WEBVTT - Eric Trump-Exclusive Interview on his new book Under Siege 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:00.440 Welcome. 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:02.800 It is Verdic with Center, Ted Cruz, and it's Ben 0:00:02.880 --> 0:00:05.120 Ferguson with you. It's so nice to have you with us, 0:00:05.120 --> 0:00:07.640 and certainly if you're listening on radio right now as well, 0:00:07.760 --> 0:00:10.360 we love having you with us as well. And this 0:00:10.440 --> 0:00:13.000 is going to be a really fun show tonight Center, 0:00:13.080 --> 0:00:14.640 because we're gonna get to have a good friend of 0:00:14.640 --> 0:00:18.000 ours on take a pause sort of from politics for 0:00:18.000 --> 0:00:20.000 a moment, talk about a cool new book that is 0:00:20.079 --> 0:00:23.080 out and what was behind writing this book, and I'll 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:24.040 let you take it from there. 0:00:24.720 --> 0:00:27.159 You know, Ben, I got to say, we try to 0:00:27.240 --> 0:00:31.320 count on being honest and candid with our viewers and listeners, 0:00:31.880 --> 0:00:33.879 and yet you just claim that we're going to take 0:00:33.920 --> 0:00:37.080 a break from politics, and this is about as far 0:00:37.120 --> 0:00:39.680 away from taking a break from politics as I can 0:00:39.720 --> 0:00:40.840 possibly imagine. 0:00:41.800 --> 0:00:42.239 Today. 0:00:42.320 --> 0:00:45.400 We are very pleased to welcome our friend Eric Trump, 0:00:45.440 --> 0:00:48.360 President Donald Trump's son, who has a brand new book. 0:00:48.400 --> 0:00:50.400 A brand new book came out this week. The book 0:00:50.440 --> 0:00:54.040 is entitled Under Siege, My Family's Fight to Save Our Nation. 0:00:55.120 --> 0:00:57.400 He is in the midst of his nationwide book tour 0:00:57.520 --> 0:01:02.200 right now, and in classic Trump fashion, he's on the list. 0:01:02.320 --> 0:01:04.160 And there's only one place to be on the list, 0:01:04.160 --> 0:01:05.880 and that is at number one. It's the number one 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:09.920 best selling book in America right now. And Eric, this 0:01:10.040 --> 0:01:13.039 is your first book. It ain't bad debuting at number one. 0:01:13.080 --> 0:01:14.560 Congratulations and welcome. 0:01:14.920 --> 0:01:15.560 Mister senator. 0:01:15.640 --> 0:01:17.360 Now it will probably be my last book as well, 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:19.319 because we're not I'm not doing this again. You know, 0:01:19.480 --> 0:01:21.919 the return, the return on time of books is especially 0:01:21.920 --> 0:01:23.440 when you put your heart and soul into it. But yeah, 0:01:23.440 --> 0:01:25.280 we're number one on Amazon, We're number one on all 0:01:25.319 --> 0:01:28.400 the lists, and it's I mean, it just went viral. 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:30.119 I think. You know, people in this country are pissed off. 0:01:30.120 --> 0:01:32.720 And mister Centater, you you've done a better job fighting 0:01:32.760 --> 0:01:34.959 against a weaponization of government than I would say just 0:01:34.959 --> 0:01:37.759 about anybody other than maybe Donald Trump, right, who's had 0:01:37.800 --> 0:01:39.839 to face all of this. And you know, I became 0:01:39.880 --> 0:01:41.720 the pinata in this whole fight because I was the 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:44.440 one guy who didn't have constitutional protections. I was a civilian, 0:01:45.000 --> 0:01:46.080 you know, I was a guy that was running the 0:01:46.080 --> 0:01:48.880 Trump organization. I was the guy that ran everything that 0:01:48.960 --> 0:01:51.600 was outside of Washington, DC for my father when he 0:01:51.680 --> 0:01:54.160 went into the White House. And what they tried to 0:01:54.200 --> 0:01:56.360 do to us, what they tried to do to our family, 0:01:56.400 --> 0:01:58.280 what they tried to do to this nation, what they 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:01.040 tried to do to you and and all your viewers 0:02:01.080 --> 0:02:03.840 on this show is unthinkable, and somebody had to materialize 0:02:03.880 --> 0:02:07.120 it because there's the greatest governmental corruption this nation has 0:02:07.160 --> 0:02:07.560 ever seen. 