“Check Please”: Trump Breaks Silence On Biden Family’s $200,000 ‘Direct Payment’ To Biden | ZeroHedge
Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
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 speaks to the media during the third day of his civil fraud trial in New York on Oct. 4, 2023. (Kena Betancur/AFP via Getty Images)
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.
President Joe Biden during a press briefing at the White House in Washington on April 26, 2023. (Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times)
'Troubling'
Mr. Comer, who has demanded that President Biden provide documentation proving that money was indeed a loan (more…)