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LIFE LIBERTY AND LEVIN (Full Episode) | October 12, 2025
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00:00Hello America, I'm Mark Levin, and this is Life, Liberty, and Levin Sunday. Welcome to the program.
00:20We have two great guests. We have Peter Schweitzer and Eric Trump. Very exciting to talk to them.
00:26I can't wait. But before we go there, as you know, President Trump's peace deal is incredible.
00:31It is iconic. It's historic. I spent yesterday's monologue explaining why I thought so.
00:37And I think this is something that will be discussed for a very, very long time in a very positive way going forward.
00:45But I have a suggestion. It's not, nor should it be, the end of the peace process.
00:52The greatest danger and threat in the Middle East, which has spread to our country, our hemisphere, other Western nations, Britain, France, you name it, is Islamist terrorism.
01:08While it exists beyond the Middle East, the fact is that the Middle East is the hotbed of ideologically centered Islamist terrorism.
01:21It's where their so-called scholars are. It's where most of the headquarters are for the worst of the groups.
01:28Again, not just there, but there.
01:33So until this is addressed, even beyond Hamas, there can't be a permanent peace.
01:40I'll prove it to you.
01:42I don't see a budget request to eliminate all of our counterterrorism infrastructure, all the personnel and all the funding, nor should there ever be.
01:50It remains a deadly threat to we, the people of the United States.
01:56Now, to be more specific, until Arab and Muslim countries like Qatar stop funding it, promoting it and exporting it and using state run propaganda operations that are wildly popular throughout the Arab and Muslim worlds like Al Jazeera.
02:15Until they stop using them to spread it throughout the Muslim and Arab worlds, the eternal peace we say we want simply will be an illusion, even as we rightly celebrate the release of the Israeli hostages and hopeful cessation of war in the Battle of Gaza.
02:39And who should address this?
02:42For one, the countries that are harboring these terrorist organizations and the countries that are sustaining them.
02:47It's a dirty little secret that several of these countries fear these terror groups, cheer on Israel as it fights Hezbollah and the Houthis and Hamas and Iran.
02:56But they seek appeasement.
02:59They want to appease them and redirect them toward the West, towards Israel, towards a so-called two-state solution.
03:10This is not our battle alone or Israel's battle alone, even though people try and create that scenario.
03:17This is the battle between the West and Islamist terrorism.
03:21This is the battle between civilization and 7th century primitives.
03:28It's not about anything else.
03:32Other Arab and Muslim countries actively partner with terrorist groups, while also engaging our country and other Western nations on diplomatic and economic grounds, playing a very sinister and deadly game.
03:47And most Western countries seem okay with this, as most of their leaders would rather not confront the evil side of these nations, while embracing the benefits of their economic largesse.
04:01For example, we see some Middle Eastern countries service both perpetrators and mediators.
04:08This is the perfect time to put an end to this.
04:13The fact that the president effectively, at least for these purposes, unified these countries is probably the most historic aspect of the Trump peace plan.
04:21But the time is right with the Trump peace plan to use this historic treatment to go to the next level, to protect us, to protect the West.
04:31That is, challenge the root cause of the problem, Islamist terrorism.
04:38And to be clear, I believe the only leader who can do this, who is bold, courageous, strategic, and have a real shot at making it work, is President Trump.
04:47Our State Department keeps a long list of terrorist organizations and the countries they are operating within.
04:55Beyond that, we know where the major actors are based.
04:58These you can go online and see, on the internet, many very good groups, research groups, think tanks, they've laid it all out.
05:07It's right there.
05:08Of course, they're not only in the Middle East, these terrorist organizations, but many are.
05:14And it's a good place to start, particularly since we have this outstanding foundation, this platform, the Trump peace deal.
05:22Now, the president is singularly qualified and capable of extending his diplomatic, economic, and yes, military reach into these countries, where he has built special relationships to begin the difficult and complex process of unraveling, starving, isolating, and eliminating these terror operations.
05:44Some of these countries will welcome such an initiative, as their monarchies or their military dictatorships fear for their own survival, because these terrorists seek to overthrow several of them.
05:58I'm thinking of countries like Jordan and Egypt, among others.
06:02Some will resist because they're harboring terrorists, or have been funding terrorists, or somehow promoting terrorists, and have relationships and understanding with terrorists, such as Qatar, such as Saudi Arabia.
06:19Yes, yes, name them.