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:12.440 Well, you're right, and they launched everything they had at 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:17.080 your father, at your family, four separate indictments. On top 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:19.840 of that, the asinine case from the New York Attorney 0:02:19.880 --> 0:02:27.359 General trying to argue that somehow global international banks are 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:31.760 innocent wifes who are deceived and are apparently are unable 0:02:31.760 --> 0:02:34.240 to value real estate because you know, giant banks have 0:02:34.320 --> 0:02:37.880 never had to value real estate in the past. I 0:02:37.919 --> 0:02:41.960 will confess, for me, maybe the most absurd moment of 0:02:42.000 --> 0:02:45.760 all of it was when the idiot judge in New 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:49.480 York valued bar a Lago at eighteen million dollars, which 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:51.400 I'll confess I saw it. 0:02:51.440 --> 0:02:52.360 I would have bought it for that. 0:02:53.120 --> 0:02:55.840 I saw your dad not shortly after that, and I 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:58.320 offered it on the spot. I said, miss President, I'll 0:02:58.360 --> 0:03:03.000 give you twenty million right now. Well they too, I mean, 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:04.960 as you as you know, you can't buy a hot 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:08.079 dog stand in Palm Beach for eighteen million dollars, and 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:12.120 that notion that to me, it was the most ludicrous. 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:15.880 It was a relatively small detail of what was a 0:03:16.040 --> 0:03:19.640 pile of idiocy upon idiocy. But you guys were the 0:03:19.680 --> 0:03:23.600 targets of it, and and it it cannot have been fun. 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:25.240 Mister Center. 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:27.760 I became the most openied man in American history for 0:03:27.919 --> 0:03:30.960 doing absolutely nothing wrong. I'm not Hunter Biden. I never 0:03:31.000 --> 0:03:33.000 had a speeding ticket in my life. I've lived a 0:03:33.080 --> 0:03:36.360 very straight, very good life, hard working guy, no games, 0:03:36.440 --> 0:03:40.080 never even approached the line, you know, raised right, you know, 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:42.240 and and they tried to destroy us. I was the 0:03:42.280 --> 0:03:44.000 one those gang calls from the FBI. You remember the 0:03:44.080 --> 0:03:46.000 Russia hoos very well because you were probably the best 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:48.520 person in fighting against it. Eric, I hear you have 0:03:48.600 --> 0:03:51.520 secret servers in the basement of Trump Tower communicating directly 0:03:51.560 --> 0:03:53.360 with the Kremlin. I go, excuse me, I literally started, 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:55.800 mister Center. I started laughing. I started laughing. I go, 0:03:55.840 --> 0:03:58.240 First of all, you don't keep servers in basements because 0:03:58.280 --> 0:04:00.760 basements flood. Second of all, were like largely cloud based. 0:04:01.200 --> 0:04:03.000 And they did it so a greedy woman could get 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:05.600 about three extra votes, right, And they used that as 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:08.520 their explanation as to why she lost. And then it 0:04:08.560 --> 0:04:09.920 was at peachment number one, and then it was a 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:12.920 peachment number two, and then it was them attacking Cavanaugh, 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:14.600 and then it was one hundred and twelve subpoenas that 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:16.479 I received for again doing nothing wrong. And then it 0:04:16.520 --> 0:04:20.000 was a weaponization of every attorney general and district attorney 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:22.760 in this country, whether it be Latitia James or Alvin 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:26.240 Bragg or Cy Vance or Fanny Willis and her boyfriend 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:30.200 in Fulton, Georgia, you know, or Jack Smith or Comy 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:33.839 and everything that they did. Then they spied on her campaign. 0:04:33.880 --> 0:04:36.840 Then they did the weaponization of Faiza. Then they took 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:38.800 my father off the ballot in Colorado, and then they 0:04:38.800 --> 0:04:41.040 took him off the ballot in Maine. And when that 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:43.160 didn't work, they tried to silence his voice and get 0:04:43.240 --> 0:04:44.360 rid of his First Amendment right. 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:45.000 So what did they do? 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:47.720 Took him off of YouTube, took him off of Twitter, 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:50.760 took him off of Facebook, took him off of Instagram. 