WEBVTT - Eric Trump Under Siege - October 15th, Hour 2 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:02.760 Two Shawn Manity Show eight hundred and ninety four one 0:00:02.759 --> 0:00:04.720 Shawn our number. If you want to be a part 0:00:04.800 --> 0:00:08.479 of the program, we have for the full hour, and 0:00:08.520 --> 0:00:11.559 I promise you're going to find it fascinating. Eric Trump 0:00:11.600 --> 0:00:13.160 is going to join us in a minute. He wrote 0:00:13.160 --> 0:00:16.400 a new book, Under Siege, My Family's Fight to Save 0:00:16.680 --> 0:00:20.279 Our Nation. And when I started reading this book in 0:00:21.079 --> 0:00:23.960 my own way, I felt like I had lived a 0:00:24.079 --> 0:00:28.120 parallel life with Eric in the sense that I was 0:00:28.160 --> 0:00:32.160 an early supporter of President Trump, and I got abused 0:00:32.200 --> 0:00:34.640 by a lot of prominent conservatives. I think, well, how 0:00:34.680 --> 0:00:38.760 many years did Glenn Beck and I don't know who 0:00:38.760 --> 0:00:42.480 else was out there pounding Ben Shapiro, you know, pounding 0:00:42.520 --> 0:00:45.600 me every day that I'm not a real conservative, et cetera, 0:00:45.640 --> 0:00:50.199 et cetera. And meanwhile, we have the most transformational and 0:00:50.400 --> 0:00:53.800 consequential president in our lifetime. And it didn't never bothered 0:00:53.840 --> 0:00:55.520 me because I knew in my heart I was right. 0:00:55.680 --> 0:00:59.120 I had known Donald Trump for decades of my life 0:00:59.160 --> 0:01:02.760 and we had many conversation before he ever decided to run. Anyway, 0:01:02.760 --> 0:01:04.880 it's an honor to have back to on the program, 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:09.720 Eric Trump. This book is phenomenal. I felt like I was. 0:01:10.120 --> 0:01:12.320 It was like I was reading I was living a 0:01:12.360 --> 0:01:14.440 parallel life with you in a lot of ways because 0:01:14.480 --> 0:01:17.120 I covered all this like on Rush the Russia hoax. 0:01:17.120 --> 0:01:19.319 I think I spent four straight years on radio and 0:01:19.360 --> 0:01:23.280 TV with an ensemble cast. We got every aspect of 0:01:23.319 --> 0:01:25.360 that right. The rest of the media got it wrong 0:01:25.400 --> 0:01:26.119 and they got pulled. 0:01:26.160 --> 0:01:28.039 Surprises, Sean, There's no question you did. 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:29.640 And listen, I have to give you credit. I'm not 0:01:29.640 --> 0:01:31.320 sure if I've ever told this story either to you, 0:01:31.560 --> 0:01:33.800 and you'll be the only person who actually remembers this, 0:01:33.959 --> 0:01:36.080 but I heard this from two people back in the day. 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:37.640 I heard it from my father, who you know, when 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:39.080 he told us he was running for president. He goes, 0:01:39.080 --> 0:01:40.440 they're going to come after us in ways that you 0:01:40.440 --> 0:01:42.559 can't even imagine. And you and I have been friends 0:01:42.560 --> 0:01:44.199 for a very long time, and I remember you pulling 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:45.920 me aside, and you go, Eric, you watch what they 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:47.600 try and do to your family. You know, I would 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:49.360 get a lawyer involved in everything in your life. I 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:52.520 wouldn't you know. I would just scrub every aspect of 0:01:52.520 --> 0:01:54.040 your life. Not that we had to, because we were 0:01:54.080 --> 0:01:56.480 always good kids, but they are going to come after you. 0:01:56.520 --> 0:01:59.280 In ways that you couldn't even possibly anticipate. And Shawan, 0:01:59.320 --> 0:02:00.480 you warned me of this. I'm not I ever sure 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:02.640 if you remember this conversation, but a decade ago you 0:02:02.720 --> 0:02:04.600 warned me of what the Deep Day was going to 0:02:04.680 --> 0:02:06.600 do to us. And they did exactly everything that you 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:09.440 had predicted and everything that that my father predicted at 0:02:09.440 --> 0:02:11.320 the time. I mean, they wanted to see us destroyed. 0:02:11.400 --> 0:02:13.360 They wanted to see us gone. And you know, the 0:02:13.400 --> 0:02:16.480 irony is it didn't really start, you know, in twenty sixteen. 0:02:16.520 --> 0:02:18.400 I mean, you had you had a nasty media at 0:02:18.400 --> 0:02:21.360 that point, but you know, they were so pompous and 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:23.800 so arrogant. They didn't think that this kind of ragtag 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:26.359 group of people could beat Hillary Clinton, you know. I 0:02:26.400 --> 0:02:29.080 mean you remember New York Times the morning of the 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:31.880 election had us they gave us a two point one 0:02:31.919 --> 0:02:34.720 percent chance of beating Hillary Clinton that morning, and yet 0:02:34.720 --> 0:02:37.560 we steamrolled her like it wasn't even it wasn't even 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:39.679 close in terms of you know, the you know, the 0:02:39.919 --> 