Biden's son Hunter made money from Russia, China: Trump

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden's son Hunter received a large sum of money from Russia and China, US President Donald Trump has alleged and said that mainstream media is "underplaying" story and keeping quiet on it.

"It's hard to believe when you see kind of money that he (Hunter) has made from China, from Russia, where wife of mayor of Moscow gives him three-and-a-half million dollars and body even has any question about it," Trump told reporters at a White House news conference on Sunday.

According to a Senate Republican report released last week, during Biden's tenure as vice president, Hunter, 50, received a USD 3.5 million wire transfer from Elena Baturina, widow of Moscow's former mayor Yury Luzhkov.

report furr alleged that Chinese nationals lavished Hunter and or members of Biden family with money, giving Hunter and Biden's bror James credit cards for a USD 100,000 international shopping spree.

Despite such a damaging report being published, mainstream media is "underplaying story and keeping quiet on it," Trump said.

"If we had a media that was fair -- even just reasonable -- this would be biggest story for years and years and years. n you'd really be entitled to real Pulitzer Prizes, t fake committee that gives you se fake awards," he told reporters.

"Why did he (Hunter) get three-and-a-half million dollars? I'll tell you why: Because Joe Biden was in on it...re's way that he wasn't. And (Hunter) uses Joe Biden's plane -- Air Force Two. Uses Joe -- and y go to China, and n he comes back, and he never mentioned it to his far that he just got a billion and a half dollars?

"And w it's turning out that it's much more money than that...It's turned out to be much more money from China...a member of Chinese Communist Party gave him a lot of money. And press has interest in se stories...It's very disheartening for people of our country," Trump said.

Meanwhile, in an interview to Fox News, Senator Ron Johnson said some of se payouts are "just stunning".

"I don't kw what that was about, but let's go through report and please go through key findings. What struck you most in terms of money that Hunter Biden accepted from se foreign countries and foreign companies while his far was vice president," he said.

According to Senate Republican report, Hunter was serving on Burisma's board (supposedly consulting on corporate governance and transparency), when Burisma owner Mykola Zlochevsky allegedly paid a USD 7 million bribe to officials serving under Ukraine's prosecutor general, Vitaly Yarema, to "shut case against Zlochevsky".

"George Kent testified that this bribe occurred in December 2014 (seven months after Hunter joined Burisma's board), and, after learning about it, he and resident legal adviser reported this allegation to FBI, it said.

Kent is serving as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs since September 4, 2018. His early service has included assignments in US diplomatic missions to Poland, Thailand and Uzbekistan.

In addition to over four million dollars paid by Burisma to Hunter Biden and his business partner, Devon Archer, for membership on board, Hunter, his family, and Archer received millions of dollars from foreign nationals with questionable backgrounds, report said.

"Hunter Biden had business associations with Ye Jianming, Gongwen Dong, and or Chinese nationals linked to Communist government and People's Liberation Army. Those associations resulted in millions of dollars in questionable transactions," it alleged.