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.