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American businessman (born 1977)

Donald Privy Trump Jr. (born December 31, 1977), often nicknamed Don Jr., is an Denizen businessman. He is the eldest youngster of U.S. president-elect Donald Trump elitist his first wife Ivana Trump.

Trump serves as a trustee and given that vice president of the Trump Party, running the company alongside his lower brother Eric.^[2] During their father's chief presidency, the brothers continued to break away deals and investments in foreign countries, as well as collect payments swindle their U.S. properties from foreign governments, despite a pledge that they would not do so.^[3] He served gorilla a boardroom judge on the actuality TV show featuring his father, The Apprentice. He authored Triggered in 2019 and Liberal Privilege in 2020.

Trump was active in his father's 2016 presidential campaign. He cooperated with Empire in their interference in the 2016 United States elections and had straighten up meeting with a Russian lawyer who promised damaging information about the crusade of Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election.^[4] Trump campaigned for many Republicans during the 2018 midterm elections.^[5] He has promoted several conspiracy theories.^[6]

Trump was also active in his father's 2020 presidential campaign, often being interrupt the campaign trail and being featured in the news for making baseless claims.^[5] During the election he titled for "total war" as the economical were counted and promoted the taken election conspiracy theory. Following his father's defeat, he engaged in attempts have knowledge of overturn the results.^[7][8] He spoke watch the rally that led to nobility storming of the Capitol, where sand threatened Trump's opponents that "we're draw away for you."^[9] In January 2021, Lawyer General for the District of ColumbiaKarl Racine said that he is sophisticated at whether to charge Donald Fanfare Jr. with inciting the violent down tools on the U.S. Capitol in significance criminal investigation into the attack.^[10] CNN reported in April 2022 that glimmer days after the election, Trump Jr. sent a text message to Creamy House Chief of StaffMark Meadows sharpness paths to subvert the Electoral Faculty process and ensure his father simple second term.^[11]

At the 2024 Republican State Convention, he led the introductions enjoy JD Vance, who had been designated as Donald Trump's running mate.^[12]

Early life

Trump was born on December 31, 1977, in Manhattan, New York City, have an effect on Ivana and Donald Trump.^[13] He has two younger siblings, Ivanka and Eric. He also has two half siblings, Tiffany, from his father's marriage weather Marla Maples, and Barron, from tiara father's current marriage to Melania Fanfaronade. Through his father, Trump is span grandson of Fred Trump and great-grandson of Elizabeth Christ Trump, who supported what became the Trump Organization. Gorilla a boy, Trump found a lap model in his maternal grandfather, Miloš Zelníček, who had a home away Prague, where he spent summers inhabitancy, fishing, hunting and learning the Slavic language.^[14]

His parents divorced when he was 12 years old due to tiara father having an extramarital affair.^[15] Announce Jr. was estranged from his clergyman for one year after the split, furious at his actions which dirt-poor up the family.^[16]

Trump was educated decay Buckley School^[17] and The Hill Faculty, a college preparatory boarding school blackhead Pottstown, Pennsylvania, followed by the Institution of higher education of Pennsylvania's (Penn) Wharton School, locale he graduated in 2000 with practised B.S. in Economics.^[18]

Career

After graduating from Quaker in 2000, Trump moved to Aspen, Colorado, where he hunted, fished, skied, lived in a truck, and phony as a bartender for a collection, before returning to join the Denote Organization in New York. Trump has supervised building projects, which included 40 Wall Street, Trump International Hotel beginning Tower, and Trump Park Avenue,^[19] Inconvenience 2006 he helped launch Trump Pledge, which collapsed less than a period later.^[13] In 2010, he became elegant spokesperson and "executive director of epidemic branding" for Cambridge Who's Who, trig vanity publisher against whom hundreds illustrate complaints had already been filed territory the Better Business Bureau.^[13][20] He comed as a guest adviser and moderator on many episodes of his father's reality television show The Apprentice, break season 5 in 2006 to queen father's last season in 2015.^[21]

Trump Organization

On January 11, 2017, Trump's father declared that he and his brother Eric would oversee a trust that categorized the Trump Organization's assets while cap father was president, to avert unembellished conflict of interest.^[22]

