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Trump in a pile of cash

Andrea Austria / Media Matters

The Trumps turned Fox’s “Biden Crime Family” conspiracy theory into a business plan

Written by Matt Gertz

Research contributions from Rob Savillo & Harrison Ray

Published 04/13/26 9:51 AM EDT

My latest piece for MSNOW is about President Donald Trump taking the United States to war with Iran while he and his family maintain numerous business conflicts in the Middle East — and the total lack of interest in those dealings shown by Fox News hosts who were once obsessed with the international business interests of Hunter Biden.

Fox News programs that fixated on the international business interests of Hunter Biden, former President Joe Biden’s son, are utterly uninterested in the voluminous conflicts of interest between President Donald Trump and his family members and the Persian Gulf states affected by his strategically disastrous war of choice against Iran.

The president, his eldest sons, Don Jr. and Eric, and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, are enmeshed in a sprawling set of business deals in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Qatar. Those deals often involve members of the royal families of those states or the entities they control. 

But since just before the beginning of the year, as Trump’s saber-rattling led to U.S. military deployments and became the war launched by American and Israeli forces on Feb. 28, through April 8, Fox’s evening programs that air from 5 p.m. to midnight ET have referenced such Trump family conflicts of interest only twice — both of which were passing mentions, and neither of which came during a discussion of the Iran conflict — according to a Media Matters review of the Nexis transcript database.

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