Hunter Biden: F--- George Clooney
Mr Biden criticised the Academy Award winner for withdrawing his support for his father Joe Biden during the 2024 presidential race.
'F‑‑‑ him. F‑‑‑ him. F‑‑‑ him and everybody around him,' Hunter Biden told YouTube journalist, Andrew Callaghan during an interview on his 'Channel 5'.
'I don't have to be f‑‑‑ing nice. No. 1, I agree with Quentin Tarantino. F‑‑‑ing George Clooney is not a f‑‑‑ing actor. He is a f‑‑‑ing, like… I don't know what he is. He is a brand.'
Hunter was referring to remarks by director Tarantino in which he said Clooney was not a 'movie star'.
Clooney wrote a New York Times op-ed last July highlighting Joe Biden's mental decline and urging him to pull out of the race against Donald Trump. The piece contributed to the pressure which ultimately led Joe Biden to step down.
Elsewhere in the interview, Hunter revealed that he bought crack near the White House during Mr Trump's first term as president.
Hunter, 55, said he purchased the drugs in Washington DC's Lincoln Park after admitting to his doctor that he had begun drinking again shortly after his brother Beau died of cancer.
'I know it to be…sometimes an open air drug market, and I saw someone that I knew from my past life as being on the streets, a woman that I referred to as Bicycles, and I knew that it was kind of a suicidal thought,' he told Mr Callaghan.
'I said: 'Do you got any crack?' She sold me crack. And that was it.'
The interview was published on the one-year anniversary of his father's withdrawal from the race for the White House.
In the three-hour conversation, Hunter spoke candidly about his drug use, addressed criticism of his father from both Republicans and Democrats and shared his thoughts on Mr Trump's border crackdown, comparing it to Nazi Germany.
The president's son dismissed claims that he acted as a de facto chief of staff to his father as one of a number of 'conspiracies' spread about him.
The allegations are contained in Original Sin, a recently-published book by CNN's Jake Tapper and Axios's Alex Thompson, chronicling the former president's mental decline and aides' attempts to cover it up.
Responding to suggestions that he played a key decision role in the Biden administration, Hunter said: 'I think I spent 12 days in the White House in the last two years of the administration. I had a lot of other things going on.'
Hunter has frequently clashed with Mr Tapper.
The former president's son also hit out at Democratic commentators David Axelrod and Rahm Emmanuel, claiming that they want the Left to 'turn away from all values' on the issue of immigration.
The two Democrats, who worked in the Obama administration, were critical of Joe Biden's decision to run for a second term.
'These guys think that we need to turn away from all values in order for us to lead.'
'I would threaten to invade El Salvador'
If he were president, he would threaten to invade El Salvador in order to free US deportees detained there, Hunter said.
'I would pick up the phone and call the f—ing president of El Salvador and say, you either f—ing send them back or I'm going to f—ing invade,' he said.
Hunter said any migrant who goes to extreme lengths to get into the country 'deserves to be an American'.
Addressing his drug addiction, which spiralled out of control between 2016 and 2019, when he got clean, Hunter said he was drinking a bottle of vodka a day and began to make his own crack cocaine.
Asked how he sourced the drug, he said: 'One of the things I don't want to do is give a how-to to any moron like myself that may think that it's a good idea.'
Having tried his first drink before high school and begun experimenting with drugs in his teenage years, the former president's son said that during his period of full-blown addiction, he was 'smoking anything that even remotely resembled crack cocaine'.
'I probably smoked more parmesan cheese than anyone,' he joked.
Hunter denied that a bag of cocaine found in the White House in 2023 during his father's presidency was his, after the FBI opened an investigation into the matter.
'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 said. 'Why would I bring cocaine into the White House and stick it into a cubby outside of the situation room in the West Wing?'
The discovery of the illicit substance fuelled rumours among Maga supporters that Hunter was responsible.
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