Eric Trump Phones His Father Onstage in Iowa, Predicts Big Win in Caucus

Published on January 5, 2024

ANKENY, Iowa—During his father’s first presidential run in 2016, Eric Trump remembered saying in Iowa, “Somebody here has to tell me what exactly a caucus is, because I still can’t quite figure it out.” On Thursday, speaking to a standing-room-only crowd of about 300 Iowans at the Future Farmers of America Enrichment Center, the son of former President Donald Trump said he and his family are now battle-scarred political veterans. “They wanted to attack him from day one,” Mr. Trump, 39, said, describing investigations and false accusations that dogged his father since the beginning of his candidacy. “Despite that, he was the greatest president that the country had seen.”...

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