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July 4, 2025 - Sean Hannity Show
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Eric Trump on Iran - July 3rd, Hour 3
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I've known this young man.
He's getting older, though.
Believe it or not, from the very first days that I would interview President Trump at Trump Tower when he was just the head of the Trump organization, and at the time, with no political ambitions that I knew of.
And every single time I'd go to Trump Tower, I'd do an interview with him, and he'd walk me down the hall.
And I'd go into Don Jr.'s office and Ivanka's office and Eric Trump's office.
And Eric Trump, now the executive vice president of the Trump organization, is with us.
Do you even remember those days?
You probably have no recollection at all, do you?
Well, sometimes, Sean, it feels like five minutes ago, and sometimes it feels like 100 years ago, right?
I haven't quite figured it out.
Knowing Hannity for that long is way too long.
I get it.
I understand.
I can tell you, life was a hell of a lot simpler back then, to say the least.
But no, we still had that great company.
We're better than ever before.
And what a wild world it's been since those days.
You know, it's amazing because just the two days ago, it was the 10th anniversary since your dad came down and you were with him that day, that escalator of Trump Tower and announced to the world he's running for president.
And almost from the very second that he started talking about illegal immigration, little did we know we'd have Joe Biden allow 12 to 20 million unvetted illegals, including known terrorists, murderers, rapists, cartel members, and gang members that your father's now cleaning up.
But ever since that day, almost from the beginning, actually from the beginning, your father's come under fire.
I mean, it's been non-stop.
And what's really remarkable is if you actually go back and you watch that speech from 2016, I mean, I remember that, right?
We all went down there.
We're all standing on the stage as families.
If you watch that speech, Sean, he was right about absolutely everything.
Everything he said, he was right about.
He was talking about how every country in the world was ripping us off.
They were all taking advantage of us.
He was talking about all the drugs that were coming across the border, how we're doing nothing about illegal immigrants, right?
He was talking about NATO, how we're protecting the entire world for wealthy countries all around the world, and we get nothing for it, that we're getting used and abused by everybody.
He was talking about, you know, the trade deficits, the trade problems that we have around the world, how we should put tariffs on people so they stop.
You know, I won't use the word on national radio, but you know what?
America.
And they were all doing it.
And if you go back and watch that speech 10 years later, I mean, every single one of the things he's been right on.
And the hysteria it created was nothing short of incredible.
You'll remember that.
I mean, it took them two days.
The first day, everybody still had their jaw open.
They loved it.
So many people in this country love it.
I mean, America fell in love with Donald Trump that day.
And then the manufactured outrage by the mainstream media all of a sudden, when they realized that he was going to be a real contender, started two days later.
How dare dare, you know, Donald Trump say that Mexico is not sending their best and their finest into the United States?
How dare him say that there are rapists coming across the borders and that drugs are flowing in totally unchecked?
How dare he insult our allies overseas and just anything that they could to manufacture?
And now if you look back, I think all of us listening would realize that everything he said was correct and right, and his intuition was beyond spot on.
You know, there are a few presidents in history that I would say are transformational and consequential.
And certainly your father is right up there at the top.
And if you look at, for example, how the country now views immigration, how the country now looks at America first and what that actually means, I think some people don't fully completely understand it.
And you could see this intramural squabble over the issue of what your dad will ultimately decide to do with Iran kind of popping up its ugly head.
And I just stay out of those intramural squabbles.
I have no interest in them at all or the personalities involved.
I do trust your father's instincts.
But in terms of putting America first, in terms of securing our borders, in terms of thinking out of the box, and that would be energy dominance, in terms of eliminating woke, in terms of a new way to look at pretty much everything, that is consequential.
A return to limited government and eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse.
Gee, what a novel concept that Washington will have to rein in their spending, and maybe we'll stop robbing from our kids and grandkids.
Yeah, no question about it.
