,400 Speaker 1: First of all, you don't keep servers in basements, because 139 00:07:08,440 --> 00:07:10,920 Speaker 1: basement's flood. Second of all, were like largely cloud based. 140 00:07:11,360 --> 00:07:12,400 Speaker 6: And they did it so a. 141 00:07:12,320 --> 00:07:14,680 Speaker 1: Greedy woman could get about three extra votes, right, and 142 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:18,400 Speaker 1: they used that as their explanation as to why she lost. 143 00:07:18,400 --> 00:07:19,840 Speaker 1: And then it was a peachment number one, and then 144 00:07:19,840 --> 00:07:21,360 Speaker 1: it was a peachment number two, and then it was 145 00:07:21,400 --> 00:07:23,960 Speaker 1: them attacking Cavanaugh. And then it was one hundred and 146 00:07:23,960 --> 00:07:26,320 Speaker 1: twelve subpoenas that I received for again doing nothing wrong. 147 00:07:26,360 --> 00:07:29,160 Speaker 1: And then it was a weaponization of every attorney general 148 00:07:29,200 --> 00:07:32,120 Speaker 1: and district attorney in this country, whether it be Latitia 149 00:07:32,200 --> 00:07:35,760 Speaker 1: James or Alvin Bragg or Cy Vance or Fanny Willis 150 00:07:35,760 --> 00:07:38,920 Speaker 1: and her boyfriend in Fulton, Georgia, you know, or Jack 151 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:42,680 Speaker 1: Smith or Comy and everything that they did. Then they 152 00:07:42,720 --> 00:07:46,480 Speaker 1: spied on her campaign. Then they did the weaponization of Faiza. 153 00:07:46,560 --> 00:07:48,640 Speaker 1: Then they took my father off the ballot in Colorado, 154 00:07:48,680 --> 00:07:50,800 Speaker 1: and then they took him off the ballot in Maine. 155 00:07:50,840 --> 00:07:52,680 Speaker 1: And when that didn't work, they tried to silence his 156 00:07:52,760 --> 00:07:54,520 Speaker 1: voice and get rid of his First Amendment right. 157 00:07:54,600 --> 00:07:55,160 Speaker 6: So what did they do? 158 00:07:55,640 --> 00:07:57,880 Speaker 1: Took him off of YouTube, took him off of Twitter, 159 00:07:57,920 --> 00:08:00,840 Speaker 1: took him off of Facebook, took him off of Instagram. 160 00:08:00,920 --> 00:08:03,120 Speaker 1: And when that didn't work, when we popped up true social, 161 00:08:03,160 --> 00:08:05,800 Speaker 1: what did they do. They had every judge imposed gag 162 00:08:05,920 --> 00:08:08,400 Speaker 1: orders on him and then they rated mar A Lago. 163 00:08:08,480 --> 00:08:10,280 Speaker 1: I was the guy that got the call when thirty 164 00:08:10,320 --> 00:08:13,520 Speaker 1: FBI agents were outside screaming in a phone to me 165 00:08:13,960 --> 00:08:17,480 Speaker 1: turn off the security cameras at mar A Lago. They 166 00:08:17,480 --> 00:08:19,960 Speaker 1: did everything they could and then they de banked us, 167 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:22,960 Speaker 1: and then they deplatformed us. And they were doing it 168 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:25,000 Speaker 1: to the people in this country as well. They were 169 00:08:25,040 --> 00:08:27,520 Speaker 1: debanking them. They were going after their pastors, they were 170 00:08:27,520 --> 00:08:31,200 Speaker 1: going after their churches. They were weaponizing the irs. You know, 171 00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:34,520 Speaker 1: they were skipping great people who had worked their butts 172 00:08:34,520 --> 00:08:37,760 Speaker 1: off their entire year because of dei hires and literally 173 00:08:37,840 --> 00:08:41,200 Speaker 1: ruining upward mobility of people across the country. They were 174 00:08:41,200 --> 00:08:44,719 Speaker 1: corrupting their children, they were teaching them revisionist history. This 175 00:08:44,880 --> 00:08:47,560 Speaker 1: siege wasn't just against the Trump family, it was against 176 00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:49,240 Speaker 1: all of us. It was against both of you. It 177 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:52,679 Speaker 1: was against every person that's watching us right now. And 178 00:08:52,760 --> 00:08:55,160 Speaker 1: people are pissed off in this country, and that's why 179 00:08:55,200 --> 00:08:56,920 Speaker 1: this book went to number one. 180 00:08:57,040 --> 00:08:59,800 Speaker 3: You mentioned mar Lago a second ago and getting that 181 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:04,440 Speaker 3: phone call. Can you just explain how insane that day 182 00:09:04,520 --> 00:09:06,840 Speaker 3: must have been because I know people we saw it 183 00:09:06,880 --> 00:09:09,719 Speaker 3: on TV, but you were on the inside. And when 184 00:09:09,760 --> 00:09:11,800 Speaker 3: you're getting a phone called, they're telling you to turn 185 00:09:11,880 --> 00:09:13,280 Speaker 3: your cameras off. 186 00:09:13,400 --> 00:09:15,080 Speaker 5: So like, what time of day is it, what are 187 00:09:15,120 --> 00:09:15,600 Speaker 5: you doing? 188 00:09:16,360 --> 00:09:18,760 Speaker 1: It was about seven fifty eight o'clock in the morning 189 00:09:18,760 --> 00:09:20,079 Speaker 1: when I got a call from my team. They say, 190 00:09:20,080 --> 00:09:21,920 Speaker 1: the thirty FBI agents and they have a search warrant. 191 00:09:21,920 --> 00:09:23,680 Speaker 1: I go, what are they searching? I'm not sure if 192 00:09:23,679 --> 00:09:25,640 Speaker 1: I understand, Like we have like such a great relationship 193 00:09:25,679 --> 00:09:26,320 Speaker 1: with law enforcement. 194 00:09:26,400 --> 00:09:26,559 Speaker 5: It was. 195 00:09:27,040 --> 00:09:28,560 Speaker 1: It was bizarre at the time. I go, how would 196 00:09:28,559 --> 00:09:30,480 Speaker 1: I not know about this? From Secret Service? How would 197 00:09:30,480 --> 00:09:32,240 Speaker 1: I not know? I mean, they didn't give anybody warning 198 00:09:32,920 --> 00:09:35,920 Speaker 1: and I'll never forget, I said, I finally figured out 199 00:09:35,920 --> 00:09:37,280 Speaker 1: what they were doing, and I said, did anybody let 200 00:09:37,320 --> 00:09:39,360 Speaker 1: my father know? And it was my team, really and 201 00:09:39,400 --> 00:09:41,120 Speaker 1: they said no, and I go, we'll call him right now, 202 00:09:41,120 --> 00:09:42,600 Speaker 1: and we met in his office and that's when he 203 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:45,120 Speaker 1: wrote up that beautiful tweet, as you remember. And the 204 00:09:45,200 --> 00:09:47,800 Speaker 1: FBI was so damn pissed that we sent out that tweet. 205 00:09:48,080 --> 00:09:50,560 Speaker 1: They wanted to have the narrative, they wanted to be 206 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:52,720 Speaker 1: able to release the story, and instead my father writes 207 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:55,120 Speaker 1: that beautiful tweet. You know, right now, the FBI is 208 00:09:55,480 --> 00:09:58,760 Speaker 1: raiding the famous Mara A Lago, my home, you know, 209 00:09:58,840 --> 00:10:01,640 Speaker 1: and in the world when the world couldn't stand it. 210 00:10:01,640 --> 00:10:05,120 Speaker 1: It was the worst decision that they ever made. And remember, Senator, 211 00:10:05,160 --> 00:10:08,240 Speaker 1: they said it was on behalf of Nara right National Archives. 212 00:10:08,400 --> 00:10:10,320 Speaker 1: Does anybody I went on Hannity that night, I go, 213 00:10:10,400 --> 00:10:14,880 Speaker 1: does anybody actually believe with glorified library send thirty FBI 214 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:19,280 Speaker 1: agents to invade Mara A Lago with firearms? Give me 215 00:10:19,320 --> 00:10:20,920 Speaker 1: a break, right, And then sure enough it comes out 216 00:10:20,920 --> 00:10:22,920 Speaker 1: there was Joe Biden, and it was Merrick Garland, and 217 00:10:22,960 --> 00:10:25,720 Speaker 1: it was the whole host of criminals that weaponized the 218 00:10:25,880 --> 00:10:29,160 Speaker 1: entire system. But I'll never forget that call. Thirty FBI 219 00:10:29,240 --> 00:10:32,360 Speaker 1: agents outside of mar A Lago. They searched Milania's room, 220 00:10:32,360 --> 00:10:36,240 Speaker 1: they search Baron's room. They took attorney client privileged documents, 221 00:10:36,280 --> 00:10:38,360 Speaker 1: they took hippa documents. 222 00:10:38,640 --> 00:10:39,520 Speaker 6: You can't make it up. 223 00:10:40,880 --> 00:10:42,480 Speaker 3: I know you're going to try to terrorize the New 224 00:10:42,559 --> 00:10:44,480 Speaker 3: York Times a little bit. That's the hardest thing is 225 00:10:44,520 --> 00:10:46,520 Speaker 3: just to screw with them and be at the top 226 00:10:46,559 --> 00:10:49,560 Speaker 3: of their list. So everyone listening, I hope you'll buy 227 00:10:49,600 --> 00:10:51,199 Speaker 3: the book just so we can screw with them a 228 00:10:51,200 --> 00:10:53,000 Speaker 3: little bit. Center you've been at the top of that list. 229 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:53,840 Speaker 3: It's hard to get there. 