A Senate Republican is going after a new target to battle corruption: Donald Trump Jr.Sen.John Curtis, R-Utah, is pushing the Senate Judiciary Committee, led by Sen.
Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, to launch investigations into Trump Jr.and Hunter Biden, a familiar target for the GOP.
He wants both subpoenaed, and for both to testify before the panel over alleged foreign business dealings and corruption bolstered by their fathers’ status.In a letter to Grassley, Curtis argued that serious questions had come up about presidential family members using the influence of their presidential patriarch to boost their business dealings.TRUMP-BACKED CRYPTO BILL FAILS TO LAUNCH AS DEMS, REPUBLICANS UNITE TO BLOCK ITSen.John Curtis, R-Utah, is pushing for an investigation into Donald Trump Jr.
and Hunter Biden using the influence of their presidential fathers for foreign business dealings.(Brendan Moran/Sportsfile via Getty Images; Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc.
via Getty Images)Those questions started with Biden and his alleged use of former President Joe Biden as an access point and have continued following reports of Trump Jr.’s lavish wedding after-party on a private island provided by a Russian oligarch."A toaster is a wedding gift," Curtis said on X highlighting his letter."A private-island party paid for by a Putin-connected oligarch is something else.
Republicans nearly wore out the subpoena machine investigating Hunter Biden’s foreign relationships.We should not unplug it now.
‘Trust us’ was not enough then, and it is not enough now."In the letter, Curtis contended that the concerns over Trump Jr.'s dealings "are compounded by Donald Trump Jr.’s active promotion of family-backed cryptocurrency ventures, his continued pursuit of international real estate deals involving direct meetings with foreign heads of state, and his reported investments in defense contracting.""This pattern extends to his significant financial and advisory ties to prediction market plat...