Greg Kelly did the job the rest of the media refuses to do: he put Eric Trump’s new memoir on the table and forced a conversation about what happened in early January 2017 — the moment our institutions began turning on an elected president. Kelly played a passage from Eric’s book and asked the obvious question conservatives have long been afraid to say out loud: why didn’t America debate what Chuck Schumer warned about back then?
Eric Trump’s memoir, Under Siege, lays out the same pattern millions of Americans already suspect — constant legal assaults, media smears, and what he calls coordinated pressure that pushed his family and their movement to the brink. The book’s rollout has been mocked by the usual late-night mobs, but it also shot to the top of bestseller lists and is being discussed on conservative platforms for a reason: it amplifies a truth the mainstream won’t.
Remember January 3, 2017: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer warned on Rachel Maddow, “you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday to get back at you.” That line wasn’t a throwaway soundbite; it was an admission from a powerful senator that unelected institutions can and will flex power when politically motivated, and Americans deserve to parse what that means for our republic.
Conservatives aren’t conspiracy theorists for pointing this out — we’re patriots demanding accountability. Eric Trump’s account, and Kelly’s insistence on airing it, show a pattern of surveillance, secrecy, and selective outrage that the left-wing press has covered up while weaponizing institutions against political opponents. The proof isn’t just in rhetoric; it’s in raids, subpoenas, and the endless legal harassment documented by the family and reported on outlets that still answer to facts.
Had there been a real national conversation after January 3, 2017, we might have forced reforms to ensure intelligence agencies serve the people and the Constitution — not political vendettas. Instead, the narrative was controlled, the story buried, and millions of Americans were left wondering whether the country’s most powerful bureaucracies answer to voters or to their own partisan interests.
Now is the time for action: demand hearings, demand transparency, and demand reforms that restore civilian control and constitutional oversight. Greg Kelly did his duty by putting the moment back in front of the public, and patriots across the country should take that moment and turn it into a movement for accountability in Washington.