Hunter Biden lays into Democrats, Jake Tapper and George Clooney
President Biden's son, whose very name inspires a Pavlovian response among right-wing conspiracy theorists, appears to have pulled a page from the opposition's playbook when during two recent interviews he leaned into grievance politics, repeatedly hurled expletives and condemned those who 'did not remain loyal' to his father.
Hunter Biden's first round of interviews since the 2024 election started out tame enough when last week on a new podcast hosted by Jaime Harrison, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, he said that Democrats lost to Donald Trump because they abandoned his father. There was no 'grand conspiracy' to hide his father's health issues, he said. 'We lost the last election because we did not remain loyal to the leader of the party. That's my position. We had the advantage of incumbency, we had the advantage of an incredibly successful administration, and the Democratic Party literally melted down.'
Fair enough. Then it was on to Clooney, one of the first high-profile figures on the left to call for Biden to step aside from his reelection campaign after a disastrous debate performance. Hunter Biden disparagingly referred to the actor as 'a brand' and told Harrison, 'Do you think in Middle America, that voter in Green Bay, Wis., gives a s— what George Clooney thinks about who she should vote for?'
Then came the knockout punch. In a separate, three-hour-plus interview released Monday with YouTuber Andrew Callaghan, he said of the star: 'George Clooney is not a f— actor. He is a f—, I don't know what he is. He's a brand. … F— him and everybody around him.'
Hunter Biden also had some words for senior Biden aide Anita Dunn. 'The Anita Dunns of the world, who's made $40 [million], $50 million off the Democratic Party, they're all going to insert their judgment over a man who has figured out, unlike anybody else, how to get elected to the United States Senate over seven times, how to pass more legislation than any president in history, how to have a better midterm election than anyone in history and how to garner more votes than any president that has ever run.' Former Obama aide and political analyst David Axelrod was also on the list. He said Axelrod 'had one success in his political life, and that was Barack Obama, and that was because of Barack Obama.'
And if the above sentiments were attributed to the current president's sons, who've characterized the Democratic Party as Nazis and referred to those who were protesting immigration sweeps by the patently offensive term 'mongoloids'? Meh, it's just another Monday. But Hunter Biden, like most public-facing Democrats, is held to a different standard. When they go low, we go high. Remember that sage advice that worked for Democrats back in the late aughts and early 2010s but now sounds like advice pulled from a 1950s guide to etiquette? The younger Biden not only deviated from that lefty code but also mirrored his tormentors, then unleashed his ire onto his own party.
Hunter Biden's own reckless actions over the years made him grist for all manner of right-wing helmed investigations. Then there are the stupid conspiracies, whether it's the missing laptop or that mysterious bag of cocaine found in the White House. Hard to keep track, but the younger Biden went there during his recent interview. 'I have been clean and sober since June of 2019. I have not touched a drop of alcohol or a drug, and I'm incredibly proud of that,' he told Callaghan. 'And why would I bring cocaine into the White House and stick it into a cubby outside of the Situation Room in the West Wing?'
But he also attributed at least one recent alleged conspiracy to those outside the right-wing cabal or, more specifically, to Jake Tapper. The CNN anchor co-wrote 'Original Sin,' a provocative book that claimed President Biden's confidants worked to conceal his declining health from the public.
Hunter Biden argued that it was nonsense and that the 'ability to keep a secret in Washington is zero.' 'What sells, Jaime?' he asked Harrison. 'What sells is the idea of a conspiracy.' And the public spectacle of flaming your enemy's enemy.
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