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:52.919 And when that didn't work, when we popped up true social, 0:04:53.000 --> 0:04:55.679 what did they do? They had every judge imposed gag 0:04:55.760 --> 0:04:57.000 orders on him and. 0:04:56.960 --> 0:04:58.240 Then they rated mar Lago. 0:04:58.320 --> 0:05:00.000 I was the guy that got the call when third 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:03.360 FBI agents were outside screaming in a phone to me 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:06.520 turn off the security cameras at m R A Lago. 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:09.800 They did everything they could, and then they de banked us, 0:05:09.839 --> 0:05:13.160 and then they deplatformed us. They tried to bankrupt us, 0:05:13.200 --> 0:05:16.480 they tried to imprison us. And I'll never forget walking 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:18.160 out of that jail cell with my father in New 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:20.359 York after the thirty four felony accounts right which have 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:23.240 all been overturned, and I said, Dad, we either win 0:05:23.320 --> 0:05:25.239 the White House or you and I are in jail 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:30.359 for doing absolutely nothing wrong. That's how diabolical the pendulum was. 0:05:31.240 --> 0:05:32.840 And they were doing it to the people in this 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:35.320 country as well. They were debanking them. They were going 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:38.080 after their pastors, they were going after their churches. They 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:39.520 were weaponizing the irs. 0:05:40.040 --> 0:05:40.280 You know. 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:43.559 They were skipping great people who had worked their butts 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:46.840 off their entire year because of DEI hires and literally 0:05:46.920 --> 0:05:50.279 ruining upward mobility of people across the country. They were 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:53.839 corrupting their children. They were teaching them revisionist history. This 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:56.680 siege wasn't just against the Trump family, it was against 0:05:56.680 --> 0:05:57.080 all of us. 0:05:57.080 --> 0:05:59.360 It was against both of you, it was against. 0:05:59.240 --> 0:06:02.599 Every person watching us right now, and people are pissed 0:06:02.640 --> 0:06:04.800 off in this country, and that's why this book went 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:06.000 to number one. 0:06:06.120 --> 0:06:08.920 You mentioned mar Lago a second ago and getting that 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:13.520 phone call. Can you just explain how insane that day 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:15.880 must have been, because I know people we saw it 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:18.760 on TV, but you were on the inside. And when 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:20.880 you're getting a phone called, they're telling you to turn 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:22.360 your cameras off. 0:06:22.480 --> 0:06:24.200 So like, what time of day is it, what are 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:24.640 you doing? 0:06:25.440 --> 0:06:27.800 It was about seven fifty eight o'clock in the morning 0:06:27.800 --> 0:06:29.160 when I got a call from my team. They say, 0:06:29.160 --> 0:06:31.000 the thirty FBI agents and they have a search warrant. 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:32.760 I go, what are they searching? I'm not sure if 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:34.760 I understand, Like we have like such a great relationship 0:06:34.760 --> 0:06:37.279 with law enforcement. It was bizarre at the time. I go, 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:39.200 how would I not know about this? From Secret Service? 