Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis slammed Hunter Biden during an appearance on Fox News Monday — claiming the first son would already be in the slammer if he was Republican.
“If Hunter were a Republican, he’d be in jail by now,” the GOP presidential candidate said on “Special Report.”
Fox News Anchor Bret Baier asked DeSantis his reaction to former Hunter Biden business partner Devon Archer’s recent testimony that the president sat in on calls with foreign patrons.
The governor said there are “two standards of justice.”
“You look at all this smoke, and yet the FBI, where’s the search warrants? Where’s the grand jury? Where’s the aggressiveness that they have shown going after some Republicans? You just don’t see it,” he said.
He added that the FBI went after his opponent, ex-President Donald Trump, aggressively but did not show the same thoroughness to Democrats Hillary Clinton and now Hunter Biden.
DeSantis said Hunter Biden would be in jail if he was treated like a Republican. Fox NewsDeSantis then mocked the first son’s budding art career.
“But look at all the possible corruption. I mean, Hunter, he’s selling paintings for over a million dollars?” he said. “My 6-year-old daughter does better paintings than him. Maybe we will put ours up and see what kind of things she can fetch.”
DeSantis’ wife Casey tweeted an image of their daughter’s artwork in response to her husband’s remarks.
“Fact Check: True,” she said. “Madison’s Art Rocks.”
The Sunshine State leader also took a shot at Trump while slamming the Bidens.
“Look, Donald Trump was president for four years,” DeSantis said. “This problem got worse under him. He did not succeed in draining the swamp.”
He claimed that he would clean up Washington DC “very, very quickly.”
Devon Archer testimony: All the explosive allegations made so far
Devon Archer is a former business partner of Hunter Biden who was found guilty of trying to defraud a Native American tribe of almost $60 million in bonds and was sentenced to a year-and-a-day prison term. He testified before Congress on Monday and made several bombshell allegations. Here is what has been brought to light so far.
- Archer testified that Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma Holdings added Hunter Biden to its board because of the Biden “brand,” and paid Hunter up to $1 million a year.
- “Burisma would have gone out of business if ‘the brand’ had not been attached to it,” Archer claimed.
- Archer testified that Hunter Biden referred to his father Joe as “my guy” and connected him to foreign business associates.
- Burisma owner Mykola Zlochevsky put pressure on Hunter Biden to build US support for getting rid of Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin, who was investigating his company, Archer testified.
- Joe Biden was put on speakerphone in business meetings at least 20 times, Archer testified.
- Hunter Biden bragged that Chinese business tycoon Che Feng loved him for his “last name” and was impressed by the group of “handsome Aryan godlike men” Biden brought with him “everywhere I go” in a 2011 email.
- Che Feng helped Hunter Biden’s firm secure favorable terms on a business partnership with Jonathan Li’s Bohai Capital and lateral launch Bohai Harvest RST, emails show.
- “I don’t believe in lottery tickets anymore, but I do believe in the super chairman,” Hunter Biden boasted in an email. Super chairman was the first son’s nickname for Feng.
- Archer testified that Joe Biden met with Li while he served as vice president and wrote a college recommendation letter for his daughter.
- Archer claimed that Feng was so generous to Hunter Biden due to his family connections.
The Republican also said that he does not believe Trump could beat President Biden in a general election after his first loss.
“I think that there’s too many voters who just aren’t going to vote for him going forward,” he said.
DeSantis also mocked Hunter Biden’s art career and said it was another cause for concern over possible corruption. Daniel William McKnightHe also claimed that it’s not just the voters who don’t support Trump, but potential leaders who he’d need to be within his administration.
“If you want to slay this administrative state, you got to be disciplined, you got to be focused, and you got to have people surrounding you that are going to go and support the mission,” DeSantis said. “I think the former president would have a very difficult time getting the type of personnel to join the administration that you would need to actually bring this stuff to fruition.”







