Eric Trump Eric Frederick TrumpBipartisan praise pours in after Ginsburg's death Eric Trump says he will comply with New York AG's subpoena only after Election Day Trump luxury properties have charged US government .1M since inauguration: report MORE, one of President Trump’s sons, is defending Sean Hannity Sean Patrick Hannity Cruz: Trump should nominate a Supreme Court justice next week Ex-Pence aide: Trump spent 45 minutes of task force meeting 'going off on Tucker Carlson' instead of talking coronavirus Trump ABC town hall pulls in fewer viewers than 'America's Got Talent,' NBA, Fox News MORE, telling Fox News that "there is no better patriot in the world."

“By the way, there is no better patriot in the world than Sean Hannity,” Eric Trump told “Fox and Friends.” “I mean, he’s just a great, great man.”

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In an interview broadcast over the weekend, Ted Koppel told Hannity that he believes the Fox News host and other opinion shows are bad for America.

"Yeah," Koppel said. "In the long haul, I think you and all these opinion shows" are.

Eric Trump in the Fox News interview said strong beliefs like Hannity's “get America to a great place.”

“He has strong beliefs,” Trump said. “And you know, beliefs are what get America to a great place — beliefs on, quite frankly, both sides of the aisle.”