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:40.560 How would I not know? I mean, they didn't give 0:06:40.560 --> 0:06:44.560 anybody warning. And I'll never forget, I said. I finally 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:45.839 figured out what they were doing, and I said, did 0:06:45.880 --> 0:06:47.600 anybody let my father know? And it was my team, 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:49.640 really and they said no, And I go, we'll call 0:06:49.720 --> 0:06:51.279 him right now, and we met in his office and 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:53.440 that's when he wrote up that beautiful tweet, as you remember, 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:56.160 And the FBI was so damn pissed that we sent 0:06:56.200 --> 0:06:58.760 out that tweet. They wanted to have the narrative, they 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:01.200 wanted to be able to release a story, and instead 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:03.520 my father writes that beautiful tweet. You know, right now, 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:07.039 the FBI is raiding the famous Mara A Lago, my home, 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:10.280 you know, And the world went crazy. The world couldn't 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:13.040 stand it. It was the worst decision that they ever made. 0:07:13.280 --> 0:07:15.280 And remember, Senator, they said it was on behalf of 0:07:15.360 --> 0:07:18.880 Nara right National Archives. Does anybody I went on Hannity 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:21.520 that night, I go, does anybody actually believe with glorified 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:26.040 library send thirty FBI agents to invade Mara A Lago 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:27.560 with firearms? 0:07:28.040 --> 0:07:28.960 Give me a break, right? 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:30.800 And then sure enough it comes out there was Joe Biden, 0:07:30.840 --> 0:07:32.800 and it was Merrick Garland, and it was the whole 0:07:32.800 --> 0:07:35.960 host of criminals that weaponized the entire system. But I'll 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:39.240 never forget that call. Thirty FBI agents outside of mar 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:42.640 A Lago. 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So everyone listening, I hope you'll buy 0:09:43.200 --> 0:09:44.839 the book just so we can screw with them a 0:09:44.840 --> 0:09:46.640 little bit. Center you've been at the top of that list, 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:47.480 it's hard to get there. 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:50.960 Well, I will say, Eric, you should brace yourself. It 0:09:50.960 --> 0:09:53.200 doesn't matter how many copies of the book you sell. 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:56.840 The New York Times is going to insist that like 0:09:56.960 --> 0:10:00.319 left Handed Transgender Witches, is the number one book in America, 0:10:00.760 --> 0:10:02.920 and to be fair, in the New York Times newsroom, 0:10:02.960 --> 0:10:04.960 it probably is the number one book in America. But 0:10:04.960 --> 0:10:07.000 but if you get outside the New York Times and 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:08.959 to the rest of America, there are a lot of 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:11.000 people right now that are going to Amazon. Go to 0:10:11.000 --> 0:10:14.120 Amazon right now by Eric truck Trump's book Keep It 0:10:14.160 --> 0:10:17.520 at number one, Annoy a Liberal by two, buy one 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:19.680 for yourself, and buy one to give a liberal just 0:10:19.720 --> 0:10:22.840 to drive them crazy. And and and to say, explain 0:10:22.920 --> 0:10:26.720 to me again how you think weaponization is a bad thing. 0:10:26.840 --> 0:10:29.960 Because because your you're liberal friends, to the extent you 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:33.440 have any that they haven't defriended you, They're not going 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:35.520 to have an answer to that. Eric, tell me what 0:10:35.679 --> 0:10:37.760 was your dad's reaction when you went in and and 0:10:37.920 --> 0:10:41.480 told them, okay, the FBI agents are here. I assume 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:44.120 he was pissed, But like, what was his immediate reaction 0:10:44.200 --> 0:10:45.520 when you tell him that It. 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:46.800 Was actually remarkably calm. 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:49.480 You know, it's it's you know, I've seen my father 0:10:49.520 --> 0:10:51.599 pissed many times, but he doesn't get pissed off and 0:10:51.880 --> 0:10:54.320 in situations of kind of like great anguish and stress. Right, 0:10:54.320 --> 0:10:56.360 it's no different than Butler. But you know, almost foreshadow 0:10:56.440 --> 0:10:58.840 Butler is the same thing. It's it's I probably would 0:10:58.880 --> 0:11:00.400 have been pissed in Butler and I think he was 0:11:00.440 --> 0:11:04.000 actually remarkably calm, especially in the aftermath of what happened. 