Eric Trump Defends Father Cheering on Reporter’s Assault: ‘This is Actually Exactly Why My Father Won’

After weeks of warning that violent rhetoric from liberals is out of control, Fox News’s Outnumbered was forced to reckon with President Donald Trump‘s remarks at a rally Thursday night in which he cheered on the violent assault of a reporter by Rep. Greg Gianforte (R-MT).

The show, which had Eric Trump as a guest on Friday, dedicated a full two minutes to the president’s comments.

Eric offered a defense of his father:

“Oh stop. He wasn’t the guy that body slammed anybody. He can have fun. By the way, this is actually exactly why my father won. Because so many people were so sick and tired of the little caged, the perfect, the perfectly scripted politician who memorized their little sound bite and went out there and had no crowds, and they weren’t any fun, and they had no charisma, they had no personality. Hey, to go out and say, as a guy who is a little bit — who is un-PC, and probably won because he’s un-PC.”

Host Melissa Francis, to her credit, asked if Eric Trump felt the same way about comments made by former Attorney General Eric Holder, who got into hot water recently when he offered some fiery political advice to Democrats: “When they go low, we kick ’em.”

Eric Trump claimed in response that Eric Holder wasn’t joking, falsely adding that Holder had called for kicking Republicans in the head:

“No the difference was, Eric Holder wasn’t laughing when he was saying that and joking around,” Eric Trump claimed. “The demeanor was different. He’s saying, when they are down, you go up and you kick them in the head. I think actually is difference. I think it’s totally different.”

No one on the Outnumbered panel corrected Eric Trump. Instead, Dagen McDowell made a comment about bad Democratic turnout in midterms during President Barack Obama‘s administration. Katie Pavlich concluded that Obama “did nothing” for House candidates, whereas Trump cares about his party and campaigns for them constantly.

Watch above, via Fox News.

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