0:02:42.360 overall you know electoral college and they count, you know, 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:43.640 at the end of the night, and yet we had 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:45.800 a two percent chance of going in. They were so 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:48.840 pompous that they didn't think we could win. And as 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:51.600 soon as we did win, that's when they lashed out, right, 0:02:51.600 --> 0:02:54.480 They couldn't believe that. Again, as I said this, this 0:02:54.520 --> 0:02:56.600 small group of people could go in there and beat 0:02:56.680 --> 0:03:00.000 the most iconic person probably American politics, or at least 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:02.720 family name that was probably most synonymous with politics over 0:03:02.760 --> 0:03:05.639 the last you know, five decades, you know, when we 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:07.519 didn't know what the hell a delegate was, when we 0:03:07.560 --> 0:03:09.440 didn't you know, know what a caucus was, when we 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:11.000 didn't know how to play the game, when we had 0:03:11.040 --> 0:03:13.160 been to Washington, all of that, you know, two times 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:16.040 before that, you know, for for anything you know, related 0:03:16.040 --> 0:03:19.280 to politics, and and that's when the swamps started lashing out. 0:03:19.280 --> 0:03:20.880 And the way they came after our family was not 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:23.240 the shortest spectacular. But you called it, and my father 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:25.440 called it, and you had the intuition to know exactly 0:03:25.520 --> 0:03:28.280 what they were going to do, and they probably put 0:03:28.280 --> 0:03:31.400 your intuition on steroids, you know, uh, you know exactly 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:32.920 what they did actually. 0:03:32.480 --> 0:03:34.160 Do you know. 0:03:34.240 --> 0:03:36.720 I had this conversation with Jared and Ivanka. I had 0:03:36.720 --> 0:03:39.600 sent them both a text. I said, everything you've ever 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:43.040 done in the business world is kindergarten compared to the 0:03:43.040 --> 0:03:44.880 world you're about to enter. It was the day that 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:47.080 it was announced that they were going to the White House, 0:03:47.720 --> 0:03:52.160 and I said, Uh, I'm just telling you that I 0:03:52.200 --> 0:03:55.760 would get a lawyer now and dot every eye, cross 0:03:55.800 --> 0:03:58.640 every tee because it's not a matter of when it's if. 0:03:58.800 --> 0:04:00.480 I mean, it's not a matter if it's when they're 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:03.000 gonna they're gonna be coming after you. Uh, I need 0:04:03.080 --> 0:04:05.680 I'd be negligent if I didn't say how touching it 0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:11.960 was your dedication to your children, Luke and Carolina. Uh beautiful. 0:04:12.440 --> 0:04:17.040 Uh the fact that your dad and uh Laura also 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:20.680 wrote forwards for the book, they were very very touching too. 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:23.440 I love how the dad, your dad told the story 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:26.520 about you, you know, joining the family business, and how 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:29.160 important that was to you, and how you made that decision. 0:04:30.200 --> 0:04:33.040 How incredibly strong in support of Laura is. I mean, 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:36.120 it really gives insight into what a strong family you have. 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:38.440 I didn't know he was going to write that forward, 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:40.160 and I also didn't know he was going to read 0:04:40.160 --> 0:04:42.560 the ford I I I told Simon Schuster, I go, 0:04:42.720 --> 0:04:44.800 if you know, no one's reading the book other than me, 0:04:44.839 --> 0:04:46.400 and no one's writing the book other than me. I 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:49.039 wrote every word in it, and I mean every but 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:51.040 I got the forward from my father and I've blown away. 0:04:51.040 --> 0:04:53.040 I think. I think Laura coordinated behind the scenes, that 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:55.039 me knowing. And he wrote that, and then you know, 0:04:55.040 --> 0:04:57.479 sure enough, when I when I read the entire book, 0:04:58.000 --> 0:04:59.440 you know, all of a sudden, I get a file 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:01.440 and it was his voice, and he read it from 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:03.039 the Oval office, and it was just kind of a 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:05.240 beautiful you know, but everything we've ever done, Sean, I 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:06.880 think you know this. You know, we fought together from 0:05:06.920 --> 0:05:08.640 the very beginning. Is the only the only way we 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:10.279 were able to win. But I think what a lot 0:05:10.279 --> 0:05:12.240 of people don't appreciate. He called me to his office 0:05:12.279 --> 0:05:13.840 and he goes, Honey, I want you to run the company. 