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Eric Trump - BOOK - Under Siege · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Hi's Brian Thomas. Happy to welcome to the fifty five
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  Speaker 1: Casey Morning Show. You know him, I know him, and
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  Speaker 1: he is now an author of the book Under Siege,
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  Speaker 1: My Family's Fight to Save the Nation, by my guest,
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  Speaker 1: Eric Trump. Yes, the executive vice president of the Trump Organization,
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  Speaker 1: leading the global operations one of the most iconic real
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  Speaker 1: estate empires in the world overseas the expansive portfolio including
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  Speaker 1: the Trump Hotels, Trump Goff. You can go on and
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  Speaker 1: on and on about the real estate holdings. He is
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  Speaker 1: responsible for the company's expansion into emerging industries. He also
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  Speaker 1: happens to be the target of a lot of political
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  Speaker 1: attacks and just by virtue of his membership of the
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  Speaker 1: Trump family, that's what the book about. At least I
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  Speaker 1: understand Eric Trump. It's great to have you on the
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  Speaker 1: fifty five Casey Morning Show. I as I sat here
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  Speaker 1: and contemplated the last say ten years, and I guess
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  Speaker 1: you've lived with this microscope focus your entire life. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: would that be accurate before the Trump political era came in?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but never anything like this, Brian Ian and I'm
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  Speaker 2: so on her. The book, you know, Underseas went to
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  Speaker 2: number one on Amazon, it's doing credible and then clearly
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  Speaker 2: people are you know, it's totally people in the country
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  Speaker 2: and making a statement because so many of us have
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  Speaker 2: been targeted. It's not just Trump family, I mean, underseas
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  Speaker 2: is kind of the story of this entire country, the
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  Speaker 2: entire Magat movement, all of us, and all of us
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  Speaker 2: were deep platforms, debankes, and mean the second my father
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  Speaker 2: went down that escalator and took twelve minutes before the
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  Speaker 2: Washington Post wrote wrote an article, this is when the
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  Speaker 2: impeachment of Donald Trump began. And they, I mean, they
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  Speaker 2: did everything right. They impeached him twice. They made up
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  Speaker 2: the dirty dot CAAs they you know, accused us of
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  Speaker 2: having secret servers in the basement of Trump Tower communicating
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  Speaker 2: with the Kremlin in Russia. They weaponized every DA and
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  Speaker 2: every age, whether it's in New York City or Washington, DC,
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  Speaker 2: or Fulton County, Georgia. They weaponized all of them against
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  Speaker 2: our family and my father. I mean, they took him
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  Speaker 2: off the ballot in Maine, they took him off the
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  Speaker 2: ballot in Colorado. They stripped him of all his social media.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if you tried to type in Trump into YouTube,
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  Speaker 2: you couldn't find him, and they threw him off of Twitter,
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  Speaker 2: and threw him off of x and threw him off
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  Speaker 2: of Facebook. I became the most impement person in American history.
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  Speaker 2: I've never gotten so much as a traffic ticket. They
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  Speaker 2: did everything they could to destroy our family. They raided
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  Speaker 2: mar A Lago, they raided Milania's room, they raided Baron's room,
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  Speaker 2: and then they tried to kill him in Butler, Pennsylvania.
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  Speaker 2: And then they tried to kill them again, you know,
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  Speaker 2: eight weeks later at the golf course in Florida. They
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  Speaker 2: tried to put our family and our country under siege
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  Speaker 2: because they didn't like what my father was saying, and
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  Speaker 2: they didn't like the fact that we had created the
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  Speaker 2: greatest political movement in history. And Brian, the story had
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  Speaker 2: to be told. It had to be told from kind
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  Speaker 2: of an insider view, as the guy sitting in the courtroom,
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  Speaker 2: as a guy receiving those subpoenas, as a guy fighting
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  Speaker 2: like hell for our entire family, and really holding that
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  Speaker 2: family together outside of Washington, DC, because I was in
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  Speaker 2: charge of you know, everything that you just listed, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and the story had to be told to the American
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  Speaker 2: people and by the way. The greatest part of the story, Brian,
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  Speaker 2: we won. I mean, we beat the mainstream media. We
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  Speaker 2: beat them in embarrassing fashion. They're totally irrelevant and independent
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  Speaker 2: voices like yours are all of a sudden, you know,
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  Speaker 2: winning the day where you know, ten years ago, I
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  Speaker 2: think that was very different. NBC and ABC and CBS
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  Speaker 2: were the trusted voice of this nation. They are no longer,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, and we had the greatest victory in
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  Speaker 2: political history, winning the popular vote, winning every swing state
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  Speaker 2: and so on, and so it's a beautiful story, but man,
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  Speaker 2: was it a hell of a fight.
