I’ll be the first to admit that I was not particularly brimming over with Christian charity in my treatment of Eric Trump in my diary earlier this morning, but OMG, did I feel like a million bucks afterward! And judging by a lot of the comments, there are quite a few Kossacks with a little more spring in their steps this morning as a result of participating, just the way I like it.
It looks like I should have used a slightly different criteria in my search last night, as it turns out that Eric loves my stuff so much that he actually gave me an encore verbal fart that I completely missed. But the rank smell finally caught up with me, and it’s so nice that there isn’t a one diary a day limit around here. Time to give Eric a twofer, and drag his brother in to share in the fun and frolic.
First, a short trip down memory lane. After being elected, in order to circumvent all of those pesky emolument clause restrictions set up by us shit kicking “little people” who are so jealous of their betters, the Junior Donny and Widdle Ewic would run the whole shebang, he would be locked out. He even theatrically signed a lot of papers, which were probably really under-the-table settlements for sexual harassment claims, since they were not allowed to be examined, and the deal was sealed.
Eric was all in on this. According to an ARTICLE in ThinkProgress, Eric was earnest in his declarations of how seriously he took his new responsibilities;
In February, Eric Trump characterized the firewall between his father’s business and presidency as “kind of a clear separation of church and state that we maintain, and I am deadly serious about that exercise.”
“I do not talk about the government with him, and he does not talk about the business with us,” Eric, who manages the Trump Organization with his brother Donald Jr., told Forbes. “That’s kind of a steadfast pact we made, and it’s something that we honor.”
There’s just a couple of small problems with this fulsome assertion of filial independence. It’s pure bullshit. Think Progress points out that later in the same goddamn interview with Forbes, Eric admitted that he planned to go over the company financials and give his father a quarterly update on how things were going! Now we know where Eric got his logic and attention span retention, from his idiot father! But yesterday, he really popped the cork off of the champagne bottle;
Then, on Monday, Eric gave a full-throated endorsement of his father’s foreign policy during a Fox & Friends interview from the White House.
“The safety of this country comes first, and quite frankly the safety of our allies come first,” Eric said. “So, you pray for peace, but he will show real leadership, and that’s something that hasn’t occurred in the past and it will start occurring. And you saw that quite frankly in Syria, and you saw that in Afghanistan, and he will take action if he needs to take action.”