I mean, how about the indoctrination of our children, which to me is kind of a young father, I think is one of the most personally offensive things ever where they're asking kids to put on the spectrum whether or not they're a boy or a girl or this or that or the woke nonsense you see or the men swimming in female sports and destroying the lives of people or the he, they, them and the pronouns.
And I mean, we were.
By the way, how would you like to be addressed, Eric?
I didn't ask you your preferred pronoun.
Sean, I'm very into the pronoun thing, as you can probably tell.
But seriously, we're on the precipice for a lot of issues.
We're certainly on the precipice for the oil and gas, our debt, the way we're getting ripped off by everybody, the way that we've been losing jobs for the last 20 years in this country because of incompetent policies, incompetent spending, incompetent tax policies that never seem to – I mean, we were at a disadvantage, Sean, with everything that we did.
And then all of a sudden you put the social pressures on top of that.
And these idiotic movements, we became the laughing stock of the entire world.
I mean, I spent a lot of time overseas because I'm in international real estate is what we've done our entire lives.
And you have people in these countries who are sitting there saying, I just can't possibly believe it.
You mean to tell me that in America they're allowing a man to use a woman's bathroom all because the person one day wakes up and decides that they want to identify as something that they're not?
They were sitting there, Sean, laughing at us.
And we were on the precipice of losing it all.
I mean, look at the DEI mandates in corporate America.
Look at the DEI mandates in so much of government.
I mean, we were losing it all.
And I think, well, the quickness and how that's all been reversed over the last three and a half months, four months, since my father's been on, I mean, it's really remarkable.
Where are you on this issue with Iran?
We have the Israelis now have taken out two of their three main nuclear sites.
The one that remains is the Ford site, which is their most comprehensive.
It's buried deep inside of a mountain.
It seems like the only way to get to it would take American bunker buster bombs, American pilots to deliver them.
You know, I'm watching this debate unfold.
The Trump doctrine, which I agree with, no forever wars anymore.
That doesn't mean that you don't assess the risk of a nuclear-armed Iran that has been fomenting terror around the world and threatening to wipe Israel and the United States off the map.
And if they ever had nuclear capability and they build out their missile technology, that's a clear and present danger.
But I don't know where this isolationist argument came from because I don't believe your father's an isolationist.
I think a big part of the America First Movement, MAGA movement, and correct me if I'm wrong, is common sense.
There's no question that's common sense.
I mean, listen, Sean, where I fall on is very simple.
I am a totally anti-war guy.
I look at so many of the wars in the last 20 years, 30 years, and beyond that, and they have been such a drain on the United States of America.
We got nothing out of the wars.
Look at Iraq, right?
I mean, you literally just destabilize the entire Middle East.
I look at these kids in Ukraine and Russia.
They're in these trenches.
I have a young son.
I have a young daughter.
I put thousands and thousands of hours into raising these kids.
And somebody comes around a little corner in a trench.
They put two pounds of pressure on a trigger in a millisecond, and that life is gone.
Everything that so many people worked for, all the meals, all the education is just the love, the heart, the soul is just expunged.
I hate all of it.
At the same time, you can't...
By the way, I shared that sentiment with you.
I mean, I wish there was no evil in the world.
I wish there was no terror in the world.
I hope that your father could eventually broker peace in Europe and the Middle East.
But what I'll say, Sean, you can't let religious zealots, right, who have a lot of proxies around the world have the most devastating weapons anywhere, right?
There are plenty of people, including in Yemen, including a lot of other countries, right?
It'd be very easy to hand nuclear material to, and they will bring it to the homeland.
They will bring it to Israel.
They will bring it to America.
They will take us out.
They would rejoice in doing it.
And so you cannot allow that to happen.
Here's the other thing I'll tell you.
I've been in the situation room.
I know that apparatus incredibly, incredibly well.
I know the White House apparatus.
They know a lot more than TV at night who go out there and espouse themselves to be experts.