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:06.560 And you know he was always his commist in the 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:09.679 worst moments, always, I mean and center. You saw many 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:11.679 of them. I mean you were there for many of them, 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:14.680 in so many different ways. You know, he never let 0:11:14.679 --> 0:11:17.120 emotion fly. It was it was a very he goes, 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:19.000 you gotta be kidding me, all right, honey, meet me 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:20.680 in my office. You know, we're going to write up 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:22.560 a statement. And that's when he let that truth fly, 0:11:22.760 --> 0:11:24.560 and you know, the rest is history. I mean, for 0:11:24.600 --> 0:11:26.719 the next month, they had helicopters buzzing over mar a 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:29.000 Lago and you know the scenes of that front gate. 0:11:29.040 --> 0:11:31.280 You remember this, the cop car from the front gate 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:33.160 of mar Lago. I mean, mar Lago became, not that 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:35.679 it wasn't probably already, but he became the most famous 0:11:35.679 --> 0:11:38.040 property in the world. Based on on that raid and 0:11:38.080 --> 0:11:39.920 what they did, and then the aftermath of all of it, 0:11:39.960 --> 0:11:42.520 we find out Jack Smith was bringing in classified folders 0:11:42.520 --> 0:11:45.040 and effectively staging photo shoots on the. 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:48.280 Office floor of my father's office. 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:50.240 But you know, as I said before, guys, I mean 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:52.640 they were going through Malania's closet they were going through 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:57.439 Baron's room. They literally they took his medical records, right 0:11:57.640 --> 0:12:00.439 like hipA related records. That pissed off the judge. I 0:12:00.440 --> 0:12:03.560 can only tell you they took attorney client documents right. 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:07.160 That also really pissed off Eileen Cannon, the judge on 0:12:07.200 --> 0:12:09.920 the case. You just you couldn't believe it. And then 0:12:10.000 --> 0:12:11.600 you know, again, all of this was stage. You think 0:12:11.600 --> 0:12:15.400 Donald Trump just leaves classified folders fanned out perfectly on 0:12:15.440 --> 0:12:17.120 the floor. I mean, it was all staged. It was 0:12:17.120 --> 0:12:20.360 all set up. They wanted to imprison him. They wanted 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:22.600 to take his voice. They wanted to imprison him. They 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:25.000 wanted him behind bars. They didn't want him to be 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:28.240 able to campaign. They wanted to weaponize a system in 0:12:28.280 --> 0:12:30.960 any way, shape or form, and they weren't able to 0:12:30.960 --> 0:12:31.280 do it. 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:34.240 A lot of people remember the deplatforming, and you mentioned 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:37.040 that earlier, and you go back to the end of 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:39.680 his first term in office. But one of the things 0:12:39.720 --> 0:12:42.160 you mentioned earlier on was they tried to ruin your 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:46.560 businesses by d banking. You can you explain for people 0:12:46.600 --> 0:12:49.679 that don't understand just how critical that was in a 0:12:49.720 --> 0:12:52.000 time and the Trump organization you've been handled the family 0:12:52.000 --> 0:12:54.640 business to run it. And now you're finding out you 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:56.800 can't even have banking the way that you need to 0:12:56.840 --> 0:12:59.520 have banking to literally run businesses, whether your big business 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:01.600 are small business. A lot of people listening right now. 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:03.600 If you don't have a bank, you don't have a business. 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:05.760 Yeah, Ben, it was that times one hundred. 