Eric Trump charged Democratic nominee Joe Biden with a litany of past and potential failures that would saddle U.S. citizens with higher taxes, defund the police, imperil the Second Amendment, and return the silent majority to a place where they “had no one fighting for them — in either Party.”
“Most politicians spend their entire careers in Washington, D.C., and get absolutely nothing accomplished,” said Eric Trump, speaking on the second night of the Republican National Convention. “For example: Joe Biden. Joe Biden is a politician who has been in government for 47 years.”
Biden “is a career politician who has never signed the front of a check,” Eric said, suggesting the former vice president existed in a world of privilege.
“A total pushover” for the Chinese government, Biden, he said, would grant terrorists “who’ve now spent years running, hiding,” a “giant relief.”
“Biden has pledged to raise your taxes by $4 trillion — 82% of all Americans will see their taxes go up significantly,” he said. “Biden has pledged to stop border wall construction and give amnesty and healthcare to all illegal immigrants. Biden has pledged to defund the police and take away our cherished Second Amendment.”
Trump, who leads the day-to-day operations for the Trump Organization and is married to top Trump campaign adviser Lara Trump, pointed to the country’s strong economic growth in the months before the coronavirus in making his appeal for his father’s second term.
The night was billed as a celebration of America as a “land of opportunity,” with speakers detailing how signature Trump administration policies brought the American public to a better place than they were four years ago.
Drawing a contrast between the candidates, Trump said that measures taken to expand opportunities for the public and secure American jobs should draw voters to the Trump ticket come Election Day and that his father would protect the “silent majority” such that no one else would.
“My father ran, not because he needed the job, but because he knew hardworking people across this great country were being left behind,” Eric Trump said. “The media mocked these patriots and ‘the flyover states’ in which they lived.”
The media, he said, “ignored the Trump flags” and “the millions of MAGA banners and barns painted in red, white, and blue.”
“The silent majority had no one fighting for them — in either party,” he continued, accusing America’s “so-called leaders” of “bowing to China, bribing Iran, and spending more time worrying about how they were received by the elites in Paris than how Americans would provide for their families in Pittsburgh.”
He added, “Our family lost friends, but it only pushed us to fight harder.”
Trump charged in an op-ed last year that hypocrisy by the media allowed Biden’s son Hunter to escape criticism that his family could not.
“Imagine that I had previously been kicked out of the United States Navy Reserve after testing positive for cocaine or was given a contract potentially worth $1.5 billion by China weeks after traveling to Beijing with my father aboard Air Force Two,” he wrote. “I worked hard to raise millions of dollars for dying children, yet crickets from the media and weekly parodies on Saturday Night Live.”
The New York state attorney general’s office on Monday asked a judge to order him to testify in an investigation into whether the Trump Organization improperly inflated the value of its holdings, misleading lenders and tax authorities, a court filing on Monday shows.
