Former President Donald Trump has criticized a $200,000 check made out to President Joe Biden by Biden family members that Republicans say may prove corruption.
Former president Donald Trump has weighed in on what congressional investigators say is a $200,000 “direct payment” made to President Joe Biden, unearthed as part of a Republican probe into the Biden family’s business dealings and alleged schemes of influence peddling.
President Trump took to social media on Saturday, commenting on what some Republicans say is smoking gun evidence that President Biden was directly involved in his family’s business affairs.
“Check please,” President Trump wrote in the post, which featured a screengrab of Newsmax anchor Greg Kelly holding a facsimile of a personal check for $200,000 made out to “Joseph R. Biden Jr.”
The check, obtained and released to the public by Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) as part of a House Oversight Committee probe into President Biden, states that the money was for a “loan repayment.”
It was issued by President Biden’s brother and sister-in-law, James and Sara Biden, and is dated March 1, 2018.
‘Troubling’
Mr. Comer, who has demanded that President Biden provide documentation proving that money was indeed a loan repayment and not something else, has suggested that this direct payment may be the strongest evidence yet that the president may have been directly involved in his family’s business dealings.
“Even if this was a personal loan repayment, it’s still troubling that Joe Biden’s ability to be paid back by his brother depended on the success of his family’s shady financial dealings,” Mr. Comer said in a statement.
Lawyers for Americore Health told a court in July last year that the president’s brother, James Biden, received $600,000 in loans from the healthcare company “based upon representations that his last name, ‘Biden’, could ‘open doors’ and that he could obtain a large investment from the Middle East based on his political connections.”On the same date that is featured on the check to President Biden (March 1, 2018), Americore wired a $200,000 loan to James and Sara Biden’s personal bank account.
By Tom Ozimek