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:16.120 I was thirty three years old at the time. You know, 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:19.080 ten fifteen, you know, twenty billion dollars real estate empire, 0:05:19.440 --> 0:05:21.400 depending on how you want to value it. And he goes, Listen, 0:05:21.440 --> 0:05:23.760 you built half of our buildings, you run all the teams, 0:05:24.000 --> 0:05:26.800 you deeply love real estate. I want you to be 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:29.640 the person who runs you know, the Trump organization. And Sean, 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:31.400 I thought this would be great. I run our hotels, 0:05:31.400 --> 0:05:33.680 I run our golf courses, I'm mentally confident doing that. 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:36.320 There's there's no one that does hospitality better than us. 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:38.600 It's in our DNA, and we love it and we're 0:05:38.640 --> 0:05:40.960 really good at it. I never thought that ninety eight 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:42.960 percent of my time was going to be spent keeping 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:46.159 DA's keeping ags off of our backs, you know, fighting 0:05:46.200 --> 0:05:48.159 you know Russia, Shams. I mean, I've told you the 0:05:48.200 --> 0:05:51.280 story a hundred times on your show, but you know, 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:53.800 getting calls from the FBI, Eric, I hear you have 0:05:53.880 --> 0:05:57.000 secret servers in the basement of Trump Tower communicating with 0:05:57.080 --> 0:05:59.479 the Kremlin. I mean when I got that call, I 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:02.040 literally started laughing aloud. Come on, guys, come over here, 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:03.880 you know, walk walk any room in the basement of 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:06.080 Trump Tower. Walk any room in Trump Tower. We have 0:06:06.120 --> 0:06:08.200 no secret servers. You know, you don't put secret servers 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:10.760 in basements. This is this is nonsense, Like we weren't 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:12.560 smart enough to come up with and we were trying 0:06:12.560 --> 0:06:14.040 to figure out what delegates were, we were trying to 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:15.880 figure out what the Iowa caucuses were. You think we 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:18.840 were smart enough to collude with Russia? But this became 0:06:18.880 --> 0:06:21.400 my life. I mean I spent more time being a 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:25.000 psychologist to employees as DA's and ags. We're trying to 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:27.280 trap my employees and threaten them. Hey, you tell us 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:30.479 anything about Donald Trump, and you're set free. You know, 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:33.320 you you go. Otherwise we're gonna you know, we're looking 0:06:33.360 --> 0:06:35.200 at your son, and we're looking at your daughter, and 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:37.920 we're gonna come after you. You know, we we I mean, 0:06:37.960 --> 0:06:41.040 they were they were extorting our employees. They weren't teaching 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:43.760 my father. They were calling up, you know, every big 0:06:43.800 --> 0:06:45.640 bank in the country telling them to you know, to 0:06:45.760 --> 0:06:47.640 dbank us to get rid of the payment rails for 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:49.520 our entire companies, so we couldn't run hotels, so we 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:52.240 couldn't run our you know, our condominiums. I mean, I 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:54.640 became the most pointive person in American history. I've never 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:56.800 gotten so much as a parking ticket, you know. And 0:06:56.839 --> 0:06:59.520 I became the most painted person in the history of 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:02.240 the country simply because I was the catalyst to my father. 