230 00:10:54,520 --> 00:10:57,320 Speaker 4: Well, I will say, Eric, you should brace yourself. It 231 00:10:57,360 --> 00:10:59,520 Speaker 4: doesn't matter how many copies of the book you sell. 232 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:02,840 Speaker 4: The New York York Times is going to insist that 233 00:11:02,840 --> 00:11:05,800 Speaker 4: that like Left Handed Transgender Witches, is the number one 234 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:08,320 Speaker 4: book in America, And to be fair, in the New 235 00:11:08,400 --> 00:11:10,640 Speaker 4: York Times newsroom, it probably is the number one book 236 00:11:10,640 --> 00:11:12,560 Speaker 4: in America. But but if you get outside the New 237 00:11:12,640 --> 00:11:15,040 Speaker 4: York Times and to the rest of America, there are 238 00:11:15,040 --> 00:11:17,120 Speaker 4: a lot of people right now that are going to Amazon. 239 00:11:17,160 --> 00:11:19,880 Speaker 4: Go to Amazon right now. By Eric truck Trump's book. 240 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:23,280 Speaker 4: Keep it at number one, Annoy a liberal by two, 241 00:11:23,440 --> 00:11:25,520 Speaker 4: buy one for yourself, and buy one to give a 242 00:11:25,520 --> 00:11:28,680 Speaker 4: liberal just to drive them crazy, and and and to say, 243 00:11:28,800 --> 00:11:32,560 Speaker 4: explain to me again how you think weaponization is a 244 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:35,800 Speaker 4: bad thing. Because because your your liberal friends, to the 245 00:11:35,840 --> 00:11:39,600 Speaker 4: extent you have any that they haven't defriended you, they're 246 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:41,640 Speaker 4: not going to have an answer to that. Eric, tell 247 00:11:41,679 --> 00:11:43,720 Speaker 4: me what was your dad's reaction when you went in 248 00:11:43,760 --> 00:11:46,360 Speaker 4: and and told them, okay, the FBI agents are here. 249 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:49,520 Speaker 4: I assume he was pissed, but like, what was his 250 00:11:49,559 --> 00:11:51,360 Speaker 4: immediate reaction when you tell him that. 251 00:11:51,800 --> 00:11:53,160 Speaker 6: It was actually remarkably calm. 252 00:11:53,400 --> 00:11:55,840 Speaker 1: You know, it's it's you know, I've seen my father 253 00:11:55,880 --> 00:11:57,959 Speaker 1: pissed many times, but he doesn't get pissed off and 254 00:11:58,240 --> 00:12:00,720 Speaker 1: in situations of kind of like great angle stress. Right, 255 00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:02,760 Speaker 1: it's no different than Butler. But you know, almost foreshadow 256 00:12:02,800 --> 00:12:05,200 Speaker 1: Butler is the same thing. It's it's I probably would 257 00:12:05,240 --> 00:12:07,040 Speaker 1: have been Piston Butler, And I think he was actually 258 00:12:07,080 --> 00:12:10,480 Speaker 1: remarkably calm, especially in the aftermath of what happened. And 259 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:14,319 Speaker 1: you know he was always his commist in the worst moments, always, 260 00:12:14,480 --> 00:12:16,319 Speaker 1: I mean, and centator. Do you saw many of them? 261 00:12:16,320 --> 00:12:18,160 Speaker 1: I mean, you were there for many of them in 262 00:12:18,160 --> 00:12:21,719 Speaker 1: so many different ways. You know, he never let emotion fly. 263 00:12:21,960 --> 00:12:23,840 Speaker 1: It was it was a very He goes, you gotta 264 00:12:23,840 --> 00:12:26,000 Speaker 1: be kidding me, all right, honey, meet me in my office. 265 00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:27,560 Speaker 1: You know, we're going to write up a statement. And 266 00:12:27,600 --> 00:12:29,560 Speaker 1: that's when he let that truth fly. And you know, 267 00:12:29,840 --> 00:12:31,480 Speaker 1: the rest is history. I mean, for the next month, 268 00:12:31,520 --> 00:12:34,160 Speaker 1: they had helicopters buzzing over mar a Lago and you 269 00:12:34,200 --> 00:12:35,920 Speaker 1: know the scenes of that front gate. You remember this, 270 00:12:36,280 --> 00:12:38,160 Speaker 1: the cop car from the front gate of mar Lago. 271 00:12:38,200 --> 00:12:40,600 Speaker 1: I mean, mar Lago became, not that it wasn't probably already, 272 00:12:40,960 --> 00:12:42,800 Speaker 1: but he became the most famous property in the world 273 00:12:42,800 --> 00:12:45,120 Speaker 1: based on that raid and what they did, and then 274 00:12:45,160 --> 00:12:47,040 Speaker 1: the aftermath of all of it, we find out Jack 275 00:12:47,040 --> 00:12:50,760 Speaker 1: Smith was bringing in classified folders and effectively staging photo 276 00:12:50,760 --> 00:12:51,240 Speaker 1: shoots on. 277 00:12:51,240 --> 00:12:54,640 Speaker 6: The office floor of my father's office. 278 00:12:54,679 --> 00:12:56,600 Speaker 1: But you know, as I said before, guys, I mean 279 00:12:56,880 --> 00:12:59,040 Speaker 1: they were going through Malania's closet, they were going through 280 00:12:59,040 --> 00:13:03,400 Speaker 1: Baron's room. They they literally they took his medical records 281 00:13:03,640 --> 00:13:06,720 Speaker 1: right like hip a related records that pissed off the judge. 282 00:13:06,760 --> 00:13:09,920 Speaker 1: I can only tell you they took attorney client documents right. 283 00:13:09,960 --> 00:13:13,520 Speaker 1: That also really pissed off Aileen Cannon, the judge on 284 00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:16,280 Speaker 1: the case. You just you couldn't believe it. And then 285 00:13:16,360 --> 00:13:17,959 Speaker 1: you know, again, all of this was stage. You think 286 00:13:17,960 --> 00:13:21,760 Speaker 1: Donald Trump just leaves classified folders fanned out perfectly on 287 00:13:21,800 --> 00:13:23,480 Speaker 1: the floor. I mean, it was all staged. It was 288 00:13:23,520 --> 00:13:26,760 Speaker 1: all set up. They wanted to imprison him. They wanted 289 00:13:26,760 --> 00:13:28,920 Speaker 1: to take his voice. They wanted to imprison him. They 290 00:13:28,960 --> 00:13:31,360 Speaker 1: wanted him behind bars. They didn't want him to be 291 00:13:31,360 --> 00:13:34,600 Speaker 1: able to campaign. They wanted to weaponize the system in 292 00:13:34,640 --> 00:13:37,320 Speaker 1: any way, shape or form, and they weren't able to 293 00:13:37,320 --> 00:13:37,640 Speaker 1: do it. 294 00:13:38,040 --> 00:13:40,200 Speaker 3: A lot of people remember the deep platforming, and you 295 00:13:40,280 --> 00:13:43,160 Speaker 3: mentioned that earlier, and you go back to the end 296 00:13:43,160 --> 00:13:45,800 Speaker 3: of his first term in office. But one of the 297 00:13:45,800 --> 00:13:48,320 Speaker 3: things you mentioned earlier on was they tried to ruin 298 00:13:48,360 --> 00:13:52,640 Speaker 3: your businesses by d banking. You can you explain for 299 00:13:52,679 --> 00:13:55,920 Speaker 3: people that don't understand just how critical that was in 300 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:58,040 Speaker 3: a time and the Trump organization. You've been handed the 301 00:13:58,040 --> 00:14:00,880 Speaker 3: family business to run it, and now you're finding out 302 00:14:00,920 --> 00:14:03,079 Speaker 3: you can't even have banking the way that you need 303 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:05,640 Speaker 3: to have banking to literally run businesses, whether you're big 304 00:14:05,640 --> 00:14:07,960 Speaker 3: business or small business. A lot of people listening right now. 305 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:09,960 Speaker 3: If you don't have a bank, you don't have a business. 306 00:14:10,440 --> 00:14:12,160 Speaker 6: Yeah, Ben, it was that times one hundred. 307 00:14:12,240 --> 00:14:15,400 Speaker 1: I mean they they literally it was coordinated by the administration, 308 00:14:15,440 --> 00:14:17,840 Speaker 1: There's no question about it. And they called up and 309 00:14:17,840 --> 00:14:19,880 Speaker 1: they said, listen, congratulations, you cancel the account. I was 310 00:14:19,880 --> 00:14:21,720 Speaker 1: getting these letters. I got one from Capital One. They 311 00:14:21,720 --> 00:14:23,800 Speaker 1: had three hundred bank accounts. And these aren't like baby 312 00:14:23,800 --> 00:14:27,480 Speaker 1: bank accounts. These are massive commercial buildings that have hundreds 313 00:14:27,480 --> 00:14:31,280 Speaker 1: of tenants, you know, thousands of people working in these buildings, 314 00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:35,960 Speaker 1: hundreds if not thousands, of vendors, heavy real estate taxes. 315 00:14:36,040 --> 00:14:39,480 Speaker 1: I mean people, hundreds and hundreds of people depend their 316 00:14:39,520 --> 00:14:43,200 Speaker 1: livelihoods depend on on these businesses. They've got complicated lock 317 00:14:43,240 --> 00:14:46,520 Speaker 1: box provisions and loan you know, loan documents, thousands of 318 00:14:46,560 --> 00:14:49,000 Speaker 1: inputs coming in like this, you know, and they just 319 00:14:49,040 --> 00:14:51,160 Speaker 1: called up. You know, your accounts are going to get closed. 320 00:14:51,160 --> 00:14:54,240 Speaker 1: You've got one or two days to move them, and congratulations, 321 00:14:54,440 --> 00:14:56,760 Speaker 1: you're done. All because we wore a hat that said 322 00:14:56,840 --> 00:14:58,040 Speaker 1: make America Great Again. 