Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. made TV appearances on Thursday to respond to the charges that have been filed against The Trump Organization and its chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg. . . the comments from ex-President Donald Trump’s sons, who are both executives in the Trump family business, raised plenty of eyebrows.
The Trump scions described the charging of the company and its CFO over an alleged tax fraud scheme (which both parties deny) as politically motivated and aimed at stopping their father from running for president again in 2024. . .
> But the Manhattan district attorney’s charges were “the political persecution of a political enemy,” Donald Trump Jr. declared on Fox News. It was “no different” to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s treatment of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, he argued, likening it to “banana republic stuff.” Don Jr says this indictment is “no different” than what Putin has done to Alexei Navalny.
(Navalny, who Don Jr. refers to as “Navatny,” was poisoned with a nerve agent and imprisoned.) pic.twitter.com/GGmLcIVi98
— Jan Wolfe (@JanNWolfe) July 1, 2021
> Eric Trump, appearing on Newsmax, said he wasn’t worried about being charged himself because his family had “always lived amazingly clean lives.” He then tried to divert attention from the charges with an attack on President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden.
Eric Trump later appeared on Fox News and railed against the district attorney’s office for focusing “on $3.5 million to take down a political opponent” when, he claimed, crime “is rampant” and people are leaving “dirty” and “disgusting” New York City “in record numbers.”“I mean, this is what they do, this is New York state for you,” he claimed. “This is worse than a banana republic. It’s truly horrible.”
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The former president appeared to mount a typically Trumpian bid to focus attention away from the growing scandal at his company - No one could accuse Donald Trump of lying low when the long arm of the law finally caught up with him.
> On Wednesday the former US president visited the Mexico border, highlighting his favourite campaign issue, then held an hour-long televised town hall with Sean Hannity, his favourite Fox News host. . .Trump’s first post-presidential rally last Saturday in Wellington, Ohio, drew thousands of true believers.
In interviews they said with absolute conviction that the election was stolen, Joe Biden is an illegitimate president, the 6 January insurrection was staged by the FBI or actually quite trivial and Trump might soon be reinstated in the White House.
With their roars of support for jailing everyone from congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to the leading epidemiologist Anthony Fauci, the crowd seemed ready to follow Trump into the gates of hell..."
