Under Siege: My Family's Fight to Save Our Nation

“He became my true ‘apprentice,’ running the Trump Organization in my absence, and doing an INCREDIBLE job.”

Donald Trump’s foreword is written in his signature prose style, including capitalized words and hyperbole. Yet his praise for his son Eric also rings as sincere, laying the emotional framework for the rest of the book, in which family is such an important part of Eric’s worldview. Eric’s may not have inherited his father’s rhetoric, but he has earned his father’s respect.

“I peeked out the window and couldn’t believe who was standing there. Sure enough, it was my future father-in-law, Donald Trump.”

At first, Lara Trump strives to emphasize the “normalness” of her husband during their early courtship. Gradually, however, she is forced to admit that the presence of such a larger-than-life figure will transform her own life. Donald Trump, in a short time, shows her the extent to which life in the Trump family is far from “normal,” a paradigm which Eric will explore in the rest of the book.

“Yet, on another level, nothing shocked us anymore.”

Eric’s introduction to Under Siege uses the raid on Mar-a-Lago to illustrate Opposition to the Trump Family as a Conspiracy. The phrase “nothing shocked us anymore” suggests that he has become numb to the constant persecution. Coming in the Introduction, this stated numbness prepares readers for a