Exactly one year after his father dropped out of the 2024 presidential race, Hunter Biden began his public revenge tour against the Democratic establishment.

In a pair of expletive-laden interviews released on Monday, Hunter Biden teed off on the Democrats who shunted his father aside while inadvertently reminding voters why they rejected the party last year.

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He had a lot to get off his chest.

“People are really upset about illegal immigration? F*** you,” the younger Biden told Channel 5’s Andrew Callaghan. “How do you think your hotel room gets cleaned? How do you think you have food on your f***ing table? Who do you think washes your dishes?”

Former President Joe Biden wouldn’t necessarily put it in those terms, other than the “big f***ing deal” that was Obamacare and calling Fox News’s Peter Doocy a “stupid son of a bitch.” However, it revealed the mentality behind effectively leaving the border open, as the elder Biden did for most of his term.

Hunter Biden also floated the idea of becoming president himself, so he could threaten to invade El Salvador to bring back illegal immigrants.

“How are we getting those people back from f***ing El Salvador? If I became president in two years from now, or four years from now, or three years from now, I would pick up the phone, call the f***ing president of El Salvador, and say, ‘You either f***ing send them back or I’m gonna f***ing invade,’” he said.

Nor is it clear that Hunter’s Ambien defense of his father’s dreadful, campaign-ending debate performance was especially helpful.

“I know exactly what happened in that debate,” Hunter Biden said. “He flew around the world basically, the mileage that he could’ve flown around the world three times. He’s 81 years old. He’s tired as s***. You give him Ambien to be able to sleep. He gets up on the stage, and he looks like he’s a deer in headlights.”

Unbeknownst to Hunter, this doesn’t paint the most flattering picture of his father’s fitness for high office.

“According to Hunter, the then-president routinely used Ambien, up to two or three pills a night, to help him sleep, which calls into question just how well Biden was prepared for such a high-stakes moment under the national spotlight,” writes the radio show host and commentator Erick Erickson. “It also raises questions about how prepared the President could have been should a crisis happen in the middle of the night.”

Hunter Biden was also interviewed by former Democratic National Committee Chairman Jamie Harrison. Harrison spent the waning days of the elder Biden’s reelection bid arguing with people on social media and rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. After the election, he said Democrats should have stuck with Joe Biden as their nominee.

Naturally, Hunter Biden agrees. “I will tell you why we lost the last election. We lost the last election because we did not remain loyal to the leader of the party,” the former first son said. “That’s my position. We had the advantage of incumbency. We had the advantage of an incredibly successful administration. And the Democratic Party literally melted down.”

This is the standard Biden deadenders’ diagnosis. Former top Biden adviser Michael Donilon used the same phrase in February. “I think the party lost its mind,” he said. “If you ask people about this period of time, they’ll tell you Biden was losing the polls; he was going to lose. … They were saying this in a margin-of-error race.”

Hunter Biden had choice words for the Democrats who abandoned his father, including Hollywood’s George Clooney. 

“F*** him. F*** him. F*** him and everybody around him,” the younger Biden said. “I don’t have to be f***ing nice. No. 1, I agree with Quentin Tarantino. … F***(ing George Clooney is not a f***ing actor. He is a f***ing, like … I don’t know what he is. He is a brand.”

Hunter Biden added that Democratic strategist James Carville “hasn’t won a race in 40 f***ing years,” though the 1992 presidential election was less than 33 years ago, and David Axelrod “had one success in his political life, and that was Barack Obama, and that was because of Barack Obama.”

President Donald Trump once said of Biden’s father, “Obama came along and took him off the trash heap, and he became the vice president.”

Hunter Biden also sounded a bit Trumpian in his takedown of CNN’s Jake Tapper, who co-authored a book about the former president’s age-related decline while in office.

“What influence does Jake Tapper have over anything? He has the smallest audience on cable news,” the younger Biden said.

Some of this could be understood as a son defending his father. The former president saw longtime political allies turn on him after a bad debate and grim poll numbers.

However, Hunter Biden was a central figure in Biden’s family scandals. It is possible his father would not have been running for office in his 80s if he had not needed to help his son earn an income that was predicated at least on the appearance of access. Hunter Biden was the recipient of one of his father’s controversial last-minute pardons, sans autopen. 

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The son also emerged as a top adviser to his father as the elder Biden was ostracized from the political class in the waning days of his presidency. 

These interviews call into question the quality of that advice and suggest little introspection, a reflection of the Democratic Party a year after its most recent president ended his reelection campaign.