323 00:14:58,520 --> 00:14:59,080 Speaker 6: That was read. 324 00:14:59,360 --> 00:15:03,240 Speaker 1: These weremmercial buildings, These were condominium associations, These were small 325 00:15:03,280 --> 00:15:06,680 Speaker 1: golf courses, these were you know, residential shops. These were 326 00:15:06,840 --> 00:15:10,040 Speaker 1: scrow accounts, things that had nothing to do, nothing to 327 00:15:10,080 --> 00:15:13,560 Speaker 1: do with politics whatsoever, and they canceled us like we were dogs. 328 00:15:13,880 --> 00:15:16,920 Speaker 1: Capital One was the worst. JP Morgan was horrible, Bank 329 00:15:16,960 --> 00:15:20,680 Speaker 1: of America was horrible. First Republic was terrible. But it 330 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:24,800 Speaker 1: wasn't just the banks. It was platform Shopify. Shopify literally 331 00:15:24,840 --> 00:15:27,080 Speaker 1: gave us a notice they do all the e comm 332 00:15:27,080 --> 00:15:29,320 Speaker 1: platforms in the middle of the night turned off our 333 00:15:29,360 --> 00:15:31,680 Speaker 1: accounts like we were nothing right. We were selling golf 334 00:15:31,720 --> 00:15:34,040 Speaker 1: polos that we have, you know, from mar A Lago, 335 00:15:34,080 --> 00:15:37,720 Speaker 1: and they did everything they could to hurt us, to 336 00:15:37,800 --> 00:15:41,240 Speaker 1: turn off the rails right again. They wanted our voice gone, 337 00:15:41,600 --> 00:15:44,080 Speaker 1: They wanted us bankrupt, they wanted the name off of 338 00:15:44,080 --> 00:15:46,400 Speaker 1: every building. They wanted us thrown out of New York. 339 00:15:46,640 --> 00:15:49,440 Speaker 1: You had Letitia James that was trying to repossess our assets. 340 00:15:49,440 --> 00:15:52,160 Speaker 1: I mean it was almost like forfeiture. It was not constitutional. 341 00:15:52,520 --> 00:15:55,480 Speaker 1: Hence the reason the appellate courts throughout the case five 342 00:15:55,640 --> 00:15:57,760 Speaker 1: zero and we got a resounding victory two weeks ago 343 00:15:57,880 --> 00:16:00,760 Speaker 1: or three weeks ago. Guys, they tried everything they could 344 00:16:00,800 --> 00:16:02,920 Speaker 1: and because I was the guy outside of Washington, DC, 345 00:16:03,080 --> 00:16:05,720 Speaker 1: because I ran the company, it all fell on me. 346 00:16:05,840 --> 00:16:08,160 Speaker 1: That's how I became the most opened person the history 347 00:16:08,200 --> 00:16:10,320 Speaker 1: of this country, having never done a damn thing wrong. 348 00:16:10,720 --> 00:16:13,320 Speaker 1: They wanted to get to my father coming through me. 349 00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:17,160 Speaker 4: That Now, were these business accounts, personal accounts both? I mean, 350 00:16:17,400 --> 00:16:19,560 Speaker 4: how many accounts are we talking about? 351 00:16:19,680 --> 00:16:20,360 Speaker 5: Roughly like what. 352 00:16:20,400 --> 00:16:24,200 Speaker 1: Five five hundred, you know, lots of those being business accounts, 353 00:16:24,760 --> 00:16:27,480 Speaker 1: all of them being us. You know, my wife has 354 00:16:27,520 --> 00:16:30,560 Speaker 1: a like athletic clothing line. You know, JP Morgan Chase 355 00:16:30,560 --> 00:16:32,760 Speaker 1: wouldn't open up an account, so you know, for for her, 356 00:16:33,240 --> 00:16:36,760 Speaker 1: she's not Donald Trump, She's not the Trump organization. They 357 00:16:36,800 --> 00:16:39,240 Speaker 1: did this to everyone in the family. If you even 358 00:16:39,280 --> 00:16:41,800 Speaker 1: came close, you know, if you even came close. I 359 00:16:42,160 --> 00:16:44,760 Speaker 1: have a little farm with a couple of buddies. They 360 00:16:44,840 --> 00:16:47,480 Speaker 1: canceled that account doesn't wear a Trump. 361 00:16:47,200 --> 00:16:49,720 Speaker 6: Name, it can't. They were indiscriminate. 362 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:52,680 Speaker 1: If it was six degrees of sep in narration from Trump, 363 00:16:53,120 --> 00:16:56,600 Speaker 1: they canceled us. And honestly, guys, you know, I've been outspoken, 364 00:16:56,760 --> 00:17:00,280 Speaker 1: you know, a big fan of you know, cryptocurrency. That's 365 00:17:00,280 --> 00:17:03,560 Speaker 1: how I found crypto because I realized how quickly financial 366 00:17:03,600 --> 00:17:06,760 Speaker 1: institutions can be weaponized against the American people, and realize 367 00:17:06,760 --> 00:17:08,760 Speaker 1: that there's nothing that can be done on you know, 368 00:17:08,880 --> 00:17:12,359 Speaker 1: using traditional financial institutions that can't be done better, faster, cheaper, 369 00:17:12,920 --> 00:17:16,359 Speaker 1: safer and more efficiently using cryptocurrency. 370 00:17:16,359 --> 00:17:18,080 Speaker 6: And I'm the biggest proponent of it. 371 00:17:18,359 --> 00:17:21,160 Speaker 4: Did did they even even purport to give you any 372 00:17:21,240 --> 00:17:24,320 Speaker 4: explanation or do they just say no, it's canceled like 373 00:17:24,320 --> 00:17:27,760 Speaker 4: like that that they didn't Was there any details or 374 00:17:27,800 --> 00:17:30,760 Speaker 4: you just get phone calls or get an email and say, okay, 375 00:17:30,840 --> 00:17:31,840 Speaker 4: this this account's done. 376 00:17:32,040 --> 00:17:32,240 Speaker 6: Yeah. 377 00:17:32,240 --> 00:17:33,760 Speaker 1: Other other than a lot of those, you know a 378 00:17:33,760 --> 00:17:35,280 Speaker 1: lot of the people that worked in the in the 379 00:17:35,320 --> 00:17:37,480 Speaker 1: banks who otherwise said this is the most I can't 380 00:17:37,480 --> 00:17:39,399 Speaker 1: believe it. I can't believe what my bank's doing. This 381 00:17:39,440 --> 00:17:41,800 Speaker 1: is all political. That's what they're saying in the corridors 382 00:17:41,800 --> 00:17:44,679 Speaker 1: every day. They canceled you for political reasons. There's no 383 00:17:44,720 --> 00:17:47,439 Speaker 1: other explanation they're telling us. You know, they're telling us 384 00:17:47,480 --> 00:17:48,360 Speaker 1: we can't talk to you ever. 385 00:17:48,440 --> 00:17:48,680 Speaker 6: Again. 386 00:17:49,320 --> 00:17:51,879 Speaker 1: I was unbelievable, and I would not wish that on 387 00:17:51,960 --> 00:17:55,280 Speaker 1: my worst enemy. To take the rails of being able 388 00:17:55,320 --> 00:17:58,600 Speaker 1: to pay employees, these are housekeepers, these are janitors, these 389 00:17:58,600 --> 00:18:03,680 Speaker 1: are engineers, these are secure officers, these are drivers, hospitality workers, 390 00:18:04,040 --> 00:18:06,840 Speaker 1: to not be able to pay them a salary, all 391 00:18:06,880 --> 00:18:10,800 Speaker 1: because somebody wanted to politicize a system against a candidate 392 00:18:10,880 --> 00:18:13,960 Speaker 1: because they happened to be a conservative and they believed 393 00:18:13,960 --> 00:18:15,280 Speaker 1: in making America great again. 394 00:18:15,920 --> 00:18:20,199 Speaker 3: Sata, this is a story that we're hearing about the 395 00:18:20,240 --> 00:18:23,600 Speaker 3: weaponization of the private sector, not the government, the private 396 00:18:23,640 --> 00:18:28,640 Speaker 3: sector against the Trump organization. The moment that he just said, 397 00:18:28,680 --> 00:18:32,800 Speaker 3: five hundred bank accounts just shut down, I'm shocked by that. 398 00:18:32,920 --> 00:18:34,080 Speaker 3: I think you were as well. 399 00:18:34,480 --> 00:18:35,280 Speaker 5: That number. 400 00:18:35,320 --> 00:18:37,679 Speaker 4: I'd never heard anything remotely close to that. I mean, 401 00:18:37,720 --> 00:18:42,679 Speaker 4: that really is stunning. So you're running your families outside businesses, 402 00:18:43,240 --> 00:18:45,960 Speaker 4: you get these calls. What do you do when you're 403 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:49,200 Speaker 4: given what you said twenty four hours forty eight hours notice, 404 00:18:49,240 --> 00:18:53,480 Speaker 4: like were there banks that were willing to welcome your 405 00:18:53,480 --> 00:18:56,320 Speaker 4: business or what did you do with five hundred accounts 406 00:18:56,320 --> 00:18:56,920 Speaker 4: being canceled. 407 00:18:57,560 --> 00:18:59,200 Speaker 1: You're a lot of attorney generals and you had a 408 00:18:59,240 --> 00:19:01,080 Speaker 1: lot of government in tutions that were going to these 409 00:19:01,080 --> 00:19:03,560 Speaker 1: banks saying don't even think about it, don't touch that account. 410 00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:06,000 Speaker 1: You know, Letitia James was doing that to the bonding 411 00:19:06,040 --> 00:19:08,720 Speaker 1: companies when we had to after the initial ruling, when 412 00:19:08,760 --> 00:19:11,040 Speaker 1: we had to post a six hundred million dollar bond. 413 00:19:11,520 --> 00:19:14,159 Speaker 1: By the way, that that was like five times the 414 00:19:14,200 --> 00:19:16,720 Speaker 1: size of the Boeing bond that that made them. You 415 00:19:16,720 --> 00:19:20,360 Speaker 1: know that literally, I it was the biggest bond ever 416 00:19:20,400 --> 00:19:23,040 Speaker 1: seen in the country, you know. And she was going 417 00:19:23,080 --> 00:19:26,000 Speaker 1: to the very same institutions saying, don't even touch that bond. 418 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:27,720 Speaker 1: So we had to post a bond based on the 419 00:19:27,720 --> 00:19:30,239 Speaker 1: court before we had everything overturned. And she was going 420 00:19:30,280 --> 00:19:32,960 Speaker 1: to the biggest insurance company saying, you don't touch that bond. 421 00:19:33,080 --> 00:19:35,040 Speaker 1: You know, you're you're registered in New York and if 422 00:19:35,040 --> 00:19:37,080 Speaker 1: you touch that bond, I'm going to think less favorably 423 00:19:37,119 --> 00:19:40,680 Speaker 1: on you. That's how badly they weaponize the system. What 424 00:19:40,960 --> 00:19:43,080 Speaker 1: do you do when you get those letters? You want 425 00:19:43,080 --> 00:19:45,520 Speaker 1: to crawl under your desk. And honestly, I had I 426 00:19:45,560 --> 00:19:48,040 Speaker 1: had probably one hundred people in the company that didn't 427 00:19:48,040 --> 00:19:50,879 Speaker 1: sleep for a six month period of time, who were distraught. 