Eric Trump on Iran - July 3rd, Hour 3
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All right, thanks, Scott Shannon. Hour 2, Sean Hannity Show, 800-941-SEAN, our number if you want to be a part of the program. Always a privilege, pleasure. I've known this young man. He's getting older, though. Believe it or not, from the very first days that I would interview President Trump at Trump Tower when he was just the head of the Trump Organization, and at the time with no political ambitions that I knew of,

And every single time I go to Trump Tower, I do an interview with him and he'd walk me down the hall and I'd go into Don Jr.'s office and Ivanka's office and Eric Trump's office. And Eric Trump, now the executive vice president of the Trump organization, is with us. Do you even remember those days? You probably have no no recollection at all, do you?

Well, sometimes, Sean, it feels like five minutes ago, and sometimes it feels like 100 years ago. I haven't quite figured it out. Knowing Hannity for that long is way too long. I get it. I understand. I can tell you, life was a hell of a lot simpler back then, to say the least. But now we still have that great company. We're better than ever before. And what a wild world it's been since those days.

You know, it's amazing because just the two days ago was the 10th anniversary since your dad came down and you were with him that day, that escalator at Trump Tower and announced to the world he's running for president. And then almost from the very second that he started talking about illegal immigration, little did we know we'd have Joe Biden allow 12 to 20 million unvetted illegals, including non-immigrants.

known terrorists, murderers, rapists, cartel members and gang members that your father's now cleaning up. But ever since that day, almost from the beginning, actually from the beginning, your father's come under fire. I mean, it's been it's been nonstop.

And what's really remarkable is if you actually go back and you watch our speech from 2016, I mean, I remember that, right? We all went down there. We're all standing on the stage as families. You watch our speech. Sean, he was right about absolutely everything. Everything he said, he was right about. He was talking about how every country in the world was ripping us off. They were all taking advantage of us. He was talking about all the drugs that were coming across the border, how we're doing nothing but illegal immigrants, right? He was talking about NATO, how we're protecting.

the entire world for wealthy countries all around the world and we get nothing for it, that we're getting used and abused by everybody. He was talking about, you know, the trade deficits, the trade problems that we have around the world, how we should put tariffs on people so they stop, you know, I won't use the word on national radio, but you know what? America,

And they were all doing it. And if you go back and watch that speech 10 years later, I mean, every single one of the things he's been right on and the hysteria it created was nothing short of incredible. You'll remember that. I mean, it took them two days. The first day, everybody still had their jaw open. They loved it. So many people in this country love it. I mean, America fell in love with Donald Trump that day.

And then the manufactured outrage by the mainstream media all of a sudden when they realized that he was going to be a real contender started two days later. How dare Donald Trump say that Mexico is not sending their best and their finest into the United States? How dare him say that?

him say that there are rapists coming across the borders and that drugs are flowing in totally unchecked. How dare he insult our allies overseas and just anything that they could to manufacture. And now if you look back, I think all of us listening would realize that everything he said was correct and right and his intuition was correct.

beyond spot on you know there are a few presidents in history that i would i would say are transformational and consequential and certainly your father is right up there at the top

And if you look at, for example, how the country now views immigration, how the country now looks at America first and what that actually means, I think some people don't fully completely understand it. And you could see this intramural squabble over the issue of what your dad will ultimately decide to do with Iran kind of popping up its ugly head. And I just stay out of those intramural squabbles. I have no interest in them at all.

the personalities involved. I do trust your father's instincts. But in terms of putting America first, in terms of securing our borders, in terms of thinking out of the box, and that would be energy dominance in

in terms of eliminating woke, in terms of a new way to look at pretty much everything, that is consequential. A return to limited government and eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse. Gee, what a novel concept that Washington will have to rein in their spending, and maybe we'll stop robbing from our kids and grandkids.

