Former President Trump accused Hunter Biden of selling his work at high prices during a Fox News town hall in Iowa on Wednesday night.
President Trump said, “I can't accept $8 million for doing nothing like Hunter.'' “I don't know. I don't get paid $500,000. I don't get paid $500,000 for painting. If you can get away with it, I think it's not a bad idea. I said it wasn't going to happen. When I heard that,
“You know, there was a compensation case against me, and the radical left sued me for it, and I won.”
President Trump was responding to questions about accusations by Democrats that he illegally profited from his businesses while in office.
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“I own hotels all over the world, but I'm not getting free money,” Trump said. “Someone rented a hotel room, etc. I gave a lot of money back. In fact, I didn't have to do that. You know, George Washington was a very wealthy man. People. doesn't know that, his essence is, “The White House wasn't built, but there was an office, his business desk and his country desk next to him. It has been. I didn’t.”
“I trust everything. And if I have a hotel and someone comes from China, it's a small amount of money. And it sounds like a lot of money. It's a small amount of money. But… I was in service for that, people are staying in these huge hotels, beautiful hotels, I have the best hotels, I have the best clubs, I have the best clubs. It’s because there’s something great there, and they stay there and they pay the money.”
Fox News Digital reached out to Hunter Biden's legal team for comment, but did not immediately receive a response.
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Republican investigators Hunter Biden's The artist's career, which began in recent years, has created a conflict of interest between wealthy buyers and the White House.
Hunter Biden's art dealer told House members on Tuesday that he has never discussed the painting with the White House, which seemingly contradicts the White House's past statements on the matter.
Trump has previously criticized the Justice Department. Hunter Biden was charged in mid-September with a “single crime” that did not “involve” President Joe Biden.
Biden's son was indicted on September 14 on charges of making false statements and illegal possession of a firearm.
Trump claimed in a post on Truth Social at the time that the gun charge was “the only crime committed by Hunter Biden that Crooked Joe Biden was not involved in.”
Hunter Biden purchased the weapon in 2018 while admitting he was suffering from a crack cocaine addiction, according to an indictment filed in federal court in Delaware by the special counsel overseeing the case. He was accused of lying about his drug use.
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President Joe Biden speaks at a National Institutes of Health (NIH) event on Thursday, December 14, 2023, in Bethesda, Maryland, USA. (Chris Kleponis/CNP/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
At the end of the year, Trump fired another shot. He criticized Hunter Biden for failing to give a closed-door congressional deposition in mid-December, joking that the president's heir “went to the wrong part” of the Capitol. The former president joked that Hunter went to the Senate side of the Capitol when he was supposed to. He went to House's side.
FOX News' Gabriele Regalbut, Elizabeth Elkind, Andrew Murray, Paul Steinhauser and Houston Keene contributed to this report.