There's a lot of information.
There's a lot of knowledge base.
And you have to trust that, first of all, Donald Trump has never left war.
He doesn't want to go to war.
He's been beyond resilient and patient with these people.
Every time he said to them, you have 60 days in order to disarm and get rid of your nuclear program or else on the 61st day, you saw what happened.
He's not a guy who bluffs.
They better listen to him.
We have the capability as a country to do it.
But the one thing I can guarantee you is this will not be a long, protracted thing.
If, God forbid, we had to hit, I think we would hit.
And I think we'd get the hell out of there because there's one person who does not like long, protracted wars that waste trillions of dollars and only fuel the industrial military conflicts in our country, which for so long has been totally out of control.
And that's been Donald Trump.
And so, you know, I think Iran should really listen to his words and exactly what he's saying because he's not playing games.
If they think that Donald Trump is just going to forget about this and they can kind of stall and they can just kick the can, they are wholefully wrong.
And I think his entire life has proven that he does what he says he's going to do.
He will not back down.
And at the end of the day, he's going to protect America.
I mean, he's going to protect the United States of America.
And by the way, it goes beyond the United States of America.
It's really Western civilization.
They cannot have nuclear weapons, period, end of sentence.
How that ultimately plays out is going to be up to them.
As of yesterday, the Supreme Leader said he's not going to negotiate, period, end of sentence.
In that sense, I agree with you.
If your father says something, I believe him.
And they would be foolish not to listen to him, and it appears they're not.
Sean, the Supreme Leader isn't exactly making this conversation easy because he's just sitting out there taunting everybody, right?
It's really and by the way, if you don't think that they already have a delivery system, just look at a live shot any night of Tel Aviv and watch those rockets come in from out of space at hypersonic speeds and crash into buildings.
Believe me, it's not that hard to put a small payload on one of those things and be able to deliver it.
It's wholly scary the world that we live in right now.
It's totally scary that the power of modern-day weaponry, it makes the stuff we saw, obviously, during World War II and Hiroshima and Nagasaki look small potatoes, and we simply can't do it.
And again, there are so many proxies that these countries have fighting for them all around the world that it'd be so easy to hand off that material, give it to somebody else, keep your hands squeaky clean, and let somebody else do your dirty work for you.
And that's exactly what would happen.
It just can't happen.
And I promise you, either way, they're going to shut down the sites or the shut sites will be shut down for them.
And that's obviously a decision my father has to make.
And I just, I hope people take a lot of solace in his absolute patience, his strength, but his absolute patience.
And I think beyond that, you know, knowing a whole lot more about the situation and having intel sources from every dark corner in the world, you know, it's the right people to make this decision here in the White House and obviously support whatever they do.
All right, quick break.
We'll come right back more with Eric Trump, executive vice president of the Trump organization.
And we'll get to your calls coming up straight ahead as well.
800-941-Sean, if you want to be a part of the program as we continue.
All right, we continue now.
Eric Trump is with us, executive vice president of the Trump organization.
It's an amazing thing that you and your family, an amazing journey you all have been on over this 10-year period.
And I can, I know because in the sense that I've become friendly with all of you, I've lived a lot of it, but not at the level you've lived it.
And it's really remarkable that all that you have sadly had to endure just to try to serve your country and including what happened in the last election, not one but two would be assassins.
It's got to be, you know, I don't even know if you can spend the time or indulge yourself in thinking about it.
I'll give you the last word.
Yeah, you do.
You know, it's been the most beautiful journey of my life, no question about it.
And it's also been the most brutal.
You know, it's, I think the brutality of it in a certain way kind of, you know, brings a little bit of the romance to it as well.
I've grown so much as a person.
And I have to say, Sean, I cursed you the other night, right, on TV.
You keep on dragging me back into it.
I call my father.
Yeah, by the way, what was that all about?
You did curse me out on TV.
What was that?
On November 6th, I called my father.