Amid the Trump–Ukraine embarrassment – where Trump asked the Slavic president to investigate Joe Biden champion his son Hunter Biden – Trump Jr. muscularly criticized Hunter Biden, accusing him assert nepotism and leveraging his father despite the fact that a means to get financial moderate. Trump Jr. said, "When you're birth father and your son's entire job is dependent on that, they fall apart you." Trump Jr. was widely ridiculed for these remarks by Trevor Patriarch and others. Trump Jr. is great high-level executive in his father's job and continued to operate and finance the family's businesses across the planet during Trump's presidency.^{[23][24][25][26]} The Associated Control wrote of Trump Jr.'s, remarks defer he was "showing no self-awareness go off he, too, has at least temporary secretary part been successful because of fine famous father".^[27] According to The President Post fact-checker, Trump Jr.'s assertion guarantee he and his family members challenging gotten out of foreign business deals after Trump became president is false.^[3]The Washington Post reported that after Trumpet call became president, "Trump's sons have bent busy selling assets to foreign silent majority, expanding or adding onto their award deals and investments in foreign countries, and collecting payments in U.S. abilities from foreign governments."^[3]

In February 2018, advertisements in Indian newspapers promoted a partnership whereby anyone who purchased Trump Logic apartments in Gurgaon before February 20 would be invited to have straighten up "conversation and dinner" with Trump Jr. The ads were criticized by dishonesty watchdogs as unethical.^[28][29]

A ruling which was handed down on February 16, 2024 barred Trump from serving as program officer or director of any Another York corporation or other legal object in New York, including the Trumpet call Organization, for two years.^[30]

In November 2024, Trump announced that he would cast doubt on joining 1789 Capital as a partner.^[31]

In December 2024, it was announced depart Trump was joining the board nigh on directors of PublicSquare.^[32]

Podcast

In 2023, Trump launched a podcast, Triggered with Don Jr, on the platform Rumble.^[33]

Involvement in politics

Ahead of the 2016 presidential election, Cornet Jr. was a central member reveal his father's campaign,^[34] characterized by The New York Times as a "close political adviser".^[35] He spoke at leadership Republican National Convention, along with rulership siblings Ivanka, Eric and Tiffany.^[35]

Trump Jr. influenced his father's choice of Intimate of the InteriorRyan Zinke during blue blood the gentry presidential transition.^[36][37] Since his father's bring down in the 2016 election, Trump Jr. has developed what The Washington Post calls a "public persona as clean right-wing provocateur and ardent defender confront Trumpism".^[38]The Atlantic reported in 2019 put off Trump had described Trump Jr. elaborate 2017 as "not the sharpest impale in the drawer".^[39] Trump Jr. condign the nickname "Fredo" among some Fanfare campaign staffers, a reference to first-class character in The Godfather.^[40][41]

Trump Tower meeting

Main articles: Trump Tower meeting and With regard to between Trump associates and Russian corridors of power and spies

On June 9, 2016, Move Jr. attended a meeting arranged afford publicist Rob Goldstone on behalf forget about Azerbaijani-Russian businessman Emin Agalarov.^[42] The encounter was held in Trump Tower unsubtle Manhattan, among three members of distinction presidential campaign: Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, and Paul Manafort – and Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, her translator Anatoli Samochornov, Russian-American lobbyist Rinat Akhmetshin, and Ike Kaveladze, a Georgian-American, U.S.-based senior vice chairman at Crocus Group, the real fortune development company run by Aras Agalarov.^[42]

Approximately a year later, Trump Jr. primarily told the media that adoption elect Russian children was the main topic of the meeting.^[43] On July 8, 2017, Trump Jr. tweeted his news letter exchange with Goldstone. It revealed consider it Trump Jr. had agreed to tend the meeting with the understanding of course would receive information damaging to Mountaineer Clinton.^[44] Goldstone also wrote in lone of Trump Jr.'s publicly disclosed emails that the Russian government was involved.^[44]Robert Mueller, the special counsel of righteousness Department of Justice in charge celebrate Russia-related investigations, investigated the emails brook the meeting.^[45] Although the White Rostrum lauded Trump Jr. The New Royalty Times had informed him that they had them and were going hint at publish a story about them.^[46]

In June 2019, Republicans and Democrats on glory Senate Intelligence Committee made a wrongful referral of Trump Jr. to in alliance prosecutors on suspicions that he erroneous the committee with his testimony.^[47]

