Hunter Biden goes off on George Clooney: ‘F‑‑‑ him and everybody around him'
Appearing on YouTube personality Andrew Callaghan's web series 'Channel 5,' Hunter Biden lashed out at Clooney and other members of the party who publicly criticized the former president after his disastrous debate against President Trump last summer.
'F‑‑‑ him. F‑‑‑ him. F‑‑‑ him and everybody around him,' Hunter Biden said during the interview released Monday, in response to an anecdote about Clooney's political involvement. '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.'
Clooney was among the first prominent Democrats to call on the then-president to drop out, warning in an op-ed in The New York Times last July that the party would lose the election otherwise.
Within two weeks, the elder Biden announced he was dropping his reelection bid and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris to fill his place. Clooney thanked him 'for saving democracy once again' in response and endorsed Harris.
The former president's son also lashed out at other high-profile figures in the party.
'What do you have to do with f‑‑‑ing anything? Why do I have to f‑‑‑ing listen to you?' Biden asked. 'What right do you have to step on a man who's given 52 years of his f‑‑‑ing life to service of this country and to decide you, George Clooney, are going to take out basically a full page ad in the f‑‑‑ing New York Times. … To me — and James Carville, who hasn't run a race in 40 f‑‑‑ing 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 f‑‑‑ing David Axelrod and David Plouffe and all of these guys … and the Pod Save America Guys, who were junior f‑‑‑ing speechwriters on Barack Obama's Senate staff who had been dining out on their relationship with him.'
Hunter Biden, who was pardoned over multiple federal charges by his father during the last months of the former president's administration, has reemerged in public in recent weeks to slam the Democratic Party's handling of the election.
He is slated to appear on former Democratic National Committee Chair Jaime Harrison's new podcast, a trailer for which shows him blaming the Democratic Party's loss on its lack of loyalty to his father.
'You know what, we are going to fight amongst ourselves for the next three years until there's a nominee. And then with the nominee, we better as hell get behind that nominee,' Biden told Harrison on 'At Our Table.'
Tommy Vietor, one of the hosts of 'Pod Save America,' responded to Biden's comments in a post on the social platform X.
'It's good to see that Hunter has taken some time to process the election, look inward, and hold himself accountable for how his family's insular, dare I say, arrogant at times, approach to politics led to this catastrophic outcome we're all now living with,' he wrote.
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