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Hunter Biden Slams Trump Family on X, Cites Corruption Allegations

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Hunter Biden used X to accuse the Trump family of corruption, comparing them to King George III and listing alleged conflicts of interest involving Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump, and Jared Kushner, while defending his own business dealings.

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Hunter Biden used X to accuse the Trump family of corruption, drawing parallels to the colonial era and citing numerous alleged conflicts of interest. Donald Trump defended his family's business operations.

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Hunter Biden has used America’s 250th birthday celebrations to lash out at Donald Trump and his family on X, producing a laundry list of corruption allegations against them.

“I hope everyone had a great 4th of July,” he began. “I know Donald Trump and family did. 250 years ago we declared independence from a king who ran the colonies as a family business. In just 18 months the Trumps have made King George look like an amateur.”

From there, the son of Trump’s predecessor Joe Biden went on to list a series of potential conflicts of interest pertaining to the Republican’s sons Donald Trump Jr and Eric Trump, executives at the Trump Organization.

Biden cited a $620 million Pentagon loan being given to a company Don Jr had invested in three months prior, a drone startup he and his brother founded receiving a lucrative contract from the U.S. Air Force, the Army ordering drone motors from another company on whose board Don Jr sits and the Pentagon handing a $24 million robotics contract to a company that employs Eric as its chief strategy adviser.

He also pointed to their brother-in-law Jared Kushner’s business ventures receiving investments from Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states, noting that Kushner, a top Trump administration diplomat, “negotiates American foreign policy with the governments that pay him”.

Biden further referenced financial disclosures published last week revealing the extent to which the president’s wealth had grown over the course of his first year back in office, which included $1.4 billion in cryptocurrency earnings.

“More than a million people bought in and lost $2.3 billion,” he wrote. “The money didn’t grow. It simply moved from the subject’s pockets to the crown’s coffers.”

Biden concluded his attack by claiming that Don Jr stands to gain from a change to firearms legislation allowing delivery by mail and said: “That’s only the fraction they’ve allowed us to see. Not one subpoena served. Not one search executed. Why hide anything when you own the investigators?

“Me? They searched a laptop for six years. Federal prosecutors. Grand juries. Subpoena power. Congressional hearings. They found nothing. I made about $200k a year selling paintings when my Dad was president, and they made my paintings part of an impeachment inquiry.

“For six years they’ve asked where’s Hunter? What about the laptop? Wrong questions. The right one is 250 years old. Does America belong to a family? They’ve given their answer. Long live the King.”

The Independent has reached out to the White House and the Trump Organization for comment.

White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly told The Independent last month of the Pentagon loan alluded to by Biden: “All actions by President Trump and his administration are taken in the best interest of the American people – and any so-called ‘reporters’ pushing otherwise are recycling the same, tired narrative that Democrats and the legacy media have been pushing for a decade.”

Ahead of the weekend’s Fourth of July celebrations, marking the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the president gave an interview to CNBC in which he defended his family against allegations of corruption.

Trump insisted he had no knowledge of his son’s cryptocurrency dealings and that his family business existed and operated entirely apart from his administration.

“I could know about it,” Trump told anchor Joe Kernen Thursday. “I didn’t. There’s nothing illegal. There’s nothing wrong with it.”

Asked about accusations that he had used the presidency to enrich himself, he said: “I don’t do anything having to do with my business. My kids run it.

“I have a lot of money… I made a tremendous amount of money. I let people invest it. I don’t even know who they are. But it’s given to big firms… My son Eric handles it.”

Biden, an enduring hate figure to Trump’s MAGA movement who has long been the subject of Republican conspiracy theories and congressional probes, only joined X in May but has already won fans for his sharp political putdowns and self-deprecating jokes about his past problems with narcotics abuse.

Open Questions

  • What is the full extent of the Trump family's business dealings?
  • Will further investigations into alleged corruption occur?

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This article was originally published by The Independent World.

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