Hunter Biden wasn’t allowed to sell his paintings
The Trump boys were interviewed on CNBC. The rotten apples don’t fall far from the poison tree:
EISEN: I want to ask you about the WSJ report that a 49% stake in World Liberty was sold to an Emirati royal family member after your father was elected president so they could get access to AI chips
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 18, 2026
DON JR: We've been dealing with the conflict of interest stuff for years.… pic.twitter.com/gKBs08WVtI
EISEN: I want to ask you about the WSJ report that a 49% stake in World Liberty was sold to an Emirati royal family member after your father was elected president so they could get access to AI chips
DON JR: We’ve been dealing with the conflict of interest stuff for years. Frankly, it’s gotten old. They put us in this position. We just fought back.
In other words, “sure we’re completely corrupt but it’s because our enemies made us do it.” :
Eisen brought up the “49 percent stake that was sold to an Emirati royal family member after your father was elected president” and said it has raised questions “about whether they were doing that so they could get access to AI chips.” …
Eric Trump answered by going off on a wild tangent about his family’s removal from major social media platforms, his father’s pivot to Truth Social, and the benefits of cryptocurrency. “It’s crazy. The law of unintended consequences,” he said, boasting that after his father and other family members were booted from the platforms, “we went out and we formed Truth Social.”
He added that banks “started canceling us left and right,” prompting the family to move into decentralized finance. “We went out and we got into defi because we realized there was a future of finance,” he said, calling crypto adoption worldwide “the future.”
Donald Trump Jr. also rejected suggestions of wrongdoing, insisting, “A, my father has nothing to do with it. B, it has nothing to do with AI chips.” “I mean, they tried all this nonsense the first time around,” Trump Jr. said. “Frankly, it’s gotten old. They were the ones that put us into this position by creating legislation to try to put us out of business. We just fought back.”
“We weren’t willing to sit in a corner, curl up in a ball, and die like they would love us to do. That’s not how we function. That’s not how we operate,” he added.
They aren’t trying to hide it. Trump himself told the NY Times that he realized after the first term that “nobody cares” about any of this and it’s pretty clear that he realizes he has immunity and unlimited pardon power (along with total control of the GOP, making an impeachment conviction impossible) so he and the family can rob the country blind and get away with it.
I don’t know if reforms will ever be enough to fix the problem that Trump and his spawn have shown a bright light on. Ultimately , if we are to survive as a democracy, something will have to be done about the fact that so many people are deluded enough to vote for a flagrant criminal — twice. I haven’t the vaguest idea how that might be done.