Eric Trump on Charlie Kirk Assassination: Under Siege Book Proceeds Going to Turning Point USA

[00:00] with a high degree of certainty we have

[00:02] him

[00:03] in custody right in custody. Uh,

[00:06] everyone did a great job. We worked with

[00:08] the local police, the governor,

[00:10] everybody did a great job. You know,

[00:12] getting somebody that you start off with

[00:14] absolutely nothing. We started off with

[00:16] the clip that made him look like an ant

[00:18] that was almost useless. We just saw

[00:20] there was somebody up there and uh so

[00:23] much work has been done over the last

[00:25] two and a half days. So, uh, that was

[00:27] the news the president gave shared with

[00:29] us at 800, uh, 8 o'clock in the morning,

[00:32] Eastern time, that they got this guy who

[00:34] we later know as Tyler Robinson, 22

[00:38] years old, lives in the area. They found

[00:40] him three and a half hours away. Uh,

[00:42] that was something that Eric Trump cares

[00:44] deeply about because Charlie Kirk by all

[00:46] accounts was was like the uh was like a

[00:49] brother to Eric and they know they work

[00:51] side by side. He was like family.

[00:53] Everyone, even the president of the

[00:55] United States really says he felt that

[00:57] way. Uh Eric has a a book out. It's

[01:00] called Under Siege: My Family's Fight to

[01:02] Save the Nation. Uh Eric, you must be

[01:05] relieved that your dad was able to make

[01:07] that announcement.

[01:10] Brian, I can't even I can't even tell

[01:11] you. I mean, honestly, when I was

[01:12] watching Cash Patel, obviously, I I was

[01:13] watching my father on Fox and Friends

[01:14] this morning, and you know, Cash is a

[01:17] dear friend of mine. Charlie was a dear

[01:18] friend of mine. I met Charlie when he

[01:19] was 21 years old. He came into the Trump

[01:21] organization and he I was I think the

[01:23] first one that met him in our family and

[01:25] he told me about all these lofty

[01:26] aspirations that he had to to grow, you

[01:28] know, kind of this movement across

[01:30] college campuses and and reverse the

[01:32] indoctrination of our kids. And uh you

[01:34] know, he he they had one or two, you

[01:36] know, kind of college setups at that

[01:38] point, but nothing like the organization

[01:40] it is. Turning Point was just getting

[01:41] going. And and yet he depicted exactly

[01:44] what Turning Point is today. I mean,

[01:46] word for word, I want to grow. I want to

[01:48] change the mindset, you know, of of kids

[01:51] across this nation. I want to stop the

[01:53] indoctrination. I want to stop the

[01:55] wokeness. I want to be in every single

[01:57] college campus. I want to have a major

[01:59] presence. I want these people on, you

[02:01] know, student body boards, you know, I

[02:03] want them challenging professors and and

[02:06] honestly, as I sit here and and and and

[02:08] look and and just kind of remember the

[02:09] life of a dear friend looking back, he

[02:12] did everything and more. Everything that

[02:14] he sat down and told me he was going to

[02:16] do as a 21-year-old kid, he accomplished

[02:18] and more. And honestly, maybe the

[02:21] greatest image of that was just seconds

[02:23] before he was shot. And you see these

[02:25] crowds of people and, you know, they're

[02:27] they're, you know, they have love of

[02:29] this country and they have love of God

[02:31] and and and they're so excited to be

[02:33] there and they're having so much fun and

[02:34] they're all wearing 47 hats and they're

[02:36] all holding American flags.

[02:39] The guy accomplished everything that he

[02:41] told me he was going to accomplish when

[02:43] he was 21 years old. When I first met

[02:45] him that time, he was a remarkable human

[02:46] being. He was larger than life. He's

[02:48] such a powerful voice. And um he created

[02:51] and and helped kind of fulfill a

[02:53] movement that um he's unstoppable. You

[02:55] know, no bullet is going to stop that

[02:56] movement, Brian. And um uh we're going

[02:59] to miss our friend. We're going to miss

[03:00] our friend.

[03:01] And the thing is now it turns out if

[03:02] everything pro goes true to form as

[03:04] we're hearing, this guy is a leftwing

[03:06] zealot. this guy does. There was nothing

[03:08] oppressed in his life. He seemed like a

[03:10] middle- class kid. He lives a

[03:11] six-bedroom house, uh, living in Utah,

[03:14] basically stress-free. I saw a video

[03:16] online. He's getting a scholarship to

[03:18] college, 22 years old, and don't tell me

[03:22] life was hard for him, that he had to

[03:23] take action. Life was great for him. and

[03:26] he thought the only thing for me to do

[03:27] now is to kill somebody in the prime of

[03:30] their life in front of a capacity crowd

[03:33] and not f and just before because he

[03:36] didn't like what what Charlie stood for.

