Epoch Times - Eric Trump: Here’s How My Father’s Opponents Tried to Destroy Our Family
Aired: 2025-09-29
Duration: 01:26


=== They Wanted Us Out of Business (01:24) ===

[00:00:01]  I'll never forget when my father handed me the company, and I never realized I'd be the one person that didn't have constitutional protections.
[00:00:06]  You know, the president of the United States has constitutional protections.
[00:00:09]  You know, I didn't, and I became the most subpoenaed person in arguably American history.
[00:00:12]  I got 112 subpoenas in a very short period of time.
[00:00:15]  And these are like big subpoenas, right?
[00:00:17]  From Senate, from Congress, from the biggest AGs in the country, DAs in the country.
[00:00:22]  They wanted to see our family out of business.
[00:00:24]  They wanted to see us bankrupt.
[00:00:25]  They wanted to see my father in jail.
[00:00:26]  They wanted to see me in jail.
[00:00:28]  They wanted to see the Trump name off of every building around the globe.
[00:00:32]  They wanted to break up our relationships.
[00:00:34]  They wanted to break up the family ties I have with my siblings.
[00:00:37]  They wanted to break up his relationship with Melania.
[00:00:40]  They raided our homes.
[00:00:41]  They tried to impeach him.
[00:00:42]  They took us off of Twitter and Instagram and X.
[00:00:46]  They weaponized the DOJ.
[00:00:48]  They spied on his campaign.
[00:00:49]  They made up the Russia hoax.
[00:00:50]  They made up the Russia collusion.
[00:00:52]  They made up the dirty dossiers.
[00:00:54]  They took him off the ballot in Colorado.
[00:00:56]  Then they took him off the ballot in Maine.
[00:00:59]  Then they had how many indictments?
[00:01:01]  91 indictments in Fulton County, in deep left New York City and in Washington, D.C.
[00:01:09]  They took his mugshot, and then they tried to kill him.
[00:01:12]  And that's what they tried to do to our family.
[00:01:14]  They tried to kill our family.
[00:01:16]  They tried to kill the MAGA movement.
[00:01:18]  And two weeks ago, you saw what they did to Charlie Kirk, right?
[00:01:21]  It was the same thing.
[00:01:21]  They wanted to silence that voice.
[00:01:23]  And that's what Under Siege is.
[00:01:25]  That's what the book is about.