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EXCLUSIVE: Eric Trump on his new Best Seller Under Siege · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: They tried to bankrupt us, they tried to imprison us.
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  Speaker 1: And I'll never forget walking out of that jail cell
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  Speaker 1: with my father in New York after the thirty four
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  Speaker 2: You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.
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  Speaker 3: Good Friday morning. It's so nice to have you with
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  Speaker 3: us on the forty seven Morning Update, and this morning
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  Speaker 3: show is going to be a little bit different, and
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  Speaker 3: I think you're really gonna enjoy it. Eric Trump has
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  Speaker 3: a new book that is out about his family being
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  Speaker 3: attacked not only by the deep state, but also by
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  Speaker 3: the private sector. He talks about the lawsuits against his family,
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  Speaker 3: the raid of mar Lago, the debanking and deplatforming, and
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  Speaker 3: then the federal government and other state governments coming after them.
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  Speaker 3: It is truly an incredible conversation that Senator Ted Cruz
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  Speaker 3: and I had with him. So today's show will be longer,
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  Speaker 3: but this is everything that he had to say about
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  Speaker 2: Story number one.
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  Speaker 3: Eric Trump has a new book out talking about the
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  Speaker 3: weaponization of the private sector against his father, the government,
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  Speaker 3: the federal government against his father, and state governments that
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  Speaker 3: attacked his family. He was subpoenaed countless times, and you'll
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  Speaker 3: be shocked to hear him talk about how much money
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  Speaker 3: it costs to defend themselves from these frivolous and ridiculous lawsuits.
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  Speaker 3: Senator Cruz and I had the privilege of sitting down
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  Speaker 3: with Eric to talk about his new book, and I
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  Speaker 3: want you to hear what he had to say.
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  Speaker 4: You know, Ben, I got to say We try to
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  Speaker 4: count on being honest and candid with our viewers and listeners,
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  Speaker 4: and yet you just claim that we're going.
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  Speaker 5: To take a break from politics.
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  Speaker 4: And this is about as far away from taking a
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  Speaker 4: break from politics as I can possibly imagine. Today, we
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  Speaker 4: are very pleased to welcome our friend Eric Trump, President
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  Speaker 4: Donald Trump's son, who has a brand new book. A
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  Speaker 4: brand new book came out this week. The book is
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  Speaker 4: entitled Under Siege, My Family's Fight to Save our Nation.
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  Speaker 4: He is in the midst of his nationwide book tour
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  Speaker 4: right now, and and in classic Trump fashion, he's on
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  Speaker 4: the list. And there's only one place to be on
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  Speaker 4: the list, and that is at number one. It's the
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  Speaker 4: number one best selling book in America right now.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 5: And Eric, this is your first book. It ain't bad
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  Speaker 5: debuting at number one. Congratulations and welcome mister senator.
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  Speaker 1: Now it will probably be my last book as well,
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  Speaker 1: because we're not I'm not doing this again. You know,
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  Speaker 1: the return, the return on time of books is especially
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  Speaker 1: when you put your heart and soul into it. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we're number one on Amazon, We're number one on all
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  Speaker 1: the lists, and it's I mean, it just went viral.
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  Speaker 1: I think you know, people in this country are pissed
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  Speaker 1: off and and mister Centaer, you you've done a better
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  Speaker 1: job fighting against a weaponization of government that I would
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  Speaker 1: say just about anybody other than maybe Donald Trump, right,
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  Speaker 1: who's had to face all of this. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: I became the pinata in this whole fight because I
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  Speaker 1: was the one guy who didn't have constitutional protections. I
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  Speaker 1: was a civilian, you know, I was the guy that
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  Speaker 1: was running the Trump organization. I was the guy that
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  Speaker 1: ran everything that was outside of Washington in DC from
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  Speaker 1: my father when he went into the White House. And
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  Speaker 1: what they tried to do to us, what they tried
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  Speaker 1: to do to our family, what they tried to do
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  Speaker 1: to this nation, what they tried to do to you
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  Speaker 1: and all your viewers on this show is unthinkable, and
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  Speaker 1: somebody had to materialize it because there's the greatest governmental
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  Speaker 1: corruption this nation has ever seen.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you're right, and they launched everything they had at
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  Speaker 4: your father, at your family, four separate indictments. On top
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  Speaker 4: of that, the asinine case from the New York Attorney
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  Speaker 4: General trying to argue that somehow global international banks are
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  Speaker 4: innocent wifes who are deceived and are apparently are unable
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  Speaker 4: to value real estate because you know, giant banks have
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  Speaker 4: never had to value real estate in the past. I
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  Speaker 4: will confess for me, maybe the most absurd moment of
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  Speaker 4: all of it was when the idiot judge in New
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  Speaker 4: York valued bar a Lago at eighteen million dollars, which
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  Speaker 4: I'll confess I saw it.
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  Speaker 6: I would have bought it for that.
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  Speaker 4: I saw your dad not shortly after that, and I
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  Speaker 4: offered it on the spot. I said, mister President, I'll
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  Speaker 4: give you twenty million right now.
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  Speaker 6: Well they too, I mean, as you as you know.
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  Speaker 4: You can't buy a hot dog stand in Palm Beach
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  Speaker 4: for eighteen million dollars. And and that notion that to me,
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  Speaker 4: it was the most ludicrous. It was a relatively small
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  Speaker 4: detail of what was a pile of idiocy upon idiocy,
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  Speaker 4: But you guys were the targets of it, and and it.