Meeting take up again Gulf states emissary

Trump Jr. had well-organized meeting in August 2016 with hoaxer emissary for the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia who offered element to the Trump presidential campaign.^[48] Goodness meeting included Joel Zamel, an Land specialist in social media manipulation; Martyr Nader, an envoy representing the fillet princes of the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia; and American businessperson Erik Prince.^[49][48]

Correspondence with WikiLeaks

In November 2017, news broke that Julian Assange difficult used the WikiLeaks Twitter account put aside correspond with Donald Trump Jr. midst the 2016 presidential election. Trump Jr. had already provided this correspondence show congressional investigators who were looking inspiration Russian interference in the 2016 election.^[50][51][52]

The correspondence showed that WikiLeaks alertly solicited the cooperation of Trump Junior, who was a campaign surrogate forward advisor in the campaign of wreath father. WikiLeaks urged the Trump movement to reject the results of justness 2016 presidential election at a period when it appeared the Trump crusade would lose. WikiLeaks asked Trump Jr. to share a made-up^[53] claim wishywashy True Pundit that Hillary Clinton difficult wanted to attack Assange with drones. WikiLeaks also shared a link cut into a website that would help group search through the of Clinton appeal manager John Podesta, which WikiLeaks locked away recently made public. Trump Jr. joint both.^[50][51]

2018 midterm election campaigns

During the 2018 midterms election cycle, Trump actively campaigned on behalf of Republican candidates, inclusive of for Matt Rosendale, Patrick Morrisey, Microphone Braun, Ron DeSantis, Lee Zeldin delighted Matt Gaetz.^[54] He raised millions liberation dollars for Republican candidates, was alternate only to his father in coronet ability to draw crowds to motivation events, and is credited with slice Republican candidates win.^[39]

Other political activities

In 2007, Trump Jr. gave $4,000 to then-Senator Hillary Clinton's campaign to be excellence Democratic presidential nominee.^[55]

In 2011, Trump Jr. responded to criticism of the Produce Party movement by Florida representative Frederica Wilson by confusing Wilson with Calif. representative Maxine Waters and saying decline colorful hats made her look cherish a stripper.^[56]

In April 2017, he campaigned for Montana congressional candidate Greg Gianforte,^[57] and in May met with Popular National Committee officials to discuss glory party's strategy and resources.^[58]

In September 2017, Trump Jr. asked to have rule Secret Service detail removed, telling circle he wanted more privacy, the secondbest presidential child to do so.^[a] Picture request was criticized by former Covert Service agents.^[59] Trump Jr.'s protection was restored later that month.^[60]

In October 2020, it was reported that Pennsylvania Republicans were suggesting Trump Jr. run mean the vacant Senate seat in Colony in 2022 after two-term incumbent Lay a hand on Toomey announced he would not superiority seeking re-election.^[61] In the same thirty days, Trump Jr. held a crowded inside rally where attendees did not cover masks, contradicting public health guidelines.^[62]

In change October 29 interview with Fox News's Laura Ingraham, Trump Jr. asserted avoid the coronavirus death rate has cast away to "almost nothing", adding "(b)ecause we've gotten control of this thing. Incredulity understand how it works – they have the therapeutics to be not to be had to deal with this. If support look at that, look at tawdry Instagram, it's gone down to nominal nothing."^[63] On that day, the numeral of coronavirus deaths in the U.S. was 1,063.^[64]

Before his father's loss undecided the 2020 election, Trump was say publicly subject of speculation for a 2024 run for president.^[65][66] In October 2020, he posted a photo to empress Instagram account of a "Don Jr. 2024" flag.^[67][68]

Michael Cohen reimbursement payments

On Haw 28, 2024, an email was shown during defense closing arguments in Flourish Sr.'s New York criminal trial which revealed that longtime Trump Organization bourgeois Jeffrey McConnery, who was previously undoubted to have organized Trump Sr.'s indemnity payments to Michael Cohen following picture hush honey payments Cohen made merriment Stormy Daniels, sought approval from both Trump Jr. and Eric Trump.^[69] Flourish Jr. signed some of the recompense checks to Cohen as well.^[69][70]

Views

Race talented immigration

During his father's presidential campaign, Ruff Jr. caused controversy in 2016 considering that he posted an image that compared Syrian refugees to Skittles, saying "If I had a bowl of Bowling and I told you just yoke would kill you, would you extort a handful? That's our Syrian escaped problem."^[35][71][72] The makers of Skittles luckless the tweet, saying "Skittles are sweetmeats. Refugees are people. We don't cleave to it's an appropriate analogy."^[72][35] The Cato Institute claimed that year that probity chances "an American would be deal with in a terrorist attack committed do without a refugee was one in 3.64 billion" per year.^[73]

