October 15, 2025 • 31 mins
In this powerful episode of The Sean Hannity Show, Sean sits down with Eric Trump for an in-depth conversation about his new book, Under Siege: My Family’s Fight to Save Our Nation. Eric shares candid insights about growing up in the Trump family, the unrelenting investigations and legal battles they’ve faced, and the emotional and political toll of being at the center of America’s most polarizing storm. Together, Sean and Eric reflect on years of media hostility, political warfare, and the unwavering determination that defined the Trump legacy. Eric opens up about his father’s influence, his family’s unity, and what it means to stand firm when the entire establishment turns against you. It’s a revealing look at resilience, faith, and conviction in modern American politics.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Two Shawn Manity Show eight hundred and ninety four one
Shawn our number. If you want to be a part
of the program, we have for the full hour, and
I promise you're going to find it fascinating. Eric Trump
is going to join us in a minute. He wrote
a new book, Under Siege, My Family's Fight to Save
Our Nation. And when I started reading this book in
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my own way, I felt like I had lived a
parallel life with Eric in the sense that I was
an early supporter of President Trump, and I got abused
by a lot of prominent conservatives. I think, well, how
many years did Glenn Beck and I don't know who
else was out there pounding Ben Shapiro, you know, pounding
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me every day that I'm not a real conservative, et cetera,
et cetera. And meanwhile, we have the most transformational and
consequential president in our lifetime. And it didn't never bothered
me because I knew in my heart I was right.
I had known Donald Trump for decades of my life
and we had many conversation before he ever decided to run. Anyway,
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it's an honor to have back to on the program,
Eric Trump. This book is phenomenal. I felt like I was.
It was like I was reading I was living a
parallel life with you in a lot of ways because
I covered all this like on Rush the Russia hoax.
I think I spent four straight years on radio and
TV with an ensemble cast. We got every aspect of
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that right. The rest of the media got it wrong
and they got pulled.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Surprises, Sean, There's no question you did.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
And listen, I have to give you credit. I'm not
sure if I've ever told this story either to you,
and you'll be the only person who actually remembers this,
but I heard this from two people back in the day.
I heard it from my father, who you know, when
he told us he was running for president. He goes,
they're going to come after us in ways that you
can't even imagine. And you and I have been friends
for a very long time, and I remember you pulling
me aside, and you go, Eric, you watch what they
try and do to your family. You know, I would
get a lawyer involved in everything in your life. I
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wouldn't you know. I would just scrub every aspect of
your life. Not that we had to, because we were
always good kids, but they are going to come after you.
In ways that you couldn't even possibly anticipate. And Shawan,
you warned me of this. I'm not I ever sure
if you remember this conversation, but a decade ago you
warned me of what the Deep Day was going to
do to us. And they did exactly everything that you
had predicted and everything that that my father predicted at
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the time. I mean, they wanted to see us destroyed.
They wanted to see us gone. And you know, the
irony is it didn't really start, you know, in twenty sixteen.
I mean, you had you had a nasty media at
that point, but you know, they were so pompous and
so arrogant. They didn't think that this kind of ragtag
group of people could beat Hillary Clinton, you know. I
mean you remember New York Times the morning of the
election had us they gave us a two point one
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percent chance of beating Hillary Clinton that morning, and yet
we steamrolled her like it wasn't even it wasn't even
close in terms of you know, the you know, the
overall you know electoral college and they count, you know,
at the end of the night, and yet we had
a two percent chance of going in. They were so
pompous that they didn't think we could win. And as
soon as we did win, that's when they lashed out, right,
They couldn't believe that. Again, as I said this, this
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small group of people could go in there and beat
the most iconic person probably American politics, or at least
family name that was probably most synonymous with politics over
the last you know, five decades, you know, when we
didn't know what the hell a delegate was, when we
didn't you know, know what a caucus was, when we
didn't know how to play the game, when we had
been to Washington, all of that, you know, two times
before that, you know, for for anything you know, related
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to politics, and and that's when the swamps started lashing out.
And the way they came after our family was not
the shortest spectacular. But you called it, and my father
called it, and you had the intuition to know exactly
what they were going to do, and they probably put
your intuition on steroids, you know, uh, you know exactly
what they did actually.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Do you know.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
I had this conversation with Jared and Ivanka. I had
sent them both a text. I said, everything you've ever
done in the business world is kindergarten compared to the
world you're about to enter. It was the day that
it was announced that they were going to the White House,
and I said, Uh, I'm just telling you that I
would get a lawyer now and dot every eye, cross
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every tee because it's not a matter of when it's if.
I mean, it's not a matter if it's when they're
gonna they're gonna be coming after you. Uh, I need
I'd be negligent if I didn't say how touching it
was your dedication to your children, Luke and Carolina. Uh beautiful.
Uh the fact that your dad and uh Laura also
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wrote forwards for the book, they were very very touching too.
I love how the dad, your dad told the story
about you, you know, joining the family business, and how
important that was to you, and how you made that decision.
How incredibly strong in support of Laura is. I mean,
it really gives insight into what a strong family you have.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
I didn't know he was going to write that forward,
and I also didn't know he was going to read
the ford I I I told Simon Schuster, I go,
if you know, no one's reading the book other than me,
and no one's writing the book other than me. I
wrote every word in it, and I mean every but
I got the forward from my father and I've blown away.
I think. I think Laura coordinated behind the scenes, that
me knowing. And he wrote that, and then you know,
sure enough, when I when I read the entire book,
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you know, all of a sudden, I get a file
and it was his voice, and he read it from
the Oval office, and it was just kind of a
beautiful you know, but everything we've ever done, Sean, I
think you know this. You know, we fought together from
the very beginning. Is the only the only way we
were able to win. But I think what a lot
of people don't appreciate. He called me to his office
and he goes, Honey, I want you to run the company.
I was thirty three years old at the time. You know,
ten fifteen, you know, twenty billion dollars real estate empire,
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depending on how you want to value it. And he goes, Listen,
you built half of our buildings, you run all the teams,
you deeply love real estate. I want you to be
the person who runs you know, the Trump organization. And Sean,
I thought this would be great. I run our hotels,
I run our golf courses, I'm mentally confident doing that.
There's there's no one that does hospitality better than us.
It's in our DNA, and we love it and we're
really good at it. I never thought that ninety eight
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percent of my time was going to be spent keeping
DA's keeping ags off of our backs, you know, fighting
you know Russia, Shams. I mean, I've told you the
story a hundred times on your show, but you know,
getting calls from the FBI, Eric, I hear you have
secret servers in the basement of Trump Tower communicating with
the Kremlin. I mean when I got that call, I
literally started laughing aloud. Come on, guys, come over here,
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you know, walk walk any room in the basement of
Trump Tower. Walk any room in Trump Tower. We have
no secret servers. You know, you don't put secret servers
in basements. This is this is nonsense, Like we weren't
smart enough to come up with and we were trying
to figure out what delegates were, we were trying to
figure out what the Iowa caucuses were. You think we
were smart enough to collude with Russia? But this became
my life. I mean I spent more time being a
psychologist to employees as DA's and ags. We're trying to
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trap my employees and threaten them. Hey, you tell us
anything about Donald Trump, and you're set free. You know,
you you go. Otherwise we're gonna you know, we're looking
at your son, and we're looking at your daughter, and
we're gonna come after you. You know, we we I mean,
they were they were extorting our employees. They weren't teaching
my father. They were calling up, you know, every big
bank in the country telling them to you know, to
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dbank us to get rid of the payment rails for
our entire companies, so we couldn't run hotels, so we
couldn't run our you know, our condominiums. I mean, I
became the most pointive person in American history. I've never
gotten so much as a parking ticket, you know. And
I became the most painted person in the history of
the country simply because I was the catalyst to my father.
