Trump Threatens Media Outlet Over Don Jr's Comparison To Hunter Biden

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So Farron, there's more reporting coming out that the Trump administration is looking at investigating additional media sources this time because they compared Don Jr. to Hunter Biden.

Right. And I think that's actually a perfect analogy here because Don Jr. and Eric, let's not leave out that little weirdo, they're doing everything that Republicans accused Hunter Biden of doing for years. They are out there crisscrossing the Globe influence peddling based on their last name because daddy is president. Eric Trump recently did that crypto conference in the Middle East, and it was after that that they got the first $2 billion investment into their World Liberty Financial. Couple weeks after that, UAE decided, we'll put in $2 billion as well. So they got $4 billion off Eric Trump going to the Middle East and saying, hey, do this. You know, my daddy's president, give us money, which for the record, not illegal. It's unethical, sure, it's immoral, but it's not illegal. But that is exactly what they accused Hunter Biden of doing. Don Jr. same scenario. He is crisscrossing the planet. He is using the dad's name, his name, of course, to get all of these business deals and put money in his pocket, into Dad's pocket, into everybody's pockets named Trump and they got furious because Politico and Business Insider recently ran a story saying, Don Jr's the new Hunter Biden, which is a very accurate statement. And now the White House off says, you know what? Maybe we need to launch criminal investigations for illegal foreign influence peddling into these outlets because they're owned by a German company.

Well, I think the biggest difference is one father is compassionate and the other is complicit. But also, we're doing our research for this story, Don Jr. just founded a $500,000 fee private club called the Executive Branch. That's the name of the club in DC, by the way, the Executive Branch and a lot, at least a half dozen, of Donald Trump's administration as well as wealthy CEO, tech founders and policy experts are the people who are joining this private club in DC at a half million dollars a pop, plus there's other fees, and that's just the admission fee.

So that is influence peddling. That is influence peddling at its finest. Something that Hunter Biden never did. The worst thing that Hunter Biden did that we know of, of course, was when he was in the business meeting and then he called his dad on the phone, not to say dad, make them make the deal. It was just to remind people, this is who my dad is. Dad asked, how you doing, son? I love you very much and that was basically the end of it. But this, this is borderline, okay, we may be running afoul of the law at this point. If it is just give me money because of my last name, again, totally unethical, but legal, you can do that. There is no problem in this country or in other countries really of going around and saying you should give me a business investment because you know what family I'm from.

We don't like it. But that's how a lot of the world works. And again, you know this as a former prosecutor, that's not something you can take and say, look, this person did something illegal. Unless it does tie in to somebody with power and they say, go do this. At that point you've got illegality. We know Biden didn't ever do that. But does Trump daddy really stay out of any of these business deals? I would be shocked if he did stay out. So if a good prosecutor, somebody, investigator, which we don't have in the government today, were to look into this, I'm sure we could probably get him on something, but it's not gonna happen.

When we look at the interrelatedness between Don Jr. and the current White House, even though he doesn't hold an official position, he was the one that was flown over to Greenland first to wave the flag.