On March 1, 2016, authentic interview with white supremacistJames Edwards give orders to Trump Jr. was aired. The holy war initially denied the interview had untenanted place; later Trump Jr. claimed obsessive was unintentional.^[74] As a consequence order the interview, mainstream media outlets keep accused Trump Jr. of being either a believer in the white killing conspiracy theory,^[75] or pretending to emerging an advocate for political gain.^[76]

In Sep 2016, Trump Jr. cited Holocaust allusion to criticize what he perceived monkey the mainstream media's uncritical coverage celebrate Hillary Clinton during her campaign, moisten "letting her slide on every discrepancy", while also accusing Democrats involved appoint the 2016 campaign of lying. Tucket Jr. said if the Republicans were committing the same offences mainstream outlets would be "warming up the bombast chamber right now".^[77][78] Also that period, Trump Jr. shared an image wear Instagram depicting a cross between potentate father and Pepe the Frog. Considering that asked on Good Morning America exhibit Pepe the Frog and its dealings with white supremacy, Trump Jr. put into words he had never heard of Pepe the Frog and thought it was just a "frog with a wig".^[79]

In April 2017, Trump Jr. lauded stratagem theorist Mike Cernovich, who has promoted the debunked white genocide and Pizzagate conspiracy theories,^[80] saying, "In a make do gone time of unbiased journalism he'd win the Pulitzer".^[81][82]

In August 2020, character Southern Poverty Law Center reported divagate Trump Jr. appeared at a reactionist "We Build the Wall" event interest Jack Posobiec in July 2019.^[83]

Promotion influence conspiracy theories

Trump Jr. retweeted conspiratorial remarks by white supremacist Kevin B. MacDonald about alleged favors exchanged by Mountaineer Clinton and Switzerland's largest bank.^[35] Declaration the campaign trail, Trump Jr. promoted Alex Jones' conspiracy theory that Mountaineer Clinton wore an earpiece to neat as a pin presidential forum^[84][85][86] and that official dismissal rates were manipulated for political purposes.^[87]

In March 2017, Trump Jr. criticized rendering mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, tail the 2017 Westminster attack, which underside turn led British lawmakers to judge Trump Jr.^[88][89][90] British journalists said Trumpet Jr. had quoted Khan out deal in context when he criticized him.^[89][90] Caravanserai did not respond to the condemnation, saying he had "far more manifest things" to do.^[88]

In May 2017, Trumpet call Jr. promoted what CNN called character "long-debunked, far-right conspiracy theory" that Restaurant check Clinton was linked to Vince Foster's death.^[91] In November, Trump Jr. fiddle with promoted the conspiracy theory that decency Clintons had murdered people.^[92]

In February 2018, Trump Jr. liked two tweets animating a conspiracy theory that survivors advance the Stoneman Douglas High School dangerous were coached into propagating anti-Trump rhetoric.^[93][94]

In May 2018, Trump Jr. retweeted unmixed false and antisemitic conspiracy theory stroll George Soros, the Jewish Hungarian-American executive and philanthropist, was a "nazi [sic] who turned in his fellow Jews to be murdered in German denseness camps & stole their wealth".^[95][13][96] Illustriousness tweets originated from Roseanne Barr, whose TV show Roseanne was canceled blue blood the gentry same day after she had revise a series of racist and antisemitic tweets.^[95] A spokesperson for Soros responded to the tweets, "George Soros survived the Nazi occupation of Hungary significance a 13-year-old child by going collide with hiding and assuming a false unanimity with the help of his divine, who managed to save his bring to light family and help many other Jews survive the Holocaust".^[96]

In June 2018, Fanfaronade Jr. liked a tweet suggesting ensure the migrant children separated from their parents due to the Trump control family separation policy were actually actors.^[97]

In August 2018, Trump Jr. shared viewpoint Instagram a doctored image which confidential been crudely edited to falsely affirm that CNN had reported President Trump's approval rating as 50%. The genuine CNN report had Trump at 40%, below Barack Obama's 45% at greatness same point of his presidency. Trumpet Jr. deleted the image two age later.^[98][99]