06:22There will also be the complexity of decades of cultural and societal indoctrination, which exists all over the Middle East, especially in these Palestinian communities, which is why not a single Arab and or Muslim country would accept a single Palestinian, which is why Egypt, run by Sisi, a military dictator, built a big, tall, wide wall.
06:49On their border with Gaza, to prevent any Palestinians from coming into Egypt.
06:57This won't be easy, of course, but nobody's tried.
07:02And the Trump peace plan, and the work the president and his team have done leading up to it, creates the opportunity like never before, and may never present itself again.
07:14Phase two of the Trump peace plan will determine whether Hamas survives.
07:19Whether Hamas can be disarmed or not, not only now, but into the future, where the Gaza will be effectively demilitarized, and so forth.
07:28Hamas is a monstrous terrorist organization.
07:31Like Al-Qaeda, they killed 3,000 of our citizens.
07:35ISIS, the mothership, the Muslim Brotherhood.
07:38The list is long.
07:39They're not part of the peace plan.
07:41Hezbollah and the Houthis are not part of the peace plan.
07:44They remain a dire threat to Israel, to Lebanon, to Yemen, and of course to our country.
07:50They've killed hundreds of Americans, and they threaten our homeland.
07:54We need the help of these new friends and acquaintances, these Arab and Muslim nations.
08:02If that's what they are, now's the time.
08:05Now's the time for the rubber to hit the road.
08:08It's one thing to talk about what Israel should do.
08:12It's one thing to talk about Hamas.
08:15It's another.
08:16When these countries look at their own territory, they look at their own policies, they look at their own decisions,
08:22and they now have to have skin in the game.
08:25It's one thing, again, for them to agree to a peace plan that doesn't strictly involve them in another to do what we need them to do in this instance.
08:38And so we not only understand that the real problem, which is not the West, which is not America, which is not Israel,
08:47and confronted by building on the Trump peace plan, taking advantage of the unity the president has developed with these countries.
08:57The root of the problem, Islamist terrorism will not relent, which is precisely why we are not about to disarm, as I said earlier, our counterterrorism infrastructure, are we?
09:12No.
09:14Because the root of the problem exists.
09:17I don't know if it ever can be solved.
09:20I don't know.
09:23Now's a perfect opportunity to try.
09:28That would be eternal peace, if it can be accomplished.
09:32Again, I'm not sure it can be.
09:34But now that these countries are supposedly aligned with us, are friends with us,
09:40now that we've had this huge, huge historic change in the Middle East,
09:45I think we need to think bigger.
09:49This isn't about Israel, two-state solution.
09:54The attack on 9-11 had nothing to do with a two-state solution or Israel.
09:59The efforts through immigration and other means to conquer the West has nothing to do with Israel or a two-state solution.
10:08This is bigger.
10:09It's very important that our leaders understand the ideology and the mindset that we are dealing with.
10:17The Arab countries do.
10:19The Muslim countries certainly do.
10:22Well, if we have this big brotherhood going on right now, let's take advantage of it.
10:30The president has built this foundation.
10:32He has relationships with these people.
10:34It's now or never.
10:36I'll be right back.
10:37Welcome back, America.
10:48We're here with our dear friend, Peter Schweitzer.
10:50He really is a great investigative reporter.
10:53He's president of the Government Accountability Institute, a fantastic group, GAI.
10:59You write great books.
11:00You write great pieces over at Breitbart.
11:02Just fantastic, Peter.
11:04I wanted to get into this on Dami.
11:07You have put out new information, you and your group, about who he is, what he's doing, who is funding him.
11:13And before people finish voting in New York and people around the country, you need to know exactly who this man is, his family, who's funding him, what he's all about.
11:23It is pure evil.
11:26Peter Schweitzer, go.
11:28Yeah, Mark, what people have to understand is that this election for mayor in New York is really a dark echo of the 9-11 terrorist attack.
11:37And you wonder, what do I mean by that?
11:39Well, look at the family itself, the Mdami family itself.
11:43They are joined at the hip with the royal family of Qatar, the Althani family.
11:49They have sent them millions of dollars.
11:51They have funded their projects.
11:53So why does this family matter?
11:56It matters because back in 1996, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who was the mastermind of the 9-11 attacks, was granted sanctuary by this very royal family.
12:09He was given a no-show job at the Ministry of Water in Qatar, and it was there that he started planning the 9-11 attacks.
12:19The FBI was looking for him, Mark, because he had been involved in the 1993 World Trade Center attack, as well as other terrorist attacks.