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  Speaker 5: It cannot have been fun.
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  Speaker 6: Mister Center.
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  Speaker 1: I became the most opeenion man in American history for
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  Speaker 1: doing absolutely nothing wrong. I'm not Hunter Biden. I never
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  Speaker 1: had a speeding ticket in my life. I've lived a
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  Speaker 1: very straight, very good life, hard working guy, no games,
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  Speaker 1: never even approached a line. You know, raised right, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and and they tried to destroy us. I was the
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  Speaker 1: one that was ganging calls from the FBI. You remember
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  Speaker 1: the Rushia hoos very well because you were probably the
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  Speaker 1: best person at fighting against it. Eric, I hear you
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  Speaker 1: have secret servers in the basement Trump Tower communicating directly
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  Speaker 1: with the Kremlin. I go, excuse me, I literally started
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  Speaker 1: mister center. I started laughing. I started laughing. I go,
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  Speaker 1: First of all, you don't keep servers in basements, because
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  Speaker 1: basement's flood. Second of all, were like largely cloud based.
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  Speaker 6: And they did it so a.
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  Speaker 1: Greedy woman could get about three extra votes, right, and
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  Speaker 1: they used that as their explanation as to why she lost.
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  Speaker 1: And then it was a peachment number one, and then
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  Speaker 1: it was a peachment number two, and then it was
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  Speaker 1: them attacking Cavanaugh. And then it was one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: twelve subpoenas that I received for again doing nothing wrong.
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  Speaker 1: And then it was a weaponization of every attorney general
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  Speaker 1: and district attorney in this country, whether it be Latitia
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  Speaker 1: James or Alvin Bragg or Cy Vance or Fanny Willis
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  Speaker 1: and her boyfriend in Fulton, Georgia, you know, or Jack
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  Speaker 1: Smith or Comy and everything that they did. Then they
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  Speaker 1: spied on her campaign. Then they did the weaponization of Faiza.
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  Speaker 1: Then they took my father off the ballot in Colorado,
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  Speaker 1: and then they took him off the ballot in Maine.
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  Speaker 1: And when that didn't work, they tried to silence his
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  Speaker 1: voice and get rid of his First Amendment right.
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  Speaker 6: So what did they do?
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  Speaker 1: Took him off of YouTube, took him off of Twitter,
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  Speaker 1: took him off of Facebook, took him off of Instagram.
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  Speaker 1: And when that didn't work, when we popped up true social,
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  Speaker 1: what did they do. They had every judge imposed gag
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  Speaker 1: orders on him and then they rated mar A Lago.
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  Speaker 1: I was the guy that got the call when thirty
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  Speaker 1: FBI agents were outside screaming in a phone to me
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  Speaker 1: turn off the security cameras at mar A Lago. They
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  Speaker 1: did everything they could and then they de banked us,
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  Speaker 1: and then they deplatformed us. And they were doing it
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  Speaker 1: to the people in this country as well. They were
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  Speaker 1: debanking them. They were going after their pastors, they were
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  Speaker 1: going after their churches. They were weaponizing the irs. You know,
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  Speaker 1: they were skipping great people who had worked their butts
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  Speaker 1: off their entire year because of dei hires and literally
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  Speaker 1: ruining upward mobility of people across the country. They were
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  Speaker 1: corrupting their children, they were teaching them revisionist history. This
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  Speaker 1: siege wasn't just against the Trump family, it was against
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  Speaker 1: all of us. It was against both of you. It
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  Speaker 1: was against every person that's watching us right now. And
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  Speaker 1: people are pissed off in this country, and that's why
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  Speaker 1: this book went to number one.
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  Speaker 3: You mentioned mar Lago a second ago and getting that
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  Speaker 3: phone call. Can you just explain how insane that day
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  Speaker 3: must have been because I know people we saw it
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  Speaker 3: on TV, but you were on the inside. And when
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  Speaker 3: you're getting a phone called, they're telling you to turn
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  Speaker 3: your cameras off.
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  Speaker 5: So like, what time of day is it, what are
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  Speaker 5: you doing?
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  Speaker 1: It was about seven fifty eight o'clock in the morning
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  Speaker 1: when I got a call from my team. They say,
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  Speaker 1: the thirty FBI agents and they have a search warrant.
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  Speaker 1: I go, what are they searching? I'm not sure if
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  Speaker 1: I understand, Like we have like such a great relationship
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  Speaker 1: with law enforcement.
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  Speaker 5: It was.
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  Speaker 1: It was bizarre at the time. I go, how would
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  Speaker 1: I not know about this? From Secret Service? How would
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  Speaker 1: I not know? I mean, they didn't give anybody warning
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  Speaker 1: and I'll never forget, I said, I finally figured out
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  Speaker 1: what they were doing, and I said, did anybody let
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  Speaker 1: my father know? And it was my team, really and
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  Speaker 1: they said no, and I go, we'll call him right now,
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  Speaker 1: and we met in his office and that's when he
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  Speaker 1: wrote up that beautiful tweet, as you remember. And the
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  Speaker 1: FBI was so damn pissed that we sent out that tweet.
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  Speaker 1: They wanted to have the narrative, they wanted to be
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  Speaker 1: able to release the story, and instead my father writes
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  Speaker 1: that beautiful tweet. You know, right now, the FBI is
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  Speaker 1: raiding the famous Mara A Lago, my home, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and in the world when the world couldn't stand it.