[03:38] That to me is insane. Even though

[03:41] there's nothing about this guy prior to

[03:43] this that showed insanity.

[03:45] Well, I mean it's ironic, Brian, that he

[03:47] uses the words fascist. He uses the

[03:48] words Nazi. He's inscribing that on

[03:50] bullet casings. Yet he's the guy

[03:51] standing on a rooftop with a German-made

[03:55] battle rifle, right? Shooting at at a a

[03:58] a crowd of people who are having civil

[04:01] dialogue and and and and having so much

[04:03] fun, all smiles, love this country, love

[04:05] God, you know, fight for God, love our

[04:07] nation. Um yet he's the one by himself

[04:10] dressed in all black on a roof with a

[04:12] with a sniper rifle. I mean, you know,

[04:13] give me a break. It it's um it's it's

[04:16] truly truly horrible. And as you said, I

[04:18] mean, he got a free scholarship. he had

[04:19] his life ahead of him. You know, how how

[04:22] does this anger,

[04:23] you know, how how does it evolve in

[04:24] these people and and you know, how are

[04:27] they indoctrinated to such evil kind of

[04:29] lengths that that somebody could

[04:31] actually take up arms and do something

[04:32] like this? I I I will I will never fully

[04:34] understand it. I I I can I can truly

[04:36] it's just hard for me to

[04:37] compartmentalize how somebody can get to

[04:39] that spot.

[04:40] So, your book Under Siege, you have an

[04:42] announcement about the book uh and where

[04:44] the proceeds are going.

[04:46] So, Benny Johnson's a dear friend of

[04:48] mine. I was on a show a little while ago

[04:49] and um he was a dear friend of Charlie's

[04:51] and he was a dear friend of Cashes and

[04:52] I'm a dear friend of Cash. I mean, you

[04:54] want to talk about all the circles

[04:55] coming coming together where you have

[04:57] one of your closest buddies arresting a

[05:00] guy who was one of your closest buddies,

[05:02] you know, talking about it with your

[05:03] kind of closest friends. It's it's it's

[05:05] all so surreal.

[05:06] Wow.

[05:07] It's all it's weird and it's surreal,

[05:08] Brian. But I'm going to donate a portion

[05:10] of of Underdie show. It just hit number

[05:12] number one on uh on Amazon. It's it's

[05:14] absolutely flying. And the whole book,

[05:16] the whole premise is they did everything

[05:17] they could to stop our movement. They

[05:20] impeached my father. They took away our

[05:22] our, you know, our freedom of speech.

[05:24] They gagged us. They indicted us over

[05:26] and over. They went after us absolutely

[05:29] relentlessly. They took my father off of

[05:31] ballots. They tried to they raided our

[05:33] homes. They they tried to break apart

[05:35] our family. They tried to bankrupt our

[05:37] they debanked us. They tried to bankrupt

[05:39] our family. They tried to shut down our

[05:41] our company. They tried to throw us all

[05:43] in jail. I became the most subpoenaed

[05:44] person in American history. And I wrote

[05:46] this the title under siege before

[05:49] Butler, Pennsylvania because that's what

[05:51] they were doing. They were laying siege

[05:52] and then they tried to kill my father

[05:54] the first time and then they tried to

[05:56] kill him a second time and then they

[05:59] tried to kill Kavanaaugh and two days

[06:01] ago they killed one of our our closest

[06:03] friends, one of the biggest people in in

[06:05] the Make America Great Again movement.

[06:07] Right? I mean, if I published this book

[06:09] two days later, Charlie would have been

[06:10] another chapter in exactly what they've

[06:12] done to all of us, which is which is

[06:14] siege. They wanted to take out our

[06:15] family. They wanted to take out my

[06:17] father. They wanted to take out powerful

[06:19] voices. You know, they're attacking

[06:21] religion. They're attacking our

[06:23] constitution. They're attacking all of

[06:25] us. They're attacking to everyone

[06:26] listening to this show right now. And

[06:29] that is their siege. And when they

[06:30] couldn't do it with legal lawfare, when

[06:32] they couldn't do it by lies and slander,

[06:34] they did it by violence. And and there

[06:36] was never a more appropriate time to

[06:38] publish this book. And in Charlie's

[06:40] honor, I'm going to give, you know, a

[06:42] nice set of the proceeds of of this book

[06:44] of all sales to Turning Point because we

[06:46] cannot allow his voice to be

[06:49] extinguished. We cannot allow our voice

[06:51] to be extinguished and we will continue

[06:52] to stand on that stage

[06:54] uh in honor of uh of Charlie and

[06:56] everything that he uh he fought so hard

[06:58] for.