I was the guy who was running the organization. My
father had constitutional protections as Commander in chief of the
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United States yets, who didn't have constitutional protections. The guy
that was running everything that was Donald Trump's lineage, which
was which was me, all all the real estates and
so they treated me like the pinata. They came after
me every single day, The amount of depositions I sat in,
the amount of you know, I mean, you just wouldn't
believe the legal lawfair that they put us under criminally
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civilly for doing absolutely nothing wrong in all cases that
we've won. And Sean, that was the siege. That's the
point of under siege. But the book is so much
more than that. It's it's how my father raised us, right,
how my father and mother was ad a great mother,
but how my father and mother raised us, how we
became exceptionally normal in the most unlikely situations. You know,
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how he created great kids, because every single one of
his kids, of the five kids, are our good, hardworking, honest,
you know, well mannered kids. But also how you can
fight a system, and how you can win if you
have enough backbone, if you have enough perseverance, no matter
you know, what walls are caving in on you, no
matter what pressures you have in life. As gloomy as
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it looks, and I can't tell you how damn gloomy
it looked on so many days for me and for
my father as we sat in those courtrooms. You know,
how with perseverance and fight you can overcome. And that's
what we did as a country. That's what we did
as a family. But that's what we did as a country,
including you. We won. We won the greatest, you know,
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fight of all time. We won the most unorthodox fight
of all time, when the cards were all stacked against us,
and we did it together. And Sean, as a friend
of mine, as a person, I love tremendously, and you
know my affection toward you. There was no one on
the front line like you. I mean, you know, it
was our family, it was you. It was very few
other people in the early days that truly believed other
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than your listeners and the American people who had enough
of the nonsense and the crap and finally stood up
and said enough. You know, we don't buy this. We
don't buy this anymore. What's happening is not right, and
we want our country back.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
I want to get into all the details that you
go into in the book in terms of, you know,
the very specifics of what you've been through. But here's
the beauty, because let's just leap to the end of
the story. The end of the story is Donald Trump
gets re elected president. The end of the story is
he is forever tattooed the words fake and news into
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the state run legacy media mob, and nobody trusts them anymore,
nor should they trust them anymore. And it's that that,
to me is remarkable that the truth, you know, eventually
came out. I remember, back way before your father ever
decided to run for president, I would go over. I
would interview your dad, nothing to do really with politics,
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and just because he's such a dynamic figure and we
kind of we built a friendship together, and he would
always proud walk me back to say hello to you
and Avanka and Don Junior, and you would all be
in your respective offices and you'd be working for the organization,
and I mean such a close, tight knit family, and
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all of you stood by him, all of you fought.
Then it got hard, you did, you know. I don't
know if I ever told you the day I got
a call one day from a very reliable source telling
me your brother was about to be indicted over that
stupid meeting that took place at Trump Tower that had
nothing to do with anything, And I'm like, you got
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to be kidding me, And thank god it never happened.
But but those were the kind of moments that would
unfold and that you chronicle in this book.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
They did. I mean, you had Adam Shifp that was
running around, you know, saying that Don was a Russian operative, right,
and and I mean it was it was unbelievable. And
they were saying the same of me. You know, if
you didn't have you know, constitutional protections of the you
know under the Speech and debate clause, you know, you
would suit him for slander and you would have you
would have won. He would have had absolutely nothing. I
mean he was literally going around saying that Don was
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a Russian operative, and and and it was just it
was it was not true. Remember he said he had
the evidence and he was going to present the evidence.
And you know what's amazing, Sean, I mean, they dug
so deep on Russia that you know who they found.
They found Hillary Clinton, they found Barack Obama. It's like
the great irony of the world. It's no, it's no
different than let Titia James. She dug so deep on
Donald Trump. You know who she ended up finding. She
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ended up finding it. She was committing mortgage fraud, right,
you know, she found her you know her herself. You know,
she found the fact that she had a convicted criminal
living in her house. It's what the Democrats do every
single time. Jack Smith dug so deep, you know, when
he rated mar Lago that sure enough, we find out
in the aftermath that he was actually the guy planting
classified folders on the on the carpet of my father's office.
And you know, I could go, I could go on
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and on, but that's all they wanted to do. They
wanted to inflict serious pain. They wanted to make our
family so miserable that we said, you know what, you know,
let's go back to this coasty billionaire lifestyle. We've got
an amazing organization. We can fly around on trumpt One,
We've got great golf forses, we've got great resorts all
over the place. Let's just make their lives so uncomfortable
and so damn miserable that they're gonna throw in the towel.
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And Sean, we never threw in the towel. My father
never threw in the towel. I never threw in the towel.
In the darkest moments when I did not need to
be there, I was the only guy. I was the
one guy that was sitting in the courtroom every single
day by his side. And I remember a lot of
days I'd leave court, I'd come right on your show
and we would talk about it. But I would not
leave my father's side. I was going to be there,
come hell or high water, no matter what they did
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to me, no matter what they did to him. And
their only goal was exactly that it was a siege.
Let's take away his voice, Let's imprison him. Let's come
up with every indictment possible. Al Capone had one indictment.
Donald Trump had the ninety one. You know, let's do
the mugshot. Let's let's rape.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
I think is it ninety one or ninety four? I
thought ninety four.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
I thought it was number one. But I honestly I lost.
I lose track.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
I live, you lose count after a while, right.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Hey, I have Excel spreadsheet the track, literally all the
subpoenas that I got. I probably missed a couple as well. Right,
So it's probably actually more than one hundred and twelve.
But they wanted to do anything they could to lay siege,
and they wanted us to give up, and they wanted
us to walk away, and maybe there's some kind of
like masochistic tendencies in the Trump genetics somewhere where we
enjoy pain, you know, and we just would never walk away, Sean,
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And no.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
It's not that you enjoy pain.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
It's that you all have a common characteristic is that
you all have an enormous inordinate amount of courage and
resolve and you were not going to be bullied to death.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
The fact that your father went through.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
You know, look, I believe in that Cash is right,
and we got to get to the bottom of the
grand conspiracy and that is Hillary Clinton and you know
she got you know, special privilege on the issue of
top secret classified information. He didn't have, you know, any
presidential privilege in terms of having that information. But of
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course they washed it under the rug Bleach bit you know,
Hammer's devices, sim cards, the dirty Russian disinformation dossier. Oh,
your dad was in a risk a ritz and Moscow
and two hookers were urinating on him. And that becomes
the basis of four FISA warrens to spy on your
dad leading up to the raid of mar A Lago,
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which you start the book out with. You know, it's
I'll tell you what we're gonna do. We're gonna take
a break. I want to go through each issue because
you spell it out in detail. Every America needs to
read this book, and I'll tell you why, because this
is your country on the precipice of no longer existing
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as the great republic that we now were inherited. This
is how bad it got. And literally at the center
of all of this was Eric. Because they couldn't always
go after his father. They went after his father for
four straight years, hoping that they could bloody him up
enough that he wouldn't be elected. Thank god, the American
people were hip to it, and now they rejected. The
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lie is the propaganda, the smears, the besmirchment, the NonStop attacks,
which by the way, continued to this day in the
form of you know, racist Nazi, fascist, Hitler, Stall and Mussolini,
and it doesn't stop. Eight hundred ninety four one show
is a number more with Eric Trump. His new book
is out Under Siege, My Family's Fight to Save Our Nation.
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It's now in bookstores all around the country. Amazon dot com.
