Hunter Biden is the ultimate nepo baby, fuming at his perception of other people’s lack of qualifications and credentials.
On a YouTube podcast hosted by Andrew Callaghan, former presidential son Hunter Biden lashed out at everyone in the Democratic Party he deems insufficiently loyal to his father:
James Carville who hasn’t run a race in 40 years, and David Axelrod who had one success in his political life and that was Barack Obama, and that was because of Barack Obama,not because of David Axelrod and
David Plouffe and all of these guys and the Pod Save America guys who were junior speech writers in, you know, Barack Obama’s Senate staff who have been dining out on on the relationship with him for years.
He made similar comments on the new podcast hosted by former Democratic National Committee chairman Jaime Harrison:
. . . Like, how arrogant do you have to be to be Pod Save America? Like, we’ve designated them as the guys who are going to save America? You know, like, four guys living in West Hollywood, making a million dollars a piece or more than that for the past four years, you know, dining out? but regardless they’ve got their finger on the pulse of the Democratic party, right from their Hollywood studio, with their homes in Bel Air.
Keep in mind, until the wildfires, Hunter Biden was living in a $4 million rental property in Malibu. Is this some Los Angeles neighborhood rivalry? Is one guy a Rams fan and the other guys are Chargers fans, or vice versa?
I will not spend a lot of time and effort defending the Pod Save America hosts, but I would point out that they did all work for the Obama campaign and in the Obama White House. Regardless of how you feel about the work that they did, they had to be good enough to at least get hired into those jobs and keep them for long stretches.
Who hired Hunter Biden to be his father’s son? Hunter is the ultimate nepo baby, fuming at his perception of other people’s lack of qualifications and credentials.
“It must be so hard for Hunter Biden to watch somebody else dining out on somebody’s name,” Jon Lovett snarks.
The Pod Save America hosts are, as you would expect, unimpressed. At one point, Tommy Vietor observes:
What if we just stipulate for the the hypothetical –like, yes, okay, all your business dealings were above board and legal. All your paintings were purchased by art lovers who loved the product and didn’t know your name. Trump is worse. You were on the board of Berisma because of who your dad is. And that is what people hate about Washington. And it was part of the problem.
Now, some of us have spent much of the past years pointing this out.
The Morning Jolt, October 5, 2023:
Just about every step of Hunter Biden’s career has seen him serving as a conduit between his father and someone wealthy and powerful who wanted to influence U.S. government policy. For part of this time, he was, in his own words, “smoking crack every fifteen minutes” during part of this time period. He had no practical experience with Ukrainian oil or natural-gas markets, or with Romanian real estate, or with electricity distribution in Hong Kong, or with managing Chinese investment funds, or with developing energy resources for a Chinese state-owned company, or with investment and construction in Russia. And yet he was hired to do vague or unspecified “work” on all of those things. And the Bidens insist that no one at any time ever expressed any interest in altering or influencing U.S. government policies.
In the Biden family’s version of events, large corporations, both in the U.S. and abroad, regularly hire crack addicts to consult on their most important decisions, and it’s just entirely coincidental that Hunter has the same surname as one of the most important officials in the U.S. government. In the world of the Bidens, you just decide to be an artist one day, throw some paint on some canvases, and then wealthy Democratic Party donors, with no political interests at all, spend $1.4 million on those paintings! And then, entirely coincidentally, one gets appointed to a presidential commission.
I don’t remember many Democrats agreeing or concurring that everything about Hunter Biden’s lucrative gigs with foreign businessmen — while he was putting the entire country of Colombia up his nose on a regular basis — stunk to high heaven. Instead, we kept getting idiotic implausible spin like, “this is a story of a father’s love.”
But now, all of a sudden, Vietor just blurts it out: “You were on the board of Burisma because of who your dad is.” Now it can be told!
In early 2020, as Bernie Sanders was winning the early presidential primaries and the Covid pandemic was creeping closer, Democrats panicked and went with the guy they thought was the old reliable. He turned out to be only the first part. Trying to white-knuckle Biden into a second term required a lot of Democrats to hold their tongues, avert their eyes, and pretend not to notice some awfully shady stuff. And now, with Joe Biden put out to pasture, everyone can say what they really believed all along.
Pass the popcorn.