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:05.039 I was the guy who was running the organization. My 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:08.360 father had constitutional protections as Commander in chief of the 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:11.520 United States yets, who didn't have constitutional protections. The guy 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:14.160 that was running everything that was Donald Trump's lineage, which 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:16.920 was which was me, all all the real estates and 0:07:16.960 --> 0:07:20.160 so they treated me like the pinata. They came after 0:07:20.240 --> 0:07:23.160 me every single day, The amount of depositions I sat in, 0:07:23.240 --> 0:07:26.480 the amount of you know, I mean, you just wouldn't 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:29.480 believe the legal lawfair that they put us under criminally 0:07:29.960 --> 0:07:33.200 civilly for doing absolutely nothing wrong in all cases that 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:36.560 we've won. And Sean, that was the siege. That's the 0:07:36.560 --> 0:07:39.240 point of under siege. But the book is so much 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:42.080 more than that. It's it's how my father raised us, right, 0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:44.120 how my father and mother was ad a great mother, 0:07:44.280 --> 0:07:46.520 but how my father and mother raised us, how we 0:07:46.560 --> 0:07:50.600 became exceptionally normal in the most unlikely situations. You know, 0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:53.600 how he created great kids, because every single one of 0:07:53.640 --> 0:07:58.120 his kids, of the five kids, are our good, hardworking, honest, 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:02.120 you know, well mannered kids. But also how you can 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:04.160 fight a system, and how you can win if you 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:07.200 have enough backbone, if you have enough perseverance, no matter 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:10.080 you know, what walls are caving in on you, no 0:08:10.080 --> 0:08:13.280 matter what pressures you have in life. As gloomy as 0:08:13.320 --> 0:08:15.560 it looks, and I can't tell you how damn gloomy 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:18.120 it looked on so many days for me and for 0:08:18.240 --> 0:08:21.080 my father as we sat in those courtrooms. You know, 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:25.200 how with perseverance and fight you can overcome. And that's 0:08:25.240 --> 0:08:26.680 what we did as a country. That's what we did 0:08:26.720 --> 0:08:28.720 as a family. But that's what we did as a country, 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:33.240 including you. We won. We won the greatest, you know, 0:08:33.640 --> 0:08:36.880 fight of all time. We won the most unorthodox fight 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:39.560 of all time, when the cards were all stacked against us, 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:42.680 and we did it together. And Sean, as a friend 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:44.719 of mine, as a person, I love tremendously, and you 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:47.319 know my affection toward you. There was no one on 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:49.480 the front line like you. I mean, you know, it 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:51.520 was our family, it was you. It was very few 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:54.240 other people in the early days that truly believed other 0:08:54.320 --> 0:08:56.680 than your listeners and the American people who had enough 0:08:56.679 --> 0:09:00.360 of the nonsense and the crap and finally stood up 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:02.280 and said enough. You know, we don't buy this. We 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:04.400 don't buy this anymore. What's happening is not right, and 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:05.480 we want our country back. 0:09:06.520 --> 0:09:09.520 I want to get into all the details that you 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:12.880 go into in the book in terms of, you know, 0:09:12.960 --> 0:09:15.920 the very specifics of what you've been through. But here's 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:18.960 the beauty, because let's just leap to the end of 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:21.080 the story. The end of the story is Donald Trump 0:09:21.160 --> 0:09:24.000 gets re elected president. The end of the story is 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:28.160 he is forever tattooed the words fake and news into 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:31.920 the state run legacy media mob, and nobody trusts them anymore, 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:36.640 nor should they trust them anymore. And it's that that, 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:40.120 to me is remarkable that the truth, you know, eventually 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:44.520 came out. I remember, back way before your father ever 0:09:44.920 --> 0:09:47.840 decided to run for president, I would go over. I 0:09:47.840 --> 0:09:51.040 would interview your dad, nothing to do really with politics, 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:54.520 and just because he's such a dynamic figure and we 0:09:55.040 --> 0:09:59.120 kind of we built a friendship together, and he would 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:02.400 always proud walk me back to say hello to you 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:05.560 and Avanka and Don Junior, and you would all be 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:08.760 in your respective offices and you'd be working for the organization, 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:14.440 and I mean such a close, tight knit family, and 0:10:14.760 --> 0:10:17.520 all of you stood by him, all of you fought. 