We have a link on Hannity dot com. And we'll
continue with Eric on the other side and continue with
our friend Eric Trump. But I you know, I really
have come to consider everyone in your family, you know,
a close friend. I've never met a person that loves
his job more than your father. And just this week alone,
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Look what he's been able to accomplish. Look at what
he did yesterday for Charlie Kirk. Look at what he
did with peace in the Middle East. Look what he's
doing with seventeen trillion in investments and oil dominance in
the in the country, the largest tax cuts in American history,
for law and order, securing the border. I mean, fun,
the mental things, but it takes the force of your
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father to get all this done.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Sean, He's remarkable. He calls me a Saturday, honey, I
want you to come over to Middle East with me.
You know, this peace deal, this is this is an
achievement of a lifetime, you know, I mean, this is
we got Middle East piece. Why don't you fly over
at May and I go pass. I'm literally launching my book.
You know tomorrow I can't. I wish I could. But
he flew over on Sunday, right, just to put this
in perspective. He flies from from d C. He right
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to Israel. He does two stops in Israel. He speaks
to Parliament there. Then he flies from there to Egypt
and he speaks to all the world leaders. He does
several press conferences, right, has one on ones with every
one of the world leaders. And then he fies back
to d C. He's back there thirty six hours, you
know later, in order to meet you know, Millie from Argentina,
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you know, at noon, and then give Charlie Kirk the
you know, the Medal of Freedom at four o'clock in
the afternoon. I mean, the guy does not stop. He'll
call me at eleven thirty at night, He'll call me
at five o'clock in the morning. I mean, he just
doesn't sleep right. And I think you know, because you've
spoken me many.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Oh listen, I know from people that were on that
trip with them, he did not sleep a wink on
the way home, not one second. And then he did
all the events yesterday.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
He's remarkable and that's exactly what American needs. American needs
a fighter, right, American needs a cheerleader. American needs to fighter.
I mean he'll come off of Air Force one at
three o'clock in the morning and go up to the
gaggle of press. You know, they have two sticks holding
their eyes open. There. You know, they've got four red bulls,
you know, empty red bulls in their hands, are falling asleep.
And by the way, you know half of them are
twenty three years old. And here he is. I mean,
I've always said my father's the energizer bunny, you know,
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in a shoot and a red tie on steroids. And
that's how he's been my entire life. And it's exactly
what America needs in a commander in chief. He's he's
absolutely remarkable. But speaking about Middle East piece for a second,
it made it all worth it, Sean. I said this
too privately the other day, but it made it all
worth it for me, for as many arrows and as
many bullets as they put in our back. You know,
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when you see the amount of lives that were saved there,
When you see the amount of lives that were saved,
you know, in India, to you know, in avoiding that
conference conflict with Pakistan, when you see the amount of
lives that we're saved, and all the conflicts he's he's stopped,
including obviously you know, Iran getting nuclear weapons because they
would have used it, or they would have had one
of their proxies used it against the Western world. But
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when you see him get peace in the Middle East,
something that everybody laughed at. Obama laughed at it, Joe
Biden laughed at it. They all laughed at it. This
can't be done. They've been fighting for thousands of years.
There's no way this is going to happen. And then
you see all the related parties up there where Israel
is happy, you know, or or we're power. I mean,
everybody's happy. I mean all the leaders are happy over there.
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I mean every leader in the Middle East is applauding.
It's not like these wars in the past where you
might have one victor and you'll have one loser. Hear
everybody satisfied and they're all happy with the end results.
Like it's not a beautiful thing for humanity, and it
makes the siege all worth it. It makes everything that
we went through worth it because guess what, there are
potentially millions of people right now who are alive because
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of what he just accomplished, whether it's now or whether
it's in the future, and it's a beautiful thing to see.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
I don't know how many untold lives in the future
will be saved because Iran doesn't have nuclear weapons. I
do feel there's a misunderstanding of your father's doctrine or
what we what I call the Trump doctrine. You know,
people kind of they misinterpret No Forever Wars for not
using American military might. But meanwhile, your dad took out
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the Isis calife. Your dad took out SOLMANI on that tarmac,
he took out back Daddy and associates. He dropped the
mother of all bombs on Afghanistan. And and here when
he had the opportunity and Iran was getting close to
being a nuclear power, he said that can't happen. He
gave him a chance for peace. They rejected it, and
he took him out, and thank god he did.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Yeah, he's doing here with the cartels right now, which
is as a person who is at four friends die
of fentanyl, meaning four friends of mine who have lost
kids to fentanyl. He's doing the same with cartels right now.
You're gonna stop this stuff. You're gonna stop sending drugs
into the United States. Otherwise we're gonna do something about it.
And and Sean, he's doing something about it, and is great.
But you know, my father was always the guy who
was against you know, you see these outposts all right.
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There's a great movie actually called Rostreppo that was you know,
it made specifically about this. But you'd have these outpost
in Afghanistan, they'd have you know, ten kids. You know,
these guys are twenty one years old, twenty two years old,
and they're sitting up there and every day they're getting
mortared and they're losing limbs and everything else. And he goes,
I don't want this. I don't want this. I don't
want to, you know, rebuild nations. I don't want to
destroy a school and then have to rebuild it, and
then we destroy it again, and then we rebuild it again.
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I don't want to do that. I want to have
the greatest military in the world where if we ever
have to go in, it will be over so damn
quickly that people's heads are going to spend, right. But
I don't want to go spend fifteen years in a region,
see thousands of young people's lives, you know, get get killed,
spend trillions of dollars when we could otherwise spend that
on our own infrastructure. In the United States of America,
we could rebuild every school, every bridge, every road, every
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fiber optic line, every five G network. I want to
do that for the you know, the United States of America.
I want to do that on our homeland. I don't
want to do that abroad. So I want to have
the greatest military, and I want to pray to God
that we never have to use it. But if we
do have to use it, we're gonna be ready and
we're gonna knock their heads off, and we're gonna do
it so quickly you know that we can get home.
And I think that's what Americans universally want. People are
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sick and tired of occupying Iraq for years. People are
sick and tired of what was happening in Afghanistan. People
are sick and tired of, you know, being the protector
of Germany and the protector of you know, South Korea,
and the protector of the entire world. People are sick
and tired of this, especially when all those countries views
US on trade policies and everything else. And you know,
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if people are are so relieved that he's taking Foster, listen,
if I have to hit them, I'm going to hit
them hard. And by the way, you better believe that
Solomani made a message, right, sent a great message to
the entire world. You don't think that, Kim John un
You don't think these people are watching as as Solomani
got hit and alback, dad daddy got hit. Of course
they were right, and they're gonna play a little nicer
in the sandbox knowing you have a person who will
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actually take decisive action when we're required.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Let me let me go back to your family though,
and go back to your story. There's so much to
cover and it's just impossible to do it in an hour.
But everything that I mentioned earlier, from you know, Paiza
Warrens and spying on your dad in a dirty Russian
disinformation dossier. You know, we did have career senior Intel
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officials after twenty sixteen that had determined there was no
Trump Russia collusion. Obama himself authorized another intel assessment to
come up with a very different conclusion, sabotage your dad's
first term, and they were successful.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Yeah, of course it was. I mean, it's the same
reason that the FBI was shouting at me to turn
off all security cameras and mar Lago, Well, why would
I turn off I'm Marlago with commercial property. Why am
I turning off security cameras. We demand that you immediately
turn off all security cameras. I got, I'm not turning
off our security cameras. I'll never forget that conversation. I
guess something is is deeply, deeply wrong with what they're doing.
But they did weaponize the entire system, I mean, Sean,
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one of the great lessons. And by the way, I
love them and women like of the FBI and of
all law enforcement. The actual gun carrier is not the
bureaucrats at the top, but a can call down. And
I've told the story. I don't think I've ever told
it publicly. It's it's in the book. But I get
called down to FBI headquarters in New York. There's a
threat against the Trump organization. Eric, we come down here.
