Fox News: Brit Hume Highlights Trump Family’s Increasing Wealth as Reason for Midterms Loss

Fox News chief political analyst Brit Hume said on Monday (November 9) that the Trump family’s rapidly increasing wealth could have played a role in the Republicans’ historic midterm losses.

Speaking to Bret Baier on Monday’s edition of Special Report after the ‘blue tsunami’ swept Democrats into control of the House and the Senate last week, Hume agreed with polls showing government corruption was a significant factor in how people voted in the midterms.

The comments came after Baier highlighted a Fox News poll showing that 55 percent of respondents considered government corruption “crucial” to their vote and another 36 percent called it a “major factor.”

“One way or another, it was important to them,” Hume said, per Mediaite. “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.”

Hume noted a recent Forbes report claiming Trump has increased his wealth by $3 billion since returning to office in January 2025.

“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,” the political commentator added. “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 came after former Trump administration adviser Calley Means resigned last month. On Friday’s (November 6) episode of the Joe Rogan podcast, Means accused senior officials of “doing things for other reasons, particularly in many cases to enrich their families.”

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Hume said Means’ allegations “only add to the equation,” adding, “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.”

On Sunday’s (November 8) 60 Minutes, Ross Douthat asked Trump about the Forbes report and his ties to World Liberty Financial, the cryptocurrency firm partially owned by investors connected to the government of the United Arab Emirates.

The president brushed off the question, saying he doesn’t know anything about it and that he leaves that side of the business to his son.

“I don’t think the president really has a good answer on this subject. Really, he doesn’t,” Hume stated.