0:10:17.960 --> 0:10:21.360 Then it got hard, you did, you know. I don't 0:10:21.400 --> 0:10:22.959 know if I ever told you the day I got 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:26.240 a call one day from a very reliable source telling 0:10:26.280 --> 0:10:30.000 me your brother was about to be indicted over that 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:33.520 stupid meeting that took place at Trump Tower that had 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:36.520 nothing to do with anything, And I'm like, you got 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:39.320 to be kidding me, And thank god it never happened. 0:10:39.520 --> 0:10:42.120 But but those were the kind of moments that would 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:44.240 unfold and that you chronicle in this book. 0:10:45.480 --> 0:10:47.160 They did. I mean, you had Adam Shifp that was 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:50.079 running around, you know, saying that Don was a Russian operative, right, 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:52.280 and and I mean it was it was unbelievable. And 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:54.640 they were saying the same of me. You know, if 0:10:54.840 --> 0:10:57.560 you didn't have you know, constitutional protections of the you 0:10:57.559 --> 0:11:00.040 know under the Speech and debate clause, you know, you 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:01.800 would suit him for slander and you would have you 0:11:01.800 --> 0:11:03.600 would have won. He would have had absolutely nothing. I 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:05.600 mean he was literally going around saying that Don was 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:07.560 a Russian operative, and and and it was just it 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:09.320 was it was not true. Remember he said he had 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:11.120 the evidence and he was going to present the evidence. 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:13.920 And you know what's amazing, Sean, I mean, they dug 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:16.439 so deep on Russia that you know who they found. 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:19.200 They found Hillary Clinton, they found Barack Obama. It's like 0:11:19.200 --> 0:11:21.640 the great irony of the world. It's no, it's no 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:24.800 different than let Titia James. She dug so deep on 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:26.439 Donald Trump. You know who she ended up finding. She 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:28.760 ended up finding it. She was committing mortgage fraud, right, 0:11:28.800 --> 0:11:31.160 you know, she found her you know her herself. You know, 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:33.440 she found the fact that she had a convicted criminal 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:36.120 living in her house. It's what the Democrats do every 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:38.640 single time. Jack Smith dug so deep, you know, when 0:11:38.679 --> 0:11:40.679 he rated mar Lago that sure enough, we find out 0:11:40.679 --> 0:11:42.600 in the aftermath that he was actually the guy planting 0:11:42.600 --> 0:11:45.240 classified folders on the on the carpet of my father's office. 0:11:45.280 --> 0:11:47.440 And you know, I could go, I could go on 0:11:47.520 --> 0:11:49.600 and on, but that's all they wanted to do. They 0:11:49.640 --> 0:11:52.360 wanted to inflict serious pain. They wanted to make our 0:11:52.440 --> 0:11:55.240 family so miserable that we said, you know what, you know, 0:11:55.400 --> 0:11:57.880 let's go back to this coasty billionaire lifestyle. We've got 0:11:57.880 --> 0:12:00.400 an amazing organization. We can fly around on trumpt One, 0:12:00.440 --> 0:12:02.760 We've got great golf forses, we've got great resorts all 0:12:02.800 --> 0:12:06.120 over the place. Let's just make their lives so uncomfortable 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:08.880 and so damn miserable that they're gonna throw in the towel. 0:12:09.480 --> 0:12:11.280 And Sean, we never threw in the towel. My father 0:12:11.360 --> 0:12:13.319 never threw in the towel. I never threw in the towel. 0:12:13.880 --> 0:12:15.960 In the darkest moments when I did not need to 0:12:16.000 --> 0:12:17.880 be there, I was the only guy. I was the 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:20.480 one guy that was sitting in the courtroom every single 0:12:20.559 --> 0:12:22.439 day by his side. And I remember a lot of 0:12:22.520 --> 0:12:24.200 days I'd leave court, I'd come right on your show 0:12:24.240 --> 0:12:26.440 and we would talk about it. But I would not 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:29.240 leave my father's side. I was going to be there, 0:12:29.280 --> 0:12:31.440 come hell or high water, no matter what they did 0:12:31.440 --> 0:12:33.920 to me, no matter what they did to him. And 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:37.000 their only goal was exactly that it was a siege. 