THIS FAMILY
HAS NEVER EARNED AN HONEST DOLLAR IN THEIR PATHETIC LIVES!
Trump Is Surrounded by Criminals
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“The legal ring surrounding him is collectively producing a historic indictment of his endemic corruption and criminality.” JONATHAN CHAIT
Eric Trump
claims family 'lost a fortune' in pushback of pay-for-play report
ADAM KELSEY
"We've lost a fortune. My father lost a fortune running for
president. He doesn't care," Eric Trump, an executive vice president with
the Trump Organization, said on ABC's "This Week." "He wanted to
do what was right. The last thing I can tell you Donald
Trump needs in the world is this job."
The comments come a day after a New York Times story reported that
President Trump "transplanted favor-seeking in Washington to his family's
hotels and resorts -- and earned millions as a gatekeeper to his own
administration." The article, citing the president's tax records, reports
that of the hundreds of individuals and entities seeking favor, "60
customers with interests at stake before the Trump administration brought his
family business nearly $12 million during the first two years of his
presidency."
"Almost all saw their interests advanced, in some fashion,
by Mr. Trump or his government," the news story continued.
ABC News has not viewed the president's taxes and cannot confirm
the Times' reporting.
On "This Week," Eric Trump echoed his father's
rhetoric calling the story "fake news." He also implied without
evidence that the report -- one of several in the past two weeks concerning the
president's finances -- was timed to hurt his reelection campaign.
NEW: "My father has lost a fortune," Eric Trump tells @jonkarl when
pressed on a NYT report that Pres. Trump turned "his own hotels and
resorts into the Beltway's new back rooms, where public and private business
mix and special interests reign." https://t.co/fsCP2um0H5 pic.twitter.com/MtZLiszs2K
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) October 11, 2020
Pressed by ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Jonathan
Karl about the president's debt, which the Times reported as more than $400
million, Eric Trump characterized it as commonplace for someone with his level
of wealth in the real estate industry. He also misleadingly claimed that all of
the president's lenders are publicly known.
"It's in his financial disclosures," Eric Trump said,
referring to the annual reports the president is required to issue under
federal ethics regulations that do not list all of his creditors. President
Trump has not voluntarily released his tax returns, as other past
commanders-in-chief and candidates for the office have done. "You know
exactly who the money's owed to … my father is worth billions of dollars, and
on a proportion of his net worth, my father has very, very low leverage."
"If you own buildings, if you own real estate, you carry
some debt. That's what developers do, that's what business owners do, they
carry some debt," he continued. "We have a phenomenal company, but
there's nothing new about that, and by the way, it's the same debt that he got
elected on."
.@jonkarl: "Don't the American people have
a right to know who (the president) is indebted to?"
"That's what developers do, that's what business owners do,
they carry some debt, "Eric Trump says but President Trump still won't
release his tax returns. https://t.co/fsCP2um0H5 pic.twitter.com/x3u8GcDpKy
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) October 11, 2020
In the interview, Eric Trump also responded to the president's
refusal to participate in a virtual debate this coming week, as planned by the
Commission on Presidential Debates following the president's COVID-19 diagnosis
and subsequent hospitalization. The debate was canceled as a result and it is
not immediately clear what format the next, and potentially final, scheduled
debate will take in two weeks.
"My father wants to stand on stage with his opponent.
That's how debates have been handled in America for the last 200 years, you've
stood there and you've debated somebody," Eric Trump said, despite the
fact that John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon debated on-camera from opposite
coasts, appearing on television in a split-screen in 1960.
"My father doesn't want to do it over a glorified
conference call," he continued.
Karl noted that several members of the Trump family, including
Eric and his siblings, defied protocol by watching the first debate maskless.
Second lady Karen Pence also appeared at this past week's vice presidential
debate without a mask.
"Given the concerns now, will you commit that the Trump
team will abide by those safety precautions that the commission put in place at
the next debate?" Karl asked.
"I'm happy to wear a mask," Eric Trump said, going on
to accuse Democratic nominee Joe Biden of backing out the debate -- another
mischaracterization. It was the commission that announced the plan to hold the
second event virtually, and the president who chose not to participate. The
Trump campaign said the president would also be willing to attend two more
debates if they were each postponed a week to allow for an in-person format,
but the Biden campaign rejected the idea.
"My father wants to stand on the stage with his
opponent," and "doesn't want to do it over a glorified conference
call," Eric Trump tells @jonkarl when
asked if the Trump campaign will decline to participate in Oct. 22 presidential
debate if it's virtual. https://t.co/R7EgB0oaON pic.twitter.com/s7Vl6T9MY6
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) October 11, 2020
On Saturday, the president's physician, Dr. Sean Conley, issued a memo stating that the president
"is no longer a transmission risk to others" and "the assortment
of advanced diagnostic tests obtained reveal there is no longer evidence of
actively replicating virus." It remains unclear whether Trump has tested
negative.
The memo came hours after the president delivered an address resembling a
campaign speech from the White House South Lawn. The administration called the
event a "peaceful protest for law and order," which Eric Trump echoed
on "This Week." The president heads to Florida Monday to restart official in-person campaign
events with a rally in Sanford.
Eric Trump also noted on Sunday morning that attendees at
Saturday's outdoor White House event were temperature-checked and wore masks --
the latter measure, Karl noted, a less common sight at Trump campaign rallies
prior to the president's diagnosis.
As the president prepares to return to the campaign trail, Karl
challenged Eric Trump about his father's rhetoric following the vice
presidential debate in reference to Biden's running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris,
D-Calif.
"Vice President Pence, when he debated Kamala Harris, said
it was a privilege to be on the stage with her, recognized her history-making
pick as Biden's running mate. And then the next day your father said that she
was a monster," Karl said, referencing comments the president made on Fox
Business Thursday. "Why? How is Kamala Harris a monster? Why did he say
that?"
"Well, you know, there are a lot of stances that she takes
are just -- they're mind-boggling to me," Eric Trump responded.
"But political differences are one thing. A monster? You're
calling the Democratic vice presidential nominee a monster. Your father
did," Karl pressed.
"You know, you're also dealing with a person who is willing
to lie every single day," Eric Trump claimed, going on to misrepresent
Biden and Harris' position on law enforcement funding.
Eric Trump
claims family 'lost a fortune' in pushback of pay-for-play report originally
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