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Eric Trump defended his father’s real-estate empire Friday by saying that the GOP nominee was the epitome of the American Dream for having “gone from just about nothing” to becoming one of the most successful real estate mogul’s in New York.
Trump made the statement on Fox News Channel’s Outnumbered, and panelist Julie Roginsky clearly wasn’t buying the claim as she let out an outburst of laughter.
“Nothing?” she said. “He got a million bucks! Come on, Eric.”
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If the proverbial apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, Eric Trump’s view of a million bucks is probably similar to his dad’s, who publicly shared the story last year.
“My whole life really has been a ‘no’ and I fought through it,” Donald Trump said during an NBC townhall event.
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“It has not been easy for me, it has not been easy for me. And you know I started off in Brooklyn. My father gave me a small loan of a million dollars.”
In response to Roginsky’s astonishment, Eric Trump then made a comparison to Mark Zuckerberg, the billionaire creator of Facebook.
“Listen, (my dad) built an unbelievable empire. He’s epitomized what America is all about — opportunity and working hard and being able to achieve your dreams,” Eric Trump replied.
“It’s no different than a Zuckerberg, who went out with a great idea like a Facebook and developed this idea and built it and grew it and grew it. That’s achieving something, right?”
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He then went on to explain how he feels that millennials don’t “relate to foreign policy very well because they haven’t lived their lives long enough to understand so many of the issues” that influence them.
“They obviously understand a lot of issues as it pertains to them. Student debt, and this and that. But I think maybe taxes and things like that might be a little less significant than other issues,” Trump said.
“And so I just think there is disconnect between somebody who is constantly talking about, you know, policy and this and that and then a man who built a great company.”
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