Eric Trump wants his father to focus on Clinton

Eric Trump, the son of GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, says he wants his father to focus his attacks on Hillary Clinton.

{mosads}”I do agree with Kellyanne last night in that it’s a tennis match and the whole thing is pointing at Hillary,” Eric Trump said Tuesday in a radio interview for Fox’s “Kilmeade and Friends.”

His comments come after new Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said the billionaire should not get distracted from targeting Clinton, his Democratic rival.

Conway told Fox News on Monday night that “if it’s up to me, he’s in a tennis match with Hillary Clinton. He’s lobbing and shooting aces at her all day long.”

“We don’t pick a fight with the ref, we don’t boo the crowd, because we’re absolutely back in Hillary Clinton’s head,” she added.

But the younger Trump also defended his father for taking on all critics, and said he wouldn’t sit back if he thinks he’s being treated unfairly.

“At the same time, my father’s a fighter,” Eric Trump said Tuesday.

He accused the media of “total dishonesty” and said journalists were focused on the “24-hour news cycle” and ratings.

Trump sent a pair of tweets on Monday going after the co-hosts of “Morning Joe,” the popular morning political program on MSNBC. He called Mika Brzezinski “neurotic” and “not very bright,” then implied a romantic relationship between her and co-host Joe Scarborough. 

“Neurotic and not very bright? Look in the mirror,” Scarborough tweeted back, adding that Clinton was “targeting key swing states” while Trump was “obsessed with cable news hosts.”

“We’ve known them for a very long time,” Eric Trump said Tuesday of the MSNBC hosts. “I think there’s a difference between honest reporting … versus sometimes dishonest reporting.

“I think he would be the first one to say, ‘Maybe I should let certain things roll off my chest,'” Eric Trump said of his father. “I give him a lot of credit for standing up for himself.”