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Fox News
22-07-2025
- Entertainment
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Obama aides brutally mock Hunter Biden 'playing the victim' in tirade against Democratic elite
Former Obama aides ripped Hunter Biden on Monday for his "sense of entitlement" after the former president's son lashed out at them and other Democratic "elites" in a new interview. Tommy Vietor, Jon Favreau and Jon Lovett, hosts of "Pod Save America" and former staffers to former President Barack Obama, responded to Hunter's fiery tirade, in which he blamed Obama White House officials and other Democratic leaders for pushing his father, Joe Biden, out of the 2024 presidential race exactly one year ago. In the Monday interview with YouTube personality Andrew Callaghan, Hunter derided the "Pod Save America" team as "junior f---ing speechwriters" who "have been dining out on the relationship with him for years, making millions of dollars." The ex-Obama aides responded, brutally mocking Hunter Biden as a hypocrite who had no right to criticize. "You know, it must be just so hard for Hunter Biden to watch all these people dining out on somebody's name," Lovett said sarcastically. "Mostly it is three hours of Hunter playing the victim," Vietor said of the interview. "And he rages at us, and he rages at [David] Axelrod and [George] Clooney, but the problem was the voters, and they never addressed that. The voters thought Joe Biden was too old." "You were on the board of Burisma because of who your dad is," he said of Hunter. "And that is what people hate about Washington." In the three-hour interview, Hunter Biden also attacked actor George Clooney, Democratic strategist James Carville, CNN commentator David Axelrod and CNN host Jake Tapper, while praising his father for giving "52 years of his f---ing life" to his political career. The "Pod Save America" hosts were disgusted by the remarks, saying it showed the Biden family's "sense of entitlement." "It's just this sense of entitlement from Biden, from his family, from the inner circle that he was like owed the presidency, owed a second term. It's just very f---ing grating," Vietor responded. "You were a liability," Lovett added. "You should be ashamed of the ways in which you made your father's political life worse. And like the idea that we're going to listen to you now, like, give me a f---ing break. It's ridiculous." The podcast hosts have been critical of Biden's inner circle for encouraging him to run for re-election, arguing that poll after poll showed that Americans believed he was too old to run for a second term. Days after the election, Favreau called Biden's decision to run for a second term a "catastrophic mistake" brought on by the then-president and his staff's hubris. "Joe Biden's decision to run for president again was a catastrophic mistake. It just was. He and his inner circle, they refused to believe the polls, they refused to believe he was unpopular, they refused to acknowledge until very late that anyone could be upset about inflation," Favreau said.
Fox News
09-07-2025
- Politics
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Obama bros balk at far-left saying Texans brought flood disaster on themselves by supporting Trump
Former Obama aides blasted left-wing commentators on their "Pod Save America" podcast Tuesday for claiming the flood disaster in Texas is just desserts for the state supporting President Donald Trump's reelection. Several Democrats and media outlets across the country have been quick to politicize the devastating flooding in Texas that killed more than 100 people by blaming climate change, Trump, racism and government cuts. On Monday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., demanded an investigation into various vacancies within the National Weather Service (NWS) in Texas related to warning coordination, suggesting Trump staff and budget cuts were to blame. Co-host Tommy Vietor said that while questions about the effect of NWS cuts could be "an important question going forward, I could have done without the, like, instant, you know, leap to blame name-your-political-opponent for this tragedy on Twitter. I think that stuff is just gross." "I think the really gross stuff was, I saw some people be, like, 'Well, Texas, you voted for Trump and this is what you get,' and you're like, 'What the f---? Come on,'" co-host Jon Favreau said. "We're Americans. We're all Americans. Don't do that s---," Vietor agreed. Favreau disputed the idea that cuts to the NWS had anything to do with the tragedy, saying, "It seems like the National Weather Service, like I said, did send out a timely warning, it just didn't get to people. And that's, you know, not the Trump administration saying that, that's independent meteorologists and experts have all said this." But he added that cuts could affect the reliability of forecasts during hurricane season. Several commentators have shared viral responses blasting the victims of the disaster. "The people in Texas voted for government services controlled by Donald Trump and Greg Abbott," added Ron Filipkowski, former federal prosecutor and the editor-in-chief of MediasTouchNews. "That is exactly what they (sic) getting." Texas pediatrician Christina Propst shared a social media post wishing that "MAGA" people affected by the flooding should reap the effects of what they voted for, while expressing hope that "non-MAGA voters and pets be safe and dry." "Kerr County MAGA voted to gut FEMA. They deny climate change. May they get what they voted for," she said, adding, "Bless their hearts." Others incorporated race into the equation, including Sade Perkins, a former member of the Houston Food Insecurity Board, who slammed Camp Mystic, which has lost at least 27 young girls and counselors, as a "Whites-only girls Christian camp." Her boyfriend, Reverend Colin Bossen, a senior minister at the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Houston, distanced himself from her remarks, "I want to be clear that I disavow her comments." He added, "I apologize to my congregation," he wrote. "I will continue to work to repair the harm this incident has caused."
