{"id":2508304,"date":"2025-11-08T12:51:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T17:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/eric-trump-erupts-on-podcaster-for-suggesting-siege-against-his-family-was-just-normal-politics\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T12:53:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T17:53:41","slug":"eric-trump-erupts-on-podcaster-for-suggesting-siege-against-his-family-was-just-normal-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/eric-trump-erupts-on-podcaster-for-suggesting-siege-against-his-family-was-just-normal-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Trump Erupts on Podcaster for Suggesting Siege Against His Family Was Just Normal Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Feric-trump-erupts-on-podcaster-for-suggesting-siege-against-his-family-was-just-normal-politics%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2508304&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Eric Trump, Executive Vice President of the Trump organization, strongly rejected the claim by podcast host Tim Stanley that the attacks on his family were ordinary aspects of politics. In discussing his book *Under Siege: My Family&#8217;s Fight to Save Our Nation*, Eric argued that what his family experienced went far beyond typical political opposition. He highlighted unprecedented actions such as raids on their home, subpoenas involving his children intended to financially harm their company, calls to financial institutions to &#8220;debank&#8221; his father, and fabricated allegations like the Steele dossier. Eric emphasized that these <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >measures represented criminal behavior<\/a> rather than normal political debate, pointing out that his father faced unprecedented indictments and attempts to remove him from ballots in various states, actions he described as threats to democracy rather than legitimate political disagreement.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Executive Vice President of The Trump Organization Eric Trump passionately refuted &ldquo;The Daily T&rdquo; host Tim Stanley on Thursday when he suggested that the attacks against his family were ordinary in politics.<\/p>\n<p>Trump published &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2025\/09\/15\/eric-trump-donates-under-siege-proceeds-turning-point-usa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Under Siege: My Family&rsquo;s Fight to Save Our Nation<\/a>&rdquo; in October, which recounts the tribulations his family has faced since his father, President Donald Trump, entered the political arena. When Stanley <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_poyS83LKgU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">asked<\/a> Trump on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLJnf_DDTfIVBV8Pt89mSFIFfZBPkWUoB6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">podcast<\/a> whether he could &ldquo;accept&rdquo; that certain aspects of what the family faced were typical in politics, he immediately rejected the notion.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Some of the siege that you faced &mdash; and I understand why it was very personal and distressing &mdash; can you accept that some of it was just people legitimately disagreeing with your father&rsquo;s policies and using every lever available, as people generally do in politics, in order to push back?&rdquo; Stanley asked.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;No, no, no,&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/eric-trump-schools-judge-says-father-inflated-value-mar-lago-laughing-foolishness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eric Trump<\/a> replied. &ldquo;Hold on one second.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The president&rsquo;s son acknowledged that politics involves debates over contentious issues like abortion, gun rights, and free speech, but said what his family endured went far beyond the bounds of normal political discourse.<\/p>\n<p>  <script> console.log(\"A\/B Test Video Player\"); 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That&rsquo;s different than subpoenaing their children with the intent to literally try and bankrupt a company,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s different than calling every financial institution and telling them to debank a person. That&rsquo;s different than making up dirty dossiers saying that there were golden you-know-whats happening with prostitution when it was totally fabricated and paid by the opposition.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-trial-devolves-total-chaos-right-eric-trump-takes-stand\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump<\/a> was referring to the now-discredited Steele dossier&nbsp;alleging the president colluded with Russia during the election.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s different than saying that there were secret servers in the basement of a building communicating with the Kremlin when we don&rsquo;t know a damn person in the Kremlin,&rdquo; he added. &ldquo;We don&rsquo;t know anybody in Russia. We had nothing to do with Russia. That&rsquo;s different than having people take him off the ballot in states so that democracy could not prevail in those states, having radical justices strip him off. That&rsquo;s different.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The president&rsquo;s son also noted that his father had faced unprecedented criminal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-trump-learns-sentence-new-york-case\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">indictments<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s criminal-type behavior. 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