No question about it. How about the indoctrination of our children, which to me is kind of a young father, I think is one of the most personally offensive things ever, where they're asking kids to put on the spectrum whether or not they're a boy or a girl or this or that, or the woke nonsense you see, or the men swimming in female sports and destroying the lives of people, or the he, they, them, and the pronouns. I mean,

By the way, how would you like to be addressed, Eric? I didn't ask you your preferred pronoun. John, I'm very into the pronoun thing, as you can probably tell. But here's the precipice for a lot of issues. We are certainly on the precipice for the oil and gas, our debt, the way we're getting ripped off by everybody, the way that we've been losing jobs for decades.

you know, the last 20 years in this country because of incompetent policies, you know, incompetent spending, incompetent tax, you know, policies that never seem to, you know, I mean, we were at a disadvantage, Sean, with everything that we did. And then all of a sudden you put the social pressures on top of that. And, you know, these idiotic movements, you know, we became the laughingstock of the entire world. I mean, I spent a lot of time overseas because I'm in

International real estate is what we've done our entire lives. You have people in these countries who are saying, I just can't possibly believe it. You mean to tell me that in America they're allowing a man to use a woman's bathroom all because the person one day wakes up and decides that they want to identify as

you know, it's something that they're not like they were sitting there, Sean laughing at us. And we were on the precipice of losing it all. I mean, look at the, look at the DEI, you know, mandates in corporate America, look at the DEI mandates and, you know, in, in, in so much of, of government. I mean, we were losing it, it all. And, and I, I think, well, you know, the, the,

The quickness and how that's all been reversed over the last three and a half months, four months since my father's been on, I mean, it's really remarkable. Where are you on this issue with Iran? We have the Israelis now have taken out two of their three main nuclear sites. The one that remains is the Fordow site, which is their most comprehensive. It's buried deep inside of a mountain. It seems like the only way to get to it would take...

American bunker buster bombs, American pilots to deliver them. You know, I'm watching this this debate unfold. The Trump doctrine, which I agree with, no forever wars anymore.

That doesn't mean that you don't assess the risk of a nuclear armed Iran that has been fomenting terror around the world and threatening to wipe Israel and the United States off the map. And if they ever had nuclear capability and they build out their missile technology, that's a clear and present danger.

But I don't know where this isolationist argument came from, 'cause I don't believe your father's an isolationist. I think a big part of the America First movement, MAGA movement, and correct me if I'm wrong, is common sense. - There's no question it's common sense. I mean, listen, Sean, where I fall on it is very simple. I am a totally anti-war guy. I look at so many of the wars in the last 20 years, 30 years, and beyond that, and they have been such a drain on the United States of America.

we got nothing out of we got nothing out of the wars look at iraq right though i mean you you literally just destabilize the entire middle east like i am i look at these kids in ukraine and and and russia there in these trenches you know i have a young son i have a young daughter i i put thousands and thousands of hours into raising these kids and somebody comes around a little corner in a trench they put you know two pounds of pressure on the trigger

You know, in a millisecond and that life is gone, everything that so many people worked for, all the meals, all the education is just the love, the heart, the soul is just expunged. I hate all of it. At the same time, you can't let... By the way, I share that sentiment with you. I mean, I wish there was no evil in the world. I wish there was no terror in the world. I wish, you know, I wish, I hope that your father could eventually broker peace in Europe and the Middle East.

But what I'll say, Sean, you can't let religious zealots, right, who have a lot of proxies around the world, have the most devastating weapons anywhere, right? There are plenty of people, including in Yemen, including a lot of other countries, right? It would be very easy to hand nuclear material to, and they will bring it to the homeland. They will bring it to Israel. They will bring it to America. They will take us out. They will – they would rejoice in doing it, and so you cannot allow that to happen. Here's the other thing I'll tell you, right?

I've been in the Situation Room. I know that apparatus incredibly, incredibly well. I know the White House apparatus. They know a lot more than TV and I who go out there and espouse themselves to be experts. There's a lot of information. There's a lot of knowledge base, and you have to trust

First of all, Donald Trump has never liked war. He doesn't want to go to war. He's been beyond resilient and patient with these people. Every time he said to them, you have 60 days in order to disarm and get rid of your nuclear program or else. On the 61st day, you saw what happened. He's not a guy who bluffs.

You know, they better listen to him. We have the capability as a country to do it. But the one thing I can guarantee you is this will not be a long, protracted thing. If, God forbid, we had to hit, I think we would hit, and I think we'd get the hell out of there. Because there's one person who does not like long, protracted wars that waste trillions of dollars and only fuel the industrial-military complex in our country, which for so long has been totally out of control.

and that's been donald trump until uh... you know i i think i ran through listen to his words and exactly what he's saying bc dot playing games if if they think that donald trump is just gonna forget about this and they can cut stall and they can just pick the can

They are hopefully wrong, and I think his entire life has proven that he does what he says he's going to do. He will not back down, and at the end of the day, he's going to protect America. I mean, he's going to protect the United States of America. And by the way, it goes beyond the United States of America. It's really Western civilization. They cannot have nuclear weapons, period, end of sentence.

