Former President Joe Biden’s close advisors are striving to clarify the events surrounding the 2024 Democratic setback that paved the way for President Donald Trump’s impressive triumph.
Biden’s son, Hunter, has ended his silence following the election, criticizing the party for failing to support his father after his notably poor debate showing at the end of June.
‘We lost the last election because we did not remain loyal to the leader of the party,’ Hunter Biden said.
“That’s my stance. We enjoyed the benefits of incumbency and led a highly successful administration, yet the Democratic Party effectively collapsed,” he remarked.
The so-called party ‘meltdown’ led to his father ending his presidential campaign and passing the torch to Vice President Kamala Harris, who lost the election to President Donald Trump.
Harris, Hunter Biden implied, did not have the same draw with the American electorate as his father did.
Hunter Biden unleashed his criticism of Democrats in a new ‘At Our Table’ podcast hosted by Jaime Harrison, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, which was shared with The Hill.
Hunter Biden is breaking his silence and sharing his frustration with the Democratic party for abandoning his father in the 2024 election
US President Joe Biden and son Hunter Biden step out of a bookstore together in Nantucket
Hunter Biden also raged at the best-selling ‘Original Sin’ book authored by CNN anchor Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson that chronicled how Biden’s inner circle covered up the president’s mental and physical decline.
The book revealed that toward the end of his presidency, Biden struggled to remember the names of close donors, staff members and prominent Democratic figures.
The president’s son said the ‘idea of a conspiracy’ was made up to sell books.
Washington, D.C., he argued, was a ‘fish bowl’ that would make it impossible to cover up health problems and that the ‘ability to keep a secret in Washington is zero.’
He questioned the book’s anonymous sources for misleading readers about his father’s competency.
‘Every single day, hundreds of people,’ Hunter Biden said, ‘and you can’t get one of them to go on the record and say, ‘I saw the president do X.’
Hunter Biden’s comments emerge as the former president and his aides are stonewalling Republican investigations into Biden’s closest confidants.
Anthony Bernal, aide to former first lady Jill Biden, arrives to testify before the House Oversight Committee at the Rayburn House Office Building
Dr. Kevin O’Connor was on Capitol Hill, under subpoena, as part of House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer’s probe into Biden’s mental capabilities while in office
Former First Lady Jill Biden’s longtime personal assistant Anthony Bernal pleaded the Fifth Amendment during testimony at a closed-door Congressional hearing on Tuesday after investigators asked him if he was ever ordered to lie about the president’s health.
Last week, Biden’s personal physician Dr. Kevin O’Connor also pleaded the Fifth Amendment in response to questions.
Biden’s inner circle of advisors are also scrambling to defend the use of the ‘autopen’ in the White House to sign a flood of pardons at the end of his presidency.
They put the president on the record in a rare interview with the New York Times to defend the pardons, as more questions are raised about their validity.
‘I made the decisions about the pardons, executive orders, legislation, and proclamations,’ Biden told the Times. ‘Any suggestion that I didn’t is ridiculous and false.’
Hunter Biden, son of US President Joe Biden, in Los Angeles, California
Vice President Kamala Harris fell short in the 2024 election as President Donald Trump stormed back into power
Trump continues to raise questions about the use of the autopen, accusing Biden’s aides of using it without the president’s knowledge.
‘The autopen, I think, is maybe one of the biggest scandals that we’ve had in 50 to 100 years. This is a tremendous scandal,’ Trump told reporters in the Oval Office Monday. ‘I guarantee you he knew nothing about what he was signing. I guarantee it.’
The New York Times reported that Biden White House emails from Jan. 19 show that it was Chief of Staff Jeff Zients who approved the last-minute pardons late before the last day of Biden’s presidency.
But Biden insisted he approved the last-minute controversial pardons that included Anthony Fauci, Gen. Mark Milley, and Reps. Liz Cheney, Adam Schiff, Adam Kinzinger on the January 6th investigation committee.
‘Everybody knows how vindictive he is, so we knew that they’d do what they’re doing now,’ Biden said to the Times. ‘I consciously made all those decisions.’