I go, you know, Pops, I love you to death.
We just won the Super Bowl.
I'm proud to have stood on the stage for the last 10 years with you.
I never wavered.
I was on the stage every single day.
I did more campaign stops than any human being, more shows, more TV, more radio.
I love it.
It's been an honor of my life.
I'm getting back to our company 100%.
I'm getting back to life.
I'm retiring from politics.
I'm crazy.
And that jackass Hannity dragged me back in.
He's supposed to be my friend.
I'm playing it for about three weeks, and then you drag me back in a whole freaking mess.
And I'm sitting here talking about nuclear weapons in Iran.
But no, kidding is hard.
You know what?
You're great at it, and you've been such an asset, and you've sacrificed so much.
And I value our friendship on top of all of it.
And thank you for the sacrifice.
You and Laura, your family, your whole family, honestly, you've been through a lot.
And thank God the country is better off because of it.
And there are many of us that are very grateful, including me.
I know.
That's been a great journey.
And we love you to death.
And you've been such part of it with us.
And, you know, without you, and frankly, everybody listening to us right now, all of your listeners, this would never happen.
The deep state would have rolled us.
And we would.
We would have lost the country, Eric.
It was over.
It's that profound.
Eric Trump, appreciate it.
And you're officially back in.
I'll swear you in next time I see you.
And you can punch me out on the other side of it.
All right, 25 now to the top of the hour, 800-941-Sean, our number.
If you want to be a part of the program, we'll get to your calls here in a few minutes.
We have proudly partnered with the IFCJ, and that's the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews.
Remember, if you extrapolate out the population of Israel and you compare it to America, on October 7th, they lost the equivalent of 40,000 Americans based on their population size.
It's chilling.
Never mind the, it was murder.
It was rape.
It was torture.
It was kidnapping.
It was beheadings.
I know because I've seen the videos.
How did I see the videos?
I won't lie.
The IDF showed it to me.
And they just don't want to release it personally because they don't want these families to be further traumatized.
I think if the world sore, now it's interesting that Greta Thunberg and a little flotilla that was stopped by the Israelis, they gave them an opportunity to view these videotapes.
But of course, why would you ever want to open your mind if you have been radicalized and want to believe whatever it is that's in your head?
And it's pretty pathetic that they didn't do it.
But ever since that day, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews have been on the ground.
They've been helping Israelis, tens and tens of thousands of them, with humanitarian assistance.
And now they need it more than ever.
They're now involved in the biggest fight for their survival ever against a sworn enemy that has pledged publicly that they want to wipe them off the map.
But they're providing, thanks to your generosity, they are providing food and water and shelter and medicines and clothing and also providing safety things like flak jackets, mobile bomb shelters, etc.
I hope you'll join us in supporting them.
By the way, their numbers 888-488-IFCJ.
Now, Yayel Ekstein is with us, and she is the president of the IFCJ, International Fellowship of Christians and Jews.
And sadly, I saw a post on her ex account.
She was in the air, on her way home to her family, and Israel had to close all of the airspace.
She had to be turned around.
And, you know, her biggest fear has always been being locked out of her country with her family inside the country.
She wants to be with her family and her friends and be a big part of the mission of the IFCJ.
Last week, I spent quite a bit of time with people that support the IFCJ, and I was glad to have that time.
Yayel, I don't even want to ask where you are.
We don't know when you're going to be able to go back, do we?
Hi, Sean.
Yeah, we were around three and a half hours on the way home to Israel when the pilot came on and said Israel is right now attacking Iran's nuclear reactors.
We have to turn off all the Wi-Fi.
We're at a threat for being hijacked or hacked, and we have to turn around immediately and find safety.
So I'm back in America.
My four children and my husband are there in Israel.
My staff is on the ground delivering aid, and I'm just praying with all my heart for Israel, for all of the Americans that are right now in the Middle East and being targeted as well.