428 00:19:51,200 --> 00:19:52,520 Speaker 6: And thank god, we had enough. 429 00:19:52,400 --> 00:19:54,800 Speaker 1: Little local banks you know that that you move all 430 00:19:54,840 --> 00:19:58,399 Speaker 1: the accounts unthinkable right to these little local branches who 431 00:19:58,440 --> 00:20:00,840 Speaker 1: want to take your money. But these weren't the Morrigan's, 432 00:20:00,840 --> 00:20:03,720 Speaker 1: these weren't the Bank of Americas. They were still a 433 00:20:03,800 --> 00:20:06,520 Speaker 1: little they were small little mom and pop regional banks 434 00:20:06,520 --> 00:20:08,919 Speaker 1: that did the right thing and honestly probably saved us 435 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:10,399 Speaker 1: based on the fact that they were willing to do 436 00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:13,040 Speaker 1: the right thing. This didn't just happen to us. I 437 00:20:13,080 --> 00:20:15,000 Speaker 1: was on the campaign trail. I'd hear from people every 438 00:20:15,040 --> 00:20:18,520 Speaker 1: single day. You know, my bank canceled me. Why well, 439 00:20:18,560 --> 00:20:20,879 Speaker 1: my company makes the spring, and the spring goes in 440 00:20:20,920 --> 00:20:23,160 Speaker 1: a fishing reel, and that fishing reel sold at bass 441 00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:26,000 Speaker 1: pro shops, and bass pro shops sells twelve games duck 442 00:20:26,080 --> 00:20:29,439 Speaker 1: hunting Ammo, and they thought the affiliation. I heard this 443 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:32,040 Speaker 1: everywhere I went. I heard it from the crypto guys. 444 00:20:32,080 --> 00:20:34,399 Speaker 1: I believed in bitcoin, I believed in stable coin. I 445 00:20:34,480 --> 00:20:37,800 Speaker 1: believe in the future of kind of modern finance. And 446 00:20:37,880 --> 00:20:40,960 Speaker 1: because I believed in crypto currency, my banks canceled me. Well, 447 00:20:41,080 --> 00:20:44,359 Speaker 1: COVID canceled me, Bank of America canceled me. Guys, I 448 00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:47,160 Speaker 1: heard this all over the place. You know, we need 449 00:20:47,160 --> 00:20:49,840 Speaker 1: to make this illegal, and it is. It's illegal in 450 00:20:49,840 --> 00:20:52,520 Speaker 1: a lot of states and under a lot of banking clauses. 451 00:20:52,560 --> 00:20:55,000 Speaker 1: But the fact that you can literally, I mean, could 452 00:20:55,040 --> 00:20:57,400 Speaker 1: you imagine if if eighteen and TI or of riz 453 00:20:57,480 --> 00:21:00,560 Speaker 1: and just decided to cancel all conservatives phones. 454 00:21:00,920 --> 00:21:01,800 Speaker 6: Yeah. Right. 455 00:21:02,280 --> 00:21:05,520 Speaker 1: If you can't bank, you can't survive. If you can't bank, 456 00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:09,240 Speaker 1: you can't eat. If you can't bank, you can't pay employees. 457 00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:11,600 Speaker 1: And yet they turned us off like we were dogs. 458 00:21:12,119 --> 00:21:14,479 Speaker 3: How much money do you think that Trump when you 459 00:21:14,520 --> 00:21:17,080 Speaker 3: guys were out during the four years and under siege 460 00:21:17,119 --> 00:21:19,640 Speaker 3: like this, How many business deals got blown up because 461 00:21:19,680 --> 00:21:22,040 Speaker 3: people were afraid even to just do business with you, 462 00:21:22,040 --> 00:21:24,639 Speaker 3: because they're afraid their business would be affected negatively and 463 00:21:24,640 --> 00:21:27,960 Speaker 3: they could be targeted. I'm assuming that was a reality 464 00:21:28,040 --> 00:21:28,960 Speaker 3: for quite some time. 465 00:21:29,160 --> 00:21:30,480 Speaker 1: Well, I talk a lot about it in the book. 466 00:21:30,520 --> 00:21:33,480 Speaker 1: I mean there were reporters that just made their whole livelihoods. 467 00:21:33,520 --> 00:21:36,520 Speaker 1: David Farrenholt from the Washington Post and and and others, 468 00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:40,119 Speaker 1: you know, made their entire livelihoods calling up, you know, 469 00:21:40,280 --> 00:21:43,240 Speaker 1: vendors of ours, calling up our employees, calling up brides 470 00:21:43,280 --> 00:21:44,840 Speaker 1: and grooms that we're gonna get married at one of 471 00:21:44,880 --> 00:21:46,200 Speaker 1: the properties, one of the hotels. 472 00:21:47,080 --> 00:21:49,720 Speaker 3: And they were harassing people that were getting married at 473 00:21:49,800 --> 00:21:50,640 Speaker 3: Trump resorts. 474 00:21:50,680 --> 00:21:53,400 Speaker 1: Oh I have I have more emails than you can 475 00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:56,400 Speaker 1: possibly imagine. You know, I hear you're gonna go get 476 00:21:56,400 --> 00:21:58,639 Speaker 1: married at at MMR Lago. Oh really, you know this 477 00:21:58,720 --> 00:22:02,080 Speaker 1: might have to make the front cover of our respective paper. 478 00:22:02,840 --> 00:22:04,439 Speaker 1: You know, can you please give me comment? And these 479 00:22:04,440 --> 00:22:05,920 Speaker 1: brides and grooms are saying, I just want to get 480 00:22:05,920 --> 00:22:08,280 Speaker 1: married in peace, you know, I just you know, there's 481 00:22:08,280 --> 00:22:10,840 Speaker 1: a beautiful property. I'm not a political person. I just 482 00:22:11,280 --> 00:22:14,080 Speaker 1: you know it's it's a five star property. I love 483 00:22:14,119 --> 00:22:17,119 Speaker 1: the place. It's convenient, my family lives nearby. Whatever the 484 00:22:17,119 --> 00:22:19,560 Speaker 1: hell of the reason they were doing that. They were 485 00:22:19,600 --> 00:22:21,840 Speaker 1: extorting employees. They were going up to employees, and they 486 00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:23,960 Speaker 1: frankly tried to do it to me. Hey, you tell 487 00:22:24,040 --> 00:22:26,120 Speaker 1: us anything about Donald Trump, will let you go. 488 00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:27,600 Speaker 6: You know, all your problems. 489 00:22:28,119 --> 00:22:30,800 Speaker 3: They tried to turn you against your own father. 490 00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:35,440 Speaker 1: Alvin Bragg, Are you kidding me? The Cyrus Vance, all 491 00:22:35,480 --> 00:22:39,679 Speaker 1: of them. They weaponized every da in and AG to 492 00:22:39,760 --> 00:22:43,280 Speaker 1: try and flip every single person to say anything negative, 493 00:22:43,320 --> 00:22:45,959 Speaker 1: to get any negative testimony against Donald Trump for their 494 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:50,119 Speaker 1: own political purposes. Absolutely, that was the whole game they played. 495 00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:52,879 Speaker 1: And no one in our company broke. Guys, this was 496 00:22:52,920 --> 00:22:55,480 Speaker 1: the siege that I dealt with every single day, right, 497 00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:57,200 Speaker 1: I mean it was it was all of these factors 498 00:22:57,200 --> 00:23:00,920 Speaker 1: that came together, all at once, all the time, doing 499 00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:04,040 Speaker 1: anything they could to to to just chop us off 500 00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:06,919 Speaker 1: at every single I mean, when they made up the 501 00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:09,399 Speaker 1: dirty dossier, when they made up right, I mean, they 502 00:23:09,960 --> 00:23:13,119 Speaker 1: have stories about prostitution in there, about golden you know, 503 00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:15,159 Speaker 1: what's right. What do you think they were trying. They 504 00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:16,920 Speaker 1: were trying to divorce my father, They were trying to 505 00:23:16,920 --> 00:23:19,400 Speaker 1: destroy his marriage. They were trying to break up our family. 