SON VS SON
Donald Trump Jr rips Joe Biden’s son Hunter ‘for having a drug problem and not paying child support’
DONALD Trump Jr took shots at Hunter Biden in an interview on Thursday, doubling down on an offer to debate the presidential candidate’s son.
In his interview with , the president's son asserted that he is open and willing to debate Hunter, the son of .
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“I offered to do it. I said I would go full disclosure. I'd show them my tax returns,” Trump Jr said.
Trump Jr also listed a number of complaints regarding Hunter’s alleged past conduct.
“The drugs, the hiding from child support payments, alimony, plenty of other personal issues. These things would be front-and-center. But he gets a pass,” Trump Jr said.
It was unclear what Trump Jr was referring to when he brought up alimony, however Hunter settled a 2019 lawsuit with Arkansas woman Lunden Alexis Roberts this year .
Hunter Biden's controversial past
Hunter Biden, son of presidential candidate Joe Biden, spoke at the Democratic National Convention last week. Donald Trump Jr recently doubled down on an offer to debate him, criticizing him for his multiple controversies in his past
In an from October 2019, Biden acknowledged that he had "done estimable things and things I regret,” but insisted he was now in “probably the best place I’ve ever been in my life.”
Hunter was booted from the Navy Reserves in 2014 after a two-year stint after failing a drug test. In November of 2019, he while in Washington, DC.
He also made headlines in March after regarding a child who the court ruled was his.
Author Peter Schweizer, in his 2019 book, , alleged that Hunter Biden was part of an investment firm that landed a huge account from China’s sovereign investment fund.
“In 2013, then-Vice President Biden and his son Hunter flew aboard Air Force Two to China,” Schweizer wrote in a summary of his findings on . “Ten days later, Hunter Biden’s firm scored a $1.5 billion deal with a subsidiary of the Chinese government’s Bank of China.”
Hunter additionally was a member of the board of Burisma, a natural gas company based in Ukraine. .
In response to accusations that he was not qualified to serve on Burisma's board, he told ABC that he has "as much knowledge as anybody else that was on the board -- if not more."
On Wednesday, Trump Jr posted on Instagram his response to a meme accusing him of doing cocaine, once again calling to mind Hunter’s past drug controversies.
Possibly Trump Jr’s most severe criticisms of Hunter involved his connections to and Ukraine
“...they like to talk about how somehow we are making a lot of money off our father's presidency, they don't talk about Hunter's 1.5billion from China,” the president’s son said.
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“If I was taking 30million dollars a year, annually - not a one time deal - you think the media would have a problem with that? You think it’d be a story? You think it’d be something they would focus on?”
Trump Jr. also brought up, and slammed, Biden's connection to the Ukrainian oil company Burisma.
"If Donald Trump Jr. sat on the board of a Ukrainian oil company for 83 grand a month, not speaking Ukrainian and not knowing anything about oil, I imagine that would be a problem."
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Trump Jr addressed the notion that Hunter, a Yale-trained lawyer, would beat him in a debate.
“Great. You guys hate my guts. Let him do it. He’ll destroy me,” Trump Jr said.
“You can put the nail in the coffin of Don Jr. Let’s do it.”
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