We need to debrief you on it. They bring me upstairs.
I drive in. No one knows Sean I'm going down there.
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Secret Service takes me down. We go in the basement
of the building, We go right upstairs to the top
floor into the skiff and they say, Eric, there's a
big cybersecurity you know, threat against Trump organization. You know,
we need to tell you about it. You know, and
it was just it was the most vague nonsense that
you'd ever heard in your entire life. I'm literally rolling
my eyes to it. If you had one person in
an IT department, you would have you could have seen
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anything that they were telling you about. Not that we
you know, we were strangers to to to Ice it
threats against our company. And I'll never forget. You can't
tell anybody you're here. This is down by secrets, so
you can't tell anybody you're here. I get back in
the cars. I haven't even left the building yet. We're
driving up the ramps that leaves the FBI building in
New York and I get a call from the head
of ABC News, you know, the person, John Santucci. And
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I get a call from John, and he goes, what
are you doing on FBI headquarters? I go, John, I
have no idea what you're talking about. I'm not at
FBI headquarters. He goes, Eric, you're lying to me. You're
down there right now. You're just leaving the building. I go, John,
I have no idea what you're talking about. Eric, don't
lie to me. I know why you're there. I go,
why would I possibly be there? Well, they're investigating a
cyber attack, you know, from Iran against the Trump organization.
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And I go, how do you know that? And he
goes Eric because their press office from DC just called
and told me all about it. And they literally brought
me into that office and they made me sign every document,
and they brought me in under the cover of darkness
and under total secrecy. And I go, oh my god,
they are literally doing it. This is the weaponization of government.
I mean, they're literally they're bringing me in there as
a pawn. I never thought that that would be the
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country that I lived in. I didn't. And by the way,
that that was just the tip of the sphere relative
to what we went through between the impeachments and the dossiers.
And you mentioned the dossier's before and some of the horrible,
wretched things I can't even say on the radio that
they said my father was doing Golden you know what's
and everything. They did that to break up his marriage.
They did that to break up his family, They did
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that to embarrass him. It was all paid for by
Hillary Clinton, and it was all paid for by the Democrats, right.
That was the siege. They wanted to do everything they
could to destroy his life financially, legally. They wanted to
imprison him. They wanted to smear his name. They wanted
to take his voice. They wanted to gag order him
every day. They wanted the mug shot. They didn't meet
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Donald Trump's mugshot. He's the most recognizable person on planet Earth. Right,
he wasn't a flight risk. They wanted to do everything
they could, and when that didn't work Sewan, they tried
to kill him in Butler's And by the way, in
terms of Butler Pennsylvania, I'm not satisfied, and by the way,
I don't think the entire country is satisfied with.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
By the way, neither am I. There's no reason at all.
I used to be a contractor. That's not a slope
proof Eric, not even close.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
They had eighty year old congressmen walking across that roof,
and you had Kimberlee Cheadle talking about how it was
too slow, giving me a break. I'm also non satisfied
that they let somebody at one hundred and thirty yards
with a modern scoped rifle, you know, shoot at a
quarter you know it is It is infuriating to son
of what I'm really not satisfied with and I'm really not.
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And this is maybe the only place in the world
I disagree with my father because you know, I for
national security reasons, a whole lot of other reasons. And
I amend and applaud his composure based on what happened
to him and the fact that he almost had his
head blown off. But we don't know a damn thing
about this guy. And I go into that in great
detail and under stage. You know, they literally stripped the
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phones of every single January sixth protester. They broke into
every iPhone of every grandmother that was taking a selfie
in the capital. But we don't know a damn thing
about the person who shot at the forty fifth and
very soon to be forty seventh president of the United States.
You know, we have one picture of this kid, and
he looks like he's fourteen years old, right, and you know,
and the guy had multiple phones. Give me a break,
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you know, the guy was cremated faster than most household pets. Sean,
I call BS, and I think this entire country calls BS,
and we better find out who's this guy actually was?
Speaker 1 (27:01):
All right, quick break a few more minutes, final moments
with Eric Trump. His new book just out Under Siege,
My Family's Fight to Save Our Nation, now in bookstores
around the country, Amazon dot com, Hannity dot com, Quick
Break More with Eric on the other Side. Up next,
our final roundup and Information Overload Hour. All right, we
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can say, you know, Eric Trump is with us, never
done this before, holding him a little bit over the hour.
Your life became a living hell. And I would talk
to you throughout that period of times and I'm like,
my mouth was a gape. I'm just like, oh my gosh,
it is unprecedented what they did to you and your family.
(28:21):
You tell the whole story. It is inspiring because you
conclude on this program today it was all worth it,
and it speaks volumes about who you are, the friend
that you've become, and Laura's become, and your family's become,
and about your father, the father that stood up and
said fight, fight, fight after Butler, and more importantly, you've
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laid out a roadmap.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
We better get to the bottom of it.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Eric, yep Sean, it's one of the reasons I had
to materialize all of this. Right, you know more about
revisionist history than anybody. Every person listening to his program
understands through revision is history. Just go on Wikipedia if
you want to understand revere history. They do everything they
can using the mainstream media to rewrite the history that
they want rewritten, to leave in or out the details
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that they think is relevant. And it had to take
the son of a president to write something from the heart,
but something with hard, concrete facts that are indisputable as
to what they did and the way they were willing
to weaponize the system, they would have been very happy for.
I'm telling you how many feathers this book is going
to ruffle. They wanted us to all disappear. They wanted
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all of this to fade into the distant memories of
a few select people and never actually be put down
on paper. And I really believe I had to do
it for the history of this country. I really believe
I had to do it to show people how democracy,
how fragile it can actually be, and how quickly it
can go awry. And Sean, listen, I'm a builder. You've
known me my entire life. I build buildings. I'm the
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number one selling offer in the country right now. That
was not meant to be this much. I can tell
you I am number one on Amazon. We are number
one in every single category.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
When you wrote every word yourself. People need to know that,
you know.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
So. So the point of that's me saying that is
people are pissed off, and people want accountability, and people
want to understand what happened, and people aren't letting this go.
Your listeners aren't letting this go. I'm not letting this go.
And and sure, sure as hell, my father is not
letting this go. We can't let it go. This is
this is literally, I mean, they had our country by
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the neck. This siege wasn't just against Donald Trump, right,
It wasn't just against us as a family. It wasn't
just against me as a guy who ran everything outside
of Washington, d C. This siege was against you when
they weaponized the i R s. This was against you
when they were leaking your tax returns. This was against
every person listening right now, you know, as they weaponize
you know again i RS agencies to go after their
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pastors and their bishops and their churches and their religious
organizations and conservative nonprofits. It was every person listening as
they got looked over for the next promotion because of
some DEI higher because of the you know, the you know,
the peerio of wokeness. It's it's for every father and
mother who had you know, a daughter that had to
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swim against the guy my size sixty four and fifteen pounds.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
All right, So, Eric, if I consist, stop you.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
I'm not trying to interrupt you at all, especially during
the middle of that flow. But I've never done this
in the history of the show. I've never kept an
author over an hour. But i just think what you're
saying is so critical, so vital, so important, uh, and
that we learn the lessons of what you and your
family have gone through. If you're it's okay with you,
I'll hold you over just for a few more minutes
(31:32):
in the into the next half hour, if you don't mind. Honest,
Eric Trump is thank you, Eric Trump. Under siege, my
family's fight to save our nation. Quick break more with
Eric Trump on the other side as we continue
Two Shawn Manity Show eight hundred and ninety four one
Shawn our number. If you want to be a part
of the program, we have for the full hour, and
I promise you're going to find it fascinating. Eric Trump
is going to join us in a minute. He wrote
a new book, Under Siege, My Family's Fight to Save
Our Nation. And when I started reading this book in
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my own way, I felt like I had lived a
parallel life with Eric in the sense that I was
an early supporter of President Trump, and I got abused
by a lot of prominent conservatives. I think, well, how
many years did Glenn Beck and I don't know who
else was out there pounding Ben Shapiro, you know, pounding
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me every day that I'm not a real conservative, et cetera,
et cetera. And meanwhile, we have the most transformational and
consequential president in our lifetime. And it didn't never bothered
me because I knew in my heart I was right.
