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Hunter Biden weighs in on reports the Trump family is profiting from his presidency: ‘Their hypocrisy knows no bounds’
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Hunter Biden has weighed in on President Donald Trump and his family allegedly profiteering from the presidency and riding roughshod over conflict-of-interest concerns raised by his return to power.
In a new interview with Luke Radel for MeidasTouch, Biden was asked about members of the Trump family “profiting” from controlling the levers of power, with the president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner’s, regular involvement in peace talks in parts of the world where he has real estate interests given as an example.
“Yeah, their hypocrisy knows no bounds, is the way that I look at it,” he answered. “It’s almost too much to keep up with, every single day, whether it’s the World Liberty Financial news that just came out, how they took loans against their own token.”
He was referring to CoinDesk’s report last week alleging that the family’s cryptocurrency venture used 5 billion of its own tokens to borrow $75 million on the Dolemite leading platform, which was co-founded by WLF adviser Corey Caplan.
Biden went on to stress that he was not opposed to crypto per se and believes “the blockchain is the future” and that Democrats should take a more enlightened view on the matter to reach younger voters, but felt the Trumps had been allowed to steal a march on the sector and had “corrupted it, almost completely.”
He continued: “Whether it’s Don Jr’s pay-for-play executive club in Georgetown or whether it’s the defense contracts that they’re getting for startup drone companies with Israeli technology or building towers in Saudi Arabia and in the Emirates…
“It’s just literally… almost on a daily basis, you realize that, as I’ve said to people, I will be surprised when they leave the White House if they have not taken the copper pipes out of the walls.”
Reuters reported Tuesday that Eric Trump will be accompanying his father on his diplomatic mission to China in mid-May.
The Independent has reached out to the White House and the Trump Organization for comment.
The troubled son of former president Joe Biden endured years of baseless smears from Trump about his alleged influence peddling and was the subject of a spurious investigation led by House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer into what he called “the Biden crime family,” which ultimately yielded no proof of wrongdoing or charges.
The feud between the two families was revived last week when Hunter Biden unexpectedly challenged Donald Trump Jr and Eric Trump, who are running the Trump Organization while their father is in the White House, to a cage fight.
Elsewhere in the interview, Hunter Biden said he was “disappointed in much of the Democratic Party and the leadership in Congress and the United States Senate” over the failure, so far, to stand up to Trump.
He added that he was looking at state governors Gavin Newsom, Josh Shapiro, and Andy Beshear as possible Democratic presidential nominees for 2028, and said he had been “absolutely completely inspired” by Zohran Mamdani’s winning campaign to become New York City mayor late last year.
Biden was also asked whether he believed there should be reforms to the presidential pardon system, given Trump’s liberal use of it.
“To be honest, I don’t know whether I can be the one to fairly assess that,” he answered carefully, having received a pardon from his own father. “Obviously, I’m completely biased as it relates to what my dad did for me.”
He then added, “I don’t think that the founders ever imagined Donald Trump. I don’t think they ever imagined the Trump family.”