Eric Trump Opens Up About How Relentless Attacks Impacted Him and His Family
American Thought Leaders
The Epoch Times
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🗓️ 27 September 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
How did the last nine years change Eric Trump? How did the second son of President Donald Trump react to the assassination attempt on his father’s life in Butler, Pennsylvania? And does he plan to run for political office in the future?
His new memoir is titled “Under Siege: My Family’s Fight to Save Our Nation.”
“It’s the thousands of stories behind the scenes of how they try to dismantle our family and the greatest political movement in American history,” Trump says.
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| 0:00.0 | 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. Then they had 91 indictments. I became the most subpoenaed person in arguably American history. They took his mugshot, you know, and then they tried to kill him. They tried to kill our family. They tried to kill the MAGA movement. And two weeks ago, you saw what they did to Charlie Kirk, right? It was the same thing. |
| 0:23.6 | They wanted to silence that voice. |
| 0:25.6 | How did that affect the family itself? |
| 0:28.6 | It almost hurt. And it's all a game. It's not a fun game. It's not a nice game, but it's a game. |
| 0:33.6 | In this episode, I sit down with Eric Trump, Executive Vice President of the Trump Organization, |
| 0:39.8 | to discuss his new book, Under Siege, My Families Fight to Save Our Nation. |
| 0:45.4 | I believe in this country. I love red, white and blue. I love our First Amendment. I love |
| 0:49.2 | our Constitution. We have to stay the dominant superpower of the world. You do need good people. |
| 0:53.6 | You better have people like Donald Trump. |
| 0:55.4 | They can't silence us the way they thought they could silence us. |
| 0:57.8 | They thought they could just remove his voice with a $1 bullet. |
| 1:01.3 | They were wrong. |
| 1:02.8 | Do you have any aspirations for political office? |
| 1:07.5 | This is American Thought Leaders, and I'm Yanya Kellick. |
| 1:13.0 | Eric Trump, so good to have you back on American Thought Leaders. |
| 1:16.5 | It's great to be here, guys. |
| 1:17.9 | So your new book, Under Siege, let's dive right in. |
| 1:22.2 | Your family has been under siege for some time. |
| 1:25.9 | This is something that's very prominent in the book. |
| 1:28.5 | What about yourself? |
| 1:30.5 | What is your kind of key moment when you realized things had changed your vocably? |
| 1:35.7 | Yeah. |
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