12:29So the FBI went to the royal family and said, we want this man for his involvement in terrorism.
12:35What did the family do?
12:37They hit him and helped him to escape.
12:39They tipped him off.
12:41And I would encourage a lot of people to go back and look at the statements that Louis Free made back in the day, saying, had they gotten Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, that would have prevented future terrorist attacks like 9-11.
12:56So this is the royal family of Qatar.
12:59Why do we care about them in the context of Mdami?
13:02Well, first of all, there's the financial connection that we talked about.
13:07Millions of dollars bankrolling the Mdami family.
13:10Second of all, this same family is now on social media around the world.
13:15And what are they doing, Mark?
13:17They're pushing Mdami's campaign.
13:20They're pushing his policy positions.
13:21They're pushing his poll numbers.
13:23They're encouraging people to vote for him, to financially support him.
13:27So they're cheerleading for him.
13:28And what did Mdami do in September, just a few weeks ago?
13:33He was on Qatari TV.
13:36Now, what American politician running to be a mayor of a city goes on Qatari TV?
13:43Mdami goes on Qatari TV.
13:45And what does he do?
13:46He talks about the jihad, the verbal jihad, as it were.
13:50He talks about the fact that the United States is underwriting genocide in Israel.
13:57This is the same family, the Mdami's, by the way, who say that Darfur, where 400,000 Christians were slaughtered by Islamists, that was not jihad.
14:07This is the same family that says that terrorism is a Western invention.
14:11It's not an Islamist invention.
14:12So you have this bizarre situation where a political candidate in New York speaks the language of jihad, is financially connected to the family that helped the 9-11 plotters get away so they could bring down the Twin Towers.
14:30And it would be a tragedy if the Qataris would see a occupant of City Hall when they were the same people that were involved in what happened in 9-11 and bringing down the Twin Towers.
14:431993, World Trade Center bombing.
14:47What's that connection?
14:48Yeah.
14:49So Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was one of the people that plotted and was involved in that.
14:54It's when he was on the run from that attack that he ended up in Qatar.
14:59And so the Qatar relationship has been long with terrorism.
15:03You've talked about, of course, their ties to Hamas, their ties to Hezbollah.
15:08I should point out, Mark, that in addition to the Qatari connection, there are also a lot of other international enemies of the United States that are cheering on Mdami.
15:18For example, the International Quran News Agency, which is based out of Iran, has run glowing profiles on Mdami, talking about the fact that he can win in New York, that his policy positions and that his values are Islamic, in their words.
15:36They talk about how his strategy is to cultivate Muslim votes.
15:40So the Iranian news agencies are cheering them on.
15:44In addition to that, there's a news publication in Lebanon linked to Hezbollah, the terrorist organization.
15:51They ran a story talking about Mdami's rise after he won the Democratic nomination in New York, and they were thrilled.
15:59And it's very interesting, Mark, to point out, in that article, they said if Mdami wins in New York and becomes mayor of New York, he has a future political career on the national stage.
16:10Among the positions they mentioned he might get to assume is head of Homeland Security.
16:18Now, why would a terrorist organization like Hezbollah want Mdami to be head of the Department of Homeland Security?
16:25I think the evidence is pretty clear.
16:28You're putting this information out.
16:29You're now putting it out to millions of people nationally.
16:32What do you want to bet it's ignored by the New York Times in New York, by the New York Daily News in New York, by the Associated Press, by Reuters and all the rest?
16:41You do all the footwork.
16:42You pull all the investigative data together.
16:45What do you want to bet this is ignored because they want this guy elected?
16:49Yeah, I think it is going to be ignored.
16:51And look, there are other financial connections.
16:53There's an imam, Wahaj, that we talk about.
16:57This imam, by the way, has three children that last year were sentenced to life in prison for their involvement in a terrorist attack.
17:06He is supporting Mdami's campaign in New York.
17:09And in 2021, in a interview, he actually predicted the rise of a Muslim candidate in New York and said the time was ready.
17:18And the time was ready for Muslims to seize political power in New York.
17:22So they are ignoring this.
17:25The stakes could not be higher.
17:27It's not just an issue for New Yorkers.
17:29It should be an issue for all Americans that are concerned about our security.
17:33We have a candidate who speaks the language of jihad.
17:36And we have a candidate whose family is tied to individuals or a family in Qatar that has been linked to international terrorist networks.
