Hunter Biden pins CLARITY Act failure on Trump's ethics refusal

Hunter Biden says the CLARITY Act would have had the votes — if President Trump had agreed to its ethics provisions. In comments reported by CoinDesk, he pinned the bill's failure directly on the White House, not on a partisan wall in Congress.

His claim is blunt: Democrats were ready. The ethics language was the holdup. As he put it, per CoinDesk, the legislation would have drawn enough Democratic support to pass had Trump signed off on that section.

That framing turns the CLARITY Act's collapse into a story about one negotiation point rather than an unbridgeable divide. The ethics provisions became the dealbreaker, and without Trump's agreement there, the votes that could have carried the crypto market structure bill stayed parked.

The bill did not pass. Biden's read on why is his own account, reported by CoinDesk, and it puts the spotlight back on the ethics fight as Washington keeps circling crypto legislation.