[06:58] Eric, I think it's going to take a Trump

[06:59] to really step in because they they do

[07:01] not have an Arab parent. They have

[07:03] talent, but they don't have somebody

[07:05] with his charisma, drive. I mean, they

[07:06] were soldiers. He was he was the

[07:08] general. So, I think that that's the

[07:11] problem. Turning Point's got the people.

[07:12] They're going to have the money. They

[07:14] know how to do it. They can put together

[07:15] an event. Now, they need the headliner.

[07:17] And it would be great to see some of the

[07:19] bigger names uh with the Trump movement

[07:22] uh sustain it because you have the same

[07:23] message. Uh and I think that would be

[07:25] great. Hopefully, you guys can work that

[07:27] out. Uh but Eric, I want you to hear

[07:30] some of this. So, for people who think

[07:31] that you're exaggerating, and I know not

[07:33] many people do, but let's just say some

[07:34] people think you're exaggerating. This

[07:36] is the attorney general of New York

[07:38] using all her resources to stop you, who

[07:41] doesn't even know you. Listen,

[07:43] I'm running for attorney general because

[07:44] I will never be afraid to challenge this

[07:47] illegitimate president.

[07:48] Tonight, we send the message that no one

[07:51] is above the law. I look forward to

[07:53] going into the office of attorney

[07:55] general every day, suing him, defending

[07:59] your rights, and then going home.

[08:02] And they won the civil case, and you

[08:04] appealed it. But that was $750 million.

[08:06] And you had to scramble to get a bond,

[08:09] and she was trying to stop you from

[08:11] getting a bomb. She wanted to carve up

[08:13] all the Trump assets, didn't she?

[08:16] She wanted to take our our name off of

[08:17] every building around the country. And

[08:19] thank God that we won. And thank God the

[08:20] appellet division overruled her. Right,

[08:23] Brian? She wanted to extinguish our our

[08:25] name, my father's legacy. She wanted to

[08:28] bankrupt us. She didn't give a damn

[08:29] about the thousands of employees that I

[08:31] have working for me all over New York

[08:33] and the tens of thousands of employees I

[08:35] have around the world. She didn't give a

[08:36] damn about those people so long as she

[08:38] got Donald Trump. She went into office

[08:39] with one mission, as you heard right

[08:41] there, to get Donald Trump. And that

[08:42] this is what I talk about in under

[08:44] siege, right? I mean, you know, they

[08:46] used legal lawfare. They used political

[08:48] lawfare. They they weaponized the DOJ.

[08:50] They raided our houses. They debanked

[08:52] us. Anything that they could to to hurt

[08:55] us financially, you know, waste our our

[08:57] time, uh, slander us. Look at the dirty

[09:00] dossas where they, you know, they they

[09:01] said the most unthinkable things about

[09:03] my father. They were trying to do that

[09:04] to break up his marriage and so many

[09:06] other things. Look at the whole Russia

[09:08] hoax, right? And when America is not

[09:11] buying it because they lost time after

[09:13] time after time the narrative, guess

[09:15] what? You know what they do? They resort

[09:16] to violence. Then they tried to kill

[09:18] him, but not just once but but multiple

[09:20] times. And that's the whole concept of

[09:22] under siege. We were getting hit from

[09:24] every side. They were doing everything

[09:25] they could to stop the movement, stop my

[09:27] father's voice. You know, as evidenced

[09:30] by the fact that Twitter ripped him off

[09:32] of Twitter, yet they left Boka Haram,

[09:34] they left the Taliban, they left al

[09:36] Qaeda. You know, they left the Ayatollah

[09:38] on Twitter. But yet the 45th president

[09:40] of the United States was no longer

[09:42] allowed to tweet. They wanted to get rid

[09:43] of his voice. They wanted to gag order

[09:45] him.

[09:46] They wanted his mugsh shot all over the

[09:48] place. They wanted the 91 indictments.

[09:50] They wanted me to spend three 400

[09:52] million on legal fees defending yourself

[09:54] from absolute nonsense when our family's

[09:58] never gotten so much as a speeding

[09:59] ticket before

[10:00] my father decided to run for office the

[10:03] second time. This was their game, Brian.

