Donald Trump: This is how his children tweet against the damage to their image

Donald Trump
This is how his children tweet against the damage to their image

Eric Trump (l.), Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr. in 2016.

Eric Trump (left), Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr. in 2016.

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After Trump supporters storm the US Capitol, the Trump children try to limit the damage to the image of the party and family.

While Trump supporters stormed the Capitol, spurred on by the incumbent US president, Trump's children tried to limit the damage. Ivanka Trump, 39, her father's advisor, wrote on Twitter: "American patriots, violating security or disregarding our law enforcement agencies is unacceptable. The violence must stop immediately. Please be peaceful."

The tweet has now been deleted – probably because it ennobled the violent rioters to "patriots". When asked if she would call these people patriots, she wrote afterwards: "No. Peaceful protest is patriotic. Violence is unacceptable and must be strongly condemned."

Around the same time, her brother Eric Trump (37), Vice President of the Trump Organization, wrote also on Twitter: "We are the Law & Order Party (law and order) – whoever crosses this red line will be prosecuted with all the severity of the law." Before that, however, he himself had called "to fight". In a TV interview, for example, he said that the career of any senator or congressional politician who did not fight on Wednesday would be over.

"You can be a hero or a zero"

Donald Trump Jr., 43, attended the pre-siege rally of the Capitol and warned, "You have an opportunity today. You can be a hero or you can be a zero. The choice is yours. But we're all watching." The whole world is watching people. Choose wisely. " At about the same time as his siblings, he also tried in retrospect Limit the damage and tweeted: "That is wrong and we are not like that. (…) We have a country to save and that doesn't help."

Donald Trump (74) had incited his followers himself with all rhetorical means. During the storming of the Capitol, he wrote on Twitter, among other things: "These are things and events that happen when a landslide victory is suddenly and viciously stolen." In a video he shared on Twitter, he urged his supporters to remain peaceful, but reiterated his unfounded allegations of fraud against the election and said, "You are very special. We love you." The video was deleted from Twitter – and the account of the incumbent US President was blocked for the first time for twelve hours.

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