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President Donald Trump‘s son took a swipe at the Democratic Party in an appearance on Fox News Saturday, suspecting that Democratic governors are using the coronavirus pandemic to clamp down on his reelection efforts.

Eric Trump, the third child from Trump’s first marriage, told Fox News host Jeanine Pirro he believes that state shelter-in-place restrictions designed to fight the ongoing coronavirus pandemic are actually methods by Democrats to decrease his Republican father’s ability to hold campaign rallies.

The younger Trump said in the “Justice with Judge Jeanine” segment that the lockdowns forbidding large gatherings is a “cognizant strategy that they’re trying to employ” to impede the president’s ability to address his supporters at large rallies.

“Their campaign is thrilled that he isn’t going out there because they think they’re taking away Donald Trump’s greatest tool, which is being able to go into an arena and fill it with 50,000 people every single time.”

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As a result, Trump told Pirro that he thinks the coronavirus pandemic will instantly cease once the presidential election is over.