Eric Trump tore into NewsNation host Chris Cuomo on Tuesday after being pressed on whether his father, President Trump, was targeting political opponents in the same way he’s accused President Biden of doing.
Eric Trump just flipped the script on Chris Cuomo live on-air, leaving him shocked.
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) October 8, 2025
Cuomo accused President Trump of going after his political opponents the moment he took office…
Eric sounded off:
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"Do you think that it is fair to say it looks like the administration is going after its political opponents now and doing exactly what you say you oppose?" Cuomo asked.
"Oh, that’s, what — [James] Comey? Because, I mean, it seemed very clear to me in the congressional testimony, I don’t know, just watching it, it certainly seems like he lied to me. I mean, I’m also wondering what an FBI director is doing taking memos from the FBI and leaking them to The New York Times," Eric Trump responded. "But I find it so ironic that you’re literally one that’s pushing back on the weaponization of government when the very same people that were coming after us, you know, went after your brother [former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo] like hounds. I mean, they did everything they could to destroy his governorship. They did everything that they could to destroy his life. They did everything they could do to destroy you."
Eric Trump said that Biden's DOJ was out to destroy President Trump and his family, not to seek justice, as he argued his father is doing. "They were trying to take all our assets and strip our name off of every building in New York City," he said.
"You’ve been on the receiving end of the very same people that I’ve been the receiving end of," Eric Trump continued. "And so, to play coy with me as if this isn’t happening in the United States of America just seems ironic and foolish given what you’ve been through more so than anybody, worse than anybody."
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"Hold on a second. What did you just say that you think I’m doing?" Cuomo responded.
"I’m asking you questions about whether or not — if something is wrong, is it also wrong to do the same thing when you get back in power?" Cuomo said. "But if you think I’m playing coy, uh, you don’t know me as well as you should. I’m not playing coy. I know what happened to me, Eric. I’m saying that what is happening now looks like what was done to you. That’s why I’m asking the question."
"Hey, did we raid [Joe] Biden’s home? Did we? Did we try and bankrupt Biden? Did they come after us?" the president's son snapped. "Did we weaponize every AG and DA against Biden? Do we do that against Hunter Biden, who had a laptop from hell, pictures of cocaine, illicit drug use, prostitution? You know, did we do that?"
"Did we make up a dirty dossier about Biden?" he asked. "Did we try and destroy Biden’s marriage? You know, was any of that true? I mean, did we make up stories that Biden had secret servers in the basement of his home communicating with the Kremlin in Russia? You know, did we strip Biden off the ballot of multiple states? Did we take Biden off of Twitter and Instagram and Facebook and try and silence his voice so he couldn’t communicate? Did we put Biden in a courtroom every single day, 91 felony counts that have all been overturned for my father now, right? For nonsense, to try and keep him off of a campaign trail and to try to destroy his life? Did we do any of that?"
