Eric Trump has dismissed the effect that the seizing of former President Donald Trump‘s assets would have on his father, arguing that thousands of Trump Organization employees would be the people most affected.
Trump, the son of the former president and the executive vice president of the Trump Organization, made his comment the day before his father was required to pay a $454 million bond, which relates to an order in Trump’s New York civil fraud case. Eric Trump criticized the amount of the bond, arguing that bonds worth almost $500,000 “don’t exist in this country,” while claiming that the court aims to put his father out of business.
“And you know who they’re actually going to hurt?” Eric Trump noted on Fox News’s Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo. “They’re going to hurt the thousands and thousands of employees that we have in New York state. These are janitors, these are doormen, these are people that work in commercial buildings. They’re going to hurt those individuals, not the executives.”
When asked about the effects that seizing Donald Trump’s assets would have on the former president specifically, Eric Trump pointed to the “unthinkable” challenges that his father has had to face since 2016. Trump went on to claim that his family has had to deal with many more challenges unknown to the public, in addition to the ones that are reported on the news.
“He’s the toughest guy I’ve ever met in my entire life,” Trump said. “He’s going to win in November. I don’t care what they do to him, I don’t care if they strip him of every single building, of every single property, he will never, ever, ever stop fighting. That’s his conviction, that’s who he is, as a family, that’s frankly who we are as a family. And we’ve seen this game before, and they can only cry wolf so many times, Maria. All of America’s on to it. They know what’s happening.”
Monday’s deadline is when New York Attorney General Letitia James could start collection on his business and real estate interests in New York City, which would include Trump Tower and Trump National Golf Club Westchester. Trump’s lawyers have argued that the former president does not have the money for the bond, though Trump himself has claimed that he has almost $500,000 in cash, which he intended to use for his 2024 presidential campaign.
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On Sunday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) stated that there is a “risk” of Trump’s assets not being seized, though she argued that the former president ought to be treated in the same manner as others in this legal process.
Trump is the presumptive nominee for the Republican Party ahead of the 2024 election, setting the stage for a possible rematch between him and President Joe Biden this November. Both have dominated the primary elections of their respective parties, with their most recent victories occurring on Saturday in Louisiana.