[10:05] And that's what the book's about. And

[10:06] then they took your 80-year-old CFO and

[10:09] put him in jail twice because he

[10:11] wouldn't break and tell you the real

[10:13] story about the Trumps. I mean, think

[10:15] about that.

[10:17] Well, I mean, they they told him they

[10:18] said, "Allan, I mean, and and this is a

[10:19] man who who has been in our company for

[10:21] 50 years. You tell us anything about

[10:23] Donald Trump and you go free." And he

[10:25] goes, "I'm not going to lie. We run a

[10:28] perfect company. We run a perfectly

[10:29] honest company." You know, I mean, they

[10:32] ended up getting him because he didn't

[10:34] declare his his corporate car on his

[10:36] personal tax returns. Like, I mean, it's

[10:39] it's like unbelievable. I mean, they

[10:41] they sentenced an 80-year-old guy to to

[10:42] jail for for a having a corporate

[10:44] vehicle. You can't you literally, Brian,

[10:47] can't make it up. But but they had

[10:48] crooked judges. You saw that with with

[10:50] Judge You saw that with Judge and

[10:52] Goran in New York, you know, and and um

[10:55] and and honestly, Brian, the scary thing

[10:57] about this for me, thank God we had a

[10:59] lot of zeros behind our name, and thank

[11:01] God our entire family had a big voice.

[11:04] And a lot of what I talk about in this

[11:05] book is my father's voice was taken away

[11:07] by the judge in the New York case. So,

[11:09] guess what I did? I wasn't gagged. So, I

[11:11] went down on the courthouse of those

[11:13] steps every single day. oftentimes I was

[11:15] talking to you and I went down there and

[11:17] I I laid out every single fact in the

[11:19] case and why it was a sham and why the

[11:22] guy's daughter was was was working for

[11:24] the other side. I I laid out every one

[11:26] of those facts and that's what I bring

[11:27] into this book and you know they gagged

[11:29] him but guess what? They didn't gag me.

[11:30] They didn't gag our family and we would

[11:32] not stop. We would not back down. We

[11:34] would not cower and that's ultimately

[11:36] why we beat Hillary Clinton when we were

[11:38] at a 5 to1 disadvantage fundwise. And

[11:40] that's why we we came back despite being

[11:43] against the entire mainstream media and

[11:45] and and and were able to win again in

[11:47] 2024 against the most unthinkable odds.

[11:50] How hard was it to keep the extended

[11:53] family together because you know when

[11:56] everybody listening to us right now

[11:57] knows whether they were growing up or

[11:58] they have it now. Stress when you can't

[12:00] make the bills or when somebody's having

[12:02] a drug problem or or having a marriage

[12:05] problem. Everyone's like you feel the

[12:06] stress everywhere. you know people but

[12:09] you have a stress that's pushing on your

[12:11] rel on a family business that if it goes

[12:14] under everything that you have you lose

[12:17] which is basically where your family

[12:19] lives when you're down like when there's

[12:22] no cameras and no media and you're at a

[12:24] big table on a Sunday afternoon.

[12:27] How stressful was it for the family?

