Eric Trump erupted in anger during a heated interview with NewsNation host Chris Cuomo on Tuesday night, launching into a passionate defense of his father, President Donald Trump, after Cuomo suggested the president was targeting political opponents in a manner similar to what he accuses the Biden administration of doing.
Appearing to promote his new book, Under Siege: My Family’s Fight to Save Our Nation, Trump dismissed Cuomo’s question as “ironic and foolish,” saying critics have ignored years of politically motivated attacks against his family.
“Do you think it’s fair to say it looks like the administration is going after its political opponents now and doing exactly what you say you oppose?” Cuomo asked.
That question set off a tirade. “Oh, that’s, what, [former FBI director James] Comey?” Eric Trump shot back. “Because, I mean, it seemed very clear to me in the congressional testimony… I certainly seem like he lied to me. I mean, I’m also wondering what an FBI director is doing taking memos from the FBI and leaking them to The New York Times. I’m a guy that hopes the FBI director would be keeping planes from flying into buildings, keeping our country safe, keeping the Western way of life safe. Instead, this guy is communicating every single day with The New York Times. I mean that—I’d hope a lot better.”
From there, Trump turned his fire directly on Cuomo, accusing him of hypocrisy for questioning “the weaponization of government” after his own family, particularly his brother, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, had been targeted by political opponents.
“I find it so ironic that you’re literally one that’s pushing back on the weaponization of government when the very same people that were coming after us went after your brother like hounds,” Trump said. “They did everything they could to destroy his governorship, to destroy his life, to destroy you.”
Drawing a comparison between their experiences, Trump said, “I sat in that same seat. The only difference is my last name wasn’t Cuomo. My last name was Trump.” He added that his family had been subjected to relentless efforts to “take all our assets and strip our name off of every building in New York City.”
“You’ve been on the receiving end of the very same people that I’ve been the receiving end of,” he continued. “So to play coy with me as if this isn’t happening in the United States of America just seems ironic and foolish given what you’ve been through more so than anybody, worse than anybody.”
A visibly surprised Cuomo tried to calm the exchange, saying, “I’m asking you questions about whether or not if something is wrong, is it also wrong to do the same thing when you get back in power?”
But Eric Trump was not finished. His voice rose as he listed grievances that, he argued, proved the Trump administration never weaponized justice the way Biden’s has. “Hey, did we raid [Joe] Biden’s home? Did we try and bankrupt Biden? Did we weaponize every AG and DA against Biden? Did we do that against Hunter Biden, who had a laptop from hell?” he asked. “Did we make up a dirty dossier about Biden? Did we strip Biden off the ballot of multiple states? Did we take Biden off of Twitter and Instagram and Facebook and try and silence his voice?”
“They’ve put my father in a courtroom every single day,” Trump said, his frustration peaking. “Ninety-one felony counts—all nonsense—to try and keep him off the campaign trail and to destroy his life. Did we do any of that?”
The outburst encapsulated the resentment many Trump supporters feel toward what they see as a double standard in American justice—a system that, in Eric Trump’s words, “wasn’t built to protect the powerful, but to destroy those who challenge them.”
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