17:47You know, I get very frustrated by hearing people in the media, conservatives, Republicans, what have you, say things like,
17:55OK, he'll win in New York and then they'll never win anywhere else in the United States because we'll see how he destroys New York.
18:02They don't understand the thinking of these Islamists.
18:05That's not the plan.
18:06The plan is to run people for city council, to run people for mayors, to pick off one area after another after another.
18:13They changed the voting system in order to get him nominated as a Democrat, even though he's a democratic socialist,
18:19a.k.a. Marxist, Islamist who hates America and hates Jews.
18:23This is a dire threat to the country.
18:26And we better wake the hell up to this.
18:28Welcome back, America.
18:37We're here with Peter Schweitzer, the president of the Government Accountability Institute, really a national treasure.
18:44Peter, your folks were at the roundtable on Antifa and the Antifa movement that the president held at the White House.
18:52So important what he's doing, trying to get to the bottom of these radical organizations because they are nefarious.
18:58They're evil.
18:59They're funded by dark money, by billionaires, by foreign governments.
19:04And here's Antifa.
19:05I talk about the fusion of Marxism and Islamism.
19:09You just spoke about Islamism.
19:10Now let's move to Marxism.
19:12And that would be Antifa.
19:14What do you know about Antifa?
19:17Yeah.
19:17So, I mean, Antifa, there's not an organization per se named Antifa.
19:21It's a network of radical organizations that, as you pointed out, are Marxist.
19:27They're oftentimes sympathetic to Islamist causes.
19:32And as we demonstrated in our research that we presented to the president, they are heavily funded.
19:38Some of that funding comes from sources in the United States.
19:42You have advisory firms like Arabella that are advising groups like the Tides Foundation that we point out have sent money to organizations that are involved in violent protests.
19:54There were violent protests down in Atlanta, Georgia, around something called Cop City, where the police were trying to create a training facility for law enforcement.
20:06The radicals didn't want that.
20:08So they violently protested.
20:09They threw Molotov cocktails.
20:11They engaged in other violent acts.
20:14Members of those organizations were charged under law for domestic terrorism or domestic terrorism-related charges.
20:23Well, those organizations, some of those organizations were funded by the Tides Foundation.
20:28So you have these radical, progressive groups in the United States that are funding, in some instances, violent organizations.
20:38And to be clear here, Mark, I'm not talking about groups that just talk about radical things.
20:42I'm talking about groups that are actually involved in violence in our streets.
20:47So you have the domestic side.
20:50You also have the foreign side, Mark.
20:52There's an American billionaire named Roy Singham who sold his business.
20:59It was called ThoughtWorks for about a billion dollars, moved to Beijing, China, which is where he lives now.
21:05He's very close to the CCP.
21:08He counts them amongst his friends.
21:10He goes to Chinese Communist Party events.
21:12He's friends with their propagandists, and he funds groups in the United States through the so-called People's Forum in New York.
21:22And these are groups like the Freedom Road Socialist Organization, the Party for Socialism and Liberation.
21:28And these are pro-Chinese, anti-American, and they lead violent protests.
21:35It could be over Black Lives Matter.
21:37It could be over the issues in the Middle East.
21:40It could be over law enforcement issues.
21:42It doesn't matter.
21:43And so you have these organizations that are not organic, per se.
21:48They are funded and they are organized.
21:51And we think it's important not only for the administration to know, but to investigate them for possible criminal conduct.
21:58Because you're an attorney better than I am.
22:01I'm not an attorney.
22:03If you are involved in funding entities that you know are engaged in criminal conduct,
22:09you could potentially be charged with a crime for doing that.
22:12I don't know if there is, probably is, but there ought to be a task force looking at all this with Treasury, state, the FBI, the IRS, among others,
22:22pulling together all the possible legal issues, pulling together all the investigative issues, trying to attack it from every angle.
22:33It's a big federal government.
22:35It's been used against us.
22:36It's been used against conservative groups.
22:38It's been used against our presidents.
22:40It's been used against Republican members of the Senate.
22:42How about we put it to good use?
22:44If we have foreign countries, along with these billionaires and others, who are pouring money into this country to overthrow us,
22:51if we have people, dark money in the shadows in our country doing the same thing, and we know this is going on,
22:59we better put an end to it or we will cease to exist.
23:01There is no reason for this.
23:03There is absolutely no reason, which is why I'm so proud that the president, obviously, is on the ball.