And I'm praying that I'll be able to get home soon.
Now, we do have, Iran appears to be targeting Tel Aviv.
And so far, the Israelis have successfully, because this is ongoing, been able to parry away all of the attacks against them as they have in the previous two attacks.
But you are talking to people inside of Israel.
What are they telling you?
Well, right now, everyone in Israel is in their bomb shelters.
Just in the past few minutes, there were over 100 ballistic missiles launched at Israel.
This is following around 200 suicide drones that Israel was able to knock down.
It doesn't look like Israel was able to knock down all of these ballistic missiles.
There are reports of impact that haven't been confirmed, but that I'm hearing from people on the ground.
It's Shabbat there in Israel, and this is God's Day of Peace.
And I'm just praying.
I believe, Sean, what's happening now is something that's spiritual.
You're seeing David against Goliath.
You look at the map in tiny Israel that's really taking out the nuclear reactor and mitigating this threat, not just to Israel's very survival, but as you've been speaking about, Iran has killed many Americans, is constantly threatening Americans.
It's a threat to the entire free world, including the moderate Arab countries that want freedom, and Iran is holding them back, and Iranian people.
I've been watching videos of Iranian women finally taking off their hijabs and celebrating and saying, set us free, set us free.
So this isn't a situation of like Iraq.
The Iranian people remember what freedom is.
They want democracy.
They don't want to be ruled by these mullahs.
They want to be ruled by freedom and opportunity.
And I pray, Sean, I pray that this fight of David versus Goliath will see a good outcome.
And 80 years ago, when the nations of the world watched it silently as the Jewish people were almost eliminated, today we're seeing the nations of the world join Israel in this fight for our survival.
Well, there have been some that have gotten through.
I've been watching the videos closely all throughout the afternoon.
But the Israelis also are on offense and their operations are continuing as well.
What's amazing to me is everything that Israel's been able to do since October 7th, just as an example.
I mean, the fact that they've been able to take out the top seven leaders of Hamas and Hezbollah and Nasrallah and all these other people and identify all of the soldiers and get their Pager numbers and have them all go off simultaneously is just a testament to just how good they are.
The fact that they had operatives inside the Mossad did inside of Iran ready to go with drones ready to launch.
Nobody in Iran, I can tell you right now, expected that they were that prepared.
The fact that they were able to take out their top nuclear scientists and destroy their main uranium enrichment facility and wipe out the top military leaders in the Revolutionary Guard and literally Israeli warplanes wiping out Iranian missile launchers.
But all of which is just a tribute to the preparation that has gone into this.
And it appears that the Trump administration is moving naval assets capable of intercepting these ballistic missiles as a means of supporting and other countries as well will be joining in.
But this is what life has been like for Israel now for decades.
This has to come to an end.
And I was saying last night on TV, you know, put yourself in Israel's position.
How many rockets would have to be fired into American cities before you'd want the government to wipe out whoever's firing them or responsible for orchestrating the firing of them?
Yes, Sean, it's so important to remember tiny Israel the size of New Jersey has had 35,000 rockets launched at us from seven different fronts in 600 days.
And there's no way any other country would be willing to be okay with that.
And Israel, who's outwardly our survival, is being threatened by Iran.
We really were left with no choice.
And so what we're doing there at the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, we're not the government, we're not the military, but we could help the people.
And so we're feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, sheltering the poor.
Right now, we have emergency food boxes that are being distributed.
We have thousands of bomb shelters that the fellowship has placed that are open and being used.
We have tens of thousands of first responders who are out protecting the people of Israel, wearing the fellowship-donated flag jackets and helmets.
And I even got an update just around an hour ago that there are babies in the NICU unit that are being moved to a fellowship-sponsored bomb shelter that we built.
So right now, I just want to say to your audience, Christians, Jews, people who cherish freedom, who value life, who have done so much to help the life-saving and prophetic work of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews to bring light in this darkness.
