After his fourth indictment, bringing his whole rely of felony expenses to 91, former President Donald J. Trump final week posted a video on-line accusing President Biden and his household of being criminals.

“The Biden crime family,” he claimed, had obtained thousands and thousands of {dollars} from international nations. “I believe we have a compromised president,” Mr. Trump mentioned, including: “He’s a Manchurian candidate. That’s why Crooked Joe is letting other countries walk all over the United States.”

For Mr. Trump, outrage is a selective commodity with regards to presidential households taking thousands and thousands of {dollars} from international nations. During his 4 years within the White House and within the greater than two and a half years since, Mr. Trump and his kinfolk have been on the receiving finish of cash from across the globe in sums far higher than something Hunter Biden, the president’s son, reportedly collected.

Unlike different trendy presidents, Mr. Trump by no means gave up management of his sprawling enterprise with its pursuits in a number of nations, nor did he forswear international enterprise whilst president. He shattered norms in his cash making and unabashed boosting of his household’s firm. The luxurious resort he opened down the road from the White House, for instance, turned the favored vacation spot for lobbyists, dealmakers and international governments, together with Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Bahrain, which paid handsomely for lodging, galas and extra.

Mr. Trump additionally permitted his household to take positions in authorities that blurred the traces when it got here to their personal pursuits. Unlike Hunter Biden, Mr. Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner each served on the White House workers, the place they might form insurance policies of concern to abroad companies.

Mr. Kushner was closely concerned in setting the administration’s strategy to the Middle East and made a number of contacts within the area. After handing over his White House badge, Mr. Kushner began a non-public fairness agency with $2 billion in funds from Saudi Arabia and lots of of thousands and thousands extra from different Arab nations that stood to profit from U.S. insurance policies and have an curiosity in a attainable second Trump administration.

“The Trump family foreign commercial entanglements were far more numerous, involving dozens of foreign business conflicts,” mentioned Norman Eisen, a lawyer who led unsuccessful courtroom challenges to the former president’s practice of taking foreign money whereas in workplace.

The entanglements “implicated those like Jared and Ivanka who were actually working in government, whereas Hunter never did,” Mr. Eisen added. “Indeed, Trump himself openly benefited, whereas there’s not a shred of evidence that Biden the elder ever did.”

Hunter Biden’s enterprise dealings have raised issues as a result of testimony and studies have indicated that he traded on his household identify to generate profitable offers. A former enterprise companion has informed congressional investigators that the youthful Biden parlayed “the illusion of access to his father” to win over potential companions.

No arduous proof has emerged that Mr. Biden, whereas vp, personally participated in or profited from the enterprise offers or used his workplace to profit his son’s companions.

But Mr. Biden’s statements distancing himself from his son’s actions have been undercut by testimony indicating that Hunter put his father on speakerphone with worldwide enterprise associates; the long run president talked about informal issues just like the climate, not enterprise, based on testimony, however it appeared supposed to impress Hunter’s associates.

All of which might sometimes generate scrutiny in Washington, the place kinfolk of presidents have lengthy taken benefit of their positions to earn money. Access and movie star are cash of the realm within the nation’s capital, and a relative who frequents Camp David, enjoys a very good seat at a state dinner or rides Air Force One can get telephone calls returned. This custom has turned off many Americans, and even Democrats privately voice discomfort at Hunter Biden’s actions.

“If he traded on his father’s influence, he should be held accountable for that,” Representative Jim Himes, Democrat of Connecticut, said on MSNBC recently. “And I’m emphasizing this because you never, ever heard a Republican say the same thing about Donald Trump or his family.”

Republicans investigating the Bidens say they made greater than $20 million from international sources in China, Ukraine and elsewhere, however a Washington Post analysis of congressional memos indicated that a lot of the cash went to enterprise associates, with $7 million going to the Bidens themselves, primarily Hunter.

“What both Hunter and Jared have in common is that they are the well-educated sons of prominent people, and that their familial ties certainly helped them in business,” mentioned Don Fox, a former common counsel of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics. “That is where the similarities end.”

“Hunter never held public office, and a fair amount of his work involving Ukraine occurred when his father was out of office,” Mr. Fox continued. The amount of cash that Mr. Kushner may earn from the funds invested by the Saudis, he added, “dwarfs what anyone ever paid Hunter.”

The analogy to Hunter Biden rankles Mr. Kushner, who had a protracted observe report in enterprise earlier than becoming a member of authorities and takes delight in negotiating the Abraham Accords, the diplomatic agreements normalizing relations between Israel and a number of other Arab neighbors.

People near him argue that the investments from the Saudis and different Arabs have been based mostly on belief that he may earn money for them, not out of gratitude for insurance policies he promoted. And they famous that the Biden administration has not reversed these insurance policies however as a substitute sought to construct on the Abraham Accords.