0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:09.000 I mean they they literally it was coordinated by the administration, 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:11.480 There's no question about it. And they called up and 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:13.520 they said, listen, congratulations, you cancel the account. I was 0:13:13.520 --> 0:13:15.360 getting these letters. I got one from Capital One. They 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:17.400 had three hundred bank accounts. And these aren't like baby 0:13:17.440 --> 0:13:21.079 bank accounts. These are massive commercial buildings that have hundreds 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:24.880 of tenants, you know, thousands of people working in these buildings, 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:29.600 hundreds if not thousands, of vendors, heavy real estate taxes. 0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:33.120 I mean people, hundreds and hundreds of people depend their 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:36.840 livelihoods depend on on these businesses. They've got complicated lock 0:13:36.840 --> 0:13:40.160 box provisions and loan you know, loan documents, thousands of 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:42.640 inputs coming in like this, you know, and they just 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:44.760 called up. You know, your accounts are going to get closed. 0:13:44.800 --> 0:13:47.880 You've got one or two days to move them, and congratulations, 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:50.400 you're done. All because we wore a hat that said 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:51.680 make America great again. 0:13:52.160 --> 0:13:52.720 That was read. 0:13:53.000 --> 0:13:56.480 These were commercial buildings, these were condominium associations, these were 0:13:56.600 --> 0:14:00.360 small golf courses, these were you know, residential shops, were 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:03.679 scrow accounts, things that had nothing to do, nothing to 0:14:03.679 --> 0:14:06.640 do with politics whatsoever. And they canceled us like we 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:08.800 were dogs. Capital One was the worst. 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:09.120 JP. 0:14:09.280 --> 0:14:13.040 Morgan was horrible. Bank of America was horrible. First Republic 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:15.679 was terrible. But it wasn't just the banks. It was 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:20.120 platform Shopify. Shopify literally gave us a notice they do 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:22.080 all the e comm platforms in the middle of the night, 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:24.560 turned off our accounts like we were nothing right. We 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:27.040 were selling golf polos that we have, you know from 0:14:27.080 --> 0:14:30.720 mar A Lago. And they did everything they could took 0:14:30.720 --> 0:14:32.840 to hurt us, to turn off the rails right again. 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:36.720 They wanted our voice gone, They wanted us bankrupt, they 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:39.000 wanted the name off of every building. They wanted us 0:14:39.040 --> 0:14:41.360 thrown out of New York. You had Letitia James, I 0:14:41.440 --> 0:14:43.400 was trying to repossess our assets. I mean it was 0:14:43.440 --> 0:14:46.720 almost like forfeiture. It was not constitutional. Hence the reason 0:14:46.800 --> 0:14:49.800 the appellate courts throughout the case five zero and we 0:14:49.800 --> 0:14:52.400 got a resounding victory two weeks ago or three weeks ago. 0:14:52.920 --> 0:14:54.440 Guys, they tried everything they could. 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:56.560 And because I was the guy outside of Washington, DC, 0:14:56.720 --> 0:14:59.280 because I ran the company, it all fell on me. 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:01.800 That's how I became the most opened person the history 0:15:01.840 --> 0:15:03.960 of this country, having never done a damn thing wrong. 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:07.040 They wanted to get to my father coming through me. 0:15:07.400 --> 0:15:10.800 That Now, were these business accounts personal accounts both? I mean, 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:13.200 how many accounts are we talking about? 0:15:13.280 --> 0:15:14.000 Roughly like what. 