Hunter Biden is back with more tea from former President Joe Biden’s White House, including his father’s relationship with his vice president.
Leading up to and during the 2024 presidential race, the relationship between former Vice President Kamala Harris and the president was presented as very close, almost familial. Now we know that there were deep problems between the two, and the former first son confirmed that not everything in the Biden White House was sunshine and rainbows.
Sitting down with Zeteo Editor-in-Chief Mehdi Hasan, he revealed that Harris was not “loyal to a fault” to Biden.
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“You said in a recent interview that you think Kamala Harris is ‘not a very good politician.’ Harris was given only 107 days by your dad to try and win an election,” Hasan started.
“And $2 billion,” Hunter added.
“She stayed loyal to him throughout. When he told her on the day of the debate against Trump: ‘No daylight, kid’ between them, she stuck to that. When she went on The View, and they said, ‘What would you have done differently to Joe Biden?’ She said, ‘Nothing comes to mind. In that moment, I thought she’s going to lose this election; she needs to break with Joe Biden,’” the host continued. “I would argue that cost her the presidency; she refused to break with your dad, stayed loyal with him till the end, cost herself the presidency, and many would say, ‘ Here you are throwing her under the bus saying she’s not a very good politician.”
“Oh boy,” the former first son chuckled. “I just think that’s the way that she’s handled it.”
“Here’s what I also would like to say about the vice president. I think that the vice president served the country incredibly well, and that she has a deep, rich future in politics. Whether she wants to run for president again, she’ll be one of the, if not the frontrunner,” Biden added.
“But she’s not a very good politician?” Hasan asked.
The conversation turned to loyalty, and Biden explained that he doesn’t necessarily believe that Harris was “loyal to a fault” to his father.
“Well, maybe from your perspective, but maybe not from mine,” he said to the host.
“How is she not loyal to your dad?” Hasan pressed.
“That’s between me and her,” Hunter quipped.
“Let me just state it exactly clearly. I think that she was loyal to my father, and I don’t think that she was loyal to a fault, however,” he added later.