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  Speaker 1: Do you take any comfort of it at the big win,
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  Speaker 1: because to me, that sort of suggested that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we're smarter out here in the unwashed masses than the
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  Speaker 1: Democrats perceived us to be. We saw what happened to
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump. We knew that Steele dossier was paid for
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  Speaker 1: by the Democratic Party, created whole cloth full of lives
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  Speaker 1: for the purpose of keeping Donald Trump from getting elected.
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  Speaker 1: Enter Hillary Clinton's debacle. She lost her own campaign, I
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  Speaker 1: think on that then they used that Steele doci to
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  Speaker 1: continue to perpetuate this myth that the Russia was involved
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  Speaker 1: in the collusion to go through the whole investigation, fight
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  Speaker 1: out there is nothing there. This was all a lie,
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  Speaker 1: that was all done to undermine your dad getting anything
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  Speaker 1: accomplished in his first four years. And Lord Almighty, it
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  Speaker 1: was non stop under siege. It was the biggest political
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  Speaker 1: distraction from getting work done that I've ever witnessed in
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  Speaker 1: my sixty years of life.
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  Speaker 2: You know what, I'll never forget thinking of my desk
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  Speaker 2: at from Power and I get a call, and the
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  Speaker 2: first calls from the New York Times, the second calls
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  Speaker 2: from the Washington Post. Eric, I hear you have secret
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  Speaker 2: servers in the basement of Trump Tower that are communicating
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  Speaker 2: with the Kremlin. I almost spit my drink out on
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  Speaker 2: my desk. I was laughing so hard, right, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: give me a secret servers. Is We hardly knew what
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  Speaker 2: a delegate was, Brian. You know, we're real estate people.
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  Speaker 2: You know we had gotten into the political thing. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you want to talk about winging it, We were like
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  Speaker 2: the definition of winging it. We weren't smart enough to
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  Speaker 2: communicate with with with Russia or collude with Russia. I
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  Speaker 2: mean I started laughing and I said to them, you
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  Speaker 2: want to come over here right now, you'll be over
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  Speaker 2: here in five minutes. I'll give you a I'll give
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  Speaker 2: you tour of the basement of Trump Tower. You can
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  Speaker 2: look for the quote unquote secret servers. Right, they knew
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  Speaker 2: it was a lie, The FBI knew it was a lie,
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  Speaker 2: and they led it perlay for three years. At first,
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  Speaker 2: they wanted it to be our October surprise, so Hillary
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  Speaker 2: Clinton could get three extra votes, you know, and hopefully
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  Speaker 2: win the election. And they even defined the October surprise
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  Speaker 2: as something that is so damaging, you know, but somebody
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  Speaker 2: doesn't have enough time to disprove, so the damage is
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  Speaker 2: done by the time they disprove it. Right. Then, after
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  Speaker 2: they lost in such embarrassing passion against a group of
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  Speaker 2: quote unquote misfits who didn't know anything about politics and
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  Speaker 2: were at a five to one fundraising deficit, they continued
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  Speaker 2: the narrative to allow Hillary to stay faced, and by
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  Speaker 2: doing so, they literally pitted the two biggest nuclear superpowers
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  Speaker 2: against each other, which hampered communication for a three year
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  Speaker 2: period of time. I mean, you know how awkward those
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  Speaker 2: conversations were as they were accusing us of Russia collusion
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  Speaker 2: between my father and and Putin and again also Hillary,
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  Speaker 2: you know, some greedy woman could get could get you know,
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  Speaker 2: three extra votes in a campaign which he otherwise lost
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  Speaker 2: or CLI and stay faced. Why the Clinton dynasty, you know,
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  Speaker 2: who actually knew something about politics and had actually been
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  Speaker 2: to Washington, DC before you know it, lost to effectively
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  Speaker 2: my father and myself and Don who are really the
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  Speaker 2: only three people who were standing on that stage at
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  Speaker 2: that time, because no one else believed in us, And
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  Speaker 2: that's how damaging this is. And they knew it, and
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  Speaker 2: they allowed it to continue for the sake of the
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  Speaker 2: Democratic Party even though everybody knew who was a lie.
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  Speaker 1: My guess that, Hey, Eric Trouv, author of Underseas, my
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  Speaker 1: Family's Fight to Save our Nation, And Eric got to
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  Speaker 1: ask you what was rather perplexing for me the entire time,
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  Speaker 1: although I can understand him just sitting back and saying,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to touch this with a ten foot poll.