I had known Donald Trump for decades of my life
and we had many conversation before he ever decided to run. Anyway,
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it's an honor to have back to on the program,
Eric Trump. This book is phenomenal. I felt like I was.
It was like I was reading I was living a
parallel life with you in a lot of ways because
I covered all this like on Rush the Russia hoax.
I think I spent four straight years on radio and
TV with an ensemble cast. We got every aspect of
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that right. The rest of the media got it wrong
and they got pulled.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Surprises, Sean, There's no question you did.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
And listen, I have to give you credit. I'm not
sure if I've ever told this story either to you,
and you'll be the only person who actually remembers this,
but I heard this from two people back in the day.
I heard it from my father, who you know, when
he told us he was running for president. He goes,
they're going to come after us in ways that you
can't even imagine. And you and I have been friends
for a very long time, and I remember you pulling
me aside, and you go, Eric, you watch what they
try and do to your family. You know, I would
get a lawyer involved in everything in your life. I
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wouldn't you know. I would just scrub every aspect of
your life. Not that we had to, because we were
always good kids, but they are going to come after you.
In ways that you couldn't even possibly anticipate. And Shawan,
you warned me of this. I'm not I ever sure
if you remember this conversation, but a decade ago you
warned me of what the Deep Day was going to
do to us. And they did exactly everything that you
had predicted and everything that that my father predicted at
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the time. I mean, they wanted to see us destroyed.
They wanted to see us gone. And you know, the
irony is it didn't really start, you know, in twenty sixteen.
I mean, you had you had a nasty media at
that point, but you know, they were so pompous and
so arrogant. They didn't think that this kind of ragtag
group of people could beat Hillary Clinton, you know. I
mean you remember New York Times the morning of the
election had us they gave us a two point one
(02:31):
percent chance of beating Hillary Clinton that morning, and yet
we steamrolled her like it wasn't even it wasn't even
close in terms of you know, the you know, the
overall you know electoral college and they count, you know,
at the end of the night, and yet we had
a two percent chance of going in. They were so
pompous that they didn't think we could win. And as
soon as we did win, that's when they lashed out, right,
They couldn't believe that. Again, as I said this, this
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small group of people could go in there and beat
the most iconic person probably American politics, or at least
family name that was probably most synonymous with politics over
the last you know, five decades, you know, when we
didn't know what the hell a delegate was, when we
didn't you know, know what a caucus was, when we
didn't know how to play the game, when we had
been to Washington, all of that, you know, two times
before that, you know, for for anything you know, related
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to politics, and and that's when the swamps started lashing out.
And the way they came after our family was not
the shortest spectacular. But you called it, and my father
called it, and you had the intuition to know exactly
what they were going to do, and they probably put
your intuition on steroids, you know, uh, you know exactly
what they did actually.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Do you know.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
I had this conversation with Jared and Ivanka. I had
sent them both a text. I said, everything you've ever
done in the business world is kindergarten compared to the
world you're about to enter. It was the day that
it was announced that they were going to the White House,
and I said, Uh, I'm just telling you that I
would get a lawyer now and dot every eye, cross
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every tee because it's not a matter of when it's if.
I mean, it's not a matter if it's when they're
gonna they're gonna be coming after you. Uh, I need
I'd be negligent if I didn't say how touching it
was your dedication to your children, Luke and Carolina. Uh beautiful.
Uh the fact that your dad and uh Laura also
(04:17):
wrote forwards for the book, they were very very touching too.
I love how the dad, your dad told the story
about you, you know, joining the family business, and how
important that was to you, and how you made that decision.
How incredibly strong in support of Laura is. I mean,
it really gives insight into what a strong family you have.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
I didn't know he was going to write that forward,
and I also didn't know he was going to read
the ford I I I told Simon Schuster, I go,
if you know, no one's reading the book other than me,
and no one's writing the book other than me. I
wrote every word in it, and I mean every but
I got the forward from my father and I've blown away.
I think. I think Laura coordinated behind the scenes, that
me knowing. And he wrote that, and then you know,
sure enough, when I when I read the entire book,
(04:58):
you know, all of a sudden, I get a file
and it was his voice, and he read it from
the Oval office, and it was just kind of a
beautiful you know, but everything we've ever done, Sean, I
think you know this. You know, we fought together from
the very beginning. Is the only the only way we
were able to win. But I think what a lot
of people don't appreciate. He called me to his office
and he goes, Honey, I want you to run the company.
I was thirty three years old at the time. You know,
ten fifteen, you know, twenty billion dollars real estate empire,
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depending on how you want to value it. And he goes, Listen,
you built half of our buildings, you run all the teams,
you deeply love real estate. I want you to be
the person who runs you know, the Trump organization. And Sean,
I thought this would be great. I run our hotels,
I run our golf courses, I'm mentally confident doing that.
There's there's no one that does hospitality better than us.
It's in our DNA, and we love it and we're
really good at it. I never thought that ninety eight
(05:41):
percent of my time was going to be spent keeping
DA's keeping ags off of our backs, you know, fighting
you know Russia, Shams. I mean, I've told you the
story a hundred times on your show, but you know,
getting calls from the FBI, Eric, I hear you have
secret servers in the basement of Trump Tower communicating with
the Kremlin. I mean when I got that call, I
literally started laughing aloud. Come on, guys, come over here,
(06:02):
you know, walk walk any room in the basement of
Trump Tower. Walk any room in Trump Tower. We have
no secret servers. You know, you don't put secret servers
in basements. This is this is nonsense, Like we weren't
smart enough to come up with and we were trying
to figure out what delegates were, we were trying to
figure out what the Iowa caucuses were. You think we
were smart enough to collude with Russia? But this became
my life. I mean I spent more time being a
psychologist to employees as DA's and ags. We're trying to
(06:25):
trap my employees and threaten them. Hey, you tell us
anything about Donald Trump, and you're set free. You know,
you you go. Otherwise we're gonna you know, we're looking
at your son, and we're looking at your daughter, and
we're gonna come after you. You know, we we I mean,
they were they were extorting our employees. They weren't teaching
my father. They were calling up, you know, every big
bank in the country telling them to you know, to
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dbank us to get rid of the payment rails for
our entire companies, so we couldn't run hotels, so we
couldn't run our you know, our condominiums. I mean, I
became the most pointive person in American history. I've never
gotten so much as a parking ticket, you know. And
I became the most painted person in the history of
the country simply because I was the catalyst to my father.