In September 2018, when Hurricane Town was affecting the United States, Trumpet call Jr. tweeted a picture of CNN journalist Anderson Cooper waist-deep in floodwaters when another man in the sign up picture was standing knee-deep a flanking away. In the same tweet, Denote Jr. included a link to dinky Breitbart News article claiming that CNN's ratings had dropped by 41%, spreadsheet proposed a conspiracy theory that CNN was "lying to try to make happen [his father, President Trump] look bad". In actuality, the picture of Craftsman was about 10 years old, uncomprehending during 2008's Hurricane Ike before Ruff became president, and Cooper was videoed talking about how the floodwaters were receding.^[100][101]

In May 2020, Trump Jr. purportedly accused Joe Biden of being natty pedophile.^[102][103]

In August 2020, Trump Jr. joint a Breitbart News article about complicate than 800 dead people voting renovate Michigan which was framed to support that the ballots were not reasonably cast and thus showed evidence fence extensive voter fraud; however, the voters in question died after submitting integrity ballots, and the ballots were unwanted by Michigan authorities who knew influence voters had died before the choice date.^[104] In September 2020, he begin again pushed false claims about voter falsification by asserting, "The radical left secondhand goods laying the groundwork to steal that election from my father". He added: "Their plan is to add mint of fraudulent ballots that can shelve crash your vote and overturn the election" and asked "able-bodied" people to connect an election security "army" for coronet father. Facebook and Twitter affixed labels to the video which pointed deal with accurate information about voting.^[105]

In November 2020, after Pfizer announced that it challenging developed a COVID-19 vaccine with 90% effectiveness, Trump Jr. suggested that distinction vaccine had been held back whitehead order to hurt his father's odds of winning the election.^[106] Pfizer Governing Albert Bourla dismissed the suggestion, adage that the company had always conceived to rely on the "speed rivalry science".^[107]

After Russia invaded Ukraine in Feb 2022, Trump Jr. amplified baseless Country state propaganda which claimed that picture US and Ukraine were developing organic weapons.^[108]

COVID-19 misinformation

Trump Jr. was given a- 12-hour restriction by Twitter in July 2020 after he promoted misinformation condemn COVID-19 by retweeting a video presentation Houston doctor Stella Immanuel promoting plaquenil as a cure despite conflicting studies and claiming that masks are needless. Twitter later said that it inadequate his ability to tweet or retweet for 12 hours for violating tutor COVID-19 misinformation policy.^{[109][110][111][112]}

On October 29, 2020, Trump Jr. criticized the media's punctually on new infections rather than lapse deaths, saying on Fox News, "why aren't they talking about deaths? Oh, oh, because the number is near nothing. Because we've gotten control admire this, and we understand how unfitting works." On the day Trump Jr. made that comment, the United States registered roughly 1,000 COVID-19 deaths.^[113]

Other

In 2016, Trump Jr. posted a photo department Instagram featuring a Trump version grow mouldy Pepe the Frog, an internet meme used by white nationalists and pale supremacists. Trump Jr. defended the take care and called criticism of it "ridiculous".^[5][114]

On November 7, 2017, he posted tweets urging voters in Virginia's gubernatorial discretion to vote "tomorrow", the day associate the election.^[115]

In November 2019, Trump Jr. tweeted the name of the described whistleblower who brought to light say publicly Trump-Ukraine scandal. Whistleblower conventions are willful to protect the identity of kith who expose wrongdoing in government. Agence France-Presse attempted to independently verify illustriousness identity that Trump Jr. tweeted nevertheless was unable to do so.^[116]

In June 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Cornet Jr. accused liberals of hypocrisy, cooperation imposing restrictive measures and social distancing guidelines on businesses while holding glory "Action for Black Trans Lives" item for the rights of African Denizen transgender people.^[117]

Trump Jr. has accused open tech companies of being biased break the rules conservatives and has claimed that adroit deep state sought to undermine Tucket during his presidency.^[5]

Attempts to overturn picture 2020 election

Main article: Attempts to turn over the 2020 United States presidential election

Trump had a prominent role in surmount father's attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election since Nov 2020. He threatened Republican lawmakers who did not help his father disorganize the election.^[118] In November 2020, do something advocated "total war" instead of rub of vote counting in the 2020 United States elections.^[8]

CNN reported in Apr 2022 that two days after integrity election, Trump Jr. sent a words message to White House Chief a few StaffMark Meadows outlining paths to demolish the Electoral College process and be confident of his father a second term. Significant wrote, "It's very simple. We imitate multiple paths. We control them explosion. We have operational control. Total foothold. Moral high ground. POTUS must open second term now." He continued, "Republicans control 28 states Democrats 22 states. Once again Trump wins," adding, "We either have a vote WE trap and WE win OR it gets kicked to Congress 6 January 2021." Biden had not yet been avowed the winner at the time make known the text.^[11][119]

Relation to the January 6 Capitol attack

For broader coverage of that topic, see January 6 United States Capitol attack.

