Under Siege Quotes

“The commercial division was set up within the court system to hear more complex cases, because New York is home to some of the biggest financial institutions and insurance companies in the world. As such, the judges in this division tend to be more sophisticated and experienced in business matters. There’s also a widely practiced threshold of steering matters involving more than $500,000 to the commercial division. Our case allegedly involved hundreds of millions.”
― Eric Trump, Under Siege: My Family's Fight to Save Our Nation

“Why in the world would an attorney general make it her life’s ambition to find something wrong with a win-win banking relationship, between two sophisticated parties, that spanned decades? It was obvious—a presidential election was approaching.”
― Eric Trump, Under Siege: My Family's Fight to Save Our Nation

“Normally, one would assume the number one job of a district attorney is to keep dangerous criminals off their streets. With women being thrown onto the tracks of the New York subway, fentanyl infiltrating all “street drugs,” children being shot in Times Square, homeless people taking over subway cars, citizens being robbed and murdered in broad daylight, police officers getting shot and killed, you would think the DA’s office would have their hands full keeping citizens safe.6 7”
― Eric Trump, Under Siege: My Family's Fight to Save Our Nation

“came the flurry of subpoenas—directed at me, my family, my father, and our company—and they were maliciously broad. “Send every document and email you have with the word ‘value,’ ‘statement,’ ‘International,’ ” and so on. Most of our hotel and golf properties wear the term Trump “International” and that word would be in almost every email signature of every email in the company. There was no crime, no evidence of a crime, and no incoming tips about a crime—no victims, no loan defaults, no losses. So Letitia James went fishing. Our team and our family was forced to turn over tens of millions of pages of private correspondence, costing us tens of millions of dollars, so Letitia James and her office could somehow try to build a case. It was unrelenting. It was their strategy.”
― Eric Trump, Under Siege: My Family's Fight to Save Our Nation

“how is it that my father—who spent over four decades in the public eye, never once received a speeding ticket, triumphed in the 2016 campaign, and became president of the United States—was suddenly charged with almost every crime imaginable, and many unimaginable, in the aftermath? The answer is shockingly simple. He dared to run for president, again. The legal siege is reminiscent of Stalin’s reign of terror in the former USSR. Once they had their target, all they needed was a fictional crime or two—or in Donald Trump’s case, ninety-one.”
― Eric Trump, Under Siege: My Family's Fight to Save Our Nation