I was the guy who was running the organization. My
father had constitutional protections as Commander in chief of the
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United States yets, who didn't have constitutional protections. The guy
that was running everything that was Donald Trump's lineage, which
was which was me, all all the real estates and
so they treated me like the pinata. They came after
me every single day, The amount of depositions I sat in,
the amount of you know, I mean, you just wouldn't
believe the legal lawfair that they put us under criminally
(07:29):
civilly for doing absolutely nothing wrong in all cases that
we've won. And Sean, that was the siege. That's the
point of under siege. But the book is so much
more than that. It's it's how my father raised us, right,
how my father and mother was ad a great mother,
but how my father and mother raised us, how we
became exceptionally normal in the most unlikely situations. You know,
(07:50):
how he created great kids, because every single one of
his kids, of the five kids, are our good, hardworking, honest,
you know, well mannered kids. But also how you can
fight a system, and how you can win if you
have enough backbone, if you have enough perseverance, no matter
you know, what walls are caving in on you, no
matter what pressures you have in life. As gloomy as
(08:13):
it looks, and I can't tell you how damn gloomy
it looked on so many days for me and for
my father as we sat in those courtrooms. You know,
how with perseverance and fight you can overcome. And that's
what we did as a country. That's what we did
as a family. But that's what we did as a country,
including you. We won. We won the greatest, you know,
(08:33):
fight of all time. We won the most unorthodox fight
of all time, when the cards were all stacked against us,
and we did it together. And Sean, as a friend
of mine, as a person, I love tremendously, and you
know my affection toward you. There was no one on
the front line like you. I mean, you know, it
was our family, it was you. It was very few
other people in the early days that truly believed other
(08:54):
than your listeners and the American people who had enough
of the nonsense and the crap and finally stood up
and said enough. You know, we don't buy this. We
don't buy this anymore. What's happening is not right, and
we want our country back.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
I want to get into all the details that you
go into in the book in terms of, you know,
the very specifics of what you've been through. But here's
the beauty, because let's just leap to the end of
the story. The end of the story is Donald Trump
gets re elected president. The end of the story is
he is forever tattooed the words fake and news into
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the state run legacy media mob, and nobody trusts them anymore,
nor should they trust them anymore. And it's that that,
to me is remarkable that the truth, you know, eventually
came out. I remember, back way before your father ever
decided to run for president, I would go over. I
would interview your dad, nothing to do really with politics,
(09:51):
and just because he's such a dynamic figure and we
kind of we built a friendship together, and he would
always proud walk me back to say hello to you
and Avanka and Don Junior, and you would all be
in your respective offices and you'd be working for the organization,
and I mean such a close, tight knit family, and
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all of you stood by him, all of you fought.
Then it got hard, you did, you know. I don't
know if I ever told you the day I got
a call one day from a very reliable source telling
me your brother was about to be indicted over that
stupid meeting that took place at Trump Tower that had
nothing to do with anything, And I'm like, you got
(10:36):
to be kidding me, And thank god it never happened.
But but those were the kind of moments that would
unfold and that you chronicle in this book.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
They did. I mean, you had Adam Shifp that was
running around, you know, saying that Don was a Russian operative, right,
and and I mean it was it was unbelievable. And
they were saying the same of me. You know, if
you didn't have you know, constitutional protections of the you
know under the Speech and debate clause, you know, you
would suit him for slander and you would have you
would have won. He would have had absolutely nothing. I
mean he was literally going around saying that Don was
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a Russian operative, and and and it was just it
was it was not true. Remember he said he had
the evidence and he was going to present the evidence.
And you know what's amazing, Sean, I mean, they dug
so deep on Russia that you know who they found.
They found Hillary Clinton, they found Barack Obama. It's like
the great irony of the world. It's no, it's no
different than let Titia James. She dug so deep on
Donald Trump. You know who she ended up finding. She
(11:26):
ended up finding it. She was committing mortgage fraud, right,
you know, she found her you know her herself. You know,
she found the fact that she had a convicted criminal
living in her house. It's what the Democrats do every
single time. Jack Smith dug so deep, you know, when
he rated mar Lago that sure enough, we find out
in the aftermath that he was actually the guy planting
classified folders on the on the carpet of my father's office.
And you know, I could go, I could go on
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and on, but that's all they wanted to do. They
wanted to inflict serious pain. They wanted to make our
family so miserable that we said, you know what, you know,
let's go back to this coasty billionaire lifestyle. We've got
an amazing organization. We can fly around on trumpt One,
We've got great golf forses, we've got great resorts all
over the place. Let's just make their lives so uncomfortable
and so damn miserable that they're gonna throw in the towel.
(12:09):
And Sean, we never threw in the towel. My father
never threw in the towel. I never threw in the towel.
In the darkest moments when I did not need to
be there, I was the only guy. I was the
one guy that was sitting in the courtroom every single
day by his side. And I remember a lot of
days I'd leave court, I'd come right on your show
and we would talk about it. But I would not
leave my father's side. I was going to be there,
come hell or high water, no matter what they did
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to me, no matter what they did to him. And
their only goal was exactly that it was a siege.
Let's take away his voice, Let's imprison him. Let's come
up with every indictment possible. Al Capone had one indictment.
Donald Trump had the ninety one. You know, let's do
the mugshot. Let's let's rape.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
I think is it ninety one or ninety four? I
thought ninety four.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
I thought it was number one. But I honestly I lost.
I lose track.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
I live, you lose count after a while, right.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Hey, I have Excel spreadsheet the track, literally all the
subpoenas that I got. I probably missed a couple as well. Right,
So it's probably actually more than one hundred and twelve.
But they wanted to do anything they could to lay siege,
and they wanted us to give up, and they wanted
us to walk away, and maybe there's some kind of
like masochistic tendencies in the Trump genetics somewhere where we
enjoy pain, you know, and we just would never walk away, Sean,
(13:19):
And no.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
It's not that you enjoy pain.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
It's that you all have a common characteristic is that
you all have an enormous inordinate amount of courage and
resolve and you were not going to be bullied to death.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
The fact that your father went through.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
You know, look, I believe in that Cash is right,
and we got to get to the bottom of the
grand conspiracy and that is Hillary Clinton and you know
she got you know, special privilege on the issue of
top secret classified information. He didn't have, you know, any
presidential privilege in terms of having that information. But of
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course they washed it under the rug Bleach bit you know,
Hammer's devices, sim cards, the dirty Russian disinformation dossier. Oh,
your dad was in a risk a ritz and Moscow
and two hookers were urinating on him. And that becomes
the basis of four FISA warrens to spy on your
dad leading up to the raid of mar A Lago,
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which you start the book out with. You know, it's
I'll tell you what we're gonna do. We're gonna take
a break. I want to go through each issue because
you spell it out in detail. Every America needs to
read this book, and I'll tell you why, because this
is your country on the precipice of no longer existing
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as the great republic that we now were inherited. This
is how bad it got. And literally at the center
of all of this was Eric. Because they couldn't always
go after his father. They went after his father for
four straight years, hoping that they could bloody him up
enough that he wouldn't be elected. Thank god, the American
people were hip to it, and now they rejected. The
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lie is the propaganda, the smears, the besmirchment, the NonStop attacks,
which by the way, continued to this day in the
form of you know, racist Nazi, fascist, Hitler, Stall and Mussolini,
and it doesn't stop. Eight hundred ninety four one show
is a number more with Eric Trump. His new book
is out Under Siege, My Family's Fight to Save Our Nation.
(15:20):
It's now in bookstores all around the country. Amazon dot com.
We have a link on Hannity dot com. And we'll
continue with Eric on the other side and continue with
our friend Eric Trump. But I you know, I really
have come to consider everyone in your family, you know,
a close friend. I've never met a person that loves
his job more than your father. And just this week alone,
(15:42):
Look what he's been able to accomplish. Look at what
he did yesterday for Charlie Kirk. Look at what he
did with peace in the Middle East. Look what he's
doing with seventeen trillion in investments and oil dominance in
the in the country, the largest tax cuts in American history,
for law and order, securing the border. I mean, fun,
the mental things, but it takes the force of your
(16:02):
father to get all this done.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Sean, He's remarkable. He calls me a Saturday, honey, I
want you to come over to Middle East with me.