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  Speaker 1: It was the worst decision that they ever made. And remember, Senator,
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  Speaker 1: they said it was on behalf of Nara right National Archives.
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  Speaker 1: Does anybody I went on Hannity that night, I go,
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  Speaker 1: does anybody actually believe with glorified library send thirty FBI
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  Speaker 1: agents to invade Mara A Lago with firearms? Give me
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  Speaker 1: a break, right, And then sure enough it comes out
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  Speaker 1: there was Joe Biden, and it was Merrick Garland, and
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  Speaker 1: it was the whole host of criminals that weaponized the
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  Speaker 1: entire system. But I'll never forget that call. Thirty FBI
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  Speaker 1: agents outside of mar A Lago. They searched Milania's room,
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  Speaker 1: they search Baron's room. They took attorney client privileged documents,
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  Speaker 1: they took hippa documents.
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  Speaker 6: You can't make it up.
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  Speaker 3: I know you're going to try to terrorize the New
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  Speaker 3: York Times a little bit. That's the hardest thing is
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  Speaker 3: just to screw with them and be at the top
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  Speaker 3: of their list. So everyone listening, I hope you'll buy
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  Speaker 3: the book just so we can screw with them a
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  Speaker 3: little bit. Center you've been at the top of that list.
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  Speaker 3: It's hard to get there.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I will say, Eric, you should brace yourself. It
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  Speaker 4: doesn't matter how many copies of the book you sell.
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  Speaker 4: The New York York Times is going to insist that
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  Speaker 4: that like Left Handed Transgender Witches, is the number one
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  Speaker 4: book in America, And to be fair, in the New
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  Speaker 4: York Times newsroom, it probably is the number one book
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  Speaker 4: in America. But but if you get outside the New
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  Speaker 4: York Times and to the rest of America, there are
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  Speaker 4: a lot of people right now that are going to Amazon.
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  Speaker 4: Go to Amazon right now. By Eric truck Trump's book.
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  Speaker 4: Keep it at number one, Annoy a liberal by two,
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  Speaker 4: buy one for yourself, and buy one to give a
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  Speaker 4: liberal just to drive them crazy, and and and to say,
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  Speaker 4: explain to me again how you think weaponization is a
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  Speaker 4: bad thing. Because because your your liberal friends, to the
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  Speaker 4: extent you have any that they haven't defriended you, they're
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  Speaker 4: not going to have an answer to that. Eric, tell
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  Speaker 4: me what was your dad's reaction when you went in
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  Speaker 4: and and told them, okay, the FBI agents are here.
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  Speaker 4: I assume he was pissed, but like, what was his
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  Speaker 4: immediate reaction when you tell him that.
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  Speaker 6: It was actually remarkably calm.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's it's you know, I've seen my father
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  Speaker 1: pissed many times, but he doesn't get pissed off and
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  Speaker 1: in situations of kind of like great angle stress. Right,
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  Speaker 1: it's no different than Butler. But you know, almost foreshadow
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  Speaker 1: Butler is the same thing. It's it's I probably would
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  Speaker 1: have been Piston Butler, And I think he was actually
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  Speaker 1: remarkably calm, especially in the aftermath of what happened. And
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  Speaker 1: you know he was always his commist in the worst moments, always,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, and centator. Do you saw many of them?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you were there for many of them in
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  Speaker 1: so many different ways. You know, he never let emotion fly.
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  Speaker 1: It was it was a very He goes, you gotta
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  Speaker 1: be kidding me, all right, honey, meet me in my office.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we're going to write up a statement. And
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  Speaker 1: that's when he let that truth fly. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: the rest is history. I mean, for the next month,
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  Speaker 1: they had helicopters buzzing over mar a Lago and you
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  Speaker 1: know the scenes of that front gate. You remember this,
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  Speaker 1: the cop car from the front gate of mar Lago.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, mar Lago became, not that it wasn't probably already,
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  Speaker 1: but he became the most famous property in the world
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  Speaker 1: based on that raid and what they did, and then
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  Speaker 1: the aftermath of all of it, we find out Jack
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  Speaker 1: Smith was bringing in classified folders and effectively staging photo
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  Speaker 1: shoots on.
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  Speaker 6: The office floor of my father's office.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, as I said before, guys, I mean
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  Speaker 1: they were going through Malania's closet, they were going through
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  Speaker 1: Baron's room. They they literally they took his medical records
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  Speaker 1: right like hip a related records that pissed off the judge.
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  Speaker 1: I can only tell you they took attorney client documents right.
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  Speaker 1: That also really pissed off Aileen Cannon, the judge on
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  Speaker 1: the case. You just you couldn't believe it. And then
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  Speaker 1: you know, again, all of this was stage. You think
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump just leaves classified folders fanned out perfectly on
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  Speaker 1: the floor. I mean, it was all staged. It was
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  Speaker 1: all set up. They wanted to imprison him. They wanted
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  Speaker 1: to take his voice. They wanted to imprison him. They
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  Speaker 1: wanted him behind bars. They didn't want him to be
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  Speaker 1: able to campaign. They wanted to weaponize the system in
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  Speaker 1: any way, shape or form, and they weren't able to
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  Speaker 1: do it.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of people remember the deep platforming, and you
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  Speaker 3: mentioned that earlier, and you go back to the end
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  Speaker 3: of his first term in office. But one of the
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  Speaker 3: things you mentioned earlier on was they tried to ruin
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  Speaker 3: your businesses by d banking. You can you explain for
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  Speaker 3: people that don't understand just how critical that was in
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  Speaker 3: a time and the Trump organization. You've been handed the
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  Speaker 3: family business to run it, and now you're finding out
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  Speaker 3: you can't even have banking the way that you need
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  Speaker 3: to have banking to literally run businesses, whether you're big
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  Speaker 3: business or small business. A lot of people listening right now.