506 00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:22,600 Speaker 1: That's what they were trying to do. Also, a greedy 507 00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:25,639 Speaker 1: woman could get, you know again, two more votes. These 508 00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:28,359 Speaker 1: people are sick, These people are deranged, and there's been 509 00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:32,520 Speaker 1: zero accountability for any of it. And as a son 510 00:23:32,560 --> 00:23:35,320 Speaker 1: who fought by my father's side every single day during 511 00:23:35,320 --> 00:23:38,399 Speaker 1: this battle, somebody had to tell this story. Somebody had 512 00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:41,199 Speaker 1: to tell the inside perspective of the lens that a 513 00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:45,160 Speaker 1: corrupt government will go to besides just spying on campaigns 514 00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:48,600 Speaker 1: and despite just you know, raiding homes, you know, all 515 00:23:48,640 --> 00:23:50,840 Speaker 1: the things that they did to try and destroy us, 516 00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:53,200 Speaker 1: to try and destroy make America great again, and try 517 00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:56,520 Speaker 1: and destroy conservatives all across the country. 518 00:23:56,760 --> 00:23:59,840 Speaker 4: Look, it was unmitigated evil, and it was driven part 519 00:23:59,880 --> 00:24:03,200 Speaker 4: of it was driven by hate. Today the defining characteristic 520 00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:07,280 Speaker 4: I think of the Democrat Party. Is they hate your father. Yeah, 521 00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:10,080 Speaker 4: and they hate your family. I mean that anything connected 522 00:24:10,119 --> 00:24:14,120 Speaker 4: to your father they hate. And I think it also though, 523 00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:17,040 Speaker 4: was a deep contempt for democracy. I think every one 524 00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:19,679 Speaker 4: of these indictments. I think the weaponization that we saw 525 00:24:20,119 --> 00:24:23,919 Speaker 4: their underlying terror is that the voters would do what 526 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:26,400 Speaker 4: they did in November of twenty twenty four and vote 527 00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:28,600 Speaker 4: to re elect your father. And this was all about 528 00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:33,760 Speaker 4: undermining democracy and preventing the voters from doing that. You know, Eric, 529 00:24:33,800 --> 00:24:36,280 Speaker 4: you mentioned earlier that you describe yourself as as the 530 00:24:36,280 --> 00:24:40,040 Speaker 4: most subpoena man in America. How many subpoenas did you get? 531 00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:42,879 Speaker 4: And and and did you testify a lot of times? 532 00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:45,240 Speaker 4: Were they demanding documents? What subpoenas were coming? 533 00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:47,000 Speaker 6: In one hundred and twelve subpoenas. 534 00:24:47,359 --> 00:24:49,600 Speaker 1: I sat in more depositions than any human being in 535 00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:52,320 Speaker 1: the history of of of depositions. And by the way, 536 00:24:52,359 --> 00:24:54,160 Speaker 1: these are like big boy subpoenas, right, They're all coming 537 00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:56,600 Speaker 1: from you know, your close friend Elizabeth Warren as we 538 00:24:56,680 --> 00:24:59,520 Speaker 1: like to call her Pocahontas, and many and many others 539 00:25:00,359 --> 00:25:02,920 Speaker 1: we turned over. I mean, they would ask for document discovery, 540 00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:05,200 Speaker 1: you know, please give us every email in the company 541 00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:07,080 Speaker 1: and they would list a thousand words, but aside from that, 542 00:25:07,119 --> 00:25:10,159 Speaker 1: they would list national and international. Well, all our hotels 543 00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:12,719 Speaker 1: are Trump International Hotel, and all our golf courses are 544 00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:15,560 Speaker 1: Trump National Golf Course. You could probably see where this 545 00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:19,080 Speaker 1: is going. Every email signature of every person in the 546 00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:21,719 Speaker 1: company either has the word national or international in it. 547 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:24,159 Speaker 1: That's their fishing expedition. I actually brought this to the 548 00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:26,479 Speaker 1: Supreme Court, and the Supreme Court specifically told them you 549 00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:29,879 Speaker 1: can't fish right, and they did it anyway. The judges 550 00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:32,879 Speaker 1: didn't give a damn. They wanted to find any comma 551 00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:35,080 Speaker 1: that was out of place, and they couldn't. I mean, 552 00:25:35,359 --> 00:25:38,919 Speaker 1: in the Letitia James trial, literally Deutsche Bank was on 553 00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:41,119 Speaker 1: the stand saying that Trump was the best lender that 554 00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:41,880 Speaker 1: they've ever had. 555 00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:42,080 Speaker 5: Right. 556 00:25:42,119 --> 00:25:44,479 Speaker 1: We made them hundreds of millions of dollars, paid off 557 00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:47,000 Speaker 1: every loan, paid it off ahead of time, never missed 558 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:49,840 Speaker 1: a payment. Even in the darkest days of COVID when 559 00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:53,000 Speaker 1: they made a shutdown our properties, we never missed, we 560 00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:56,399 Speaker 1: never defaulted, we never breached a covenant. And then one 561 00:25:56,480 --> 00:25:58,400 Speaker 1: day I wake up to the nightmare of your fine 562 00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:01,080 Speaker 1: six hundred million dollars for doing the thing wrong with 563 00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:03,760 Speaker 1: banks that loved us, that testified that they loved us. 564 00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:05,679 Speaker 1: I mean, it was you know, and that's because you 565 00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:09,000 Speaker 1: had a crooked judge again got overturned five zero at 566 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:09,680 Speaker 1: the next court. 567 00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:12,280 Speaker 6: But they rigged out the entire system. 568 00:26:12,520 --> 00:26:14,399 Speaker 1: And you're seeing them do that right now, right, You're 569 00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:16,920 Speaker 1: seeing them do that in Washington, DC, where ninety four 570 00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:18,520 Speaker 1: percent of the cases that go in front of the 571 00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:22,520 Speaker 1: lower course are literally, you know, going against the administration 572 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:24,359 Speaker 1: and then they all have to go up on a 573 00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:27,200 Speaker 1: po and get overturned. But guys, the beautiful thing about 574 00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:29,600 Speaker 1: the story is we won, right. 575 00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:30,360 Speaker 6: I mean, the. 576 00:26:30,359 --> 00:26:33,880 Speaker 1: Media loss, the media lost their credibility. No one likes 577 00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:36,639 Speaker 1: the mainstream media. I mean, my wife is on Fox 578 00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:39,960 Speaker 1: News on a Saturday and nine pm, and she's getting 579 00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:43,879 Speaker 1: four extra ratings of CNN on the same time slot 580 00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:46,959 Speaker 1: on a Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday in primetime slots. 581 00:26:47,080 --> 00:26:49,480 Speaker 6: Right, no one likes the mainstream media. 