You know, this peace deal, this is this is an
achievement of a lifetime, you know, I mean, this is
we got Middle East piece. Why don't you fly over
at May and I go pass. I'm literally launching my book.
You know tomorrow I can't. I wish I could. But
he flew over on Sunday, right, just to put this
in perspective. He flies from from d C. He right
(16:26):
to Israel. He does two stops in Israel. He speaks
to Parliament there. Then he flies from there to Egypt
and he speaks to all the world leaders. He does
several press conferences, right, has one on ones with every
one of the world leaders. And then he fies back
to d C. He's back there thirty six hours, you
know later, in order to meet you know, Millie from Argentina,
(16:47):
you know, at noon, and then give Charlie Kirk the
you know, the Medal of Freedom at four o'clock in
the afternoon. I mean, the guy does not stop. He'll
call me at eleven thirty at night, He'll call me
at five o'clock in the morning. I mean, he just
doesn't sleep right. And I think you know, because you've
spoken me many.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Oh listen, I know from people that were on that
trip with them, he did not sleep a wink on
the way home, not one second. And then he did
all the events yesterday.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
He's remarkable and that's exactly what American needs. American needs
a fighter, right, American needs a cheerleader. American needs to fighter.
I mean he'll come off of Air Force one at
three o'clock in the morning and go up to the
gaggle of press. You know, they have two sticks holding
their eyes open. There. You know, they've got four red bulls,
you know, empty red bulls in their hands, are falling asleep.
And by the way, you know half of them are
twenty three years old. And here he is. I mean,
I've always said my father's the energizer bunny, you know,
(17:33):
in a shoot and a red tie on steroids. And
that's how he's been my entire life. And it's exactly
what America needs in a commander in chief. He's he's
absolutely remarkable. But speaking about Middle East piece for a second,
it made it all worth it, Sean. I said this
too privately the other day, but it made it all
worth it for me, for as many arrows and as
many bullets as they put in our back. You know,
(17:53):
when you see the amount of lives that were saved there,
When you see the amount of lives that were saved,
you know, in India, to you know, in avoiding that
conference conflict with Pakistan, when you see the amount of
lives that we're saved, and all the conflicts he's he's stopped,
including obviously you know, Iran getting nuclear weapons because they
would have used it, or they would have had one
of their proxies used it against the Western world. But
(18:15):
when you see him get peace in the Middle East,
something that everybody laughed at. Obama laughed at it, Joe
Biden laughed at it. They all laughed at it. This
can't be done. They've been fighting for thousands of years.
There's no way this is going to happen. And then
you see all the related parties up there where Israel
is happy, you know, or or we're power. I mean,
everybody's happy. I mean all the leaders are happy over there.
(18:36):
I mean every leader in the Middle East is applauding.
It's not like these wars in the past where you
might have one victor and you'll have one loser. Hear
everybody satisfied and they're all happy with the end results.
Like it's not a beautiful thing for humanity, and it
makes the siege all worth it. It makes everything that
we went through worth it because guess what, there are
potentially millions of people right now who are alive because
(18:58):
of what he just accomplished, whether it's now or whether
it's in the future, and it's a beautiful thing to see.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
I don't know how many untold lives in the future
will be saved because Iran doesn't have nuclear weapons. I
do feel there's a misunderstanding of your father's doctrine or
what we what I call the Trump doctrine. You know,
people kind of they misinterpret No Forever Wars for not
using American military might. But meanwhile, your dad took out
(19:25):
the Isis calife. Your dad took out SOLMANI on that tarmac,
he took out back Daddy and associates. He dropped the
mother of all bombs on Afghanistan. And and here when
he had the opportunity and Iran was getting close to
being a nuclear power, he said that can't happen. He
gave him a chance for peace. They rejected it, and
he took him out, and thank god he did.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Yeah, he's doing here with the cartels right now, which
is as a person who is at four friends die
of fentanyl, meaning four friends of mine who have lost
kids to fentanyl. He's doing the same with cartels right now.
You're gonna stop this stuff. You're gonna stop sending drugs
into the United States. Otherwise we're gonna do something about it.
And and Sean, he's doing something about it, and is great.
But you know, my father was always the guy who
was against you know, you see these outposts all right.
(20:06):
There's a great movie actually called Rostreppo that was you know,
it made specifically about this. But you'd have these outpost
in Afghanistan, they'd have you know, ten kids. You know,
these guys are twenty one years old, twenty two years old,
and they're sitting up there and every day they're getting
mortared and they're losing limbs and everything else. And he goes,
I don't want this. I don't want this. I don't
want to, you know, rebuild nations. I don't want to
destroy a school and then have to rebuild it, and
then we destroy it again, and then we rebuild it again.
(20:28):
I don't want to do that. I want to have
the greatest military in the world where if we ever
have to go in, it will be over so damn
quickly that people's heads are going to spend, right. But
I don't want to go spend fifteen years in a region,
see thousands of young people's lives, you know, get get killed,
spend trillions of dollars when we could otherwise spend that
on our own infrastructure. In the United States of America,
we could rebuild every school, every bridge, every road, every
(20:50):
fiber optic line, every five G network. I want to
do that for the you know, the United States of America.
I want to do that on our homeland. I don't
want to do that abroad. So I want to have
the greatest military, and I want to pray to God
that we never have to use it. But if we
do have to use it, we're gonna be ready and
we're gonna knock their heads off, and we're gonna do
it so quickly you know that we can get home.
And I think that's what Americans universally want. People are
(21:11):
sick and tired of occupying Iraq for years. People are
sick and tired of what was happening in Afghanistan. People
are sick and tired of, you know, being the protector
of Germany and the protector of you know, South Korea,
and the protector of the entire world. People are sick
and tired of this, especially when all those countries views
US on trade policies and everything else. And you know,
(21:31):
if people are are so relieved that he's taking Foster, listen,
if I have to hit them, I'm going to hit
them hard. And by the way, you better believe that
Solomani made a message, right, sent a great message to
the entire world. You don't think that, Kim John un
You don't think these people are watching as as Solomani
got hit and alback, dad daddy got hit. Of course
they were right, and they're gonna play a little nicer
in the sandbox knowing you have a person who will
(21:52):
actually take decisive action when we're required.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Let me let me go back to your family though,
and go back to your story. There's so much to
cover and it's just impossible to do it in an hour.
But everything that I mentioned earlier, from you know, Paiza
Warrens and spying on your dad in a dirty Russian
disinformation dossier. You know, we did have career senior Intel
(22:15):
officials after twenty sixteen that had determined there was no
Trump Russia collusion. Obama himself authorized another intel assessment to
come up with a very different conclusion, sabotage your dad's
first term, and they were successful.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Yeah, of course it was. I mean, it's the same
reason that the FBI was shouting at me to turn
off all security cameras and mar Lago, Well, why would
I turn off I'm Marlago with commercial property. Why am
I turning off security cameras. We demand that you immediately
turn off all security cameras. I got, I'm not turning
off our security cameras. I'll never forget that conversation. I
guess something is is deeply, deeply wrong with what they're doing.
But they did weaponize the entire system, I mean, Sean,
(22:52):
one of the great lessons. And by the way, I
love them and women like of the FBI and of
all law enforcement. The actual gun carrier is not the
bureaucrats at the top, but a can call down. And
I've told the story. I don't think I've ever told
it publicly. It's it's in the book. But I get
called down to FBI headquarters in New York. There's a
threat against the Trump organization. Eric, we come down here.
We need to debrief you on it. They bring me upstairs.