[12:31] Well, Brian, I think I shouldered all of

[12:33] that weight. I mean, outside of

[12:34] Washington DC, I shouldered it all. I

[12:35] think, you know, I'm the guy that runs a

[12:37] company. I'm the guy that was getting

[12:38] the subpoenas. My father obviously had

[12:40] executive branch protections under, you

[12:41] know, speech and debate clause of the

[12:43] Constitution and and a bunch of other

[12:45] things. So, it was much harder for them

[12:46] to go after him. Um, and so, guess where

[12:48] they sent all the subpoenas? They sent

[12:49] them to me. I I became the most

[12:50] subpoenaed man in American history. And

[12:52] yet, I go to bed every night at exactly

[12:54] 9:00 at night. We say four prayers with

[12:56] my kids. They say the pledge of

[12:57] allegiance. I put them down. No

[12:59] drinking, no drugs, no no nonsense. Um,

[13:03] no laptops from hell. Brian, I you know

[13:04] me very well. You've known me for 20

[13:06] years. Um I don't have a dishonest bone

[13:08] in my body. I I've never crossed any

[13:10] line. Um you know, no no pictures of

[13:14] elicit drugs, no pictures of

[13:15] prostitution. And yet somehow, you know,

[13:18] I was the guy on this side of the aisle,

[13:19] right? I'm a guy who wakes up at 5:00 in

[13:21] the morning, goes to to work, right,

[13:22] to fight for a beautiful family, right,

[13:24] in company. And yet somehow I'm the guy

[13:26] that gets 112 subpoenas and yet, you

[13:28] know, Hunter Biden, you know, gets away

[13:30] with absolute murder. Like we've got

[13:31] legitimate businesses. he's selling

[13:33] fingerpainting all over the world for

[13:36] millions of dollars or was and yet I'm

[13:37] the guy who's apparently profiting off

[13:39] of government when I have to spend $400

[13:41] million to, you know, defend ourselves

[13:43] from sham trials. I mean, it's the irony

[13:46] is massive, but I talk all about that in

[13:48] in Under Siege. And um but our family

[13:50] never broke. They never cowered. Baron's

[13:52] an amazing kid. Tiffany is an amazing

[13:54] girl. Don and Ivanka are

[13:56] two of the greatest people on earth. and

[13:58] and you know we it's it's it's almost

[14:02] unlikely because you never see that you

[14:04] never see children of politicians on

[14:06] that stage. In fact, the number one rule

[14:08] in politics, as you know better than

[14:09] anybody, Brian, is

[14:10] keep the kids and family the hell out of

[14:12] politics. And and and you know, the only

[14:14] people we had were ourselves. The only

[14:16] people my father had were Don and I and

[14:18] and Laura, and we went out there and we

[14:20] fought. And when you see the

[14:22] assassination of Charlie, it's exactly

[14:23] what they wanted. They wanted to keep us

[14:25] off of that stage, Brian. They they they

[14:26] didn't want our voices out there. They

[14:28] didn't want me in every single swing

[14:29] state. They didn't want me at these

[14:30] events. They're trying to scare us. And

[14:32] that's why we can never cower.

[14:34] Let me ask you something. And did you

[14:35] ever sit around and go, "Dad, our life

[14:37] was so good." I mean, everybody wanted

[14:39] to play on a Trump golf course and go on

[14:41] your skating rinks and live in your

[14:42] buildings and uh your dad and your

[14:45] family was going to every major event in

[14:47] the world and then 50% of the country

[14:49] decided you're the worst and 50% would

[14:51] say you're the best and all the courts

[14:53] come in and all the power brokers try to

[14:55] destroy you. Did you ever go up to him

[14:57] and say, "Dad, why did you do this?"

[15:00] So, I'm going to tell you a story right

[15:01] now that I put in the book that I don't

[15:02] think I've ever shared, but I was in the

[15:04] office with my father when NBC was

[15:06] trying to sign him for another multiple

[15:07] seasons of The Apprentice. Brian, the

[15:09] number of zeros behind that contract, I

[15:11] mean, The Apprentice was all that NBC

[15:13] ever had, right? Like at that period,

[15:14] right? They were getting beaten up by,

[15:16] you know, Survivor was on CBS. Uh NBC

[15:19] was failing in the networks and they

[15:21] came in and they were begging my father

[15:23] and they would put as many zeros on the

[15:24] end of the contract. I'm talking about

[15:25] contracts that would go into the

[15:26] billions. And my father goes, "I'm not

[15:29] going to do it. I'm not going to do it."

[15:30] He never told them why he wasn't going

[15:31] to do it. But about a week later, he

[15:33] announced that he was going to run for

[15:34] president of the United States. And so

[15:35] he had to run through 16 candidates on

[15:37] the Republican side. And these are

[15:38] people who actually knew something about

[15:39] politics. I I always joke I've joked

[15:41] with you a million times, Brian. I

[15:42] didn't know what a damn caucus was,

[15:43] right? Like

[15:44] I built skyscrapers. I build golf

[15:45] courses. I built, you know, and operate

[15:47] commercial buildings. Like,

[15:48] you know, we didn't know what the hell

[15:49] the delegate process was in this

[15:51] country. And yet, you know, we have to

[15:52] run against Jeb Bush who who had $350

[15:54] million before South Carolina stuffed in

[15:56] his super PACs, right, against an entire

[15:59] mainstream media who were laughing at

[16:00] us. And um you know, it's really

[16:03] remarkable. And then, and by the way, if

[16:04] you beat those 16, you had to run

[16:06] against Hillary Clinton, Eric. And yet

[16:08] he turned down billions of dollars in

[16:10] order to do all of that. I mean, the guy

[16:11] is amazing. And um

[16:13] and unfortunately, Eric, we're up

[16:14] against a heartbreak, but the name of

[16:16] the book is Underseas. portion of the

[16:17] proceeds are going to Turning Point uh

[16:20] on a very difficult time. Eric, thanks

[16:22] so much for sharing your time and I'll

[16:24] talk to you on television next week. We

[16:25] got to do a sequel here on the radio.

[16:28] I can't wait, my friend. You got it.

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