Democrats, Obama aides, and George Clooney: Hunter Biden's profanity-laced interview on father's career

Indian Express

22-07-2025

Hunter Biden, recently pardoned by his father, former President Joe Biden, for criminal charges in California and Delaware, has unleashed a scathing attack on prominent Democrats and media figures, blaming them for his father's 2024 election loss. In two fiery podcast appearances, Biden took aim at party insiders, accusing them of disloyalty and undermining his father's presidency.
Over the course of more than four hours across both shows, Biden delivered a profane and deeply personal reckoning with the Democratic Party, accusing a long list of prominent liberals, including campaign veterans, media personalities, and Hollywood figures, of betraying his father and, in doing so, helping elect Donald Trump.
On the debut episode of At Our Table with Jaime Harrison, hosted by the former Democratic National Committee chairman, Biden argued that Democrats' failure to stand by his father cost them the election.
On Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan, a popular YouTube show known for its unfiltered interviews, Biden went further. He called out senior Biden aide Anita Dunn, claiming she 'made $40 to $50 million' from the Democratic Party.
He dismissed Democratic strategists David Axelrod and James Carville, saying Axelrod's only success was 'because of Barack Obama' and Carville 'hasn't run a race in 40 years.'
He also slammed the former Obama aides behind Crooked Media's Pod Save America as 'four white millionaires' profiting off their past association with Obama.
Even actor George Clooney, who publicly criticised Biden's campaign, was reduced to 'a brand' that didn't resonate with middle America.
Journalist Jake Tapper was perhaps his most bitter target ''What influence does Jake Tapper have over anything? He has the smallest audience on cable news,' Biden said.
In one breathless minute, he used variations of the f-word 13 times.
Most of those he criticised declined to engage. 'Never have the words 'no comment' been more appropriate,' Axelrod said.
Biden also offered his version of what went wrong in the final stretch of the campaign, saying his father had been given the sleep aide Ambien before his disastrous debate performance in an attempt to help him sleep after a gruelling travel schedule.
'He's 81 years old, he's tired,' Hunter said. 'They give him Ambien to be able to sleep and he gets up on the stage and he looks like he's a deer in the headlights.'
Hunter also denied longstanding right-wing allegations that he had brought cocaine into the White House in 2023, a claim revived earlier this year when the FBI reopened an investigation.
'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?'
President Trump had publicly speculated the cocaine could belong to 'either Joe or Hunter,' though offered no proof.
Biden's public reemergence follows a year of personal and political crisis. He was convicted on three felony charges related to a 2018 gun purchase, and his father's pardon—issued just weeks before leaving office—triggered an outcry from Republicans and muted discomfort from some Democrats. While the White House maintained the pardon was a private family decision, critics pointed to it as an example of elite impunity.
But Hunter Biden, in these interviews, showed no sign of retreat. If anything, he seemed emboldened—less the president's troubled son and more a man with a hit list, an unrepentant voice in a party he believes lost its way.