Eric Trump: This Wasn’t Politics, This Was Criminal Behavior | Video

The executive vice president of The Trump Organization, Eric Trump, strongly disagreed with The Telegraph’s Tim Stanley that the “attacks” on his family were ordinary politics.

“They tried to destroy my life. They tried to destroy my father. They tried to bankrupt us. They tried to take our voice. They tried to gag-order us. They wanted us gone. They wanted us irrelevant. And they certainly wanted my father dead,” he said.

TIM STANLEY, THE TELEGRAPH: My point is that some of the siege that you faced — and I understand why it was very personal and distressing — can you accept that some of it was just people legitimately disagreeing with your father’s policies and using every lever available, as people generally do in politics, in order to push back?

ERIC TRUMP: No, no, no. Hold on one second. I mean, there are politics, and there is peaceful discourse. Two people might disagree on abortion. People might disagree on gun rights. People might disagree on the limitations of freedom of speech. People can have these disagreements on either side, and they can debate certain things, and whoever wins that debate, and the populace ultimately wins.

That’s different than raiding somebody’s house. That’s different than subpoenaing their children with the intent to literally try and bankrupt a company. That’s different than calling every financial institution and telling them to debank a person. That’s different than making up dirty dossiers saying that there were golden showers happening with prostitution when it was totally fabricated and paid by the opposition. That’s different than saying that there were secret servers in the basement of a building communicating with the Kremlin when we don’t know a damn person in the Kremlin. We don’t know anybody in Russia. We had nothing to do with Russia.

That’s different than having people take him off the ballot in states so that democracy could not prevail in those states — having radical justices strip him off. That’s different. That’s different than raiding somebody’s home, raiding their wife’s closet, taking their legal documents protected by attorney-client privilege, taking their medical records protected by something called HIPAA. That’s different than all of those things.

That’s different than calling every attorney general and district attorney in the country to indict somebody for doing absolutely nothing wrong. All of those indictments we’ve since overturned. That’s criminal-type behavior. That’s not democracy. That’s not the debate of ideas where people can have different perspectives.

HOST: I believe — am I correct? You personally have been subpoenaed 112 times, the most in American history?

ERIC TRUMP: Having done nothing — having done nothing wrong — only because I was the proxy to my father as the guy who ran the Trump Organization and all of our properties. We are a global empire.

Guess what? My father had constitutional protections when he was in the executive branch. There are protections afforded to U.S. presidents. I had no protections afforded to me. And guess who they came after relentlessly?

Now, they didn’t go after Hunter Biden, who had pictures of prostitution, who had pictures of massive illicit drug use, who had shady deals all over the world — the laptop from hell — who’s doing finger paintings and selling them to all sorts of people around the world for massive amounts. He miraculously becomes Picasso the second his father becomes president. Give me a break.

They weren’t giving that guy a hard time. But yet a guy who tucks his kids in at 8:45 every night, says a little prayer to them every night, has never gotten so much as a speeding ticket — they tried to destroy my life. They tried to destroy my father. They tried to bankrupt us. They tried to take our voice. They tried to gag-order us. They wanted us gone. They wanted us irrelevant. And they certainly wanted my father dead.