How that ultimately plays out is going to be up to them. As of yesterday, the Supreme Leader said he's not going to negotiate, period, end of sentence. In that sense, I agree with you. If your father says something, I believe him.

And they would be foolish not to listen to them, and it appears they're not. Sean, the Supreme Leader isn't exactly making this conversation easy because he's just sitting out there taunting everybody, right? And by the way, if you don't think that they already have a delivery system, just look at a live shot any night of Tel Aviv and watch those rockets come in from outer space at hypersonic speeds.

crash into buildings. Believe me, it's not that hard to put a small payload on one of those things and be able to deliver it. It's wholly scary, the world that we live in right now. It's wholly scary that the power of modern-day weaponry, it makes the stuff we saw obviously during World War II and Hiroshima and Nagasaki look small potatoes, and we simply can't do it. And again, there are so many proxies that these countries have fighting for them all around the world.

That would be so easy to hand off that material, give it to somebody else, keep your hands squeaky clean, and let somebody else do your dirty work for you. And that's exactly what would happen. It just can't happen. And I promise you, either way, they're going to shut down the sites or the sites will be shut down for them. And that's obviously a decision my father has to make. And I hope people take a lot of solace in his absolute patience.

on his strength but it absolutely shinton and i think beyond that uh... you know uh... knowing a whole lot more about the situation and having intel sources from

Every, you know, dark corner in the world, you know, it's the right people to make this decision here in the White House and obviously support whatever they do. All right, quick break. We'll come right back more with Eric Trump, executive vice president of the Trump Organization. And we'll get to your calls coming up straight ahead as well. 800-941-SHAWN if you want to be a part of the program as we continue. All right, we continue now. Eric Trump is with us, executive vice president of the Trump Organization.

It's an amazing thing that you and your family, an amazing journey you all have been on over this 10-year period. And I know because in the sense that I've become friendly with all of you, I've lived a lot of it, but not at the level you've lived it.

And it's really remarkable that all that you have sadly had to endure just to try to serve your country and including what happened in the last election, not one but two would-be assassins. It's got to be, you know, I don't even know if you can spend the time or indulge yourself in thinking about it. I'll give you the last word. Yeah, you do. You know, it's been the most beautiful journey of my life, no question about it, and it's also been the most

brutal. I think the brutality of it in a certain way kind of brings a little bit of the romance to it as well. I've grown so much as a person. And I have to say, Sean, I cursed you the other night right on TV. You keep on dragging me back into it. I call my father... By the way, what was that all about? You did curse me out on TV. What was that? On November 6th, I called my father. I go, you know, Pop, I love you to death. We just won the Super Bowl. I'm proud to have stood on the stage for the last 10 years with you. I was...

I never wavered. I was on the stage every single day. I did more campaign stops than any human being, more shows, more TV, more radio. I love it. It's been an honor of my life. I'm getting back to our company, you know, 100%. I'm getting back to life. I'm retiring from politics. And that jackass Hannity dragged me back in. He's supposed to be my friend. For about three weeks, and then you dragged me back in.

It's a freaking mess. And I'm sitting here talking about nuclear weapons and Iran. But no, I'm kidding. You know what? You're great at it. And you've been such an asset. And you've sacrificed so much. And I value our friendship on top of all of it. And thank you for the sacrifice. You and Laura, your family, your whole family. Honestly, you've been through a lot. And thank God the country is better off because of it.

And there are many of us that are very grateful, including me. I know that's been a great journey and we love you to death and you've been such part of it with us. And, you know, without without you and frankly, everybody listening to us right now, all of your listeners, this would never happen. The deep state would have would have rolled us and we wouldn't we would have lost the country. Eric, it was over. It's that profound. Eric Trump, appreciate it. And you're officially back in. I'll swear you in next time I see you and you can punch me out on the other side of it.

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And that's the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. Remember, if you extrapolate out the population of Israel and you compare it to America on October 7th, they lost the equivalent of 40,000 Americans based on their population size. It's chilling. Never mind that it was it was murder. It was rape.

