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“Former President Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, said his father's disastrous debate performance against President Donald Trump that led to the Democrat stepping aside as presidential candidate was the result of him taking Ambien due to his travel…
“‘And I'll tell you what, I know exactly what happened in that debate. He (Joe Biden) flew around the world, basically the mileage he could have flown around the world three times. He's 81 years old. He's tired as shit,’ the former president's son said in an interview released on Monday with YouTube creator Andrew Callaghan… Biden also expressed frustration with Democratic voices, strategists and lawmakers who abandoned his father's candidacy following the debate.” Reuters
Many on both sides are critical of Hunter Biden:
“More than anything, the interview, sent to Callaghan’s 3.15 million subscribers, is the younger Biden’s impassioned and profanity-laced defense of Joe Biden’s record as president — and an angry, extended bitch session about all those politicos and influencers, especially Democrats, whom Hunter Biden blames for his father’s forced withdrawal from the presidential race last year…
“It sounds exactly like what Joe Biden would say, were he able… This is what Joe Biden thinks about his party and what happened to him in 2024. Biden himself is too old and feeble and concerned about his presidential reputation to do it. But his son can… Joe Biden, whatever you think of him, really did serve in the Senate all those years. He really did serve Obama loyally for eight years. He really did get elected president with a huge vote total…
“So, of course, a former president resents being kicked to the curb. The most galling thing of all, for Joe Biden and for his son, is that all of the family’s I-thought-you-were-my-friend betrayers in the Democratic Party were right. Joe Biden was too old, too feeble, too clearly non compos mentis to serve as president for a second term.”
Byron York, Washington Examiner
“Even if [the Ambien] explanation were true, it only seems to underscore the underlying truth that Biden was too old to handle the rigors of a presidential run… Undeterred, Hunter Biden expressed disbelief that Democrats didn't march blindly in lockstep behind his father. ‘Why do you think that the Republicans have an advantage over us? Because they’re unified,’ Biden said. ‘They will go along with anything.’…
“He apparently thinks cultlike devotion to a leader in a party is a good thing. But that's not necessarily what voters will go for. Hunter Biden, like his father, appears hostile to introspection and determined to live forever in a fantasy that the country failed the Bidens rather than the other way around.”
Zeeshan Aleem, MSNBC
“Hunter’s sore his dad was forced to drop his reelection bid and is no longer in the White House; lacking a powerful protector, he’s drowning in legal debt and his art isn’t selling. Yet the idea that Joe would’ve won if Democrats stuck by him is unhinged. Joe was already tanking when he quit, thanks to inflation, the border disaster and the cognitive decline he displayed at his debate with Donald Trump. Top Dems only turned on him when they saw the writing on the wall.”
Editorial Board, New York Post
“Biden’s numbers — nationally and in swing states — were collapsing. There was a reason that virtually every single Democratic party leader was trying to push him out! They were worried that not only would they lose the White House but Biden’s sinking numbers could cost them a significant number of House and Senate seats too… Ask any Democrat not named Biden — or on the Biden payroll — and they will agree…
“The repeated attempts by the Bidens — Joe, Jill and Hunter — to suggest that he could have won the race if only the party hadn’t panicked and abandoned him is an absolute fantasy. Joe Biden was not going to win this race. Period. Full stop. That Kamala Harris went on to lose to Trump is proof of nothing other than that Democrats, for the past 10 years, consistently underestimated Trump‘s appeal. The Bidens are still trying to rewrite history. It isn’t — and won’t — work.”
Chris Cillizza, Substack
Other opinions below.
“Since their crushing loss in November, Democrats have wondered how they can win the battle for attention and reach voters who find them weak, remote, and passive. Their elected officials have been tiptoeing toward using the occasional cuss word in their public appearances, like teenagers cautiously puffing a joint for the first time and hoping not to cough. Hunter Biden, by contrast, went straight for line after line of the hard stuff…
“Donald Trump is a ‘f****** dictator thug,’ and Democrats should fight against his deportation agenda because ‘we fought a f****** revolution against a king, based on two things in particular: habeas corpus and due process. And we’re so willing to give them up?’… Maybe clips of a president’s son defending habeas corpus and mentioning a crack dealer named Bicycles is what the attention economy demands.”
Helen Lewis, The Atlantic
“On the subject of illegal immigration, Biden launched into a vulgar rant about all the reasons we need illegal immigrants to stay… ‘How do you think your hotel room gets cleaned? How do you think you have food on your f—king table? Who do you think washes your dishes? What do you think does your f–king garden? Who do you think is here by the f–king sheer f–king just grit and will that they figured out a way to get here because they thought that they could give theirselves and the family a better chance.’…
“In Hunter Biden’s world — the Democrats’ elitist world — illegal immigrants (by which Democrats almost exclusively mean ‘Hispanics’) perform the jobs they can’t imagine deigning to do themselves… You won’t find another 30 seconds of content that so beautifully encapsulates the Democrat leadership problem.”
Kira Davis, New York Post