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:40.160 Let's take away his voice, Let's imprison him. Let's come 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:43.319 up with every indictment possible. Al Capone had one indictment. 0:12:43.360 --> 0:12:46.160 Donald Trump had the ninety one. You know, let's do 0:12:46.320 --> 0:12:48.040 the mugshot. Let's let's rape. 0:12:48.320 --> 0:12:50.440 I think is it ninety one or ninety four? I 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:51.440 thought ninety four. 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:54.360 I thought it was number one. But I honestly I lost. 0:12:54.760 --> 0:12:55.400 I lose track. 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:57.680 I live, you lose count after a while, right. 0:12:57.920 --> 0:13:00.160 Hey, I have Excel spreadsheet the track, literally all the 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:02.840 subpoenas that I got. I probably missed a couple as well. Right, 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:04.680 So it's probably actually more than one hundred and twelve. 0:13:05.240 --> 0:13:07.680 But they wanted to do anything they could to lay siege, 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:09.600 and they wanted us to give up, and they wanted 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:11.599 us to walk away, and maybe there's some kind of 0:13:11.640 --> 0:13:15.199 like masochistic tendencies in the Trump genetics somewhere where we 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:19.199 enjoy pain, you know, and we just would never walk away, Sean, 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:19.880 And no. 0:13:19.960 --> 0:13:21.360 It's not that you enjoy pain. 0:13:21.440 --> 0:13:24.640 It's that you all have a common characteristic is that 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:28.840 you all have an enormous inordinate amount of courage and 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:31.680 resolve and you were not going to be bullied to death. 0:13:32.000 --> 0:13:34.240 The fact that your father went through. 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:36.959 You know, look, I believe in that Cash is right, 0:13:37.000 --> 0:13:38.360 and we got to get to the bottom of the 0:13:38.360 --> 0:13:42.360 grand conspiracy and that is Hillary Clinton and you know 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:46.280 she got you know, special privilege on the issue of 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:50.480 top secret classified information. He didn't have, you know, any 0:13:50.760 --> 0:13:54.680 presidential privilege in terms of having that information. But of 0:13:54.720 --> 0:13:57.600 course they washed it under the rug Bleach bit you know, 0:13:57.720 --> 0:14:02.920 Hammer's devices, sim cards, the dirty Russian disinformation dossier. Oh, 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:05.920 your dad was in a risk a ritz and Moscow 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:09.760 and two hookers were urinating on him. And that becomes 0:14:09.800 --> 0:14:12.960 the basis of four FISA warrens to spy on your 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:15.600 dad leading up to the raid of mar A Lago, 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:19.120 which you start the book out with. You know, it's 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:20.840 I'll tell you what we're gonna do. We're gonna take 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:24.080 a break. I want to go through each issue because 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:27.720 you spell it out in detail. Every America needs to 0:14:27.760 --> 0:14:31.040 read this book, and I'll tell you why, because this 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:37.239 is your country on the precipice of no longer existing 0:14:37.560 --> 0:14:41.360 as the great republic that we now were inherited. This 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:45.880 is how bad it got. And literally at the center 0:14:45.920 --> 0:14:48.760 of all of this was Eric. Because they couldn't always 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:51.360 go after his father. They went after his father for 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:53.680 four straight years, hoping that they could bloody him up 0:14:53.760 --> 0:14:56.560 enough that he wouldn't be elected. Thank god, the American 0:14:56.560 --> 0:14:59.640 people were hip to it, and now they rejected. The 0:14:59.720 --> 0:15:05.200 lie is the propaganda, the smears, the besmirchment, the NonStop attacks, 0:15:05.200 --> 0:15:07.720 which by the way, continued to this day in the 0:15:07.720 --> 0:15:11.640 form of you know, racist Nazi, fascist, Hitler, Stall and Mussolini, 0:15:11.640 --> 0:15:14.800 and it doesn't stop. Eight hundred ninety four one show 0:15:14.960 --> 0:15:16.680 is a number more with Eric Trump. His new book 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:19.760 is out Under Siege, My Family's Fight to Save Our Nation. 