Disgraced first son Hunter Biden turned on his father Joe in a wide-ranging podcast interview this week, acknowledging that the 46th president’s lax immigration policy and move to pull US forces out of Afghanistan were both catastrophic failures.
“We need vibrant immigration,” the 55-year-old told “The Shawn Ryan Show” during a five-and-a-half hour conversation that dropped Monday.
“But we don’t want immigrants that are coming here illegally, draining us of resources, and being prioitized above people that are actual, literal heroes, that are still recovering from 21, 20 years of endless war — or anybody else in our society.”
During Joe Biden’s presidency, an estimated 2.4 million immigrants entered the US each year, according to the Congressional Budget Office — with a Goldman Sachs analysis finding that 60% crossed the border illegally.
Elsewhere in the interview, Hunter admitted to interviewer Shawn Ryan that the botched bugout from Afghanistan “was an obvious f—ing failure.”
“I think that there was a better way to do it, and … I can blame it on his generals, I can blame it on [other] people [for] the way in which we did it, but — and my dad always knew this also, is that the buck stops with him.”
The rushed withdrawal from Afghanistan was punctuated by an ISIS-K suicide bombing at Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport that killed 13 US service members who were attempting to process Afghans fleeing the reconquering Taliban.
Hunter specified that “I think leaving Afghanistan was the right thing to do,” but agreed with his interviewer when Ryan said, “I cannot f—ing stand the way the Afghan withdrawal happened.”
“I hear your anger about that,” the former first son responded. “And I don’t have any response to it other than the fact that I know that my dad came from a position that 20 years was enough, and it was not in the interest of anyone in the United States [to remain there].”