It was torture. It was kidnapping. It was beheadings. I know because I've seen the videos. How did I see the videos? I won't lie, the IDF showed it to me. And they just don't want to release it personally because they don't want these families to be further traumatized. I think if the world saw it, and it was interesting that

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And, you know, her biggest fear has always been being locked out of her country with her family inside the country. She wants to be with her family and her friends and be a big part of the mission of the IFCJ. Last week, I spent quite a bit of time with with people that support the IFCJ, and I was glad to have that time. Yael, I don't even want to ask where you are. We don't know when you're going to be able to go back, do we?

Hi, Sean. Yeah, we were around three and a half hours on the way home to Israel when the pilot came on and said Israel is right now attacking Iran's nuclear reactors. We have to turn off all the Wi-Fi. We're at a threat for being hijacked or hacked, and we have to turn around immediately and find safety. So I'm back in America. My four children and my husband are there in Israel. My staff is on the ground delivering aid, and I'm just

praying with all my heart for Israel, for all of the Americans that are right now in the Middle East and being targeted as well. And I'm praying that I'll be able to get home soon.

Now, we do have Iran appears to be targeting Tel Aviv. And so far, the Israelis have successfully, because this is ongoing, been able to parry away all of the attacks against them as they have in the previous two attacks. But you are talking to people inside of Israel. What are they telling you?

Well, right now, everyone in Israel is in their bomb shelters. Just in the past few minutes, there were over 100 ballistic missiles launched at Israel. This is following around 200 suicide drones that Israel was able to knock down. It doesn't look like Israel was able to knock down all of these ballistic missiles. There are reports of impact that haven't been confirmed, but that I'm hearing...

from people on the ground um it's shabbat there in israel and this is uh god's day of peace and i'm just praying i believe sean what's happening now is something that's spiritual you're seeing david against goliath if you look at the map in tiny israel that's really taking out the nuclear reactor and mitigating this threat not just to israel's very survival but as you've been speaking about i ran his

killed many Americans, is constantly threatening Americans. It's a threat to the entire free world, including the moderate Arab countries that want freedom, and Iran is holding them back, and Iranian people. I've been watching videos of Iranian women finally taking off their hijabs and celebrating and saying, set us free, set us free. So this isn't a situation like Iraq. The

freedom is. They want democracy. They don't want to be ruled by these mullahs. They want to be ruled by freedom and opportunity. And I pray, Sean, I pray that this fight of David versus Goliath will see a good outcome. And 80 years ago, when the nations of the world watched silently as the Jewish people were almost eliminated, today we're seeing the nations of the world join Israel in this fight for our survival.

Well, there have been some that have gotten through. I have been watching the videos closely all throughout the afternoon. And but the Israelis also are on offense and and their operations are continuing as well. I don't you know, what's amazing to me is everything that Israel has been able to do since October 7th, just as an example, is.

I mean, the fact that they've been able to take out, you know, the top seven leaders of Hamas and Hezbollah and Nasrallah and all these other people and identify all of the all of the soldiers and and and get their pager numbers and have them all go off simultaneously.

is just a testament to just how good they are. The fact that they had operatives inside the Mossad did inside of Iran, ready to go with drones, ready to launch. Nobody in Iran, I can tell you right now, expected that they were that prepared.

The fact that they were able to take out their top nuclear scientists and destroy their main uranium enrichment facility and wipe out the top military leaders in the Revolutionary Guard and literally Israeli warplanes wiping out Iranian missile launchers. But all of which is is just a tribute to the preparation that has gone into this.

And it appears that the Trump administration is moving naval assets capable of intercepting these ballistic missiles as a means of supporting and other country as well will be joining in. But this is what life has been like for Israel now for decades. This has to come to an end. And I was saying last night on TV that.

Put yourself in Israel's position. How many rockets would have to be fired into American cities before you'd want the government to wipe out whoever's firing them or responsible for orchestrating the firing of them?