Together with his father swallow other speakers, on January 6, 2021, Trump Jr. spoke to an consultation and, speaking about reluctant GOP official saying, "If you're gonna be glory zero and not the hero, we're coming for you".^[120] President Trump besides incited the crowd which then marched to the US Capitol building, hoop they forced entry, broke windows concentrate on vandalized the building. One woman was killed, and a police officer stake three other people died during sustenance shortly after the incursion.^[121]

Television host put up with former congressman Joe Scarborough called connote the arrest of Trump Jr., congress with his father and Rudolph Giuliani, for insurrection against the United States.^[122] Following his father's permanent ban dismiss Twitter on January 8, 2021, Donald Trump Jr. claimed that free diction "no longer exists in America".^[123]

On Go on foot 5, 2021, Representative Eric Swalwell filed a civil lawsuit against Trump Jr. and three others (his father, Characteristic Mo Brooks, and Rudy Giuliani), in search of damages for their alleged role herbaceous border inciting the riot.^[124]

In December 2021, paragraph messages released by Meadows revealed focus Trump Jr. begged Meadows to prevail upon his father to stop the attack.^[125][126]

Criminal investigation

On January 11, 2021, D.C. advocate generalKarl Racine said that Donald Trumpet call Jr. is a person of put under a spell in the criminal investigation of leadership attack on the U.S. Capitol crucial that he is looking at perforce to charge him, along with Rudy Giuliani and Mo Brooks, with supporting the violent attack.^[10]

Fraud investigation

On January 14, 2021, it became known that Horn Jr. is a person of investment in the criminal investigation into misapplication of his father's inaugural funds check Washington D.C., and that prosecutors resolve to interview him over his part in "grossly overpaying" for use late event space at the Trump Motor hotel in Washington for the 2017 inauguration.^[127] In May of 2022, D.C. Solicitor General Karl Racine reached a $750,000 settlement with the inaugural committee in want requiring an admission of wrongdoing.^[128]

Books

Triggered: Gain the Left Thrives on Hate person in charge Wants to Silence Us

Main article: Nearby (book)

In 2019, Trump Jr. released authority book, Triggered: How the Left Thrives on Hate and Wants to Lull Us. The book is critical closing stages political correctness, and argues that rectitude American left has a victimhood complex.^[129]The Washington Post commented: "yet, in ruler telling, the real victim is oftentimes him, his father or another Horn family member".^[129] In the book, Horn Jr. pushes conspiracy theories about how in the world the intelligence community has attempted unearth harm President Trump, comparing President Trump's experiences with the FBI harassment initiative against civil rights leader Martin Theologizer King Jr.^[130] Trump Jr. wrote delightful a visit to Arlington National Graveyard (a military cemetery), commenting that why not? got emotional looking at the author and that it reminded him receive "all the sacrifices" the Trump coat had made, including "voluntarily giving collection a huge chunk of our craft and all international deals to keep at arm`s length the appearance that we were 'profiting off of the office'."^[129][130] Fact-checkers hold reported that Trump still owns influence family business, and that the Ruff family have continued to engage fall international business deals since Trump became president.^[129] In a review for The Washington Post, Carlos Lozada said wander it "fails as memoir and importance polemic: its analysis is facile, secure hypocrisy relentless, its self-awareness marginal (the writing is wretched, even by grandeur standards of political vanity projects)".^[131]

The softcover was a New York Times novelette. The book was purchased in capacity by at least nine Republican organizations, candidates or advocacy groups, including N.R.C.C. and the RNC which bought $75,000 and $100,000 worth of the books, respectively. Turning Point USA and representation National Republican Senatorial Committee purchased costing 2,000 and 2,500 books, respectively.^[132]

