For years, Hunter Biden was the favorite target of Donald Trump, congressional Republicans, and conservative media. Now, he’s returning the favor.
In a lengthy Fourth of July thread on X, Hunter Biden flipped the script, accusing Trump and his family of using the presidency to enrich themselves while arguing that the scrutiny directed at him has been conspicuously absent when it comes to the Trumps.
His opening salvo set the tone.
“I hope everyone had a great 4th of July,” Biden wrote. “I know Donald Trump and family did. Two hundred and fifty 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 III look like an amateur.”
From there, Biden laid out a devastating list of corruption allegations and publicly reported examples involving Trump’s family and business associates.
Among the examples he cited were reports that:
1) Donald Trump Jr. invested in a defense company before it received a reported $620 million Pentagon-backed loan.
2) A drone startup founded by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump later secured a contract with the U.S. Air Force.
3) Another company where Donald Trump Jr. serves on the board received Army business.
4) A robotics company employing Eric Trump as chief strategy adviser landed a reported $24 million Pentagon contract.
5) Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and former senior adviser, has received major investments from Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states after serving as one of the administration’s top diplomats.
Hunter also pointed to financial disclosures released last week showing Trump’s wealth grew substantially during his first year back in office, including roughly $1.4 billion in cryptocurrency income.
“More than a million people bought in and lost $2.3 billion,” Biden wrote. “The money didn’t grow. It simply moved from the subjects’ pockets to the crown’s coffers.”
Then came the comparison Hunter clearly wanted readers to notice.
For years, Republicans investigated nearly every aspect of his life—from his laptop and business dealings to even the paintings he sold while his father was president.
Hunter argued that no comparable level of scrutiny has been directed at Trump’s family despite their expanding business interests.
“Me? They searched a laptop for six years. Federal prosecutors. Grand juries. Subpoena power. Congressional hearings. They found nothing,” he wrote. “I made about $200k a year selling paintings when my Dad was president, and they made my paintings part of an impeachment inquiry.”
He closed by reframing what he believes Americans should be asking.
“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.”
Hunter’s broadside came just days after Trump defended his family’s business dealings during an interview with CNBC.
Asked whether he had used the presidency to enrich himself, Trump rejected the accusation.
“I don’t do anything having to do with my business. My kids run it,” Trump said. “I have a lot of money… I made a tremendous amount of money.”
Trump also said he had no knowledge of some of his family’s cryptocurrency ventures and insisted there was “nothing illegal” about them.
The White House has likewise rejected allegations that administration decisions have benefited the Trump family’s business interests. White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly previously dismissed criticism over a Pentagon-backed loan tied to a company in which Donald Trump Jr. had invested, calling it another attempt by Democrats and the “legacy media” to recycle old attacks.
Whether Hunter Biden’s thread changes the political conversation remains to be seen.
But after years of being the favorite target of Republican investigations, he’s making it clear he has no intention of quietly sitting on the sidelines.
Instead, he’s turning the spotlight back on the Trump family, and challenging Americans to apply the same scrutiny to them that he says was applied to him.es.