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  Speaker 3: If you don't have a bank, you don't have a business.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, Ben, it was that times one hundred.
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  Speaker 1: I mean they they literally it was coordinated by the administration,
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  Speaker 1: There's no question about it. And they called up and
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  Speaker 1: they said, listen, congratulations, you cancel the account. I was
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  Speaker 1: getting these letters. I got one from Capital One. They
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  Speaker 1: had three hundred bank accounts. And these aren't like baby
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  Speaker 1: bank accounts. These are massive commercial buildings that have hundreds
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  Speaker 1: of tenants, you know, thousands of people working in these buildings,
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  Speaker 1: hundreds if not thousands, of vendors, heavy real estate taxes.
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  Speaker 1: I mean people, hundreds and hundreds of people depend their
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  Speaker 1: livelihoods depend on on these businesses. They've got complicated lock
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  Speaker 1: box provisions and loan you know, loan documents, thousands of
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  Speaker 1: inputs coming in like this, you know, and they just
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  Speaker 1: called up. You know, your accounts are going to get closed.
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  Speaker 1: You've got one or two days to move them, and congratulations,
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  Speaker 1: you're done. All because we wore a hat that said
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  Speaker 1: make America Great Again.
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  Speaker 6: That was read.
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  Speaker 1: These weremmercial buildings, These were condominium associations, These were small
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  Speaker 1: golf courses, these were you know, residential shops. These were
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  Speaker 1: scrow accounts, things that had nothing to do, nothing to
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  Speaker 1: do with politics whatsoever, and they canceled us like we were dogs.
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  Speaker 1: Capital One was the worst. JP Morgan was horrible, Bank
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  Speaker 1: of America was horrible. First Republic was terrible. But it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't just the banks. It was platform Shopify. Shopify literally
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: gave us a notice they do all the e comm
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: platforms in the middle of the night turned off our
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: accounts like we were nothing right. We were selling golf
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: polos that we have, you know, from mar A Lago,
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: and they did everything they could to hurt us, to
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: turn off the rails right again. They wanted our voice gone,
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: They wanted us bankrupt, they wanted the name off of
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: every building. They wanted us thrown out of New York.
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: You had Letitia James that was trying to repossess our assets.
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: I mean it was almost like forfeiture. It was not constitutional.
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: Hence the reason the appellate courts throughout the case five
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: zero and we got a resounding victory two weeks ago
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: or three weeks ago. Guys, they tried everything they could
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: and because I was the guy outside of Washington, DC,
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: because I ran the company, it all fell on me.
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: That's how I became the most opened person the history
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: of this country, having never done a damn thing wrong.
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: They wanted to get to my father coming through me.
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: That Now, were these business accounts, personal accounts both? I mean,
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: how many accounts are we talking about?
• 16:19
  Speaker 5: Roughly like what.
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: Five five hundred, you know, lots of those being business accounts,
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: all of them being us. You know, my wife has
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: a like athletic clothing line. You know, JP Morgan Chase
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: wouldn't open up an account, so you know, for for her,
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: she's not Donald Trump, She's not the Trump organization. They
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: did this to everyone in the family. If you even
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: came close, you know, if you even came close. I
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: have a little farm with a couple of buddies. They
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: canceled that account doesn't wear a Trump.
• 16:47
  Speaker 6: Name, it can't. They were indiscriminate.
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: If it was six degrees of sep in narration from Trump,
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: they canceled us. And honestly, guys, you know, I've been outspoken,
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: you know, a big fan of you know, cryptocurrency. That's
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: how I found crypto because I realized how quickly financial
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: institutions can be weaponized against the American people, and realize
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: that there's nothing that can be done on you know,
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: using traditional financial institutions that can't be done better, faster, cheaper,
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: safer and more efficiently using cryptocurrency.
• 17:16
  Speaker 6: And I'm the biggest proponent of it.
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: Did did they even even purport to give you any
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: explanation or do they just say no, it's canceled like
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: like that that they didn't Was there any details or
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: you just get phone calls or get an email and say, okay,
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: this this account's done.
• 17:32
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: Other other than a lot of those, you know a
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: lot of the people that worked in the in the
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: banks who otherwise said this is the most I can't
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: believe it. I can't believe what my bank's doing. This
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: is all political. That's what they're saying in the corridors
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: every day. They canceled you for political reasons. There's no
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: other explanation they're telling us. You know, they're telling us
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: we can't talk to you ever.
• 17:48
  Speaker 6: Again.
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: I was unbelievable, and I would not wish that on
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: my worst enemy. To take the rails of being able
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: to pay employees, these are housekeepers, these are janitors, these
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: are engineers, these are secure officers, these are drivers, hospitality workers,
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: to not be able to pay them a salary, all
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: because somebody wanted to politicize a system against a candidate
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: because they happened to be a conservative and they believed
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: in making America great again.