Yes, Sean. It's so important to remember tiny Israel the size of New Jersey has had 35,000 rockets launched at us from seven different fronts in 600 days. And there's no way any other country would be willing to be okay with that. And Israel, who's outwardly, our survival is being threatened by Iran.

we really were left with no choice. And so what we're doing there at the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, we're not the government, we're not the military, but we could help the people. And so we're feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, sheltering the poor. Right now we have emergency food boxes everywhere.

that are being distributed. We have thousands of bomb shelters that the fellowship has placed that are open and being used. We have tens of thousands of first responders who are out protecting the people of Israel wearing the fellowship-donated flak jackets and helmets. And I even got an update just around an hour ago that there are babies in the NICU unit that are being moved to a fellowship-sponsored bomb shelter that we built.

So right now, I just want to say to your audience, Christians, Jews, people who cherish freedom, who value life, who have done so much to help the life-saving and prophetic work of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews to bring light in this darkness, right now all of that is being used. So if you've ever even given a peck

I need to the fellowship right now. Your aid is being used to save lives. So I just want to say thank you, Sean. Well, we thank people. And by the way, they can contribute two ways. Call now 888-488-IFCJ or go to your website, ifcj.org. We're praying for you and your family and our friends in Israel. And we're praying for victory.

pull out victory so that the missiles stop flying into the country. And hopefully these other countries now will get on board once this threat is diminished and once this threat is neutralized and join the Abraham Accords and recognize Israel's right to exist. And maybe we could have a little peace in the region for a while. That would be nice.

Yael, thank you. Thank you, Sean, for being a beacon of hope and light to so many people. You're an inspiration. The way that you report with such truth and honesty and faith and hope. You are so special to the people of Israel and to the people of America and to me. It's for the right cause, Yael. We pray you get home safely. Your family wants you home, and we want you to get home safely.

And we want your country safe. Thank you. 800-941-SHAWN is our number. Let's get to our busy phones. 800-941-SHAWN. If you want to be a part of the program, let's say hi to Kim is in Ohio. Hey, Kim, how are you? Glad you called.

Hi, Sean. Thank you for taking my call. I have two thoughts. Go Israel. And my second thought is on the riot. Why not use the fire department hoses to hose those people down where we can cuff them and fingerprint them and find out who these people are? We can.

We absolutely can. And I bet you'd probably a number of them have a record and it would show up probably pretty quickly, but remember they don't want to do that. Right.

- You know, remember in the summer of 2020, we had all of that video of people literally destroying businesses, billions of dollars of property damage and very few people, I think, well, they had about 500 arrests and I think they only followed through on about 25 or 28 and that was it. Compare that to how they treated people with January 6th for crying out loud. Unbelievable. The hypocrisy spectacular as per usual.

Don Lake Ron Conkama, welcome aboard, sir. Well, the moment is here. Israel did, unfortunately, what the Iranians made a necessity. I would prefer peace. You would prefer peace. The world would prefer peace. But all they do is, you know, foment terror.

Sean, the last night your show on Hannity, as news was breaking, was absolutely outstanding. With the coverage you had, and especially our mutual friend, our good friend Mark Levin, who never mints his words. Actually bringing him back to that. That's it. I'm done. No, I mean, it was great, but he understands the nature of what we're dealing with here. You are dealing with people

That that literally want to wipe out a country that's there. That is their stated goal. And they and they are fomenting terror and providing the weaponry to destroy this country. It won't let this country live in peace. And they've been doing it and getting away with it. How many how many hundreds of thousands of rockets have to be fired into Israel before they say, sorry, enough's enough? Well, that moment has come.

Well, I know we were impatient with the ongoing negotiations, but I know trying to broker a deal that President Trump had set up is the best way to try to stop hostilities. But Sean, we all knew that the Iranian mullahs were never going to respect any deals. And they only sought to get nuclear weapons as soon as possible. As for the timing, there are things that we don't know yet.

But I'm glad that the Israelis had such success last night. The mission is far from over. Well, I am, but I've been watching all afternoon. Now hundreds of missiles have been launched and drones are headed Israel's way. They now got to defend themselves while simultaneously finishing the job that they started. This is all because this regime wants to wipe Israel off the map.

They were given every opportunity by President Trump and Steve Witkoff. The president was like as close to him begging as he could ever get. I really don't want, I want peace. I want, please do a deal with us. You can't have nuclear weapons. Nobody trusts you. Nobody believes that you won't use them. Sorry, but you can have a place in the world and a seat at the table if you just give up your nuclear ambitions. They wouldn't do it. They just refused.

And at that point, there's nothing you can do.

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