23:08He's saying he pulls it together.
23:09He had your group there and many others.
23:11And you had independent journalists who were beaten to a pulp by Antifa and so forth.
23:16And the mainstream media, which isn't mainstream, it's left-wing, it's Democrat, it's hostile to the country,
23:22has essentially covered it up.
23:23You had Antifa attacking the Portland, Oregon courthouse, the federal courthouse, month after month in 2020,
23:34still using it for target practice.
23:36And then you have a federal judge out there, a real whack job in what she wrote, talking about, well, you know,
23:43this kind of free speech and so forth and so on.
23:46This is normal in our country and so forth.
23:49So we got a big problem here.
23:51Any final words, Peter?
23:52Yeah, we were happy to participate in the roundtable.
23:56President Trump asked us to share our findings with the attorney general and with the director of the FBI.
24:01We are glad to do so, and we hope that they will put it to good use.
24:04And I'll just say again, I don't know of another president who would be doing this,
24:08who really gets into the weeds and says, I love our country, Mr. and Mrs. America,
24:13I got to do what I can to protect you, whether it's law enforcement, whether it's ICE,
24:17whether it's securing the border, whether it's building up the military, and here, the enemy within.
24:23Peter Schweitzer, great group, great guy.
24:26Thank you for everything.
24:27Appreciate it.
24:28Thank you, Mark.
24:30Hello, America.
24:36Welcome back.
24:37And we have a great guest, the dear friend of mine, my wife, the family, under siege,
24:56my family's fight to save our nation, Eric Trump.
24:59Eric, how are you?
25:00It's good to be on, Mark.
25:01Let me tell you something.
25:03People may not understand this, but you were at the center of everything that took place
25:07against your family and against you because you were not part of the government.
25:13You didn't have protections that people have in the government and so forth.
25:17So they kept coming after you.
25:19They kept throwing spears at you.
25:22They kept hitting you like a pinata, subpoena after subpoena.
25:25So let's lay the foundation for this.
25:27You have more knowledge about what's been done against the Trump family, other than maybe
25:32the president, than anybody else.
25:33Explain that.
25:35Well, at 33 years old, he sat me down.
25:36He said, Eric, I want you to run the Trump organization.
25:38It was everything that he had ever built.
25:39It was his entire legacy.
25:40Obviously, he was going off to Washington, D.C.
25:42And I said, this could be great, Dad.
25:43You know, I'll run the hotels.
25:44I'll run the golf courses.
25:45I love real estate.
25:46Never did I think I'd become the most subpoenaed person in American history.
25:49112 subpoenas.
25:50Every single day, Mark, I was getting subpoena after subpoena, deposition after deposition,
25:54fishing expedition after fishing expedition.
25:56I took four cases of the Supreme Court.
25:59You know, those were all about the emoluments clause because somebody would walk into one
26:01of our hotels and buy a margarita.
26:03And, you know, they say we violated the emoluments clause.
26:06Give me a break.
26:07They did everything they could to destroy our family.
26:10I was the guy that got the call from the FBI saying that I hear you have secret servers
26:13in the basement of Trump Tower that communicate directly with the Kremlin.
26:17Give me a break.
26:18It was all a lie.
26:19That was the beginnings of the whole Russia hoax.
26:21And then they wrote the dirty dossier, and that was intended to destroy our family and
26:25tear it apart.
26:26And then they impeached my father the first time.
26:28And then they went after Kavanaugh.
26:29And then they impeached my father the second time.
26:31And then they weaponized Letitia.
26:33And they weaponized Alvin Bragg and Fannie Willis and Jack Smith and Robert Mueller.
26:39They came after us relentlessly, every single person.
26:43Then they took us off of social media.
26:44They took us off of Facebook.
26:45And they took us off of Instagram.
26:47And they took us off of YouTube.
26:49And literally, they decided to strip our voices.
26:53Then they leaked our tax returns.
26:54And not just my father's tax returns, the tax returns of every member of the family and
26:59half of the employees in our organization.
27:02And then they took my father off the ballot in Colorado.
27:04And then they took him off the ballot in Maine.
27:06And then they tried to bankrupt us.
27:08And when that didn't work, they started calling up J.P.
27:10Morgan.
27:10And they called up Capital One.
27:12And they told them to cancel us, to cancel all our bank accounts and to de-platform us.
27:17Mark, they put us through hell.
27:19And they did it because we are fighting for God in this country.