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: Sata, this is a story that we're hearing about the
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: weaponization of the private sector, not the government, the private
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: sector against the Trump organization. The moment that he just said,
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: five hundred bank accounts just shut down, I'm shocked by that.
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: I think you were as well.
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: That number.
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: I'd never heard anything remotely close to that. I mean,
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: that really is stunning. So you're running your families outside businesses,
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: you get these calls. What do you do when you're
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: given what you said twenty four hours forty eight hours notice,
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: like were there banks that were willing to welcome your
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: business or what did you do with five hundred accounts
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: being canceled.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: You're a lot of attorney generals and you had a
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: lot of government in tutions that were going to these
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: banks saying don't even think about it, don't touch that account.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: You know, Letitia James was doing that to the bonding
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: companies when we had to after the initial ruling, when
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: we had to post a six hundred million dollar bond.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: By the way, that that was like five times the
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: size of the Boeing bond that that made them. You
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: know that literally, I it was the biggest bond ever
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: seen in the country, you know. And she was going
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: to the very same institutions saying, don't even touch that bond.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: So we had to post a bond based on the
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: court before we had everything overturned. And she was going
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: to the biggest insurance company saying, you don't touch that bond.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: You know, you're you're registered in New York and if
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: you touch that bond, I'm going to think less favorably
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: on you. That's how badly they weaponize the system. What
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: do you do when you get those letters? You want
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: to crawl under your desk. And honestly, I had I
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: had probably one hundred people in the company that didn't
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: sleep for a six month period of time, who were distraught.
• 19:51
  Speaker 6: And thank god, we had enough.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: Little local banks you know that that you move all
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: the accounts unthinkable right to these little local branches who
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: want to take your money. But these weren't the Morrigan's,
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: these weren't the Bank of Americas. They were still a
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: little they were small little mom and pop regional banks
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: that did the right thing and honestly probably saved us
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: based on the fact that they were willing to do
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: the right thing. This didn't just happen to us. I
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: was on the campaign trail. I'd hear from people every
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: single day. You know, my bank canceled me. Why well,
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: my company makes the spring, and the spring goes in
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: a fishing reel, and that fishing reel sold at bass
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: pro shops, and bass pro shops sells twelve games duck
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: hunting Ammo, and they thought the affiliation. I heard this
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: everywhere I went. I heard it from the crypto guys.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: I believed in bitcoin, I believed in stable coin. I
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: believe in the future of kind of modern finance. And
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: because I believed in crypto currency, my banks canceled me. Well,
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: COVID canceled me, Bank of America canceled me. Guys, I
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: heard this all over the place. You know, we need
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: to make this illegal, and it is. It's illegal in
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: a lot of states and under a lot of banking clauses.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: But the fact that you can literally, I mean, could
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: you imagine if if eighteen and TI or of riz
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: and just decided to cancel all conservatives phones.
• 21:00
  Speaker 6: Yeah. Right.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: If you can't bank, you can't survive. If you can't bank,
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: you can't eat. If you can't bank, you can't pay employees.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: And yet they turned us off like we were dogs.
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: How much money do you think that Trump when you
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: guys were out during the four years and under siege
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: like this, How many business deals got blown up because
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: people were afraid even to just do business with you,
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: because they're afraid their business would be affected negatively and
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: they could be targeted. I'm assuming that was a reality
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: for quite some time.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: Well, I talk a lot about it in the book.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: I mean there were reporters that just made their whole livelihoods.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: David Farrenholt from the Washington Post and and and others,
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: you know, made their entire livelihoods calling up, you know,
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: vendors of ours, calling up our employees, calling up brides
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: and grooms that we're gonna get married at one of
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: the properties, one of the hotels.
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: And they were harassing people that were getting married at
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: Trump resorts.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: Oh I have I have more emails than you can
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: possibly imagine. You know, I hear you're gonna go get
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: married at at MMR Lago. Oh really, you know this
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: might have to make the front cover of our respective paper.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: You know, can you please give me comment? And these
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: brides and grooms are saying, I just want to get
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: married in peace, you know, I just you know, there's
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: a beautiful property. I'm not a political person. I just
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: you know it's it's a five star property. I love
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: the place. It's convenient, my family lives nearby. Whatever the
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: hell of the reason they were doing that. They were
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: extorting employees. They were going up to employees, and they
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: frankly tried to do it to me. Hey, you tell
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: us anything about Donald Trump, will let you go.
• 22:26
  Speaker 6: You know, all your problems.
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: They tried to turn you against your own father.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: Alvin Bragg, Are you kidding me? The Cyrus Vance, all
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: of them. They weaponized every da in and AG to
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: try and flip every single person to say anything negative,
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: to get any negative testimony against Donald Trump for their
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: own political purposes. Absolutely, that was the whole game they played.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: And no one in our company broke. Guys, this was
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: the siege that I dealt with every single day, right,
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: I mean it was it was all of these factors
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: that came together, all at once, all the time, doing
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: anything they could to to to just chop us off
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: at every single I mean, when they made up the
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: dirty dossier, when they made up right, I mean, they
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: have stories about prostitution in there, about golden you know,
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: what's right. What do you think they were trying. They
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: were trying to divorce my father, They were trying to
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: destroy his marriage. They were trying to break up our family.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: That's what they were trying to do. Also, a greedy
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: woman could get, you know again, two more votes. These
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: people are sick, These people are deranged, and there's been
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: zero accountability for any of it. And as a son
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: who fought by my father's side every single day during
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: this battle, somebody had to tell this story. Somebody had
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: to tell the inside perspective of the lens that a
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: corrupt government will go to besides just spying on campaigns
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: and despite just you know, raiding homes, you know, all
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: the things that they did to try and destroy us,
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: to try and destroy make America great again, and try
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: and destroy conservatives all across the country.
