Eric Trump said in a recent interview that his father’s retaliation against Syria for the use of chemical weapons on its people had finally put the “ridiculous” rumors that his father was in league with Vladimir Putin to bed.”If there was anything that Syria did, it was to validate the fact that there is no Russia tie,” Eric Trump told The Telegraph in an interview published Tuesday.
The president’s 33-year-old son, who is currently working with his older brother  in overseeing his father’s vast property empire, slammed the baseless allegations that his father was intent on promoting Russia’s agenda, instead stressing this Trump Sr. would prove to be a “tough” defender of American interests.
Saying his father was “deeply committed” to building a Reaganesque formidable peacetime military force, Eric Trump warned Putin that his father would not be “intimidated.”
“He is not a guy who gets intimidated,” he said of his father. “I can tell you he is tough and he wonât be pushed around. The cards will shake out the way they do but heâs tough.”
Addressing the apparent reversal of his father on strikes against Syria, Eric said that while his father “was anti doing anything with Syria two years ago,” Bashar al-Assad’s “horrible” gassing of his women and children changed the game.
“Then a leader gasses their own people, women and children,” he said, “at some point America is the global leader and the worldâs superpower has to come forward and act and they did with a lot of support of our allies and I think thatâs a great thing.”
Eric went on to acknowledge that Ivanka’s response to the horrific chemical weapons attack had influenced his father’s decision to take action, but dismissed any notion that he had acted impulsively, describing his dad as “a great thinker, practical not impulsive.”
Meanwhile, both the U.S. and Britain have ramped up pressure for Russia to distance itself from Syria, with U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson reportedly now backing regime change in Syria. The Telegraph reports:
Mr Johnson said that Mr Tillerson would go to Russia later this week with a âvery clearâ message from the G7 countries: âDo they want to stick with a toxic regime, do they want to be eternally associated with a guy who gases his own people, or do they want to work with the Americans and the rest of the G7 and like-minded countries for a new future for Syria?â
Though reports suggest that Russia was “furious” with Assad for the use of chemical weapons, Putin is pushing back hard against the western powers, and ramping up his anti-American rhetoric.
Source: The Daily Wire