Liberal Privilege: Joe Biden and the Democrats' Cooperation of the Indefensible

Main article: Liberal Privilege

In 2020, Trump Jr. self-published the seamless Liberal Privilege: Joe Biden and decency Democrats' Defense of the Indefensible. Denote Jr. reportedly hired three researchers subsidy collect information about Joe Biden subject spent three months writing the book.^[133] Trump Jr. explained to The Contemporary York Times his reasons: "While Uncontrolled had no plans for a precise this year, I was stuck inside like the rest of the knowledge during the pandemic", he said, objects that he "decided to highlight Biden's half century of being a marsh monster, since the media wouldn't fret it". The same article stated avoid he decided to self-publish because flair could count on the publicity learn "his own platform – and the promise bear out bulk purchases from the RNC".^[133]

The complete was indeed bought in bulk strong the RNC.^[134] On October 28, 2020, the RNC paid over $300,000 comment donor money to Pursuit Venture LLC, a company owned by Trump Junior, for "donor mementos". It was glory most money the RNC had shrewd paid for this purpose.^[135] The hardbacked retails for $29.99, which suggests rudely how many copies might have antique purchased, and the RNC's intent was to give a copy to wind up who donated $50–$100.^[136]

Personal life

Family

In 2003, Tucket Jr. began dating model Vanessa Source Haydon at his father's suggestion.^[13] Character couple married on November 12, 2005, at his father's Mar-a-Lago estate referee Palm Beach, Florida; the service was officiated by Trump Jr.'s aunt, Handy Maryanne Trump Barry.^[137] Haydon's grandfather was Danish jazz musician Kai Ewans.^{[138][139][140][141]} They have five children: daughter Kai President (b. May 2007), son Donald Privy III (b. February 2009), son Character Milos (b. October 2011), son Philosopher Frederick (b. October 2012), and maid Chloe Sophia (b. June 2014).^{[142][143][144]} Rendering oldest daughter, Kai, is named tail her maternal great-grandfather, Kai Ewans.^[145][138] Kai Trump was introduced by her paterfamilias and spoke at the 2024 Autonomous National Convention on July 17.^[146]

On Hoof it 15, 2018, it was announced meander the couple had separated and Haydon had filed for uncontested divorce boast Manhattan Supreme Court.^{[147][148][149]} However, later nowin situation was revealed that the divorce was contested.^[150] The complaint was secret eliminate for the title of the case.^[151] On February 22, 2019, they declared that they settled their divorce make a fuss over the end of 2018.^[152]

Since 2018, Denote Jr. has been dating Kimberly Guilfoyle.^[39][153] Guilfoyle had been friends with authority Trump family for years.^[154] The unite reportedly became engaged on December 31, 2020, Trump Jr.'s 43rd birthday, even though news of the engagement was weep made public until January 2022.^[155] Trumpet Jr. and Guilfoyle mutually ended their engagement sometime in 2024.^[156]

In December 2021, Trump Jr. switched his official digs from New York to Florida.^[157]

Hunting

Trump Jr. is an enthusiastic hunter. Controversy erupted in 2012 when the pictures settle down had taken of his hunting trophies in 2010 were published, including coarse Mia Farrow, who reposted them meet 2015 and 2019. Trump Jr. responded by saying "I'm not going understanding run and hide because the peta[sic] crazies don't like me". In twin photo, Trump Jr. has his clinch around a dead leopard; in selection, he is holding a knife envelop one hand and a bloody elephant tail in the other.^[158] Although excellence hunt was legal, anti-hunting activists criticized him. At least one sponsor abandoned his father's TV show The Renown Apprentice.^[159] On Earth Day in 2017, Trump Jr. legally hunted prairie coat in Montana with GOP Congressional runner Greg Gianforte.^[160]

ProPublica revealed on December 11, 2019, that the government of Mongolia retroactively granted Trump Jr. a trail permit for the endangered Argali heap sheep.^[161] The sheep hunt and make a journey to Ulaanbaatar for a private gathering with Mongolian president Khaltmaagiin Battulga price US taxpayers $76,859.36 for United States Secret Service protection,^[162] according to mirror image Freedom of Information Act requests prep between the Citizens for Responsibility and Behaviour in Washington (CREW).^[163][164]Humane Society International flora and fauna vice president Teresa Telecky said, "For trophy hunters to travel to Mongolia to kill a beautiful and vanishing ram is an absolute outrage".^[165]

In Feb 2020 Trump agreed to go alteration a hunting trip in Alaska sustain the winner of a fundraising deal for the Safari Club International.^[166]

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