582 00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:53,879 Speaker 1: ABC's dead, NBC's dead, CNN's dead, and independent voices like 583 00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:55,800 Speaker 1: these podcasts are winning the day. 584 00:26:56,760 --> 00:26:59,160 Speaker 4: And by the way, she is doing an awesome job. 585 00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:00,719 Speaker 4: I had a chance to be on her show, and 586 00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:04,000 Speaker 4: she's she's a great interviewer because she's relaxed, she's having fun, 587 00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:08,360 Speaker 4: she's asking real questions and and it's night and day. Uh, 588 00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:11,760 Speaker 4: you know, I I will occasionally do do CNN. Poor 589 00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:14,479 Speaker 4: Ben was on CNN for six seven years. I actually 590 00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:16,719 Speaker 4: think he has a padded room and he like like 591 00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:17,960 Speaker 4: puts on a straight actuality. 592 00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:19,560 Speaker 5: He remembers those times. 593 00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:20,840 Speaker 6: Fighting comedies for seven years. 594 00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:23,440 Speaker 1: Hey, listen, I just came off Caitlyn Collins about twenty 595 00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:23,960 Speaker 1: minutes ago. 596 00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:31,080 Speaker 3: Right, So it's not some prayers, you know, it's it's 597 00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:31,840 Speaker 3: so bad. 598 00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:36,080 Speaker 4: Let me ask you when all of this was coming in. 599 00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:39,640 Speaker 4: And it is not exaggeration to say there has never 600 00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:45,399 Speaker 4: been a political leader subject to more weaponization. 601 00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:46,840 Speaker 5: More assaults, more. 602 00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:51,920 Speaker 4: Insanely unfair attacks than that than your father has been. 603 00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:56,840 Speaker 4: Was there ever time that that that you felt yourself 604 00:27:56,880 --> 00:27:59,119 Speaker 4: giving in to despair? And and do you think your 605 00:27:59,160 --> 00:27:59,800 Speaker 4: dad ever did? 606 00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:00,320 Speaker 5: Now? 607 00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:03,760 Speaker 1: Honestly, it's like we're like masochistic, like we like pain 608 00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:06,800 Speaker 1: or something along those lines. Right, It's like a weird trade, right, 609 00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:08,840 Speaker 1: And I think it served us well. But now I 610 00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:10,479 Speaker 1: think we were so pissed off at that point. We 611 00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:12,359 Speaker 1: wanted to fight and we wanted to win, and we 612 00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:14,320 Speaker 1: want to save the Constitution. We want to save the 613 00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:17,520 Speaker 1: American flag. We wanted to save religion in society. We 614 00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:19,960 Speaker 1: want to save the Second Amendment. We want to end 615 00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:24,760 Speaker 1: end wokeness. We wanted to stop the DEI nonsense. You know, 616 00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:28,199 Speaker 1: men my size swimming in women's sport. We wanted to 617 00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:32,160 Speaker 1: save the greatest country in the world against absolute lunacy. 618 00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:34,879 Speaker 6: And so we never gave up. We never stopped fighting. 619 00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:36,920 Speaker 1: We went out there and we punched back every single day, 620 00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:38,800 Speaker 1: and we did that as a family. I never left 621 00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:41,320 Speaker 1: that stage, and honestly, I've never been more proud of 622 00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:42,760 Speaker 1: a human being in my life. 623 00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:45,959 Speaker 3: All Right, So our guest with us is Eric Trump. Center. 624 00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:48,320 Speaker 3: You and I were just talking with him about this 625 00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:52,040 Speaker 3: really his family being under siege. You talked about these 626 00:28:52,040 --> 00:28:57,040 Speaker 3: big boy subpoenas part of that is to financially hurt you. 627 00:28:57,720 --> 00:29:01,840 Speaker 3: What did you, guys spend just doing the fighting of 628 00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:05,360 Speaker 3: all the lawsuits against you during that four year period. 629 00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:07,120 Speaker 3: How much did it cost you? 630 00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:10,720 Speaker 6: Roughly four hundred million, guys. 631 00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:13,760 Speaker 1: I laugh when people, oh Trump is profiting off of government, 632 00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:15,880 Speaker 1: I go, wait, wait, excuse me. If you want to 633 00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:18,680 Speaker 1: come in, I'll break down the finances you want to 634 00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:23,280 Speaker 1: Trump's profit. We spent four hundred million dollars to defend 635 00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:25,760 Speaker 1: ourselves against nonsense, the fact that we did not have 636 00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:29,600 Speaker 1: secret servers communicating with the Kremlin, the fact that Don 637 00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:32,959 Speaker 1: wasn't a Russian agent. Remember you had Adam Schiff out 638 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:37,480 Speaker 1: there every single day. Donald Trump Junior is a Russian agent. Guys, 639 00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:40,080 Speaker 1: if he wasn't, if he wasn't protected by the speech 640 00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:43,200 Speaker 1: and debate laws, you would have, honestly, the guy would 641 00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:44,760 Speaker 1: have been worth a zero. He would have been living 642 00:29:44,760 --> 00:29:46,720 Speaker 1: in a shoe box based on the fact that you 643 00:29:46,760 --> 00:29:49,320 Speaker 1: would have sued him for slander and taken everything that 644 00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:53,080 Speaker 1: he ever had. It was all made up lies. They 645 00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:55,480 Speaker 1: did everything they possibly could to take us down. We 646 00:29:55,520 --> 00:29:58,800 Speaker 1: spent over four hundred million dollars between that. You know, Letitia, 647 00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:03,120 Speaker 1: you know Alvin braggs I advance, you know if Fanny, I mean, 648 00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:03,640 Speaker 1: I could. 649 00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:05,400 Speaker 6: Go on and on the raids themar alig. 650 00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:07,400 Speaker 4: What was the worst to deal with Between Alvin braggs 651 00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:10,040 Speaker 4: I vance, Letitia, James jack Smith? 652 00:30:10,040 --> 00:30:10,720 Speaker 5: Who was the worst? 653 00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:13,120 Speaker 6: Probably did Letitia? Have you want to know the truth? 654 00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:17,000 Speaker 1: I mean, it was so corrupt and I don't know 655 00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:19,800 Speaker 1: Alvin braggbys you had Brshawn, I mean, Judge Barshawn's daughter 656 00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:23,720 Speaker 1: is like that, the head digital fundraiser for the Democratic Party, 657 00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:26,560 Speaker 1: and the guy wouldn't recuse himself, and literally, you'd be 658 00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:28,560 Speaker 1: sitting in these courtrooms, guys, and I would not leave 659 00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:31,800 Speaker 1: my father's side. I sat next to him every single day. 660 00:30:31,840 --> 00:30:33,719 Speaker 1: If he was there, I was gonna be there as 661 00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:35,760 Speaker 1: a son to support him, you know. And most of 662 00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:37,960 Speaker 1: the time some of these cases I wasn't gagged in 663 00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:40,120 Speaker 1: so normally I was the guy in the courthouse steps, 664 00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:42,000 Speaker 1: you know, shouting and yelling at the cameras as to 665 00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:43,600 Speaker 1: what the hell was actually going on, because that's the 666 00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:46,160 Speaker 1: only way you could communicate a message. But guys, I 667 00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:48,959 Speaker 1: mean you had liberal and I mean liberal reporters who 668 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:52,200 Speaker 1: were in that courtroom shaking their heads saying none of 669 00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:54,920 Speaker 1: this makes any sense. I mean, they shut down all 670 00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:58,960 Speaker 1: of Manhattan Lower Manhattan for a hundred thousand dollars payment 671 00:30:59,080 --> 00:31:02,320 Speaker 1: that my father didn't even make, made by a lawyer. 