In the midst of a “shameless media blitz,” what looked to be a “calculated” Hunter Biden wondered why a particular group had yet to tell President Donald Trump, “Go f*ck yourself.”
(Video Credit: Jim Acosta)
Between resurfacing on social media, starting a Substack, and doing interviews, the scandal-plagued former first son has not been shy of the spotlight, as many suspect he’s testing the waters on a political future. During one such appearance on “The Jim Acosta Show,” Biden raised some of the president’s interactions with the press in questioning why they’ve not publicly cursed out Trump.
After referencing Trump’s interview with NBC News’ Kristen Welker that ended with the chief executive walking out, Biden brought up the manner in which the president had addressed Bloomberg reporter Catherine Lucey aboard Air Force One in November when, after he’d moved on to another member of the press, she continued to ask a question.
“He turned to a reporter with your former colleagues, Jim, on the plane and said, ‘Quiet, piggy!’ Why is it that none of your former colleagues turned to him and said ‘Go f*ck yourself, Mr. President,” said the guest before pausing to invoke his father, former President Joe Biden. “Sorry, my dad literally, he said stop cussin’, Hunter.”
Reacting to his guest, insisting he’s “come close to saying that,” Jim Acosta lamented, “I will tell you that I think it’s one of the most depressing things that I’ve seen in my entire career, the way that some in the press have just rolled over for him and they won’t stand up to him. And I did it maybe too much, I don’t know, maybe people think it was the right amount, but I did so much that now I’m here, and now I’m no longer at my old place as I like to call it.”
“But I like being here because now I can do what I want to do. But if somebody, if I were on Air Force One and Donald Trump had called one of my colleagues ‘piggy,’ I don’t know if I would have been able to contain myself,” he said before fantasizing, “I probably would have said, ‘Go f*ck yourself.’ I certainly would have said that’s not appropriate. Please take that back. This person is a good reporter and also a good person, and you’re not.”
The former CNN personality went on to insist that “Joe Biden,” who, in just one instance, infamously referred to a voter as a “lying, dog-faced pony soldier” on the 2020 campaign trail, “would never do that.”
Writing for the New York Post in the wake of a legal victory for the younger Biden that earned him $1.7 million over a defamation suit against Overstock founder Patrick Byrne, Miranda Devine criticized Hunter for his “shameless media blitz” to promote the documentary of his “sugar brother” Kevin Morris.
“The new Hunter is polished, calculated and utterly inauthentic. He is a skillfully manufactured product, and his sudden explosion into the media landscape is anything but organic,” she wrote. “It seems more like a sophisticated publicity rollout by professional PR operatives (which he recently admitted to hiring in an interview with Wired) to promote the upcoming documentary Hollywood lawyer Kevin Morris made during the years he was bankrolling the disgraced former first son.”
Devine asserted that Biden is likely futilely emphasizing his past debauchery and addiction to steer away from alleged influence peddling.
“The reason none of their lies stand up to scrutiny is that too many people know the truth and have told it in court, in whistleblower testimony, in hard-won prosecutions and in a number of forensically detailed books which are the antidote to Hunter’s feeble attempt to rewrite history,” she went on after noting Morris’ own suggestion that the infamous laptop from hell doesn’t even exist.
In conclusion, the columnist left room for the possibility that Biden firmly moved away from his past with considerable doubt, “Perhaps Hunter is a reformed character, as he now claims, only interested in helping others beat addiction. Perhaps he really does see himself following in his father’s footsteps as a politician, maybe president … maybe as VP. And pigs might fly.”
