Hunter Biden, the son of former President Joe Biden, acknowledged that immigration policy and pulling troops from Afghanistan were both failures of his father’s administration during an appearance on The Shawn Ryan Show released on Monday (December 22).
“We need vibrant immigration,” Hunter said. “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.”
An estimated 2.4 million immigrants gained access to the United States during the Biden administration, according to the Congressional Budget Office, with an estimated 60% doing so illegally, according to a Goldman Sachs analysis, via the New York Post. Hunter, 55, claimed that his father’s administration secured an agreement from Republicans to support a bipartisan border bill negotiated by Sens. James Lankford (R-Okla.), Krysten Sinema (I-Ariz.) and Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) before President Donald Trump intervened half a year prior to his eventual 2024 election victory.
“And then Donald Trump stepped in six months before the [2024] election, and told [Republicans] that he was gonna primary every single one of them that voted for that, because we’re addicted to the problem,” Hunter said.
The younger Biden also admitted that his father’s rushed withdrawal of troops in Afghanistan “was an obvious f**king 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,” he said.
Former President Biden’s withdrawal of all American troops from Afghanistan was followed up by an ISIS-K suicide bombing at Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport that killed 13 U.S. military members who were attempting to flee as the country was reconquered by the Taliban.
“I think leaving Afghanistan was the right thing to do,” Hunter acknowledged, but agreed when Ryan said, “I cannot f**king stand the way the Afghan withdrawal happened.”
“I hear your anger about that,” Hunter 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].”
Former President Biden pardoned his son on December 1, despite previously claiming he wouldn’t take action to help Hunter during the G7 summit in June. Hunter was scheduled to be sentenced on separate federal gun and tax evasion cases later this month after pleading guilty in September to nine counts of evading the government of $1.4 million in taxes and being convicted of three federal gun charges for possessing a firearm while addicted to crack cocaine in June.
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