Trump talked to The Epoch Times about the attacks his family endured, how it made them stronger, and whether he would consider running for office.
Eric Trump, son of President Donald Trump, is the author of the forthcoming book “Under Siege: My Family’s Fight to Save Our Nation.”
In an exclusive interview with The Epoch Times, the 41-year-old husband and father of two gives a behind-the-scenes look at how a decade of relentless attacks from the political left threatened to destroy his business and his family, and even take his father’s life.
The experience, he says, has left him more determined than ever to fight for what he believes in.
This interview has been edited for brevity and clarity.
Jan Jekielek: Your family has been under siege for some time, and this is something that’s discussed in your new book. What about yourself? What was the key moment when you realized things had changed irrevocably?
Eric Trump: I‘ll never forget. My father handed me the company when he went to Washington, D.C. I never realized I’d be the person who didn’t have constitutional protection. You know, the president of the United States has constitutional protections. I didn’t, and I became the most subpoenaed person in, arguably, American history.
I got 112 subpoenas in a very short period of time. And these are big subpoenas, right, from the Senate, from Congress, from the biggest attorneys general in the country, district attorneys in the country. They wanted to see our family out of business. They wanted to see us bankrupt. They wanted to see my father in jail. They wanted to see me in jail. They wanted to see the Trump name off of every building around the globe.
They wanted to break up our relationships. They wanted to break up the family ties I have with my siblings. They wanted to break up his relationship with Melania. They raided our homes. They tried to impeach him. They took us off of Twitter and Instagram and X.
They weaponized the DOJ, they spied on his campaign, they made up the Russia collusion [hoax]. They made up the dirty dossiers. They took him off the ballot in Colorado. Then they took him off the ballot in Maine.
Then they had how many indictments, 91 indictments: in Fulton County, in deep left New York City, and in Washington, D.C. They took his mug shot, and then they tried to kill him.
And that’s what they tried to do to our family. They tried to kill our family. They tried to kill the MAGA [Make America Great Again] movement.
And two weeks ago, you saw what they did to Charlie Kirk, right? It was the same thing. They wanted to silence that voice. And that’s what “Under Siege” is about. It’s the thousands of stories behind the scenes of how they tried to dismantle our family and the greatest political movement in American history.
By Jan Jekielek
