President Donald Trump’s favorite newspaper just tore into the Trump family, accusing his sons of rampant corruption since his return to the White House. In an editorial by the New York Post, the paper’s editors declare, “It was bad when the Bidens did it, and it’s just as bad when the Trumps do it.”
The Post is specifically outraged by a new report by the New York Times, which revealed that Donald Jr. and Eric Trump, in cahoots with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s sons, Kyle and Brandon, are engaged in a massive scheme to grift profits off a billion-dollar mining deal struck between the Trump administration and Kazakhstan.
“It stinks to high heaven,” wrote the Post. “If a president’s family making bank from obscure resource companies in the former Soviet Union sounds familiar, maybe that’s because Hunter Biden’s lucrative connection to Burisma—a Ukrainian gas company—was a major scandal in the 2020 election and beyond.”
As the Daily Beast explains, “Republicans, and the Trump family in particular, spent years trying to paint Joe Biden as the head of an organized crime group, with his son Hunter as the ‘bagman’ who supposedly cashed in on the family name abroad and kicked a share upstairs to his father. Investigations by GOP lawmakers in the House failed to find any evidence that the elder Biden profited from his son’s foreign business dealings. Hunter Biden eventually pleaded guilty to tax violations and was convicted on separate gun charges, while the allegations of foreign influence peddling foundered and never made it to court.”
President Joe Biden pardoned Hunter in the final days of his administration, explaining that he was concerned the incoming Trump administration would target him. Republicans have continued to characterize the Bidens as criminals who escaped justice.
The Post laid the hypocrisy out plainly, writing, “The Lutnick and Trump boys have been sloshing around in the muck since their dads came to power 18 months ago. They’ve profited handsomely from cryptocurrency deals while the government their fathers control were setting crypto policy.”
According to the Daily Beast, however, the Post has still “short-sold the irony. The Trump family’s grift began even before the president retook the White House last January, when an entity linked to the United Arab Emirates purchased a 49 percent stake in World Liberty Financial, Eric and Donald Trump Jr.’s crypto-venture, which it used to route $187 million to Trump-family interests and a further $31 million to entities linked to the president’s Special Envoy Steve Witkoff. That deal set a template that has since allowed the first family to rake in an estimated $2.3 billion from digital assets alone, according to a Reuters analysis this month.”
The Post ended its editorial with a warning for Trump, noting that Democrats are currently escalating the push to probe his family’s dealings. “If they take the House in the midterms, these hearings are surely coming,” wrote the Post. “It would behoove the Trump administration, and the nation as a whole, if the president gets ahead of the growing scandal, acts transparently and cleans up the whole mess before it swamps his final two years in office — and defines his legacy.”