Trump Jr. says he could ‘make millions’ if he was Hunter Biden

Donald Trump Jr. on Wednesday railed against the son of former Vice President Joe Biden over his foreign business dealings, claiming that if his name was Hunter Biden he could go abroad and make millions. 

“I wish my name was Hunter Biden. I could go abroad, make millions off my father’s presidency,” Trump Jr. said in an appearance on Sean Hannity’s Fox News program. “I’d be a really rich guy.”

{mosads}Trump Jr. went on to argue that a double standard is at work amid the controversy over the Trump administration’s interactions with Ukraine.

The House’s impeachment inquiry centers around a whistleblower complaint that accuses President Trump of pressuring the Ukrainian president to investigate the Biden family over unfounded allegations of corruption. 

“If I took a no-show job for a business I knew nothing about, in a language I didn’t speak, in a country like Ukraine, where my dad says we’re going to hold billions of taxpayer dollars if you don’t get rid of a prosecutor investigating me, the media would end themselves,” Trump Jr. said, referring to Biden’s work as vice president to oust a Ukrainian prosecutor who was investigating an an energy company that Hunter Biden sat on the board of. There is no evidence that Biden was working in his son’s interest.

Actually just said by Donald Trump Jr: “I wish my name was Hunter Biden. I could go abroad and make millions off my father’s presidency. I’d be a really rich guy” pic.twitter.com/9ohFDbwJn4

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“They’d have an aneurysm. We’d have an end to the fake news problem. That’s the double standard that we’re living under right now, and that’s the double standard the American people are all sick and tired of.”

Trump Jr., who now oversees the Trump Organization, has been one of the most vocal critics of Hunter Biden in recent months. Both he and his brother, Eric Trump, the executive vice president of the Trump Organization, have repeatedly claimed that Hunter Biden only landed lucrative positions in Ukraine and China because of his father’s position as vice president. 

“Why is it that every family goes into politics and enriches themselves?” Eric Trump asked on Fox News earlier this month.

Hunter Biden has pushed back against the accusations of wrongdoing, saying in an ABC interview earlier this month that he did nothing improper by serving on the board of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma Holdings. Though he has acknowledged that taking the position may have shown “poor judgment.”

Meanwhile, Trump Jr. and Eric Trump have faced charges of hypocrisy, with some critics noting that the Trump Organization has attracted business from foreign lobbyists since President Trump entered the White House. 

A spokesman for Trump Jr. has called this a “straw man argument being used by Democrats and their friends in the media to protect Joe Biden’s failing presidential campaign.” 

“Don isn’t attacking Hunter Biden because he has a famous father, he’s attacking him specifically for selling access to his father’s public office to enrich himself,” the spokesman said. “There’s a big difference between spending your entire life working your way up in a privately owned family business and leeching off the taxpayers to BECOME a family business based solely off your father’s political office.” 

The new comments from Trump Jr. come weeks into the House’s formal impeachment inquiry. Multiple House committees have heard testimony from several administration officials amid their probe, with many making statements about President Trump’s efforts to place pressure on Ukraine to investigate a political opponent. 

President Trump has repeatedly derided the inquiry, describing it as a “coup” and “witch hunt.”