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  Speaker 1: Let me watch them self destruct. How come Vladimir Putin
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  Speaker 1: didn't chime in at any given time since we're talking
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  Speaker 1: about him and what he did, you'd think maybe, just
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  Speaker 1: maybe he'd interject, maybe a comment or two, but never happened.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, because chaos and other countries that our adversaries are
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  Speaker 2: probably beneficial to Russia and China, right, I mean, I think,
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  Speaker 2: I think if you look at the playbook of most
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  Speaker 2: adversaries to the United States, right. And I don't want
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  Speaker 2: to try and pit two countries against each other right
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  Speaker 2: now by saying this, But you know, I mean they're
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  Speaker 2: not exactly you know, China doesn't exactly want harmony in
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  Speaker 2: the United States, right, They don't want exactly sunshine, lollipops
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  Speaker 2: and rainbows. You know, these guys are are popping the popcorn,
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  Speaker 2: watching us tear each other apart, you know, based on misstrews,
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  Speaker 2: and probably laughing all the way to the bank. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: that's how that's how real life works, as as sick
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  Speaker 2: and deranged as that is. And so you know that's
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  Speaker 2: why he didn't say anything. And you know, if him,
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  Speaker 2: I probably won't say any. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I figured that was a direct answer to the question.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, we know the Chinese Communist Party is stirring
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  Speaker 1: the pot of division in this country through social media,
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  Speaker 1: though actively engage in that.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: One of the more troubling issues of are illustrations of lawfare.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, I practice laws of a litigation attorney
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  Speaker 1: for sixteen years before it came on the Morning Show.
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  Speaker 1: So I have a little bit of background in terms
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  Speaker 1: of the uh, the straight face test that you have
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  Speaker 1: to pass when you file a lawsuit the real estate
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  Speaker 1: claims against Donald Trump in New York that somehow he
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  Speaker 1: overvalued the real estate. I mean, you're talking about major
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  Speaker 1: banks that have their own legal departments, that do their
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  Speaker 1: own real estate valuations. They are experts at this. This
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  Speaker 1: was an arms length transaction. If your dad said the
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  Speaker 1: place is worth a trillion dollars, they would have laughed
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  Speaker 1: and said, no, we did our own evaluation. It's worth
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  Speaker 1: acts and he can haggle over that. But they either
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  Speaker 1: accepted his calculations, recognizing that there was enough this, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he was going to pay it back. They weren't damaged.
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  Speaker 1: There was no justiciable controversy that that lawsuit.
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  Speaker 2: You and I could go into this for four hours,
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  Speaker 2: because this is what I do. I run the Trump organization.
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  Speaker 2: Not only were they not damaged, they made hundreds of
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  Speaker 2: millions of dollars, and they testify saying that they were
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  Speaker 2: we were the best borrower they've ever had, meaning you know,
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  Speaker 2: they were literally they had emails, which is how do
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  Speaker 2: we loan Trump more? Money because he's literally the best borrower.
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  Speaker 2: They called us the big whale and the platinum borrower, right,
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  Speaker 2: and then Letsitsie James comes in and says that we
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  Speaker 2: somehow defrauded banks. We defrauded Deutsche Bank, the most sophisticated
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  Speaker 2: real estate lender on planet Earth. And the great irony
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  Speaker 2: of it is they did every year they did their
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  Speaker 2: own appraisers, you know, appraisals on the assets, and they
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  Speaker 2: had to meet some LV you know LTV tests and
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  Speaker 2: every single year they plot, you know, they passed the
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  Speaker 2: flying colors. So the collateral to the actual loan was
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  Speaker 2: the property itself was every year they were appraising and
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  Speaker 2: it was passing the very test. There was never a default.
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  Speaker 2: There was never a mispayment. There was never there wasn't
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  Speaker 2: there was never a breach of contract, you know, there
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  Speaker 2: there was nothing. There was nothing. And they came in
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  Speaker 2: and they literally testified in court. I was sitting there
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  Speaker 2: ten feet away from the guy from Deutsche Bank. These
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  Speaker 2: are some of the best real estate as, these are
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  Speaker 2: some of the most honest people. We've never had a
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  Speaker 2: problem with them. We've loved the relationship. We consider them
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  Speaker 2: a platinum barer. And then all of a sudden, the
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  Speaker 2: verdict comes down five hundred and sixty million dollars paid immediately,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and and let ban Eric and Don and
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump from ever doing business in New York City again.
