TheBadPlaceyahoo news | The Trump family’s conflicts of interest are of no interest to Fox News
Fox News has devoted extensive airtime to the international business dealings of Hunter Biden, branding the Biden family as a “crime family” while largely ignoring the far larger, ongoing entanglements of President Donald Trump and his relatives with Gulf‑state interests. A Media Matters review of Nexis transcripts shows that, since early 2024, Fox’s evening programs mentioned the Trump family’s Gulf‑state conflicts only twice, and neither reference occurred during a discussion of the U.S.‑Iran war that began in February. By contrast, hosts such as Sean Hannity referenced Hunter Biden more than 13,000 times in the first 16 months of the Biden presidency, despite no substantive evidence that Joe Biden profited from his son’s foreign ventures.
The Trumps and their close allies have cultivated a sprawling network of deals with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Oman and other regional powers—relationships that intersect directly with U.S. policy toward Iran. Notable examples include a $500 million crypto‑investment deal in which Abu‑Dhabi’s Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed bought a stake in a company partially owned by the Trump family, a $7 billion real‑estate partnership between the Trump Organization and a Saudi‑linked developer, a $2 billion Saudi‑funded investment in Jared Kushner’s private‑equity firm, and a $400 million Qatar‑gifted Boeing 747‑8 jet presented as a “super‑luxury” Air Force One. Additional ventures such as Powerus—a drone company co‑owned by Don Jr. and Eric—have sought to sell defensive interceptors to Gulf nations while they confront Iranian threats, further blurring the line between private profit and public policy.
When pressed, Trump family members have dismissed concerns as baseless, with Eric Trump claiming no interaction with Washington, Don Jr. defending his business independence, and Kushner framing “conflicts of interest” as “experience and trusted relationships.” Fox News anchors, however, have offered little scrutiny; the network’s lone mentions of these Gulf ties were brief interjections on “The Five” and a “Special Report” segment about Trump’s planned library‑hotel, despite a former anchor’s acknowledgment that the media should apply the same standard to Trump as it does to the Bidens. The disparity highlights a double standard whereby Fox’s coverage amplifies allegations against the Bidens while largely overlooking the Trump family’s far more extensive and potentially consequential foreign business interests.
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