I drive in. No one knows Sean I'm going down there.
(23:13):
Secret Service takes me down. We go in the basement
of the building, We go right upstairs to the top
floor into the skiff and they say, Eric, there's a
big cybersecurity you know, threat against Trump organization. You know,
we need to tell you about it. You know, and
it was just it was the most vague nonsense that
you'd ever heard in your entire life. I'm literally rolling
my eyes to it. If you had one person in
an IT department, you would have you could have seen
(23:35):
anything that they were telling you about. Not that we
you know, we were strangers to to to Ice it
threats against our company. And I'll never forget. You can't
tell anybody you're here. This is down by secrets, so
you can't tell anybody you're here. I get back in
the cars. I haven't even left the building yet. We're
driving up the ramps that leaves the FBI building in
New York and I get a call from the head
of ABC News, you know, the person, John Santucci. And
(23:57):
I get a call from John, and he goes, what
are you doing on FBI headquarters? I go, John, I
have no idea what you're talking about. I'm not at
FBI headquarters. He goes, Eric, you're lying to me. You're
down there right now. You're just leaving the building. I go, John,
I have no idea what you're talking about. Eric, don't
lie to me. I know why you're there. I go,
why would I possibly be there? Well, they're investigating a
cyber attack, you know, from Iran against the Trump organization.
(24:20):
And I go, how do you know that? And he
goes Eric because their press office from DC just called
and told me all about it. And they literally brought
me into that office and they made me sign every document,
and they brought me in under the cover of darkness
and under total secrecy. And I go, oh my god,
they are literally doing it. This is the weaponization of government.
I mean, they're literally they're bringing me in there as
a pawn. I never thought that that would be the
(24:41):
country that I lived in. I didn't. And by the way,
that that was just the tip of the sphere relative
to what we went through between the impeachments and the dossiers.
And you mentioned the dossier's before and some of the horrible,
wretched things I can't even say on the radio that
they said my father was doing Golden you know what's
and everything. They did that to break up his marriage.
They did that to break up his family, They did
(25:02):
that to embarrass him. It was all paid for by
Hillary Clinton, and it was all paid for by the Democrats, right.
That was the siege. They wanted to do everything they
could to destroy his life financially, legally. They wanted to
imprison him. They wanted to smear his name. They wanted
to take his voice. They wanted to gag order him
every day. They wanted the mug shot. They didn't meet
(25:23):
Donald Trump's mugshot. He's the most recognizable person on planet Earth. Right,
he wasn't a flight risk. They wanted to do everything
they could, and when that didn't work Sewan, they tried
to kill him in Butler's And by the way, in
terms of Butler Pennsylvania, I'm not satisfied, and by the way,
I don't think the entire country is satisfied with.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
By the way, neither am I. There's no reason at all.
I used to be a contractor. That's not a slope
proof Eric, not even close.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
They had eighty year old congressmen walking across that roof,
and you had Kimberlee Cheadle talking about how it was
too slow, giving me a break. I'm also non satisfied
that they let somebody at one hundred and thirty yards
with a modern scoped rifle, you know, shoot at a
quarter you know it is It is infuriating to son
of what I'm really not satisfied with and I'm really not.
(26:08):
And this is maybe the only place in the world
I disagree with my father because you know, I for
national security reasons, a whole lot of other reasons. And
I amend and applaud his composure based on what happened
to him and the fact that he almost had his
head blown off. But we don't know a damn thing
about this guy. And I go into that in great
detail and under stage. You know, they literally stripped the
(26:28):
phones of every single January sixth protester. They broke into
every iPhone of every grandmother that was taking a selfie
in the capital. But we don't know a damn thing
about the person who shot at the forty fifth and
very soon to be forty seventh president of the United States.
You know, we have one picture of this kid, and
he looks like he's fourteen years old, right, and you know,
and the guy had multiple phones. Give me a break,
(26:51):
you know, the guy was cremated faster than most household pets. Sean,
I call BS, and I think this entire country calls BS,
and we better find out who's this guy actually was?
Speaker 1 (27:01):
All right, quick break a few more minutes, final moments
with Eric Trump. His new book just out Under Siege,
My Family's Fight to Save Our Nation, now in bookstores
around the country, Amazon dot com, Hannity dot com, Quick
Break More with Eric on the other Side. Up next,
our final roundup and Information Overload Hour. All right, we
(27:59):
can say, you know, Eric Trump is with us, never
done this before, holding him a little bit over the hour.
Your life became a living hell. And I would talk
to you throughout that period of times and I'm like,
my mouth was a gape. I'm just like, oh my gosh,
it is unprecedented what they did to you and your family.
(28:21):
You tell the whole story. It is inspiring because you
conclude on this program today it was all worth it,
and it speaks volumes about who you are, the friend
that you've become, and Laura's become, and your family's become,
and about your father, the father that stood up and
said fight, fight, fight after Butler, and more importantly, you've
(28:44):
laid out a roadmap.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
We better get to the bottom of it.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Eric, yep Sean, it's one of the reasons I had
to materialize all of this. Right, you know more about
revisionist history than anybody. Every person listening to his program
understands through revision is history. Just go on Wikipedia if
you want to understand revere history. They do everything they
can using the mainstream media to rewrite the history that
they want rewritten, to leave in or out the details
(29:08):
that they think is relevant. And it had to take
the son of a president to write something from the heart,
but something with hard, concrete facts that are indisputable as
to what they did and the way they were willing
to weaponize the system, they would have been very happy for.
I'm telling you how many feathers this book is going
to ruffle. They wanted us to all disappear. They wanted
(29:29):
all of this to fade into the distant memories of
a few select people and never actually be put down
on paper. And I really believe I had to do
it for the history of this country. I really believe
I had to do it to show people how democracy,
how fragile it can actually be, and how quickly it
can go awry. And Sean, listen, I'm a builder. You've
known me my entire life. I build buildings. I'm the
(29:50):
number one selling offer in the country right now. That
was not meant to be this much. I can tell
you I am number one on Amazon. We are number
one in every single category.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
When you wrote every word yourself. People need to know that,
you know.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
So. So the point of that's me saying that is
people are pissed off, and people want accountability, and people
want to understand what happened, and people aren't letting this go.
Your listeners aren't letting this go. I'm not letting this go.
And and sure, sure as hell, my father is not
letting this go. We can't let it go. This is
this is literally, I mean, they had our country by
(30:22):
the neck. This siege wasn't just against Donald Trump, right,
It wasn't just against us as a family. It wasn't
just against me as a guy who ran everything outside
of Washington, d C. This siege was against you when
they weaponized the i R s. This was against you
when they were leaking your tax returns. This was against
every person listening right now, you know, as they weaponize
you know again i RS agencies to go after their
(30:44):
pastors and their bishops and their churches and their religious
organizations and conservative nonprofits. It was every person listening as
they got looked over for the next promotion because of
some DEI higher because of the you know, the you know,
the peerio of wokeness. It's it's for every father and
mother who had you know, a daughter that had to
(31:05):
swim against the guy my size sixty four and fifteen pounds.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
All right, So, Eric, if I consist, stop you.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
I'm not trying to interrupt you at all, especially during
the middle of that flow. But I've never done this
in the history of the show. I've never kept an
author over an hour. But i just think what you're
saying is so critical, so vital, so important, uh, and
that we learn the lessons of what you and your
family have gone through. If you're it's okay with you,
I'll hold you over just for a few more minutes
(31:32):
in the into the next half hour, if you don't mind. Honest,
Eric Trump is thank you, Eric Trump. Under siege, my
family's fight to save our nation. Quick break more with
Eric Trump on the other side as we continue
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