Former President Donald Trump has endured several high-profile investigations that have mostly proven fruitless — and Eric Trump thinks there may be a critical reason why his father’s disparagers keep trying anyway.
The former president’s son, who is also a trustee and executive vice president for the Trump Organization, charged that the latest probe into the company’s business dealings is nothing more than an “abuse of power and a political vendetta” meant to keep his father from running for president again in 2024.
Manhattan’s Democratic District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. launched the years-long investigation with New York State Attorney General Letitia James, a fellow Democrat who campaigned on the promise of prosecuting Donald Trump, joining forces against him.
After spending hundreds of man-hours and millions of taxpayer dollars to unearth anything criminal, all they have to show are charges against CFO Allen H. Weisselberg for some unpaid taxes on fringe benefits.
This fact has left Eric Trump to conclude prosecutors’ motives were purely political.
“It is an absolute abuse of power and a political vendetta,” the younger Trump, 37, told the U.K.’s Daily Mail shortly before Weisselberg pleaded not guilty to charges of tax evasion.
“They are petrified my father will run again in 2024,” Eric Trump said, speculating on the motive for such a fishing expedition that yielded precious little.