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Fox’s Brit Hume Flags Trump Family’s Exploding Wealth as a Problem for Republicans: ‘People Are Hurting’
Kathryn Wilkens
Tue, November 10, 2026
Fox News chief political analyst Brit Hume suggested Monday that President Donald Trump and his family's rapidly growing wealth caused voters' concerns about government corruption as Republicans suffered sweeping losses in last week's midterm elections.
Hume joined Monday's edition of Special Report, where anchor Bret Baier highlighted a Fox News poll showing that 55% of respondents considered government corruption "crucial" to their congressional vote. Another 36% called it a "major factor."
"That's a massive number, if you think about it. We saw nine in ten people, essentially, say this was important or a factor," Baier observed.
"Yeah, one way or another, it was important to them," Hume replied, adding:
When times are tough, and we're going through an economic transformation of an extraordinary degree, and prices are high, even though jobs are plentiful, people are hurting, and that was a big issue in the election. They look at Washington, and they see the president, apparently a rich man to begin with and never afraid to talk about how rich he was and is, suddenly several billion dollars richer, according to Forbes magazine. They see his sons involved in cryptocurrency businesses that are netting them a large amount of money, and they don't like the look of that.
The discussion followed comments from former Trump administration adviser Calley Means, who resigned last month and accused senior officials of "doing things for other reasons, particularly in many cases to enrich their families" during a Friday appearance on Joe Rogan's podcast.
Hume said those allegations "only add to the equation."
"I'm suspicious of them, but they may have the ring of truth to people who are disillusioned by what they're seeing in Washington generally," he added.
Baier then turned to Trump's interview with 60 Minutes correspondent Ross Douthat on Sunday, during which the president was pressed about his net worth increasing by $3 billion since returning to office.
Douthat asked why Trump had not divested from his family's cryptocurrency ventures, including World Liberty Financial, which has attracted foreign investment. The president maintained that his sons manage his businesses and that he knows little about their operations.
"I don't think the president really has a good answer on this subject. Really, he doesn't," Hume concluded.
The Fox News chief political analyst praised Douthat's questioning, saying Trump was "sort of stuck there in his answer on why he didn't simply divest, 'cause he's rich as Croesus anyways. He never really answered that question, and it was very well put to him by Ross Douthat."
Fox’s Brit Hume Flags Trump Family’s Exploding Wealth as a Problem for Republicans: ‘People Are Hurting’
Kathryn Wilkens
Tue, November 10, 2026
Fox News chief political analyst Brit Hume suggested Monday that President Donald Trump and his family's rapidly growing wealth caused voters' concerns about government corruption as Republicans suffered sweeping losses in last week's midterm elections.
Hume joined Monday's edition of Special Report, where anchor Bret Baier highlighted a Fox News poll showing that 55% of respondents considered government corruption "crucial" to their congressional vote. Another 36% called it a "major factor."
"That's a massive number, if you think about it. We saw nine in ten people, essentially, say this was important or a factor," Baier observed.
"Yeah, one way or another, it was important to them," Hume replied, adding:
When times are tough, and we're going through an economic transformation of an extraordinary degree, and prices are high, even though jobs are plentiful, people are hurting, and that was a big issue in the election. They look at Washington, and they see the president, apparently a rich man to begin with and never afraid to talk about how rich he was and is, suddenly several billion dollars richer, according to Forbes magazine. They see his sons involved in cryptocurrency businesses that are netting them a large amount of money, and they don't like the look of that.
The discussion followed comments from former Trump administration adviser Calley Means, who resigned last month and accused senior officials of "doing things for other reasons, particularly in many cases to enrich their families" during a Friday appearance on Joe Rogan's podcast.
Hume said those allegations "only add to the equation."
"I'm suspicious of them, but they may have the ring of truth to people who are disillusioned by what they're seeing in Washington generally," he added.
Baier then turned to Trump's interview with 60 Minutes correspondent Ross Douthat on Sunday, during which the president was pressed about his net worth increasing by $3 billion since returning to office.
Douthat asked why Trump had not divested from his family's cryptocurrency ventures, including World Liberty Financial, which has attracted foreign investment. The president maintained that his sons manage his businesses and that he knows little about their operations.
"I don't think the president really has a good answer on this subject. Really, he doesn't," Hume concluded.
The Fox News chief political analyst praised Douthat's questioning, saying Trump was "sort of stuck there in his answer on why he didn't simply divest, 'cause he's rich as Croesus anyways. He never really answered that question, and it was very well put to him by Ross Douthat."
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