Eric Trump visits FOX Business Network’s Maria Bartiromo at FOX Studios on October 4, 2016 in New York City. Image by Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images

By Aiden Pink September 12, 2018

President Trump’s son Eric accused journalist Bob Woodward of trying to “make three extra shekels” with his new book, a turn of phrase that many have accused of having anti-Semitic undertones.

Woodward’s book “Fear,” which portrays the Trump and his administration as being incompetent and corrupt, has been slammed by White House figures and allies for relying on anonymous sources. Appearing on his father’s favorite TV show “Fox & Friends” on Wednesday, Eric Trump continued on that vein.

“You can write some sensational, nonsense book, CNN will definitely have you on there because they love to trash the president,” Trump said. “It’ll mean you sell three extra books, you make three extra shekels, at the behest of the American people, at the behest of our country, that’s doing a phenomenal job by every quantifiable metric. Is that really where we are?”

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ERIC TRUMP attacks Democrats: “Anti-law enforcement, high taxes, and elimination of plastic straws is not a message that will win in November.”

ERIC TRUMP then dismisses WOODWARD book as “sensational nonsense” he wrote “to make 3 extra shekels.” pic.twitter.com/GuTXMpPLHG

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 12, 2018

It is unclear why Eric Trump used the Israeli currency to refer to the book’s record-breaking sales: Woodward is not Jewish — though Trump’s sister Ivanka is.

Contact Aiden Pink at [email protected] or on Twitter, @aidenpink

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