Son of former President Donald Trump, Eric Trump, recently slammed the hush money trial outside the courthouse in New York City. On Thursday, Trump was found guilty of all 34 felony counts he was charged with in the case brought against him by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
Trump criticized the New York judicial system for allocating the substantial resources required for the Trump prosecution as conditions in the Big Apple seem to be deteriorating. He suggested the trial against his father was “legal lawfare.”
Eric said, “So I sit here today as a son, forget about politics for a second. I’ve been in that courthouse with my father almost every single day, and not a single New Yorker I say, look at murders in the streets, women getting thrown in front of trains, kids getting shot in Times Square, the degradation of this city. Not a single New Yorker believes that over $130,000 payment from nine years ago, from eight years ago, that the entire DA’s office is lining that courtroom. They’re sitting there, they’re laughing, they’re giggling. This was their moment. This is how they embarrassed Donald Trump. This is legal lawfare.”
Trump further lamented how the state of New York is degrading, illustrating how it has progressively changed for the worse over the past decade. According to Eric, the sole motivation behind the prosecution of his father was a “political vendetta.”
“All while this state absolutely melts. Everybody that sits here right now, every single one of you, knows that this is not the same state that we knew 10 years ago. Now. Knew it was not the same state as we saw five years ago. You have total degradation of New York State. Because the only thing that Alvin Bragg wants to do, only thing that Letitia James wants to do, is criminally prosecute Donald Trump. And they’re doing it for one reason. They’re doing it because they have a political vendetta,” he added.
Trump continued, listing several ways in which the former president and his family has been politically persecuted in recent years. Noting that he had received well over 100 subpoenas, he claimed other family members were attacked, including young Baron Trump.
He said, “They tried to impeach him in DC. They tried to impeach him a second time. They went after his Supreme Court justices. They turned the DOJ, they turned the FBI against him. They couldn’t stop him when that didn’t work, that’s what they did. They went after his family. They went after me. 110 subpoenas later that I received, I’ve never gotten so much as a parking ticket, 110 subpoenas. They went after Don. They went after Laura. They went after little Baron Trump as a young kid, as a young teenager, they went after Tiffany Trump. They tried to make his life hell.” Watch his speech below:
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Eric concluded his monologue outside the courthouse, stating, “And I’m just proud of the toughest person I’ve ever met my entire life for having the backbone and fortitude to go through this whole mess as uncomfortable as it’s been, and I’m proud to have stood there every single second by his side in that freezing cold courtroom against unthinkable odds and a corrupt judge and people making a lot of money and this political witch hunt, he’s an inspiration to be every single day, and he’ll be vindicated.”
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