“There is no factual comparison between Hunter and Jared,” a consultant for Mr. Kushner mentioned in a press release. “Jared was a successful businessman before entering politics, achieved historic peace and trade agreements, and like many before him, he re-entered business after serving for free in the White House, where he fully complied with the Office of Government Ethics rules.”

Chad Mizelle, the chief authorized officer for Affinity Partners, Mr. Kushner’s agency, mentioned in a press release: “Partisan politics aside, no one has ever pointed to a specific legal or ethical guideline that Jared or Affinity has violated.”

One of the few Republicans to criticize the Trump household’s mixing of presidency service and international enterprise has been Chris Christie, the previous New Jersey governor operating in opposition to the previous president for subsequent 12 months’s Republican nomination. “The Trump family have been involved in grifting for quite some time,” he said on CNN in June.

Mr. Christie, who as a U.S. legal professional prosecuted Mr. Kushner’s father, singled out the enterprise dealings of the previous president’s son-in-law.

“Jared Kushner, six months after he leaves the White House, gets $2 billion from the Saudi sovereign wealth fund,” he mentioned. “What was Jared Kushner doing in the Middle East? We had Rex Tillerson and Mike Pompeo as secretaries of state. We didn’t need Jared Kushner. He was put there to make those relationships, and then he cashed in on those relationships when he left the office.”

While within the White House, Mr. Kushner bolstered ties between the United States and Saudi Arabia, convincing his father-in-law to make the dominion his first international vacation spot as president, serving to dealer billions of {dollars} in arms gross sales and forging a close relationship with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

Mr. Kushner defended Prince Mohammed after Saudi operatives murdered Jamal Khashoggi, a columnist for The Post and United States resident. The C.I.A. concluded that Prince Mohammed ordered the 2018 killing. In 2021, Prince Mohammed’s sovereign wealth fund accredited the $2 billion funding in Mr. Kushner’s new agency regardless of objections from the fund’s own advisers.

Representative James R. Comer, Republican of Kentucky and chairman of the House Oversight Committee that’s investigating the Bidens, acknowledged issues with Mr. Kushner’s Saudi deal.

“I think that what Kushner did crossed the line of ethics,” Mr. Comer said when requested by CNN’s Jake Tapper earlier this month. “What Christie said, it happened after he left office. Still no excuse, Jake. But it happened after he left office. And Jared Kushner actually has a legitimate business. This money from the Bidens happened while Joe Biden was vice president, while he was flying to those countries.”

In reality, as Mr. Comer’s committee studies point out, a few of Hunter Biden’s abroad cash got here whereas his father was vp, however a big share got here afterward.

Spokesmen for Mr. Comer and Mr. Trump didn’t reply to requests for remark.

Mr. Trump has by no means been allergic to international cash. Even as a candidate in 2016, he secretly pursued a deal to construct a Trump Tower in Moscow till after he had successfully secured the Republican nomination. One of his legal professionals reached out to the Kremlin for support for the undertaking, the identical Kremlin that Mr. Trump would work together with a couple of months later as president.

To tackle issues about international monetary pursuits, Mr. Trump promised to not pursue new enterprise abroad whereas in workplace, however he didn’t quit his many present moneymaking ventures in different nations and his firm, formally run by his sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, continued to develop operations overseas.

During Mr. Trump’s 4 years within the White House, the Trump Organization obtained 66 international logos, based on a report by the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, with most of them coming from China however others from Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Peru, the Philippines, Indonesia, Mexico, the United Arab Emirates and the European Union.

Foreign entities have been good clients for Mr. Trump. While in workplace, 145 international officers from 75 governments visited Trump properties and international governments or affiliated teams hosted 13 occasions at his inns and resorts, based on the ethics group report.

While Mr. Trump in final week’s video described Mr. Biden as a puppet of the Chinese, falsely claiming that “China has paid him a fortune,” his circle of relatives has had vital monetary ties to Beijing. Beyond the logos, Forbes calculated {that a} Trump enterprise throughout his presidency collected at least $5.4 million in hire from the state-controlled Industrial and Commercial Bank of China.

Mr. Kushner’s household negotiated with Chinese and Qatari entities to rescue its debt-saddled Manhattan tower at 666 Fifth Avenue, ultimately brokering a $1.1 billion lease deal with an American firm whose traders included Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund. (By that point, Mr. Kushner had offered his share of the tower to a household belief of which he was not a beneficiary, and other people concerned within the deal mentioned the Qataris didn’t know concerning the deal earlier than it was made.)

Ivanka Trump, for her half, initially saved her personal clothes and accessories line whereas serving on the White House workers and received approval for 16 trademarks from China in 2018 earlier than later deciding to shut down the business.

Despite lawsuits by Mr. Eisen and others alleging violations of the Constitution’s emoluments clause, not one of the Trump household’s abroad deal making was ever decided to be unlawful by any authority. Nor has any of Hunter Biden’s.

But in Mr. Trump’s telling, one is sufficient to compromise a president and the opposite just isn’t one thing to speak about.