Trump accuses Biden of personally getting ‘a lot of money’ from Hunter’s overseas business deals

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by Victor Nava

Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday accused President Biden of personally benefiting from his eldest son Hunter Biden’s overseas business dealings, citing the commander-in-chief’s real estate portfolio as potential evidence.

Republican front-runner talks about his response to people who claim there is no evidence Joe Biden, 81, received any financial benefit from Biden at a town hall event in Greenville, South Carolina on Fox News after being asked a question by host Laura Ingraham. My 53 year old son’s influence peddling operation.

“Well, he’s got a bunch of houses all over the place, but he’s never been paid more than $179,000,” Trump said, incorrectly stating Biden’s income.

The former president put it even more clearly:

“He got a lot of money. Hunter got a lot of money. Hunter gets paid millions of dollars just to sit on the Energy Commission and he knows nothing about energy. “I admit that we don’t have one,” President Trump said.

The eldest son was appointed to the board of Ukrainian energy giant Burisma Holdings, which paid Hunter up to $1 million a year, for five years starting in April 2014, as his father took over leadership of U.S. policy toward Ukraine as vice president. Worked.

Biden’s annual salary as president is $400,000. During his eight years as Barack Obama’s vice president, Biden earned about $235,000 a year. And Biden’s highest salary during his 36 years in the Senate was just over $169,000 a year in 2008.

But during his time as vice president and president from 2017 to 2019, Biden made more than $16.5 million in book deals and large payments for speaking engagements.

The president currently owns two properties in Delaware. One is a 6,850-square-foot mansion in Wilmington that was purchased for $350,000 in 1998 and is now worth at least $2 million, and the other is a 4,800-square-foot mansion in Rehoboth Beach that was purchased for $2.74 million. It is a villa. In 2017.

Biden rented a 12,000-square-foot home in McLean, Virginia, in 2017 for an estimated $20,000 a month.

House Republicans leading the impeachment inquiry into the president’s family’s alleged involvement in business dealings have long offered bank statements to prove Trump did not benefit financially from the operation. I asked for it.

President Biden has repeatedly claimed he has “never spoken” to his family about business, and in December claimed he has “no interaction” with foreign business associates, although he has repeatedly said he has. Despite the evidence.