THE FAMILY BUSINESS

Hunter Biden absolutely cashed in.

He took a board seat he wasn't qualified for, leaned on the family name, and was convicted of lying on a gun form and skipping his taxes:

Hunter Biden

~$10–20M

His total foreign business income over ~6 years

Sat on the board of Ukraine's Burisma (2014–2019) for a reported $50,000+/month while his father was Vice President.BBC
Took millions through ventures tied to Chinese energy firm CEFC (~2017–2018).BBC
Convicted in 2024 of three gun-form feloniesAP; pleaded guilty to nine tax counts (~$1.4M in unpaid taxes).CBS
Investigation found no evidence this money reached Joe Biden, and brought no charges.1
Pardoned by his father in Dec. 2024: a sweeping pardon covering 2014–2024, after Joe said he had no intent to do so.ABC

Now look at the Trump family.

Donald J. TrumpThe president

$320M

memecoin fees to his entities

His face on a coin, launched 48 hours before inauguration. (Not including a ~$400M jet from Qatar, and a multibillion-dollar stake in Trump Media.)

Don Jr. & Eric TrumpSons • Trump Real Estate

$10B+

in announced foreign projects

Branded towers and golf resorts across the Gulf and Asia, deals struck while their father runs foreign policy. The family's cut is undisclosed.

Jared KushnerSon-in-law

$3.5B

from Gulf governments into his fund

Saudi, Qatar and Abu Dhabi money, all after Kushner was put in charge of U.S. Middle East policy. He earns tens of millions a year in fees.

There are many different kinds of money: fees, branded deals, foreign-fund capital. It's pretty hard to come up with a true total. The Center for American Progress puts it at ~$2.6 billion.

Here are the worst Trump Family cases.

Many of these are legal. None should be.

A Boeing 747 on the tarmac at Palm Beach International airport, February 2025

Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images

$400M

A flying palace from Qatar

A foreign government gifted a $400M jumbo jet to fly as Air Force One. The plane is supposed to be donated to Trump's presidential library after he leaves office.

ConfirmedCNN ↗

$320M

A coin, 48 hours before the oath

He launched a memecoin two days before inauguration. Affiliated wallets took in ~$320M in fees while roughly 760,000 small buyers lost money.

ConfirmedCoinDesk ↗

Jonathan Raa/Sipa USA/AP

$148M

Pay up, then dine with the President

The top 220 holders of his coin spent an estimated $148M to win a private dinner. Most used offshore exchanges that are off-limits to U.S. residents.

Under InvestigationCNN ↗

Getty Images

$2B

Saudi Arabia's bet on the son-in-law

Six months after leaving the White House, Jared Kushner's fund took $2B from the Saudi wealth fund — whose own screeners had advised against it.

ConfirmedHouse Oversight ↗

Mark Harris

$2B

Billions through the Trump coin

An Abu Dhabi state fund settled a $2B investment using the Trump family's own stablecoin, just weeks before the U.S. eased AI-chip limits for the UAE.

Under InvestigationABC News ↗

Victor J. Blue | Bloomberg | Getty Images

$680M

A pardon for fraud

Trump pardoned Trevor Milton, founder of Nikola, who was convicted of fraud, wiping out a ~$680M restitution order after Milton made $1.8B in donations to Trump PACs.

ReportedCNBC ↗

Methodology

We classify corruption cases into four confirmation classes:

Confirmed

Officially acknowledged or documented — a signed deal, a public record, an admission, court filings. The fact is not in dispute.

Reported

Established by multiple reputable outlets but not officially confirmed by all parties. Solid, but attributed to reporting.

Under Investigation

The subject of an active congressional inquiry, ethics complaint, or lawsuit. The questions are formal; the answers aren't in yet.

Alleged

A contested characterization — usually about motive or a quid pro quo. The transaction may be real; the corrupt intent is not proven.

Dollar figures for branded real estate are total development values reported by developers — not income to the family, which typically earns undisclosed licensing fees.
No court has ruled on the merits of any second-term emoluments claim. We do not imply one has.
"Announced" deal values routinely overstate what's actually executed. Treat trip-headline totals as pledges.
The weakest link in nearly every item is the inference of a quid pro quo. Where we draw a connection, we say it rests on timing and appearance.
The ~$2.6B headline is the Center for American Progress's own running tally, which aggregates some contested valuations. We present it as their estimate.
This page was assembled with AI research assistance. It is a starting point for scrutiny, not a substitute for the primary sources linked in every card.

Notes

Republicans on the House Oversight Committee publicized three 2018 payments totaling about $4,100 from Hunter's company, Owasco PC, to Joe Biden. Bank documents and previously reported laptop emails indicate they repaid a loan Joe had made to help Hunter finance a truck; the payments came after Joe left the vice presidency and before his 2020 campaign. CNN ↩

Hunter Biden absolutely cashed in.

Here are the worst Trump Family cases.

The full list

Methodology

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