672 00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:05,560 Speaker 1: They indicted him thirty four times. I mean, you know, 673 00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:08,760 Speaker 1: al Capone had had one felony indictment. They indicted my 674 00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:11,560 Speaker 1: father thirty four times for one hundred thousand dollars payment, 675 00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:14,560 Speaker 1: by the way, by a district attorney who ran on 676 00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:18,440 Speaker 1: the premise, you know, of reducing what you know, just 677 00:31:18,520 --> 00:31:20,880 Speaker 1: decriminalizing just about anything. You know, you can shoot somebody 678 00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:23,160 Speaker 1: in the face in Times Square and it was decriminalized, 679 00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:25,120 Speaker 1: and you're gonna let them out, and you know you're 680 00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:27,600 Speaker 1: gonna have community policing and all sorts of nonsense. I mean, 681 00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:30,640 Speaker 1: he ran on the premise of literally emptying Rikers Island 682 00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:32,880 Speaker 1: so you had no criminals in there. Yet you know, 683 00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:35,320 Speaker 1: thirty four felonies in six month period of time is 684 00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:37,280 Speaker 1: shutting down New York in the FDR drive every day 685 00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:38,280 Speaker 1: over one hundred thousand dollars. 686 00:31:38,320 --> 00:31:40,160 Speaker 6: I mean, it wasn't believable. 687 00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:44,160 Speaker 4: If only your father were mugging people in Times Square, 688 00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:47,400 Speaker 4: then Alvin Bragg would never have prosecuted him. But instead 689 00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:50,720 Speaker 4: he committed the unspeakable sin of not only being president 690 00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:54,320 Speaker 4: of the United States, but being an extraordinarily successful and 691 00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:57,600 Speaker 4: bold president of the United States, which which is an 692 00:31:57,680 --> 00:32:00,600 Speaker 4: unpardonable sin. All right, we don't have much much time left, 693 00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:01,920 Speaker 4: but but I want to take it a little bit 694 00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:06,040 Speaker 4: lighter and and ask what was it like like your 695 00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:10,080 Speaker 4: father is is unique. I've never in my life, have 696 00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:13,280 Speaker 4: I met anyone remotely like your father. He and I 697 00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:16,680 Speaker 4: have spent a lot of time together. He has extraordinary courage. 698 00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:20,000 Speaker 4: But before he was president, what was it like growing 699 00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:23,600 Speaker 4: up as a kid with Donald Trump as your father? Like, like, like, 700 00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:25,520 Speaker 4: how what was he like as a dad when you 701 00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:25,960 Speaker 4: were ten? 702 00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:28,840 Speaker 6: Honestly, the greatest dad you can ever imagine. 703 00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:31,760 Speaker 1: Expected big things from us, right, I mean every day 704 00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:34,120 Speaker 1: I go give him kiss before I went to school. Honey, 705 00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:36,400 Speaker 1: no drink drinking, no drugs, no smoking. You better get 706 00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:38,160 Speaker 1: good grades. And by the way, never trust anybody. Right 707 00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:39,520 Speaker 1: he did once in a while I had that he 708 00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:42,560 Speaker 1: never never trust anyone. Hey, that's probably that was going 709 00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:45,000 Speaker 1: to be. I said, I've probably benefited us pretty well, 710 00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:48,280 Speaker 1: so amazing guy. You know, listen, we're spoiled as hell, 711 00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:49,840 Speaker 1: and that we lived in you know, Trump Power. We 712 00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:51,640 Speaker 1: had a beautiful roof over our head. We were always 713 00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:54,520 Speaker 1: well fed. We we had the best education. But we 714 00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:57,200 Speaker 1: were never handed money. We're never handy cash. If we 715 00:32:57,240 --> 00:32:59,800 Speaker 1: wanted something, if I wanted a fishing rod, congratulations, your 716 00:32:59,840 --> 00:33:02,200 Speaker 1: work for it. I got on our construction sites when 717 00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:04,920 Speaker 1: I was eleven years old, doing demo, doing electrical HVAC 718 00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:08,960 Speaker 1: you know, running back hose excavators. You know, I grew 719 00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:11,160 Speaker 1: up working with my hands on our construction sites, with 720 00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:13,360 Speaker 1: many of the guys that work for me today. And 721 00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:15,320 Speaker 1: you know what, he wanted us to learn a trait. 722 00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:17,200 Speaker 1: He wanted us to learn the value of a dollar. 723 00:33:17,720 --> 00:33:19,520 Speaker 1: And by the way, he wanted us to be tired 724 00:33:19,560 --> 00:33:20,800 Speaker 1: as hell at the end of the day. You know, 725 00:33:20,840 --> 00:33:23,720 Speaker 1: because listen, don't give Type A kids or any kid. 726 00:33:23,760 --> 00:33:26,640 Speaker 1: But don't give Type A kids money or free time, 727 00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:30,160 Speaker 1: because bad things happen. And he was an amazing father. 728 00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:32,640 Speaker 1: He is an amazing father. And everything we've ever done, 729 00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:34,600 Speaker 1: we fought together, whether it's real estate, whether it was 730 00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:35,120 Speaker 1: The Apprentice. 731 00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:37,960 Speaker 6: I was on that for seven seasons. And then in politics. 732 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:40,680 Speaker 1: I mean, when he decided to run, he said to us, 733 00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:42,360 Speaker 1: he goes, you know, kids, let's do this. You know, 734 00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:43,720 Speaker 1: I was on Megan Kelly. I didn't know what the 735 00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:47,040 Speaker 1: hell immigration was. I mean, Senator, this was not my world. 