Eric Trump said Tuesday that the tenor of the media coverage of his father’s family and presidency was enough to make someone kill themselves out of depression.
“If they weren’t talking about you, you wouldn’t be doing something right and it’s important to keep it in context, otherwise quite frankly you’d probably end up killing yourself out of depression,” the 33-year-old told WOAI’s Joe Pags. “But he’s doing a great job.”
Trump — who in June said congressional Democrats were “not even people“ — told Pags that politics is “the nastiest business I’ve ever seen. The evilness and the hatred in that world is unlike anything I could have fathomed before.”
“It’s the media, it’s the mainstream media, who does not want him to succeed,” he added. “It’s government who does not want him to succeed.”
To illustrate his point, Trump highlighted his own fundraising for St. Jude Children’s Hospital.
“I get killed for raising money for dying children,” he said.
It seemed Trump was referring to Forbes’ investigations in June of his misleading claims that all of the money raised at Eric Trump Foundation golf tournaments actually benefitted St. Jude directly.
In fact, Forbes found, though the foundation had raised more than $15 million for St. Jude over the years, hundreds of thousands of charitable dollars ended up in the Trump Organization’s coffers, used to pay for expenses at the Trump properties at which the tournaments were held. And hundreds of thousands more were donated to other charities, many of which subsequently hosted charitable events at Trump Organization properties.
“No matter what we do, we’re going to get hit,” Trump said separately on Tuesday, making a general point unrelated to golf.
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He’s such a poor, selfless bastard. Kind of like his Pa. And his Sis and his Bra (the one with the gums).
Seriously. How can you not feel some pity for a bunch of silver-spoon assholes who never dreamed they’d get caught? That the whole bogus scam, that house of cards, would come a’tumblin’ down?
Easily.
Well when you are a grifter, you are going to get called on it. Nobody told the Trump family to be sharks and grifters.
Get out the big box of tissues 'cuz it’s time, again, for the semi-monthly Eric Trump Media Whine…
What? Whiny baby is back??
It’s actually not that hard to head criticism off, Butthead.
Make sure you don’t tell lies.
Take your damned charity to other venues where charges of filling your own pocket cannot be leveled.
Don’t give to other charities just so they hold THEIR fundraising la-dee-das at your own properties, again to fill your own pocket.
STFU.
At least he still has his looks…er…