
Eric Trump argued Sunday that his father’s continued legal woes are only helping him in the 2024 presidential election, as they are winning him support from communities he previously did not have.
Former President Donald Trump was found guilty of all 34 charges he faced in his hush money trial in New York on Thursday, making him the first former United States president to be convicted of a felony crime. In the wake of this ruling, the former president has received an outpouring of support, with Eric Trump contending that the swing from independent voters has been “unbelievably” high.
“And, you know, they’re literally feeding him certain segments of the population that he might not have had in 2016 and 2020, because for the first time they realize that the system’s coming down, that he’s the victim,” Trump said on Fox News’s Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo. “He’s the victim that oftentimes some of …