27:22We are fighting for the Constitution.
27:23We are fighting for the American flag.
27:26You know, we are fighting for a better America.
27:28And they wanted to see us destroyed.
27:31And they wanted to see you destroyed.
27:32And they wanted to see your listeners destroyed.
27:34Because they were doing the same thing to them.
27:36They put this nation and they put our family under siege.
27:39You know, when you concisely put it like that, it is mind-boggling.
27:45You lived through it.
27:46We talked about it.
27:47The American people lived through it.
27:49When you put it this way, the intense, systematic effort.
27:54And as more comes out in your father's second term, whether it's the FBI, whether it's NDI and all the rest,
28:02it's even worse what was taking place.
28:04And then you see this poison spreading to members of Congress and so forth.
28:08This book, Under Siege, My Family, Fight to Save Our Nation, this isn't a regurgitation of everything that's happened.
28:14You go right into it.
28:15And you explain things that people never heard about.
28:18Letitia James has been indicted for bank fraud.
28:21She's been indicted for false statements and so forth and so on.
28:24The exact thing she tried to pull against your family and your father.
28:29What do you think about that?
28:30I remember watching her campaign in New York and, you know, she was on tape, right?
28:34I'm going to go into the office of attorney general every day and I'm going to sue Donald Trump and I'm going to go home.
28:40He's going to know my name.
28:42He's going to be afraid of me.
28:43I'm going to attack his children.
28:45She said that every single day.
28:46And I'm sitting there, Mark, saying, OK, this is political bravado.
28:48Here you go.
28:49And she wasn't in that office for one day before she started coming after us absolutely relentlessly.
28:54Mark, I bet we spent $400 million, $400 million between all the shams defending ourselves from absolute lunacy.
29:02I mean, this is what they wanted to do.
29:03And, you know, it's no different than when they raided Mar-a-Lago.
29:05I talk a lot about that in the book because I was the guy that got the call from our teams.
29:08Obviously, I run the Trump organization.
29:10I got a call.
29:11The FBI is at the front gates of Mar-a-Lago.
29:13They have a search warrant, sir.
29:14And I go, why would they have a search warrant?
29:16What are they trying to search at Mar-a-Lago?
29:17I go, I don't know, but they're demanding that you instantly turn off every security camera.
29:22Obviously, Mar-a-Lago is a commercial property, right?
29:24They're demanding you turn off your security cameras right now.
29:27And then, you know, sure enough, we find out that Jack Smith is planting manila folders on the office of my father,
29:32taking these, you know, glamorous photo shoots where he has them all fanned out like a turkey.
29:37You know, this was the lawfare.
29:39Letitia James wanted our name off of every building, and she wanted us bankrupt, and she wanted us out of New York.
29:45Jack Smith wanted my father in a jail cell, right?
29:48He wanted him off of the stage.
29:50He wanted his voice gone.
29:52You had every judge in this country that was gag ordering us every single day.
29:56I ended up being a guy who went out on the courthouse steps oftentimes because in some of the cases, I was the one that didn't have a gag order.
30:02So I was the only Trump that was actually able to defend half these cases during so many of these trials.
30:07They wanted us to be voiceless.
30:09That's the reason they took us off of Facebook, and that's the reason they de-platformed us and turned down the volume of all our channels.
30:15That's why we had to develop Truth Social.
30:18They did everything humanly possible to kill us.
30:21And, Mark, I'll never forget, and I mention this in the book, right after the 34 felony convictions in New York, I'm in the car with my father.
30:29We walked out of the courtroom proudly, right, father and son.
30:31I would not leave his side in any of the cases.
30:34And we're in the car, and he said to me, he goes, honey, I don't know how, but we're going to win this.
30:38We're going to win this, not just the court case, but the entire thing.
30:40And I said to him, we're either going to be in the White House or we're going to be in jail because that's how badly they wanted us out of the picture.
30:47That's how badly they wanted us gone, Mark.
30:50And that's before Butler, Pennsylvania, where they tried to assassinate my father.
30:54I had my four-year-old daughter, my six-year-old son on my lap as we watched my father's ear get taken off.
30:59That's before they tried to kill him at the golf course in Palm Beach.
31:03They want your voice gone.
31:04They want my voice gone.
31:05They want your viewer's voice gone.
31:07They want us silenced.
31:08They want us in jail.
31:09They want us bankrupt.
31:10They want us irrelevant.
31:12This book is incredible, under siege.
