The GOP’s first-family “grift” obsession about Hunter Biden is like a dirty joke gone wrong, one with a punchline more offensive than funny.
Republicans in Congress spent years and tens of millions of taxpayer dollars trying to prove a “crime family” narrative about Hunter and his laptop that never materialized into anything more than a tax case and a gun charge.
The GOP’s crime of going after Hunter was far worse than the crimes he was convicted of. His father was absolutely right to pardon him.
But today, first-family grift and corruption isn’t something that exists in the shadows. Donald Trump’s conniving sons, Don Jr. and Eric, have turned investments — and the government’s ignorance — into personal cash cows.
Meanwhile, the GOP hunters of Hunter, along with their accomplice, the Department of Justice, look the other way while the boys rake in cash as ordinary Americans struggle with high gas and grocery prices.
This week, the dunce that is Eric spoke with one of their father’s grossest cheerleaders, Maria Bartiromo on Fox Business, a woman who has lost all journalistic integrity. Eric bragged that his company, Foundation Future Industries, had just landed a $24 million defense contract to test “Phantom” humanoid robots with the U.S. Marine Corps.
Eric serves as the company’s Chief Strategy Adviser. What does this bubble-headed blonde know about AI? Bartiromo didn’t ask a single question about the blatant conflict of interest of the president’s son pulling in millions of Pentagon dollars while his deranged daddy sits in the Oval Office.
She congratulated him. Honestly, I don’t know who is more repulsive, Eric’s obtuseness or Bartiromo’s toadiness.
She beamed like a proud aunt (Or grandmother?) while the American taxpayer is being fleeced. Senator Elizabeth Warren called it “corruption in plain sight” and asked whether the Pentagon had become a “cash machine” for the president’s children.
She’s right; however, don’t hold your breath waiting for the Republican-controlled Congress to launch an investigation. I imagine Mike Johnson took a page from the tawdry Bartiromo and sent Eric a dozen congratulatory AI flowers.
And while Eric is lapping up defense dollars, Don Jr. is running a 21st-century lawless casino. He has hitched his wagon to Polymarket, a so-called “decentralized prediction market” where people bet cryptocurrency on the outcomes of future events like elections, military conflicts, economic indicators, and more.
The slimy Don Jr. serves as a strategic adviser to Polymarket. His venture firm, 1789 Capital, made a multi-million dollar investment in the company. Since his father’s reelection, Polymarket is seeking a gobsmacking nearly $15 billion investment because of its astronomical, unregulated growth.
Wow, what a weird coincidence, right?
Polymarket is essentially a gambling platform where the house edge belongs to whoever has the best information, and in Trump’s Washington, the best information comes from the house dealer in the West Wing.
A U.S. Army Special Forces master sergeant, Gannon Ken Van Dyke, was arrested this week on charges that he used classified information to place bets on Polymarket tied to a military operation that captured Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro.
Van Dyke participated in the planning and execution of Operation Absolute Resolve and, allegedly, used that access to place approximately 13 bets from late December 2025 through early January 2026.
Those bets netted him nearly $410,000.
He had signed nondisclosure agreements promising never to reveal classified or sensitive information. But this is Trump’s military, with the dubious scofflaw Pete Hegseth in charge, a guy who likely thinks gambling is a virtue of Jesus’s warriors.
If a random soldier couldn’t resist the temptation, what do we think is happening at the highest levels of this administration, where the president’s son is a paid adviser to the very platform hosting these bets?
Accounts placed large wagers on an Iran ceasefire just before President Trump announced it on social media. The administration has also been a key ally of the growing prediction market industry in legal fights with states seeking to ban the platforms.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission dropped its legal fight against Polymarket’s competitor Kalshi just five months into Trump’s second term, paving the way for bets on political events.
Don Jr. is an adviser to Kalshi too. The CFTC, under Trump, is now the palace guard protecting the very industry in which the president’s son has millions invested. This is not some reputable financial market. Instead, it’s a rigged game with oodles of federal protection.
And the hits keep coming. Don Jr. joined the advisory board of Unusual Machines, a drone manufacturer, in late 2024. The company subsequently secured over $15 million in defense contracts.
Somehow, nobody in Congress finds that worth investigating.
The brothers also hold roughly $1 billion in paper wealth through American Bitcoin, a family crypto venture whose valuation exploded after the election results were certified. It’s almost as if someone knew crypto-friendly policies were on the way.
Meanwhile, the Trump Organization is undergoing what analysts describe as its fastest overseas expansion in history, with new real estate deals throughout the Middle East, countries with plenty of reasons to stay in the family’s good graces.
The same GOP congressmen who screeched for years about Hunter Biden’s board seat are now silent while the president’s sons collect Pentagon checks, casino profits, crypto windfalls, and foreign real estate deals in real time.
The soldier who bet $33,000 using classified information is now facing decades in prison. And guess who is coming to his rescue? GOP members of Congress are calling for him to be pardoned.
While the GOP remains obsessed with a laptop from the past, the Trump brothers are getting filthy rich, and that’s exactly what happens in autocratic families.
And as long as they have Bartiromo at Fox, a willfully blind GOP Congress, a feckless DOJ, and a daddy in the Oval Office, they’ll keep cashing in while you and I cancel our summer vacations.
