Eric Trump: They Tried to Kill My Father, Like How They Killed Charlie Kirk
Eric Trump says he is “completely unsatisfied” with the investigation into Thomas Michael Crooks, the 20-year-old who reportedly shot President Trump last summer in Butler, Pennsylvania. “I remain completely unsatisfied as to who this person was, and the guy’s intent, and why he did it, and what was on his cell phone,” Eric Trump said.
MICHAEL SMERCONISH, CNN: All right, this is the part of the book that I just find so, so intriguing. Headline: Everything Hidden Will Be Revealed. The context is Butler. And you say this: A 20-year-old armed with multiple cell phones attempted to kill my father, the father of the greatest political movement in American history. From an unmanned, unprotected rooftop, I remain totally unsatisfied. What are you telling us? ERIC TRUMP: I am totally unsatisfied. I am totally unsatisfied. You had a person with a modern rifle, a modern scoped rifle, at 130 yards who shot at the former commander-in-chief of the United States-and at a guy who was going to be, by all accounts at that point, the future commander-in-chief. And then they tried to kill my father eight weeks later, you know, at his golf course in Palm Beach County-a golf course that I run every single day. I am totally unsatisfied that we have one picture of that shooter. The guy looks like he was 14 years old in the picture. We know nothing about him. We know nothing about him, right? And I am totally unsatisfied with the result. And I think a lot of America is unsatisfied with the result. And I think we better get to the bottom of- MICHAEL SMERCONISH: Are you telling me there’s a-are you telling me there’s a conspiracy here that you believe, that Eric Trump believes, resulted in the assassination attempt? ERIC TRUMP: Uh, listen, I think they did everything they could to take my father off that stage. They tried to bankrupt him. They tried to impeach him. They tried to take him off the ballots. They tried to silence our votes. They leaked our tax returns. They raided his home. And yes, do I think that they tried to do exactly to my father what they did to Charlie Kirk-where they shot a good friend of mine in the neck, and I see my buddy bleeding to death? Yes, I think they tried to kill my father because they did not want his voice on that stage. And they don’t want my voice on that stage. They didn’t want Charlie’s voice on that stage. And that breaks my heart to say. And we better get to the bottom of who this guy was, because we know absolutely-Michael, we know nothing about the guy. We’ve seen one picture of the guy. And I just-I hope there’s a really good thorough investigation, because as a son, as I sit there with my four-year-old and my six-year-old on my lap, and I saw my father’s head almost come off, I remain completely unsatisfied as to who this person was, and the guy’s intent, and why he did it, and what was on his cell phone. I remain completely unsatisfied.
