{"id":1218,"date":"2024-01-12T01:34:03","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T01:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/12\/trump-slams-hunter-biden-in-iowa-town-hall-i-dont-get-8-million-for-doing-nothing-like-hunter\/"},"modified":"2024-01-12T01:34:03","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T01:34:03","slug":"trump-slams-hunter-biden-in-iowa-town-hall-i-dont-get-8-million-for-doing-nothing-like-hunter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/12\/trump-slams-hunter-biden-in-iowa-town-hall-i-dont-get-8-million-for-doing-nothing-like-hunter\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump slams Hunter Biden in Iowa Town Hall: &#8216;I don&#8217;t get $8 million for doing nothing like Hunter&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump<\/a> slammed Hunter Biden during his Fox News Town Hall in Iowa on Wednesday night calling him out for selling his artwork for large sums of money.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t get $8 million for doing nothing like Hunter,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t get I don&#8217;t get $500,000. I don&#8217;t get $500,000 for doing a painting. It&#8217;s not a bad idea, I guess, if you can get away with it. When I heard that when I said there&#8217;s no way they get away with that. But they got away with that. I guess they got away with it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now we have you know, there was an emoluments lawsuit against me where the radical left, sued me for that, and I won the suit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump was responding to a question on accusations from Democrats that he illegally profited from his businesses during his time in office.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/hunter-biden-shows-up-to-house-oversight-meeting-to-consider-resolution-to-hold-him-in-contempt-of-congress\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>HUNTER BIDEN MAKES SHOCKING APPEARANCE AT HIS OWN CONTEMPT HEARING<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I own hotels, all over the, I don&#8217;t get free money,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;Somebody rents a hotel room, etc, etc. Much money I gave back. In fact, I didn&#8217;t have to do it. You know, George Washington was a very rich man. People don&#8217;t know that, in his essentially White House, which wasn&#8217;t built, but they had an office, he had a business desk and he had a country desk right next to each other. You&#8217;re allowed to do that. I didn&#8217;t do it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I put everything in trust. And if I have a hotel and somebody comes in from China, that&#8217;s a small amount of money. And it sounds like a lot of money. That&#8217;s a small. But I was doing services for that. People were staying in these massive hotels, these beautiful hotels, because I have the best hotels, I have the best clubs, I have the best clubs, I have great stuff and they stay there and they pay.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fox News Digital reached out to Hunter Biden&#8217;s legal team for comment but did not immediately receive a response.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/house-gop-says-hunter-biden-violated-federal-law-by-defying-subpoena-prepare-contempt-resolution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>HOUSE GOP SAYS HUNTER BIDEN \u2018VIOLATED FEDERAL LAW&#8217; BY DEFYING SUBPOENA, PREPARE CONTEMPT RESOLUTION<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Republican investigators have suggested they are suspicious over whether <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/house-gop-says-hunter-biden-violated-federal-law-by-defying-subpoena-prepare-contempt-resolution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hunter Biden\u2019s<\/a> art career, which began in recent years, has led to any conflicts of interest between wealthy buyers and the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Hunter Biden\u2019s art dealer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/hunter-biden-gallerist-lawmakers-never-spoke-white-house-about-paintings-sources\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told lawmakers<\/a> in the House of Representatives on Tuesday that he has never discussed the paintings with the White House seemingly contradicting past statements from the White House on that matter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-blasts-justice-department-hunter-biden-indictment-only-crime-doesnt-implicate-president\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump previously blasted the Justice Department&#8217;s<\/a> Hunter Biden indictment in mid September as the &#8220;only crime&#8221; that doesn&#8217;t &#8220;implicate&#8221; the President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Biden&#8217;s son was indicted on Sept. 14 for making false statements and unlawfully possessing a firearm.<\/p>\n<p>Trump claimed in a Truth Social post at the time that the gun charge was &#8220;the only crime that Hunter Biden committed that does not implicate Crooked Joe Biden.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hunter Biden, in an indictment filed in federal court in Delaware by a special counsel overseeing the case, was accused of lying about his drug use when he purchased a weapon in 2018, during a time when he&#8217;s acknowledged struggling with a crack cocaine addiction.<\/p>\n<p>Late in the year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-jabs-hunter-biden-skipping-congressional-deposition-went-wrong-place\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump took another shot<\/a> at Hunter Biden for skipping his closed-door congressional deposition in mid December and joked that the presidential scion &#8220;went to the wrong place&#8221; on Capitol Hill.The former president joked that Hunter went to the Senate side of the U.S. Capitol when he should have gone to the House side.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News&#8217; Gabriele Regalbuto, Elizabeth Elkind, Andrew Murray, Paul Steinhauser and Houston Keene contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Trump slammed Hunter Biden during his Fox News Town Hall in Iowa on Wednesday night calling him out for selling his artwork for large sums of money. &#8220;I don&#8217;t get $8 million for doing nothing like Hunter,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t get I don&#8217;t get $500,000. 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