31:14You can get it at Amazon.com right now.
31:16You're going to learn things that have been done to this family, ladies and gentlemen.
31:20You think you know it.
31:21You don't know it.
31:22The amount of money, he says $400 million, the amount of time, their life that has been spent on this.
31:28It was a period of time.
31:30It was coming so fast and furious from every corner against them.
31:34You have to wonder how they survived it.
31:36But it's beautifully written.
31:39You break it into three sections.
31:41Each chapter, if you want to know specifics, information you haven't learned yet about each one of these issues,
31:48how the family responded, what the family said to each other, it's not a tell-all book.
31:53It is an American story.
31:56It's a story of American family.
31:57You're going to want to grab it, Under Siege.
32:08Welcome back, America.
32:10Mr. and Mrs. America, this is the book, Under Siege.
32:14You're going to want to read it.
32:15My family's fight to save our nation.
32:16There's a lot of information in here that you do not know, despite all the programs, despite all the other books, despite all the other reports.
32:25And in many ways, you're going to be very proud.
32:28You're also going to have your heart's going to break over some of this.
32:32You're going to identify with so much of this.
32:35Let me ask you something, Eric Trump.
32:38Just psychologically.
32:39You know, I take it.
32:41I don't take anything like you took other people.
32:44Just constant negativity, people trying to put you in prison, trying to get your records.
32:49You read about lies, anonymous sources, leaks of tax returns.
32:52How did you handle this?
32:54Mark, you've got to compartmentalize it as a game.
32:57Unfortunately, it's a nasty game.
32:58It's not a nice game.
32:59It's an evil game.
33:00But you have to sit back and you have to realize it's a game.
33:02When you start taking it personally, you'll just self-destruct.
33:05I did that a little bit.
33:06I was on the board of St. Jude Children's Hospital, my favorite cause in the world.
33:09I've raised $50 million for them.
33:11You remember when the Attorney General of New York went after me viciously because they needed a counter-narrative to Hillary Clinton and her foundation, how corrupt it was.
33:18And I remember getting that first subpoena.
33:20And honestly, my heart was broken.
33:21Everything I had built, I had done such a good job for dying kids of terminal cancer, and they were coming after me.
33:28I had the lowest expense ratio of any charity in the country, and they came after me viciously.
33:32They wanted to use me as a pawn in their game.
33:35And after that is when I realized, again, that's what it is.
33:37It's politics.
33:38It's a game.
33:39And you have to go out, and you have to fight, and you have to be tough as hell, and you have to have backbone, and you can't cower from these people.
33:45The second you cower from them is when they steamroll you.
33:48That's when they take you out.
33:49And honestly, that was what my father did so well.
33:52He never, ever apologized.
33:54He never backed down.
33:55He never gave up.
33:56In the darkest moments, in those courtrooms, in those freezing cold courtrooms, on those wooden pews, he never stopped fighting.
34:04He would leave those courtrooms, and he would literally go to fundraisers.
34:07We'd do it together.
34:08Then he'd go back the next morning.
34:10He was unbelievable.
34:11He was unrelenting.
34:12And that's what it takes, because that's what they wanted for us, Mark.
34:15They wanted to say, you know what, you guys, you know, billionaire family, you know, go back to Mar-a-Lago, play golf, have a great time, you know, run your buildings.
34:23You know, let's make their lives so damn uncomfortable that they want nothing to do with this process.
34:27And that's how we're going to get Donald Trump, and that's how we're going to get his family out of the political arena in the United States of America.
34:34And they picked on the wrong guy, and they picked on the wrong family.
34:37We never backed down.
34:38We never stopped fighting.
34:40And thank God we didn't, because you see the beautiful things that are happening all over the world right now.
34:44Look at the peace deal two nights ago, three nights ago.
34:47You know, look at that.
34:47Look at Cambodia and Thailand.
34:50I was in the room when my father solved that deal.
34:52He doesn't even get credit for it, right?
34:54I mean, look at India and Pakistan.
34:56I mean, every single day, he's making this world a better place.
35:00Look at the streets of Washington, D.C.
35:01In 12 days, he cleaned up Washington, D.C.
35:04There's practically zero murder there.
35:07You know, before, you'd have 10 murders on the average weekend.
35:10And there, I mean, he's making such a transformational difference.
35:13Before you even start talking about the economy and gas prices and lower taxes and respect around the world and everything else my father is doing,
35:21we got here because we were able to withstand the siege.
