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Eric Trump has accused President Joe Biden and Attorney General Merrick Garland of trying to “get [Donald Trump] divorced,” asserting in a televised interview that the Biden administration sought to break up his father’s marriage to Melania Trump as part of a broader campaign to damage the family. Speaking on Newsmax, the 41-year-old executive vice…
Eric Trump has accused President Joe Biden and Attorney General Merrick Garland of trying to “get [Donald Trump] divorced,” asserting in a televised interview that the Biden administration sought to break up his father’s marriage to Melania Trump as part of a broader campaign to damage the family.
Speaking on Newsmax, the 41-year-old executive vice president of the Trump Organization rattled through a list of grievances he said the family had endured and then added: “They tried to get him divorced! They tried to separate our family!” He offered no details on how such an effort was carried out and did not present evidence to support the allegation.
The comments came during an appearance on Rob Schmitt’s primetime program, where the host played a clip of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer accusing President Trump of “turn[ing] this Justice Department into his own political watchdog” following the indictment of former FBI director James Comey.
Eric Trump responded by portraying his family as longtime targets of politicized law enforcement. “They raided his home! They raided Mar-a-Lago!” he said, before escalating to the marriage claim. “They tried to get him divorced! They tried to separate our family! They tried to go after our employees! They attacked us.
They tried to bankrupt our company. They de-platformed us!” He went on to say: “And Merrick Garland was at the forefront of all of it. And Joe Biden was at the forefront of all of it when they raided our home, when they raided Mar-a-Lago, when they raided Melania’s closet, when they raided 16-year-old Barron’s room.”
News outlets that reviewed the segment highlighted the divorce allegation as a new line in Eric Trump’s public defense of his father.
Mediaite said he “lodged a new grievance” by claiming the administration “tried to incite a divorce,” while The Daily Beast characterized the remark as part of an emotional diatribe that included a recitation of investigations, indictments and restrictions his father has faced.
In local-TV write-ups syndicated by The National Desk, stations noted that Eric Trump “did not elaborate on how Garland or Biden sought to break up Trump’s third marriage.”
The White House did not issue an immediate response to the specific allegation. In previous disputes over the former president’s legal exposure and the government’s handling of the 2022 Mar-a-Lago search, officials have typically declined to comment beyond court filings and public statements by Justice Department leaders.
Eric Trump’s interview framed those events as intrusions into the family’s private life, repeating a claim that federal agents searched areas used by the former first lady and the couple’s son as part of the court-authorized operation to recover documents with classification markings.
Reporting at the time of the search documented extensive FBI activity at the property, and allies of the former president said publicly that personal spaces were examined; inventories unsealed later by the court detailed materials seized but did not describe a search of particular closets.
The immediate trigger for Eric Trump’s appearance was the Justice Department’s decision last week to pursue criminal charges against Comey, who was indicted by a federal grand jury in Virginia on counts including making false statements to Congress and obstructing a congressional proceeding.
The indictment has intensified a Washington argument over prosecutorial independence and whether Trump’s Justice Department is being used to settle scores with former adversaries.
The Guardian reported that legal experts warned the case could be undermined by the perception of political pressure; Time described the Comey charges as the opening move in a wider program of prosecutions of Trump critics.
A Justice Department news release said the counts allege Comey misled lawmakers about his role in authorizing a leak and impeded a related inquiry; the former FBI director has denied wrongdoing.
Eric Trump used the Comey reference to argue that Democratic criticism of the current Justice Department rings hollow in light of what he described as years of “weaponization” against his father and the family business.
“They posted his mugshot… They gagged him over and over and over!” he said on Newsmax, describing the cascade of state and federal cases filed against Donald Trump since 2022. He linked those cases to a claim that the administration sought to fracture the Trumps personally.
“They tried to get him divorced! They tried to separate our family!” he repeated. The Independent’s account quoted the same lines and placed them in the exchange with Schmitt about Comey and Democratic complaints of politicization.
Eric Trump did not provide evidence for the suggestion that federal officials attempted to engineer a split between his parents, and none of the outlets that covered the segment reported corroboration for the claim.
The National Desk write-ups emphasized the absence of particulars in his allegation, noting that he “did not elaborate” on any mechanism or actions beyond the assertion. The Daily Beast and Yahoo’s portals, which syndicated versions of the summary, focused on the phrasing—“They tried to get him divorced”—as a notable addition to his standard list of grievances.
The marriage between Donald and Melania Trump has been a recurring subject of public speculation since his return to office, magnified by the former first lady’s selective public schedule and occasional viral clips of awkward body language.
Eric Trump’s comments arrived amid renewed attention to the couple’s appearances, including footage circulated in late September purporting to show a tense exchange aboard Marine One days after another clip in which Melania brushed off a handhold on the South Lawn.
