Hunter Biden attacks Democrats who turned on his father in fiery, expletive-filled interview
Hunter Biden, the son of former President Joe Biden, during a recent interview called out George Clooney and other prominent Democrats who called for Biden to drop out of last year’s presidential race.
A year ago today, on July 21, 2024, Biden announced he was ending his bid for reelection following a debate with Donald Trump on June 27 that raised concerns about Biden’s candidacy.
“On one occasion, Biden appeared to lose his train of thought, stopped speaking and concluded with the line, ‘we finally beat Medicare,’” reads a previous report from USA Today.
At the time, members of Biden’s administration said his debate performance could be attributed to exhaustion from the former president’s busy schedule that week.
But in an interview lasting more than three hours with YouTube show Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan Hunter said that that wasn’t the whole story.
“I know exactly what happened in that debate,” Hunter told Callaghan.
“He flew around the world ‒ basically the mileage that he could have flown around the world three times. He’s 81 years old. He’s tired as s–t. They give him Ambien to be able to sleep.“
Ambien, generically known as zolpidem, is a sedative medication primarily used for the short-term treatment of insomnia, according to GoodRx.
“He gets up on the stage, and he looks like he’s a deer in the headlights, and it feeds into every f—ing story that anybody wants to tell,” Hunter continued.
He then turned his attention to Clooney, who published an op-ed in The New York Times in July 2024 calling for Biden to step down as the Democratic presidential candidate.
Clooney, a longtime fundraiser for the Democratic party, wrote that he still considered Biden a friend and added that his plea was “about age. Nothing more. But also nothing that can be reversed.”
“We are not going to win in November with this president,” he wrote.
“…This isn’t only my opinion; this is the opinion of every senator and congress member and governor that I’ve spoken with in private. Every single one, irrespective of what he or she is saying publicly.”
“We can put our heads in the sand and pray for a miracle in November, or we can speak the truth,” he continued.
Clooney was joined by actor Rob Reiner and several Democratic lawmakers in his plea.
Less than two weeks later, Biden dropped out of the race and endorsed former Vice President Kamala Harris.
“F— him [Clooney]!” Hunter told Callaghan in Monday’s interview.
“F— him, f— him and everybody around him.”
“What do you have to do with f—ing anything? Why do I have to f—ing listen to you?” he continued.
“What right do you have to step on a man who’s given 52 years of his f—ing life to the service of this country and decide that you, George Clooney, are going to take out basically a full-page ad in the f—ing New York Times to undermine the president?”
Hunter went on to call out Democratic strategist James Carville, former Obama adviser David Axelrod, and the hosts of Pod Save America.
“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 anybody in history, and how to garner more votes than any president that has ever run,” he said.
Despite leaving office six months ago, Biden and his presidency seem to remain on the minds of many, including Trump.
The House has launched investigations asserting that Biden’s closest advisers covered up a physical and mental decline during the 82-year-old Democrat’s presidency, according to AP News.
The Senate has also started a series of hearings focused on his mental fitness. And Trump’s White House has opened its own investigation into the Biden administration’s use of the presidential autopen, which Trump has called “one of the biggest scandals in the history of our country,” the outlet reports.
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