President Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, said Republicans are trying to get to him to destroy his father’s presidency.
“What they’re trying to do is they’re trying to kill me, knowing that it will be a pain greater than my father could be able to handle, and so, therefore, destroying a presidency in that way,” Hunter Biden said on the musician Moby’s podcast.
The first of the two-part interview came out a day after Hunter Biden was charged with tax crimes in California, bringing his indictment count up to two.
“I realized that it’s not about me. And then the second thing that I realized is that these people are just sad, very, very sick people that have most likely just faced traumas in their lives that they’ve decided that they are going to turn into an evil that they decide that they’re going to inflict on the rest of the world,” he said.
Hunter Biden discussed his drug and alcohol addiction during the interview and how he feels it has affected the Biden family. The younger Biden met Moby while they were in addiction recovery.
He also talked about being “harassed” by the right-wing media.
“They published on the front page: the picture of the house, the address, aerial view of the house, the inside of the house from the Realtor’s, you know, online offering of the house, description of where you could stand to see through floor-to-ceiling windows,” Hunter said of a story from the New York Post.
He added that supporters of former President Donald Trump would hang around outside his house.
The Post said in its report that it never posted a picture of his home, according to a review of its archives.
Hunter Biden said he thinks that the acts to discredit him aim to push him to relapse.
“There is no doubt in my mind – and this might sound like some crazy hyperbole – is that they’re trying to kill me through other means. And I just won’t let them,” he said.
Through his second indictment from special counsel David Weiss, he’s facing three felony tax charges related to tax evasion and filing false returns. He also faces six misdemeanor charges for failing to pay taxes from 2016 to 2019.
He has already been under a yearslong investigation for tax and gun crimes.
• Mallory Wilson can be reached at mwilson@washingtontimes.com.
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