My father is running out of lives: family and leaders shocked by Trump shooting
"My father is running out of lives here," son Eric Trump told Fox News's Sean Hannity. "How many more rifles are going to come within assassination distance of my father?"
Eric Trump says bullets 'are only going one way' in 2024 campaign
Eric Trump praised his father for standing strong against the attacks he continues to face, arguing they "are only going one way" - toward him.
The son of former President Donald Trump discussed his father surviving a second assassination attempt on Sunday, marking the most recent "unthinkable" he has faced in the last nine years. He also listed the past ordeals his father has had to deal with, such as his legal battles over the last two years and Colorado's attempt to remove him from the 2024 ballot.
They've done everything they could, they tried to impeach him, they took down his friends, they did everything, and yet that man right there is still fighting, and I expect him to be protected," Trump said on Fox News's Hannity. "I expect him to be safe. This country expects to have democracy, and then I get to hear Kamala Harris at a debate saying that that man right there, who's the most brave person I've ever met, is a threat to democracy? You know, Sean, the bullets are only going one way. It's really interesting how that works."
Trump then claimed that his father is taking "every bullet literally and figuratively" while campaigning for president and that the media are pushing the attacks against his father "under the rug." He referenced an online joke he saw arguing that Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscars received more attention from the press than Donald Trump's first assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania.
"They are creating a culture of hate in this country and you know what, Sean? If we ever lost one of our leaders, if we ever lost a presidential nominee, a former president, we'd look like a third-world country," Trump said. "It cannot happen in the United States of America. They have to get the resources to keep our political leaders safe."