0:15:20.760 --> 0:15:23.840 It's now in bookstores all around the country. Amazon dot com. 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:27.160 We have a link on Hannity dot com. And we'll 0:15:27.160 --> 0:15:29.720 continue with Eric on the other side and continue with 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:31.840 our friend Eric Trump. But I you know, I really 0:15:32.400 --> 0:15:35.040 have come to consider everyone in your family, you know, 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:38.080 a close friend. I've never met a person that loves 0:15:38.160 --> 0:15:42.080 his job more than your father. And just this week alone, 0:15:42.080 --> 0:15:44.040 Look what he's been able to accomplish. Look at what 0:15:44.040 --> 0:15:46.920 he did yesterday for Charlie Kirk. Look at what he 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:49.120 did with peace in the Middle East. Look what he's 0:15:49.160 --> 0:15:53.000 doing with seventeen trillion in investments and oil dominance in 0:15:53.040 --> 0:15:56.200 the in the country, the largest tax cuts in American history, 0:15:56.440 --> 0:15:59.840 for law and order, securing the border. I mean, fun, 0:15:59.840 --> 0:16:02.760 the mental things, but it takes the force of your 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:04.360 father to get all this done. 0:16:04.760 --> 0:16:07.560 Sean, He's remarkable. He calls me a Saturday, honey, I 0:16:07.560 --> 0:16:08.840 want you to come over to Middle East with me. 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:10.840 You know, this peace deal, this is this is an 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:12.600 achievement of a lifetime, you know, I mean, this is 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:14.560 we got Middle East piece. Why don't you fly over 0:16:14.600 --> 0:16:17.200 at May and I go pass. I'm literally launching my book. 0:16:17.320 --> 0:16:20.000 You know tomorrow I can't. I wish I could. But 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:23.440 he flew over on Sunday, right, just to put this 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:26.520 in perspective. He flies from from d C. He right 0:16:26.560 --> 0:16:29.240 to Israel. He does two stops in Israel. He speaks 0:16:29.280 --> 0:16:32.240 to Parliament there. Then he flies from there to Egypt 0:16:32.320 --> 0:16:34.800 and he speaks to all the world leaders. He does 0:16:34.840 --> 0:16:38.320 several press conferences, right, has one on ones with every 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:40.560 one of the world leaders. And then he fies back 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:42.960 to d C. He's back there thirty six hours, you 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:46.720 know later, in order to meet you know, Millie from Argentina, 0:16:47.240 --> 0:16:49.560 you know, at noon, and then give Charlie Kirk the 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:51.760 you know, the Medal of Freedom at four o'clock in 0:16:51.800 --> 0:16:55.000 the afternoon. I mean, the guy does not stop. He'll 0:16:55.000 --> 0:16:56.680 call me at eleven thirty at night, He'll call me 0:16:56.680 --> 0:16:59.040 at five o'clock in the morning. I mean, he just 0:16:59.080 --> 0:17:01.440 doesn't sleep right. And I think you know, because you've 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:02.240 spoken me many. 0:17:02.200 --> 0:17:04.240 Oh listen, I know from people that were on that 0:17:04.280 --> 0:17:06.720 trip with them, he did not sleep a wink on 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:09.200 the way home, not one second. And then he did 0:17:09.200 --> 0:17:10.440 all the events yesterday. 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:12.800 He's remarkable and that's exactly what American needs. American needs 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:15.360 a fighter, right, American needs a cheerleader. American needs to fighter. 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:16.760 I mean he'll come off of Air Force one at 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:18.240 three o'clock in the morning and go up to the 0:17:18.680 --> 0:17:21.440 gaggle of press. You know, they have two sticks holding 0:17:21.480 --> 0:17:23.800 their eyes open. There. You know, they've got four red bulls, 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:25.879 you know, empty red bulls in their hands, are falling asleep. 0:17:25.920 --> 0:17:27.600 And by the way, you know half of them are 0:17:27.640 --> 0:17:29.680 twenty three years old. And here he is. I mean, 0:17:30.480 --> 0:17:33.040 I've always said my father's the energizer bunny, you know, 0:17:33.400 --> 0:17:35.480 in a shoot and a red tie on steroids. And 0:17:35.880 --> 0:17:37.919 that's how he's been my entire life. And it's exactly 0:17:37.920 --> 0:17:40.680 what America needs in a commander in chief. He's he's 0:17:40.720 --> 0:17:45.520 absolutely remarkable. But speaking about Middle East piece for a second, 0:17:45.240 --> 0:17:47.440 it made it all worth it, Sean. I said this 0:17:47.560 --> 0:17:49.480 too privately the other day, but it made it all 0:17:49.520 --> 0:17:51.280 worth it for me, for as many arrows and as 0:17:51.320 --> 0:17:53.520 many bullets as they put in our back. You know, 0:17:53.720 --> 0:17:55.720