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: Look, it was unmitigated evil, and it was driven part
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: of it was driven by hate. Today the defining characteristic
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: I think of the Democrat Party. Is they hate your father. Yeah,
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: and they hate your family. I mean that anything connected
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: to your father they hate. And I think it also though,
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: was a deep contempt for democracy. I think every one
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: of these indictments. I think the weaponization that we saw
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: their underlying terror is that the voters would do what
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: they did in November of twenty twenty four and vote
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: to re elect your father. And this was all about
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: undermining democracy and preventing the voters from doing that. You know, Eric,
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: you mentioned earlier that you describe yourself as as the
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: most subpoena man in America. How many subpoenas did you get?
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: And and and did you testify a lot of times?
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: Were they demanding documents? What subpoenas were coming?
• 24:45
  Speaker 6: In one hundred and twelve subpoenas.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: I sat in more depositions than any human being in
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: the history of of of depositions. And by the way,
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: these are like big boy subpoenas, right, They're all coming
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: from you know, your close friend Elizabeth Warren as we
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: like to call her Pocahontas, and many and many others
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: we turned over. I mean, they would ask for document discovery,
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: you know, please give us every email in the company
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: and they would list a thousand words, but aside from that,
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: they would list national and international. Well, all our hotels
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: are Trump International Hotel, and all our golf courses are
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: Trump National Golf Course. You could probably see where this
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: is going. Every email signature of every person in the
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: company either has the word national or international in it.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: That's their fishing expedition. I actually brought this to the
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: Supreme Court, and the Supreme Court specifically told them you
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: can't fish right, and they did it anyway. The judges
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: didn't give a damn. They wanted to find any comma
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: that was out of place, and they couldn't. I mean,
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: in the Letitia James trial, literally Deutsche Bank was on
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: the stand saying that Trump was the best lender that
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: they've ever had.
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: We made them hundreds of millions of dollars, paid off
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: every loan, paid it off ahead of time, never missed
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: a payment. Even in the darkest days of COVID when
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: they made a shutdown our properties, we never missed, we
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: never defaulted, we never breached a covenant. And then one
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: day I wake up to the nightmare of your fine
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: six hundred million dollars for doing the thing wrong with
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: banks that loved us, that testified that they loved us.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: I mean, it was you know, and that's because you
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: had a crooked judge again got overturned five zero at
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: the next court.
• 26:10
  Speaker 6: But they rigged out the entire system.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: And you're seeing them do that right now, right, You're
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: seeing them do that in Washington, DC, where ninety four
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: percent of the cases that go in front of the
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: lower course are literally, you know, going against the administration
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: and then they all have to go up on a
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: po and get overturned. But guys, the beautiful thing about
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: the story is we won, right.
• 26:29
  Speaker 6: I mean, the.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: Media loss, the media lost their credibility. No one likes
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: the mainstream media. I mean, my wife is on Fox
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: News on a Saturday and nine pm, and she's getting
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: four extra ratings of CNN on the same time slot
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: on a Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday in primetime slots.
• 26:47
  Speaker 6: Right, no one likes the mainstream media.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: ABC's dead, NBC's dead, CNN's dead, and independent voices like
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: these podcasts are winning the day.
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: And by the way, she is doing an awesome job.
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: I had a chance to be on her show, and
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: she's she's a great interviewer because she's relaxed, she's having fun,
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: she's asking real questions and and it's night and day. Uh,
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: you know, I I will occasionally do do CNN. Poor
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: Ben was on CNN for six seven years. I actually
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: think he has a padded room and he like like
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: puts on a straight actuality.
• 27:17
  Speaker 5: He remembers those times.
• 27:19
  Speaker 6: Fighting comedies for seven years.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: Hey, listen, I just came off Caitlyn Collins about twenty
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: minutes ago.
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: Right, So it's not some prayers, you know, it's it's
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: so bad.
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: Let me ask you when all of this was coming in.
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: And it is not exaggeration to say there has never
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: been a political leader subject to more weaponization.
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: More assaults, more.
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: Insanely unfair attacks than that than your father has been.
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: Was there ever time that that that you felt yourself
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: giving in to despair? And and do you think your
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: dad ever did?
• 28:00
  Speaker 5: Now?
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: Honestly, it's like we're like masochistic, like we like pain
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: or something along those lines. Right, It's like a weird trade, right,
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: And I think it served us well. But now I
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: think we were so pissed off at that point. We
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: wanted to fight and we wanted to win, and we
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: want to save the Constitution. We want to save the
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: American flag. We wanted to save religion in society. We
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: want to save the Second Amendment. We want to end
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: end wokeness. We wanted to stop the DEI nonsense. You know,
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: men my size swimming in women's sport. We wanted to
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: save the greatest country in the world against absolute lunacy.
• 28:32
  Speaker 6: And so we never gave up. We never stopped fighting.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: We went out there and we punched back every single day,
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: and we did that as a family. I never left
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: that stage, and honestly, I've never been more proud of
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: a human being in my life.
