Eric Trump Mocks Hunter Biden ‘Fingerpaints’ When Pressed on Bombshell Report of Family Making Billions in Office
Eric Trump couldn’t resist a jab at Hunter Biden and his “finger art” when asked about the potential of a “conflict of interest” in the wake of a report about his family making billions of dollars in the crypto sector while his dad resides in the White House.
When grilled by CNBC’s Squawk Box host Joe Kernen about whether the Trump family may be benefitting financially from his dad’s position, Eric Trump, the co-founder of American Bitcoin, ribbed the former first son as he claimed his father has not benefited financially from the presidency.
“The guy’s out there selling finger art, right?” he told Kernen. “You know, everyone, one of the great hospitality companies, you know, anywhere in the world. You know, we went through hell, believe me. My father was the first guy who hasn’t made money off of the presidency. In fact, you know, if I were to send you a tally of our legal bills over the last X number of years.”
Read the conversation here:
JOE KERNEN: You’re going to see this again and again in mainstream media in terms of a conflict of interest between the president and his position and his family being able to do so well in crypto.
ERIC TRUMP: Joe, how long have I been sitting at this table? Like 20-something years. Meaning, I’ve been doing this with you guys for very long time, OK? We’re far from Hunter Biden, right?
KERNEN: That’s what people are — people say all presidents sons do these things.
TRUMP: The guy’s out there selling finger art, right? You know, everyone, one of the great hospitality companies, you know, anywhere in the world. You know, we went through hell, believe me. My father was the first guy who hasn’t made money off of the presidency. In fact, you know, if I were to send you a tally of our legal bills over the last X number of years.
KERNEN: The Trump brand, probably, obviously.
TRUMP: We’ve always been, you know, serial capitalists, we’ve always had companies and honestly, crypto came out of a necessity that we were debanked by everybody and we needed to find a new way. And so I couldn’t be more proud of American Bitcoin. We’re obviously ringing the bell right in this room. And, you know, a couple of minutes and, you know, it’s going to be an amazing venture. I think we’re going to do Bitcoin. I think we’re going to do cryptocurrency better, better than anyone. We’ve truly built one of the great companies one of the great crypto companies. And by the way, one thing America has got to lead the way in it. I mean, I watch in Asia, I watch in the Middle East, I watch in all these places around the world. They are all sprinting toward cryptocurrency. And it was really nice. My father became a believer when he was debanked. You know, and it’s really nice to see a country take such an incredible initiative. And actually, because it is the future, I don’t care what anybody says, it is the future. You fast-forward 18 months, you fast-forward five years. Our financial markets and the way they operate, the speed at which they operate, the efficiency at which they operate, you know, the pace, everything, the fees. I mean, it’s going to transformationally change how we do business. And I am so proud of that.
Trump and his brother, Donald Trump Jr., have accused big banks of a vendetta against the Trump name and revealed it prompted them to get into crypto.
During an appearance on Fox & Friends last month, Trump namedropped major banking institutions, blasting Capital One for allegedly revoking “300 bank accounts” in the dead of night.
“It happened with JP Morgan Chase, it happened with Bank of America, it happened with First Republic. This wasn’t just happening to the Trumps. People with a lot of zeros at the end, this was happening to conservatives all over the country. We didn’t have a damn choice,” he said.
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