Right now, all of that is being used.
So if you've ever even given a penny to the fellowship, right now, your aid is being used to save lives.
So I just want to say thank you, Sean.
Well, we thank people.
And by the way, they can contribute two ways.
Call now, 888-488-IFCJ, or go to your website, ifcj.org.
Ayel, we're praying for you and your family and our friends in Israel.
And we're praying for victory, full-out victory, so that the missiles stop flying into the country.
And hopefully these other countries now will get on board once this threat is diminished and once this threat is neutralized and join the Abraham Accords and recognize Israel's right to exist.
And maybe we could have a little peace in the region for a while.
That would be nice.
Yayel, thank you.
Thank you, Sean, for being a beacon of hope and light to so many people.
You're an inspiration the way that you report with such truth and honesty and faith and hope you are so special to the people of Israel and to the people of America and to me.
It's for the right cause, Yayel.
We pray you get home safely.
Your family wants you home, and we want you to get home safely, and we want your country safe.
Thank you.
800-941, Sean is on number.
Let's get to our busy phones.
800-941, Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, let's say hi to Kim is in Ohio.
Hey, Kim, how are you?
Glad you called.
Hi, Sean.
Thank you for taking my call.
I have two thoughts.
Go Israel.
And my second thought is on the riot, why not use the fire department hoses to hose those people down where we can cuff them and fingerprint them and find out who these people are?
We can.
We absolutely can.
And I bet you probably a number of them have a record and it would show up probably pretty quickly.
But remember, they don't want to do that, right?
You know, remember, in the summer of 2020, we had all of that video of people literally destroying businesses, billions of dollars of property damage, and very few people.
Well, they had about 500 arrests, and I think they only followed through on about 25 or 28, and that was it.
Compare that to how they treated people with January 6th for crying out loud.
Unbelievable.
The hypocrisy spectacular as per usual.
Don Lake Ron Konkama, welcome aboard, sir.
Well, the moment is here.
Israel did, unfortunately, what the Iranians made a necessity.
I would prefer peace.
You would prefer peace.
The world would prefer peace.
But all they do is, you know, foment terror.
Sean, the last night, your show on Hannity, as news was breaking, was absolutely outstanding.
With the coverage you had, and especially our mutual friend, our good friend Mark Levin, who never mints his words.
Yeah, actually bringing him back to.
That's it.
I'm done.
Now, I mean, it was great, but he understands the nature of what we're dealing with here.
You are dealing with people that literally want to wipe out a country.
That is their stated goal.
And they are fomenting terror and providing the weaponry to destroy this country.
It won't let this country live in peace.
And they've been doing it and getting away with it.
How many hundreds of thousands of rockets have to be fired into Israel before they say, sorry, enough's enough?
Well, that moment has come.
Well, I know we were impatient with the ongoing negotiations, but I know trying to broker a deal that President Trump had set up is the best way to try to stop hostilities.
But Sean, we all knew that the Iranian Muellers were never going to respect any deals.
And they only sought to get nuclear weapons as soon as possible.
As for the timing, there are things that we don't know yet.
But I'm glad that the Israelis had such success last night.
The mission is far from over.
Well, I am, but you know, but I've been watching all afternoon.
You know, now hundreds of missiles have been launched and drones are headed Israel's way.
And they now got to defend themselves while simultaneously finishing the job that they started.
This is all because this regime wants to wipe Israel off the map.
They were given every opportunity by President Trump and Steve Witkoff.
The president was like as close to him begging as he could ever get.
I really don't want, I don't, I want peace.
I want, please do a deal with us.
You can't have nuclear weapons.
Nobody trusts you.
Nobody believes that you won't use them.
Sorry, but you can have a place in the world and a seat at the table if you just give up your nuclear ambitions.
They wouldn't do it.
They just refused.
And at that point, there's nothing you can do.
Anyway, my friend, you're the best.
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