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: All Right, So our guest with us is Eric Trump. Center.
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: You and I were just talking with him about this
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: really his family being under siege. You talked about these
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: big boy subpoenas part of that is to financially hurt you.
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: What did you, guys spend just doing the fighting of
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: all the lawsuits against you during that four year period.
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: How much did it cost you?
• 29:07
  Speaker 6: Roughly four hundred million, guys.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: I laugh when people, oh Trump is profiting off of government,
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: I go, wait, wait, excuse me. If you want to
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: come in, I'll break down the finances you want to
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: Trump's profit. We spent four hundred million dollars to defend
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: ourselves against nonsense, the fact that we did not have
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: secret servers communicating with the Kremlin, the fact that Don
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: wasn't a Russian agent. Remember you had Adam Schiff out
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: there every single day. Donald Trump Junior is a Russian agent. Guys,
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: if he wasn't, if he wasn't protected by the speech
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: and debate laws, you would have, honestly, the guy would
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: have been worth a zero. He would have been living
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: in a shoe box based on the fact that you
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: would have sued him for slander and taken everything that
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: he ever had. It was all made up lies. They
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: did everything they possibly could to take us down. We
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: spent over four hundred million dollars between that. You know, Letitia,
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: you know Alvin braggs I advance, you know if Fanny, I mean,
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: I could.
• 30:03
  Speaker 6: Go on and on the raids themar alig.
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: What was the worst to deal with Between Alvin braggs
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: I vance, Letitia, James jack Smith?
• 30:10
  Speaker 5: Who was the worst?
• 30:11
  Speaker 6: Probably did Letitia? Have you want to know the truth?
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: I mean, it was so corrupt and I don't know
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: Alvin braggbys you had Brshawn, I mean, Judge Barshawn's daughter
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: is like that, the head digital fundraiser for the Democratic Party,
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: and the guy wouldn't recuse himself, and literally, you'd be
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: sitting in these courtrooms, guys, and I would not leave
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: my father's side. I sat next to him every single day.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: If he was there, I was gonna be there as
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: a son to support him, you know. And most of
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: the time some of these cases I wasn't gagged in
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: so normally I was the guy in the courthouse steps,
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  Speaker 1: you know, shouting and yelling at the cameras as to
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  Speaker 1: what the hell was actually going on, because that's the
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  Speaker 1: only way you could communicate a message. But guys, I
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  Speaker 1: mean you had liberal and I mean liberal reporters who
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  Speaker 1: were in that courtroom shaking their heads saying none of
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  Speaker 1: this makes any sense. I mean, they shut down all
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  Speaker 1: of Manhattan Lower Manhattan for a hundred thousand dollars payment
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  Speaker 1: that my father didn't even make, made by a lawyer.
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  Speaker 1: They indicted him thirty four times. I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 1: al Capone had had one felony indictment. They indicted my
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  Speaker 1: father thirty four times for one hundred thousand dollars payment,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, by a district attorney who ran on
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  Speaker 1: the premise, you know, of reducing what you know, just
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  Speaker 1: decriminalizing just about anything. You know, you can shoot somebody
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  Speaker 1: in the face in Times Square and it was decriminalized,
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  Speaker 1: and you're gonna let them out, and you know you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna have community policing and all sorts of nonsense. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he ran on the premise of literally emptying Rikers Island
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  Speaker 1: so you had no criminals in there. Yet you know,
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  Speaker 1: thirty four felonies in six month period of time is
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  Speaker 1: shutting down New York in the FDR drive every day
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  Speaker 1: over one hundred thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, it wasn't believable.
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  Speaker 4: If only your father were mugging people in Times Square,
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  Speaker 4: then Alvin Bragg would never have prosecuted him. But instead
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  Speaker 4: he committed the unspeakable sin of not only being president
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  Speaker 4: of the United States, but being an extraordinarily successful and
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  Speaker 4: bold president of the United States, which which is an
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  Speaker 4: unpardonable sin. All right, we don't have much much time left,
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  Speaker 4: but but I want to take it a little bit
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  Speaker 4: lighter and and ask what was it like like your
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  Speaker 4: father is is unique. I've never in my life, have
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  Speaker 4: I met anyone remotely like your father. He and I
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  Speaker 4: have spent a lot of time together. He has extraordinary courage.
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  Speaker 4: But before he was president, what was it like growing
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  Speaker 4: up as a kid with Donald Trump as your father? Like, like, like,
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  Speaker 4: how what was he like as a dad when you
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  Speaker 4: were ten?
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  Speaker 6: Honestly, the greatest dad you can ever imagine.
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  Speaker 1: Expected big things from us, right, I mean every day
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  Speaker 1: I go give him kiss before I went to school. Honey,
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  Speaker 1: no drink drinking, no drugs, no smoking. You better get
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  Speaker 1: good grades. And by the way, never trust anybody. Right
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  Speaker 1: he did once in a while I had that he
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  Speaker 1: never never trust anyone. Hey, that's probably that was going
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  Speaker 1: to be. I said, I've probably benefited us pretty well,
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  Speaker 1: so amazing guy. You know, listen, we're spoiled as hell,
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  Speaker 1: and that we lived in you know, Trump Power. We
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  Speaker 1: had a beautiful roof over our head. We were always
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  Speaker 1: well fed. We we had the best education. But we
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  Speaker 1: were never handed money. We're never handy cash. If we
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: wanted something, if I wanted a fishing rod, congratulations, your
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  Speaker 1: work for it. I got on our construction sites when
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: I was eleven years old, doing demo, doing electrical HVAC
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  Speaker 1: you know, running back hose excavators. You know, I grew
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  Speaker 1: up working with my hands on our construction sites, with
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  Speaker 1: many of the guys that work for me today. And
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  Speaker 1: you know what, he wanted us to learn a trait.
