Hunter Biden hit Donald Trump Jr. during a television appearance Thursday night: the last shot in an ongoing word war between the first two children.
Young Biden made the remarks during his appearance on ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live” program, after being asked by the host if he was going “crazy” for “listening to someone like Donald Trump Jr.” stating that there is a double standard between the scrutiny the two receive.
Biden said, “It’s tremendously comical, that is, in light,” that Don Jr. would argue that he would have criminal liability if he engaged in the same business that Hunter Biden does.
The 51-year-old, who was participating in the show promoting his new memoirs “Beautiful Things,” which was published this week, said he had “learned” not to “spend too much time thinking about them,” probably in reference to Trump. family and other political enemies.
“Yeah, I think about it all the time,” Kimmel replied, non-jokingly.
While promoting his volume this week, the first child made headlines to say he probably ended up smoking “Parmesan cheese” while crawling the carpet looking for crack cocaine.
Trump Jr., a frequent critic of his first fellow son, dragged Biden through the revelation in a series of posts on Instagram, the most recent of which was posted Thursday.
Asked by Kimmel if he had ever met the younger Trump, Biden said he thought not.
“It’s not that I know it, but I’ve been in some pretty tough places.”
In the final months of the heated 2020 presidential race, The Post revealed a slew of emails from Hunter Biden’s laptop asking questions about his then-candidate father’s ties to his son’s foreign companies, including Burisma. , a Ukrainian natural gas company linked to corruption. .
In December, young Biden announced through the Biden transition team that he was under federal investigation, which is believed to be focused on tax fraud.
Last September, Senate Republicans revealed, through the findings of their investigation into young Biden’s overseas trade relations, that at the time the Obama administration ignored “warning signs” about the his appointment to the board.
His position with the energy company, which reportedly paid him “up to $ 50,000 a month,” “created a potential immediate conflict of interest,” as his father was the “main man” in US policy. United States to Ukraine, according to the report.
In addition to his Ukrainian connections, other emails on the computer showed Hunter discussing possible business with China’s largest private power company, including a 10 percent share for “the big one,” which was later confirmed by former Hunter partner Tony Bobulinski Joe Biden.
Younger Biden has denied any illegal offense and says he is not working on a lawsuit in the justice department
Trump Jr., for his part, has argued that the scrutiny Hunter would face would be much greater if the names of Trump and Biden were changed and the circumstances were the same.