HUNTER BIDEN

TRUMP, on former Vice President Joe Biden’s son Hunter: “Now look the $1.5 billion that Hunter … got a lot of money from Ukraine, but he got $1.5 billion from China. …They gave him $1.5 billion, he will make millions and millions with that. …I think they would love to see another president.” — Kentucky rally.

Ng Han Guan

FI:LE - In this Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2013 file photo, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, left, waves as he walks out of Air Force Two with his granddaughter Finnegan Biden and son Hunter Biden at the airport in Beijing, China. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, Pool)

THE FACTS: There’s no evidence Hunter Biden pocketed $1.5 billion from China. More generally, accusations of criminal wrongdoing by father or son are unsubstantiated.

The impeachment process was sparked by Trump’s pressure on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to investigate Joe and Hunter Biden when the father was vice president and his son in international business. He has also urged China to investigate.

In 2014, an investment fund started by Hunter Biden and other investors joined with foreign and Chinese private equity firms in an effort to raise $1.5 billion to invest outside China. That’s far from giving Hunter Biden such a sum, as Trump describes it.

Hunter Biden’s lawyer, George Mesires, says his client was an unpaid director of the fund at the time and pocketed nothing.

“To date, Hunter has not received any compensation for being on BHR’s board of directors,” Mesires said, referring to the fund. “He has not received any return on his investment.”