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

Eric Trump describes years when government inspections, subpoenas, depositions, and media tactics targeted the business ecosystem around the family. He recounts health inspectors arriving with the intent to find something, employees recording disputes that ended in clean scores, and reporters contacting brides, families, and corporate clients to discourage events at Trump venues. He frames these contacts as an intimidation campaign that cost business and harassed staff and customers. To Eric, the situation that seemed to be facing his father was “the White House or jail” (200), prompting his decision to run for the Presidency again in 2024. In the meantime, Eric’s job was to “hold a family and company together” (201). Despite these headwinds, Eric argues that the company continued to perform, making landmark deals. At the same time, the campaign against his father backfired. The arrest of Donald Trump, Eric believes, only made people like him more.

Eric praises employees’ hospitality standards and resilience amid subpoenas and media approaches that sought anonymous sources inside the enterprise. He connects lessons from his father about attitude and persistence to practical company operations, presenting a corporate culture designed to absorb external shocks. Eric’s assertion is that two realities coexisted.