Democratic Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin threatened to release a report detailing former President Donald Trump’s foreign business dealings after being questioned about First Son Hunter Biden’s shady business dealings.
During an interview on ABC’s “This Week,” Raskin said that he is going to “release a report about all of the foreign government emoluments” of Trump while being questioned about Hunter, who is under a federal criminal investigation.
Jamie Raskin makes a big announcement, "We're going to release a report about all of the foreign government emoluments. Millions of dollars that Donald Trump pocketed from the hotels, at the golf courses, through business deals when he was president, and that his family got." pic.twitter.com/Ab5yjAPt0P
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) August 13, 2023
“Millions of dollars we can document that Donald Trump pocketed from the hotels, at the golf courses, through business deals when he was president, and that his family got,” he said.
Raskin’s comments received criticism on social media, with Stephen Miller, who served as a leading adviser during the Trump administration, calling out the congressman for his hypocrisy.
“Of all of the risible, execrable lies surely the most ludicrous is that President Trump *profited* from the presidency. The presidency cost him billions and now they want it to cost him his freedom,” Miller wrote in a post on X.
“Biden made a fortune being in office. Trump gave up a fortune being in office,” he added. “Biden profited from the White House. The American People profited from Trump in the White House. Biden sacrificed the country for himself. Trump sacrificed himself for the country.”
Mike Davis, founder of the Article III Project and former chief counsel for nominations to then-Republican Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa, also encouraged people to “welcome” the discussion.
“1. The Trump family made its fortune building an international real-estate empire — long before Trump went to the Trump White House,” Davis posted on X. “2. The Biden family made its fortune building an international-corruption empire — when Biden went to the Obama White House.”
This comes as the committee is close to unraveling the truth about the Bidens’ shadowy business schemes. Bank records obtained from the committee’s previous subpoena also show that six more members of the Biden family may have benefited from their scam, bringing the total number of relatives implicated to nine.
Hunter received payments totaling about $610,000 as part of the 2017 agreement, while first brother James Biden received payments totaling about $360,000, and the president’s daughter-in-law, Hallie Biden, received payments totaling about $25,000.