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:17.800 Five five hundred? You know, lots of those being business accounts, 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:21.120 all of them being us. You know, my wife has 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:24.160 a like athletic clothing line. You know, JP Morgan Chase 0:15:24.200 --> 0:15:26.400 wouldn't open up an account, so you know, for her, 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:30.400 she's not Donald Trump, She's not the Trump organization. They 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:32.880 did this to everyone in the family. If you even 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:35.440 came close. You know, if you even came close. I 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:38.920 have a little farm with a couple buddies. They canceled 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:42.040 that account. Doesn't wear a Trump name, it can't. They 0:15:42.080 --> 0:15:45.280 were indiscriminate. If it was six degrees of sep in 0:15:45.320 --> 0:15:48.600 narration from Trump, they canceled us. And honestly, guys, you know, 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:53.400 I'm an outspoken you know, a big fan of you know, cryptocurrency. 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:56.600 That's how I found crypto because I realized how quickly 0:15:56.640 --> 0:16:00.000 financial institutions can be weaponized against the American people and 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:02.400 realize that there's nothing that can be done on you know, 0:16:02.520 --> 0:16:07.080 using traditional financial institutions that can't be done better, faster, cheaper, safer, 0:16:07.120 --> 0:16:10.000 and more efficiently using cryptocurrency. 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:11.720 And I'm the biggest proponent of it. 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:14.840 Did did they even even purport to give you any 0:16:14.880 --> 0:16:17.960 explanation or do they just say no, it's canceled like 0:16:17.960 --> 0:16:21.400 like that that they didn't was there any details or 0:16:21.440 --> 0:16:24.400 you just get phone calls or get an email and say, okay, 0:16:24.480 --> 0:16:25.480 this account's done. 0:16:25.680 --> 0:16:25.880 Yeah. 0:16:25.880 --> 0:16:27.400 Other other than a lot of those, you know a 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:28.920 lot of the people that worked in the in the 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:31.120 banks who otherwise said this is the most I can't 0:16:31.120 --> 0:16:33.040 believe it. I can't believe what my bank's doing. This 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:35.440 is all political. That's what they're saying in the corridors 0:16:35.440 --> 0:16:38.280 every day. They canceled you for political reasons. There's no 0:16:38.360 --> 0:16:41.120 other explanation they're telling us, you know, they're telling us 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:44.000 we can't talk to you ever again. I was unbelievable, 0:16:44.040 --> 0:16:46.480 and I would not wish that on my worst enemy, 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:50.040 to take the rails of being able to pay employees. 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:53.160 These are housekeepers, these are janitors, these are engineers, these 0:16:53.160 --> 0:16:57.960 are security officers, these are drivers, hospitality workers, to not 0:16:58.080 --> 0:17:01.200 be able to pay them a salary, all because somebody 0:17:01.200 --> 0:17:04.959 wanted to politicize a system against a candidate because they 0:17:05.000 --> 0:17:07.920 happened to be a conservative and they believed in making 0:17:07.960 --> 0:17:08.920 America great again. 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:14.600 SATA, this is a story that we're hearing about the 0:17:14.640 --> 0:17:17.959 weaponization of the private sector, not the government, the private 0:17:18.040 --> 0:17:23.040 sector against the Trump organization. The moment that he just said, 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:27.159 five hundred bank acounts just shut down, I'm shocked by that. 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:28.480 I think you were as well. 0:17:28.880 --> 0:17:29.639 That number. 0:17:29.680 --> 0:17:32.080 I'd never heard anything remotely close to that. I mean, 0:17:32.119 --> 0:17:37.040 that really is stunning. So you're running your families outside businesses, 0:17:37.600 --> 0:17:40.359 you get these calls. What do you do when you're 0:17:40.400 --> 0:17:43.959 given what you said, twenty four hours forty eight hours notice, Like, 0:17:44.600 --> 0:17:48.240 were there banks that were willing to welcome your business 0:17:48.280 --> 0:17:50.639 or what did you do with with five hundred accounts 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:51.320 being canceled. 0:17:51.920 --> 0:17:53.600 You're a lot of attorney generals, and you had a 0:17:53.640 --> 0:17:55.720 lot of government institutions that were going to these banks 0:17:55.800 --> 0:17:58.359 and don't even think about don't touch that account. You know, 0:17:58.720 --> 0:18:00.960 Letitia James was doing that to the bonding companies when 0:18:00.960 --> 0:18:03.440 we had to after the initial ruling, when we had 0:18:03.440 --> 0:18:06.360