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  Speaker 1: He wanted us to learn the value of a dollar.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, he wanted us to be tired
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  Speaker 1: as hell at the end of the day. You know,
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  Speaker 1: because listen, don't give Type A kids or any kid.
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  Speaker 1: But don't give Type A kids money or free time,
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  Speaker 1: because bad things happen. And he was an amazing father.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: He is an amazing father. And everything we've ever done,
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: we fought together, whether it's real estate, whether it was
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: The Apprentice.
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  Speaker 6: I was on that for seven seasons. And then in politics.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, when he decided to run, he said to us,
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: he goes, you know, kids, let's do this. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I was on Megan Kelly. I didn't know what the
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: hell immigration was. I mean, Senator, this was not my world.
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  Speaker 1: I built, you know, hotels, and all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: I'm in the.
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  Speaker 6: Middle of box, I a wall, and now you're on TV.
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  Speaker 1: I've got ninety illegal immigrants around me, and I'm battling
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  Speaker 1: all of them. And I don't know the first damn
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: thing about illegal immigration, right. I mean, like, this is
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  Speaker 1: not the world that we came from. But my father's
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  Speaker 1: a remarkable guy. My mother was an amazing powerhouse and strict,
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: demanded manners, demanded respect, demanded work ethic and either the
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: greatest parents you can ever imagine. I spent a lot
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: of time in underseage talking about, you know, being raised
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  Speaker 1: by them, and you know, it is unique in so
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  Speaker 1: many ways, but they they did everything they could in
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  Speaker 1: this strange world that we lived in to ground us
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  Speaker 1: and make sure we turned out to be hard workers, normal,
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: you know, and didn't have any of these kind of
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: Hunter Biden esque problems. I don't have a laptop from hell,
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  Speaker 1: you know. I don't do finger paintings selling it to
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  Speaker 1: you know, foreign nationals all over the world. You know,
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  Speaker 1: never married my you know, my brother's ex wife, Like,
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  Speaker 1: never did that kind of stuff. No drugs, no you know,
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  Speaker 1: no perversion. I was always a good kid who believed
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  Speaker 1: in God and believed in hard work and you know,
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  Speaker 1: lived an honest life.
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  Speaker 5: Eric.
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  Speaker 4: I can't tell you how many times, dozens, if not
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: hundreds of times people have commented that one of the
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  Speaker 4: things they admire.
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  Speaker 5: Most about your dad.
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  Speaker 4: Is is you and your brothers and sisters, and and listen,
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  Speaker 4: it is hard for for any successful person to to
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  Speaker 4: raise good kids. It's challenging. There's a lot of pressure.
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  Speaker 4: And and you know, I I know know your entire family,
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: and I will say literally people early on throughout the
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  Speaker 4: process they'll comment, well, you know, somehow his kids are
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: like like not messed up and incredibly successful and put together.
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: And and I mean, it's all right, let me ask you.
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: Let's let let's say we have some young parents that
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: are listening to this podcast. Are there any lessons a
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: young parent by the way, Uh, you know Ben, Ben
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: has young kids, I have teenage. Are there any lessons
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: any lessons from your dad that that young parents should know,
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: or lessons that that you've tried to apply.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, keep them poor and make them start working early. Honestly,
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: I mean that's what it is. Keep keep them poor.
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: Don't don't give type A kids money and don't give
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: them endless time. That's just a bad recipe, right, And
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: and uh, you know, I can't tell you, guys how
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: many friends I had, you know, who were who were here,
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: who went to school with me, and you know, three
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: quarters of them ended up in rehab and a lot
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: of them went down bad roads. And guess what they
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: were getting ferraris you know when they're you know, sixteen
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: years old, Like, what do you ever want to aspire
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  Speaker 1: to to get if that's if that's how you're being raised.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, does it surprise you that those people don't
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  Speaker 1: have work ethic? Does it surprise you that they would
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: go down bad roads? And my father would never let
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: that happen to us. And you know, he made us
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: work our butts off. And believe me, if I wasn't
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: good at what I did real estate wise, I would
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: not be in this chair.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, forget about nepotism for a second.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: It you know, if we weren't incredibly capable, believe me,
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't be running one of the largest real estate
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  Speaker 1: empires anywhere in the world. And he made us work,
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: and he made us prove that we were good at
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: what we do, and we fought every single day, and
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: we'ren an incredibly tight family. And he's a remarkable person.
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: He's my best friend. I love him to death, and
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: I'm so proud of him, especially in a week where
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: he's accomplished as much as he had. I am so
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: damn proud of what he of what he did, and
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: what he's accomplished and the hell.
• 36:56
  Speaker 6: Of a journey. Guys. It's all worth it. This is
• 36:59
  Speaker 6: all worth it.
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  Speaker 1: The sea is all worth it based on the great
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  Speaker 1: things that are happening to our country and our world.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for listening to the forty seven Morning Update
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