Those moments were described by entertainment and political sites; neither the White House nor the first lady’s office commented on the videos, and the administration has previously rejected claims—advanced by author Michael Wolff—that the Trumps “live separate lives.”
Eric Trump’s assertion reframed the conversation by attributing marital strain not to the couple but to a deliberate effort by political opponents.
The younger Trump has long served as a combative public surrogate for his father, particularly on conservative television and radio. He became a fixture on Fox News during the first Trump presidency and has in recent years gravitated to outlets like Newsmax, where his appearances often blend personal anecdotes with attack-line politics.
In the latest interview, he described himself as “the subject of 112 subpoenas” despite being “a perfect role model” and “a perfect model citizen,” lines that local outlets reproduced from the broadcast.
He connected that portrayal to the family’s legal posture, which has included civil fraud litigation against the Trump Organization in New York and criminal charges filed against Donald Trump in multiple jurisdictions, some of which have been dismissed or stayed while others have moved forward.
Newsmax’s platform has been central to the Trump family’s media strategy beyond the major broadcast networks. The conservative channel has faced its own legal headwinds over past coverage of election-related claims, agreeing in August to pay $67 million to settle a defamation lawsuit brought by a voting-equipment company.
The settlement underscored the litigation risks in the network’s ecosystem even as it has remained a friendly venue for Trump surrogates. Eric Trump’s remarks were clipped and reposted across Newsmax’s social accounts within hours, ensuring rapid amplification in the online news cycle.
The marriage accusation represents a hardening of rhetoric that has escalated through the summer as the administration’s posture toward former Trump antagonists has shifted from rhetorical to legal.
The Time and Guardian pieces on the Comey case noted that civil-liberties groups and former prosecutors have warned about a “chilling” effect if the Justice Department is perceived as targeting opponents.
Eric Trump’s rebuttal flipped that frame, arguing that any current prosecutions are “modest” compared with what he says his family endured when Democrats held the White House. He invoked the 2022 Mar-a-Lago search as emblematic, highlighting the personal spaces he says agents examined, and cast the marriage allegation as another facet of that campaign.
Donald and Melania Trump married in 2005 and have one son, Barron. The former president has repeatedly dismissed questions about his personal relationship as irrelevant to policy, and the first lady’s office has occasionally intervened to rebut specific claims.
In September 2024, Melania Trump told Fox News that the Mar-a-Lago search made her “angry,” saying agents “went through my stuff,” a comment cited in multiple follow-up articles.
Eric Trump’s reference to “Melania’s closet” echoed that grievance while extending it into the allegation that political rivals wanted the couple to split. Absent corroborating detail, the new claim’s factual status rests solely on Eric Trump’s televised assertion.
The Biden administration’s approach has been to avoid engaging directly with personalized accusations from the president’s family and to route commentary through the Justice Department when legal matters are raised.
Attorney General Garland has consistently defended the independence of career prosecutors during public scrutiny of the Mar-a-Lago case and the class of prosecutions tied to former President Trump’s conduct; those proceedings, and the unsealing of inventories and affidavits, established the government’s account of why agents searched the Palm Beach property.
The political effects of Eric Trump’s new claim are harder to gauge: it provides a sound bite that resonates with supporters inclined to see malign intent in earlier investigations while presenting critics with a fresh example of what they describe as conspiratorial rhetoric.
Eric Trump’s decision to link his parents’ marriage to the ongoing fight over the Justice Department also reflects the more personal register he and his siblings have adopted in defense of the former president.
On Newsmax he layered professional and private stakes—business accounts “stripped,” employees pursued, the family “attacked”—into a single narrative that culminated in, “They tried to get him divorced! They tried to separate our family!” As with many such claims in the Trump orbit, the line is most potent with audiences that already accept the premise that law enforcement actions since 2016 were driven by partisan animus.
For others, the absence of named actors, documents or steps behind an alleged “divorce” effort will loom as the defining gap in the story.
The underlying legal and political tableau is in flux. Comey’s case is expected to proceed in the Eastern District of Virginia, where the Justice Department said counts include obstructing a congressional investigation and making a false statement; the judge assigned has already held initial proceedings, and commentary from former officials suggests defense motions will raise questions about selective or retaliatory prosecution.
Against that backdrop, Eric Trump’s appearance served to rally the president’s base, merging his father’s legal travails with a pointed personal allegation that his opponents crossed a line into the family’s private life.
Whether the marriage claim receives any formal substantiation from the Trump side—or any response at all from the White House—remains to be seen; for now, its provenance is clear and undisputed as a matter of record: “They tried to get him divorced!” Eric Trump said on national television.