Donald Trump indicted: Eric Trump denounces Manhattan DA case as 'mockery' of justice system

Brady Knox

April 02, 10:23 AM April 02, 10:23 AM

Eric Trump denounced the Manhattan DA grand jury's recent indictment against his father, decrying it as a "mockery" of the justice system.

Eric Trump appeared on WHD News to discuss the indictment against Donald Trump, which has caused most Republicans to close ranks in defense of the former president. He condemned the legal case against his father while denouncing Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and the United States's "two-tier system of justice." He specifically took aim at the state of New York City, saying that Bragg was focusing on Trump while crime was rampant.

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"You guys live in New York. I used to live in New York. I know that city very, very well. I go back to New York, and I said this the other night, you literally can't walk into a Duane Reade and buy Advil because everything's locked up behind plastic because there's so much looting. There's so much crime," he said.

He went on to criticize the difference in treatment between him and First Son Hunter Biden, before thanking Trump's supporters for their actions over the past several days.

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"People are sick and tired of this two-tier system of justice and, and, guys, I have to tell you, people in this country understand it," he said. "The support is unbelievable out there because people understand that we've literally become a banana republic that they've, they've made a mockery out of our legal system in this country."

Trump is expected to turn himself in to New York authorities on Tuesday.

Former Trump CFO Allen Weisselberg testifies that he got raise after Trump children discovered tax scheme

Misty Severi

November 18, 07:41 PM November 18, 07:41 PM

When Eric and Donald Trump Jr. discovered that former Trump Organization Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg was cheating on his taxes, he was not disciplined, Weisselberg testified Friday.

In fact, Eric Trump approved a $200,000 raise for Weisselberg after he claimed he was no longer participating in the illegal activity and needed more money to make up for it, the former Trump executive testified during his third and final day of testimony in the Trump Organization criminal trial in New York City.

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“I told them since the practice was no longer going on, I would need some additional income to pay for those expenses,” Weisselberg said, according to NBC News.

Weisselberg said he was granted untaxed corporate perks by the Trump Organization, including large tuition payments for his grandchildren at a distinguished Manhattan private school, a luxury vehicle, and an upscale apartment in New York City.

Weisselberg, 75, said the brothers discovered his untaxed bonuses in 2017 during an internal review and after former President Donald Trump was already in the White House. The former CFO said when Donald Trump entered the White House, he stopped communicating with the organization.

“Once he was in the White House, we had very little communication about things going on in the company,” Weisselberg testified.

Weisselberg, the prosecution’s star witness, was indicted by a New York grand jury on June 30 of last year. He pleaded guilty this August and agreed to testify against his employer in exchange for a five-month jail sentence and five years of probation. Had he been convicted at trial, he could have faced a sentence of five to 15 years in prison.

He will also be required to face the yearslong sentence if he fails to testify truthfully or if he fails to repay the nearly $2 million he owes in taxes.

Although Weisselberg's testimony has concluded, the trial will continue on Monday and Tuesday of next week, but it will pause for the remainder of the week for the Thanksgiving holiday.

Eric Trump suggests safe and sound breached by FBI in Mar-a-Lago search was empty

Abigail Adcox

August 08, 10:14 PM August 08, 11:32 PM

Eric Trump ssupport his father, Donald Trump, had nothing at all in a risk-free they declare the FBI breached as aspect of a raid of the previous president's Mar-a-Largo resort on Monday.

The next son of the 45th president claimed he was with his father in New York Town when they found out about the look for, and he indicated that it was related to data that Donald Trump introduced back with him to his vacation resort in Florida after leaving office.

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"Now, to have 30 FBI agents, truly extra than that, descend on Mar-a-Largo, give definitely no discover, go by way of the gate, commence ransacking an business office, ransacking a closet, you know — they broke into a harmless. He did not even have something in the protected," Eric Trump explained to WHD News.

Donald Trump mentioned in a assertion before Monday that his Florida home was "below siege" by the FBI and claimed brokers "broke into [his] protected."

Eric Trump, who is an government vice president at the Trump Firm, mentioned his father "will save" and retains substantial data of things these types of as press clippings, photographs, notes from his youngsters, letters from his ex-wife, and additional.

"The objective of the raid, from what they claimed, was for the reason that the Countrywide Archives needed to cooperate, no matter if or not Donald Trump experienced any paperwork in his possession," Eric Trump stated. "My father has worked so collaboratively with them for months. In actuality, the attorney that is been performing on this was thoroughly shocked. He goes, 'I have this sort of [an] wonderful romantic relationship with these people.' And all of a sudden, no see, they send, you know, 20 autos and 30 brokers. ... I imply, this is just additional political persecution of Donald J. Trump."

Information stored at Donald Trump's resort were collected by the Countrywide Archives in January after the agency had determined documents taken off from the White Household. The company reported its officers had attained 15 boxes of records from Mar-a-Lago, like products marked as categorised nationwide safety info, that ended up not presented to the National Archives, as is expected by the Presidential Information Act.

The Justice Office and the FBI declined to comment on the lookup. The FBI notified Top secret Support that a warrant would be executed, and Solution Service brokers facilitated obtain to the vacation resort but did not get portion in the look for by itself, for each NBC News. A senior White House formal explained to CBS News that the president's staff experienced no prior recognize of the raid, with some West Wing workers discovering of it on social media.

The raid lasted around from 9 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., and a few attorneys symbolizing Donald Trump confirmed up as the research was conducted, men and women acquainted with the research informed NewsNation. Through the raid, FBI agents donning road clothing grabbed paperwork and boxes and broke open a resort-fashion risk-free positioned in Donald Trump's place of work. Agents were being only approved to take away items from the property similar to the research, for each the report.

Eric Trump criticized the raid as being politically motivated by fears that Donald Trump will operate for president in 2024.

"They know and they get worried that Donald Trump will come back again in and earn this pretty easily," Eric Trump stated.