736 00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:49,800 Speaker 1: I built, you know, hotels, and all of a sudden, 737 00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:50,480 Speaker 1: I'm in the. 738 00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:52,600 Speaker 6: Middle of box, I a wall, and now you're on TV. 739 00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:55,840 Speaker 1: I've got ninety illegal immigrants around me, and I'm battling 740 00:33:55,880 --> 00:33:57,360 Speaker 1: all of them. And I don't know the first damn 741 00:33:57,400 --> 00:33:59,720 Speaker 1: thing about illegal immigration, right. I mean, like, this is 742 00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:02,560 Speaker 1: not the world that we came from. But my father's 743 00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:06,200 Speaker 1: a remarkable guy. My mother was an amazing powerhouse and strict, 744 00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:11,040 Speaker 1: demanded manners, demanded respect, demanded work ethic and either the 745 00:34:11,080 --> 00:34:13,040 Speaker 1: greatest parents you can ever imagine. I spent a lot 746 00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:15,280 Speaker 1: of time in underseage talking about, you know, being raised 747 00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:17,400 Speaker 1: by them, and you know, it is unique in so 748 00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:19,799 Speaker 1: many ways, but they they did everything they could in 749 00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:22,880 Speaker 1: this strange world that we lived in to ground us 750 00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:25,360 Speaker 1: and make sure we turned out to be hard workers, normal, 751 00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:27,759 Speaker 1: you know, and didn't have any of these kind of 752 00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:30,440 Speaker 1: Hunter Biden esque problems. I don't have a laptop from hell, 753 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:33,200 Speaker 1: you know. I don't do finger paintings selling it to 754 00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:35,920 Speaker 1: you know, foreign nationals all over the world. You know, 755 00:34:36,160 --> 00:34:39,120 Speaker 1: never married my you know, my brother's ex wife, Like, 756 00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:41,880 Speaker 1: never did that kind of stuff. No drugs, no you know, 757 00:34:41,960 --> 00:34:44,200 Speaker 1: no perversion. I was always a good kid who believed 758 00:34:44,239 --> 00:34:46,640 Speaker 1: in God and believed in hard work and you know, 759 00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:47,719 Speaker 1: lived an honest life. 760 00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:48,040 Speaker 5: Eric. 761 00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:51,000 Speaker 4: I can't tell you how many times, dozens, if not 762 00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:53,920 Speaker 4: hundreds of times people have commented that one of the 763 00:34:53,960 --> 00:34:54,880 Speaker 4: things they admire. 764 00:34:54,960 --> 00:34:56,560 Speaker 5: Most about your dad. 765 00:34:57,760 --> 00:35:00,680 Speaker 4: Is is you and your brothers and sisters, and and listen, 766 00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:04,400 Speaker 4: it is hard for for any successful person to to 767 00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:07,480 Speaker 4: raise good kids. It's challenging. There's a lot of pressure. 768 00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:12,160 Speaker 4: And and you know, I I know know your entire family, 769 00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:16,080 Speaker 4: and I will say literally people early on throughout the 770 00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:19,040 Speaker 4: process they'll comment, well, you know, somehow his kids are 771 00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:23,440 Speaker 4: like like not messed up and incredibly successful and put together. 772 00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:25,719 Speaker 4: And and I mean, it's all right, let me ask you. 773 00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:28,360 Speaker 4: Let's let let's say we have some young parents that 774 00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:32,160 Speaker 4: are listening to this podcast. Are there any lessons a 775 00:35:32,239 --> 00:35:34,959 Speaker 4: young parent by the way, Uh, you know Ben, Ben 776 00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:37,560 Speaker 4: has young kids, I have teenage. Are there any lessons 777 00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:40,960 Speaker 4: any lessons from your dad that that young parents should know, 778 00:35:41,239 --> 00:35:43,280 Speaker 4: or lessons that that you've tried to apply. 779 00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:48,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, keep them poor and make them start working early. Honestly, 780 00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:49,919 Speaker 1: I mean that's what it is. Keep keep them poor. 781 00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:52,719 Speaker 1: Don't don't give type A kids money and don't give 782 00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:56,279 Speaker 1: them endless time. That's just a bad recipe, right, And 783 00:35:56,280 --> 00:35:57,680 Speaker 1: and uh, you know, I can't tell you, guys how 784 00:35:57,680 --> 00:36:00,000 Speaker 1: many friends I had, you know, who were who were here, 785 00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:02,000 Speaker 1: who went to school with me, and you know, three 786 00:36:02,080 --> 00:36:04,680 Speaker 1: quarters of them ended up in rehab and a lot 787 00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:06,239 Speaker 1: of them went down bad roads. And guess what they 788 00:36:06,239 --> 00:36:08,720 Speaker 1: were getting ferraris you know when they're you know, sixteen 789 00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:11,000 Speaker 1: years old, Like, what do you ever want to aspire 790 00:36:11,120 --> 00:36:14,680 Speaker 1: to to get if that's if that's how you're being raised. 791 00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:16,759 Speaker 1: I mean, does it surprise you that those people don't 792 00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:18,680 Speaker 1: have work ethic? Does it surprise you that they would 793 00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:21,239 Speaker 1: go down bad roads? And my father would never let 794 00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:23,000 Speaker 1: that happen to us. And you know, he made us 795 00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:25,439 Speaker 1: work our butts off. And believe me, if I wasn't 796 00:36:25,440 --> 00:36:28,360 Speaker 1: good at what I did real estate wise, I would 797 00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:29,080 Speaker 1: not be in this chair. 798 00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:30,880 Speaker 6: I mean, forget about nepotism for a second. 799 00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:33,920 Speaker 1: It you know, if we weren't incredibly capable, believe me, 800 00:36:33,960 --> 00:36:35,680 Speaker 1: I wouldn't be running one of the largest real estate 801 00:36:35,680 --> 00:36:38,520 Speaker 1: empires anywhere in the world. And he made us work, 802 00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:39,880 Speaker 1: and he made us prove that we were good at 803 00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:41,680 Speaker 1: what we do, and we fought every single day, and 804 00:36:42,280 --> 00:36:45,080 Speaker 1: we'ren an incredibly tight family. And he's a remarkable person. 805 00:36:45,160 --> 00:36:47,320 Speaker 1: He's my best friend. I love him to death, and 806 00:36:47,680 --> 00:36:49,640 Speaker 1: I'm so proud of him, especially in a week where 807 00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:52,200 Speaker 1: he's accomplished as much as he had. I am so 808 00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:54,680 Speaker 1: damn proud of what he of what he did, and 809 00:36:54,719 --> 00:36:56,440 Speaker 1: what he's accomplished and the hell. 810 00:36:56,280 --> 00:36:58,920 Speaker 6: Of a journey. Guys. It's all worth it. This is 811 00:36:59,000 --> 00:36:59,560 Speaker 6: all worth it. 812 00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:02,839 Speaker 1: The sea is all worth it based on the great 813 00:37:02,840 --> 00:37:04,520 Speaker 1: things that are happening to our country and our world. 814 00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:07,480 Speaker 2: Thank you for listening to the forty seven Morning Update 815 00:37:07,640 --> 00:37:11,719 Speaker 2: with Ben Ferguson. Please make sure you hit subscribe wherever 816 00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:14,799 Speaker 2: you're listening to this podcast right now and for more 817 00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:18,600 Speaker 2: in depth news, also subscribe to the Ben Ferguson podcast 818 00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:20,640 Speaker 2: and we will see you back here tomorrow.