35:25They didn't want us here.
35:26They wanted to do everything they could to keep us out of the scene.
35:29And thank God we understood that this was a game.
35:31And thank God we had the tenacity to fight.
35:34And thank God, because of great people like you, by the way, you are such a big part of this movement and the reason we're here.
35:39But thank God we won together because this country would not be the same place.
35:43And the American people were with you, as you're pointing out here.
35:46They rose up in this past election overwhelmingly, and they needed to do it overwhelmingly, even what goes on in this country, voted for your father.
35:56These so-called swing states weren't swing states at all.
35:58They were Trump states, whether it was young people, the biggest black vote in modern history, the biggest Hispanic vote in modern history, the biggest Jewish vote in modern history, whatever the category is, whatever you want to put it.
36:10He won the popular vote, despite the fact that they load up votes in California and then say, look, we won the popular vote.
36:16The fact is, he did very, very well in California, too.
36:20He won the vast majority of the counties and so forth.
36:22The people spoke up, they wanted Donald Trump, they gave him a mandate.
36:26And what do the Democrats do right now?
36:28They try and sabotage him, they try and undermine him, because their policies are not popular.
36:35I think, your last comment on this, if you don't mind, I think he's broken the back of the Democrat Party and the media.
36:43What do you think of that?
36:44Oh, absolutely.
36:45I mean, you said every state in the country literally swang to the right.
36:49They have no leadership at the Democratic Party.
36:51They have no voice.
36:52They've been wrong on every issue.
36:54DEI in this country is dead.
36:56All this woke nonsense about, you know, guys my height swimming in female sports, that's out the window.
37:02The mainstream media is the weakest it's ever been.
37:05I mean, look at NBC and ABC.
37:07I mean, they've lost their voice.
37:09They used to be crippling.
37:10In the beginning, in 2017, 2018, they were crippling.
37:13If they wanted to launch onto the, you know, Russia hoax narrative, they would just destroy you.
37:18Now, all of a sudden, you've got voices like yours.
37:20You've got voices like Joe Rogan.
37:21You've got all these people.
37:22No one listens to mainstream media.
37:24And then the beauty of this, Mark, is my father is throwing so much lead into the air right now, they don't even know what to do with it.
37:29They can't even counter-narrative it, right?
37:31I mean, what are they going to do?
37:32They're going to fight against peace in the Middle East?
37:34I mean, these people literally would.
37:35I mean, you see J.B. Pritzker in Chicago saying, please don't help us solve the 70 shootings that we had last week.
37:43You know, and America's not buying it.
37:44And that's why so many people are coming over to the Republican Party.
37:47So, listen, I have never been more proud of somebody in my life as I am my father.
37:52The hell that he went through is nothing short of remarkable.
37:55I think God had his hand on his shoulder.
37:57And I talk a lot about that in Under Siege, how I think God guided this journey because it's the most unlikely journey.
38:03I'm convinced God protected him throughout this entire fight.
38:07And our nation is a better place.
38:09We're saving our nation.
38:10We're saving religion.
38:11We're saving our constitution.
38:12We're saving our flag.
38:13We're saving our wave of life.
38:15We're saving family values in this nation, which were totally under attack.
38:19And I couldn't be more proud of my father.
38:21And I could not be more proud to have never left that stage and fought with him every single day throughout this entire siege.
38:27He's doing something no president has done.
38:30He's actually getting into the culture that the left has taken over to undermine our country.
38:36He's doing a fantastic job, as are you and have you, Under Siege.
38:40Get this book, ladies and gentlemen, My Families Fight to Save Our Nations.
38:44You're going to love this book.
38:46Your wife is fabulous.
38:47She has a fabulous show.
38:48Your whole family, God bless you, Eric, and take care of yourself.
38:51And folks, I'm not kidding.
38:53This is spellbinding.
38:55Under Siege.
38:56Take care of yourself.
38:58Thanks, Mark.
39:04Welcome back, America.
39:05By the way, this book, Under Siege, is really cool.
39:08They've got great photos here, too, when the kids were young.
39:12Family photos.
39:13You're going to love this book.
39:14I encourage you to go to Amazon.com.
39:16Grab it.
39:17And Mr. President, we wish you safety.
39:21All the best as you travel to the Middle East to sign your historic peace plan.
39:26Thank you for what you're doing.
39:27And God bless you.
39:28We'll see you next time on Life, Liberty, and Levin.
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