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  Speaker 2: It was insane. Now, thankfully, Brian, the Appellate Court through
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  Speaker 2: the hangout, including the presiding Judge of New York States,
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  Speaker 2: through the entire thing out at a five zero decision.
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  Speaker 2: But this is the lawfare that we were against. But
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  Speaker 2: they didn't care. They found a crooked judge and they
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  Speaker 2: wanted to try and bankrupt our company, bankrupt our family,
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  Speaker 2: no different than the gag orders they put on my
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  Speaker 2: father every single day, which is why I was on
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  Speaker 2: the courthouse steps yelling and screaming because you know, in
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  Speaker 2: some of the cases I wasn't gagged, so I was
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  Speaker 2: the only Trump voice who could go out there and
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  Speaker 2: communicate a message. It's what they wanted to do. They
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  Speaker 2: wanted to silence us, they wanted to destroy us. They
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  Speaker 2: wanted to ruin the company, they wanted to bankrupt our family.
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  Speaker 2: They wanted to take my father out using any means possible,
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  Speaker 2: which is the exact definition of a siege. That's why
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  Speaker 2: I called the book under siege because you know, they
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  Speaker 2: lay siege to not only are family, but to all
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  Speaker 2: of us and our entire nation.
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  Speaker 1: I can't imagine the emotions you had to go through.
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  Speaker 1: I mean basically, from the moment he walked down the
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  Speaker 1: steps of pronouncing his presidency, you woke up and are
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  Speaker 1: living a Kofka novel.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe worse. Honestly, if you were to actually if
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  Speaker 2: you read Undersage, you know, at the end of it,
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  Speaker 2: you'd say, it almost can't be true. But we know
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  Speaker 2: it is because every American lived parts of it in
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  Speaker 2: their own life. I mean, if somebody did it in
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  Speaker 2: a fictional novel, you'd say, you know, that's a little extreme,
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  Speaker 2: but this is what they did. I would have never
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  Speaker 2: thought that could have been the United States of America.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I could have never thought that an FBI
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  Speaker 2: director Tomy and it was spending his time leaking memos
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  Speaker 2: to the New York Times. I mean, aren't FBI directors.
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  Speaker 2: You know, maybe I'm old school, but like I want
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  Speaker 2: an FBI director to focus on, you know, not having
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  Speaker 2: planes fly into buildings, make sure terrorists aren't shooting up
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  Speaker 2: subway stations, making sure that our streets are safe, making
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  Speaker 2: sure that there are no serial killers, like even that
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  Speaker 2: what most people think of an FBI director is doing,
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  Speaker 2: meaning protecting the homeland. Instead this guy, you know, this
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  Speaker 2: guy's buddies everybody over at you know, in your times,
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  Speaker 2: leaking memos every single day involving conversations that he had
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  Speaker 2: with the President of the United States, Like do we
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  Speaker 2: not as a country deserve so much better than that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, And it's it's crazy, like this isn't the
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  Speaker 2: best of government, this is the worst of government. This
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  Speaker 2: is the worst way you could spend your task, spare money,
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  Speaker 2: and just all of us, everybody listening, every civilian in
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  Speaker 2: this nation demands better from these people.
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  Speaker 1: Eric Trump, you and of course your father, Donald Trump,
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  Speaker 1: showed the value of sticking it out, fighting against this nonsense,
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  Speaker 1: constant attack regularly twenty four to seven a day. They
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  Speaker 1: managed to persevere. And I really truly salute you and
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  Speaker 1: your father for sticking it out and you know, showing
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  Speaker 1: the strength. It was necessary because very few among us
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  Speaker 1: could show it. But then again, very few among us
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  Speaker 1: could afford the legal charges and fees that you got
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  Speaker 1: build monthly to deal with this law fair would have
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  Speaker 1: broken the average American. So it's a red flag for
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  Speaker 1: everybody there. But for the grace of God, go I.
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  Speaker 1: Eric Trump, author of Underseas, The Families Fight or My
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  Speaker 1: Famili's Fight to Save our Nation. Eric, we admit it
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  Speaker 1: easy for our listeners get a copy. It's on my
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  Speaker 1: blog page fifty five caresey dot com, and I will
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  Speaker 1: strongly encourage them to get a copy of this book,
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  Speaker 1: read it, and also share it with their friends.
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  Speaker 2: Brian really appreciate you, my friends. It was a great
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  Speaker 2: honor to be on You go get a copy, send
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  Speaker 2: it to your liberal friends. And it's on Amazon. It's
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  Speaker 2: number one. We're doing great, so very proud of it.
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  Speaker 1: Eric Trump, keep up with great worth