Hunter Biden gave a rare interview Friday in which he claimed Republicans were “trying to kill” him, adding that their investigations into him were meant to “destroy a presidency.”
“They are trying to, in their most illegitimate way, but rational way, they’re trying to destroy a presidency,” Hunter Biden said. “And so it’s not about me, and [in] their most base way, 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.”
The comments, made in a podcast interview with musician Moby, came one day after a federal grand jury in California indicted Biden on nine charges, including three felonies, for understating his income, failing to pay taxes, and exaggerating expenses on tax returns between 2016 and 2019.
“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,” Biden said. “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.”
The California indictment of Biden alleges he spent $872,172 in total on “various women” and “adult entertainment.” Some of these payments were allegedly written off as business expenses.
“Between 2016 and October 15, 2020, the Defendant spent this money on drugs, escorts and girlfriends, luxury hotels and rental properties, exotic cars, clothing, and other items of a personal nature, in short, everything but his taxes,” the indictment reads.
Biden was also indicted in Delaware on federal gun charges, which he pled not guilty to in October.
The president’s son agreed last month to testify before the House Oversight Committee with a specific request for it to be made public, as reported by The Dallas Express. The committee has been investigating his overseas business deals and whether his father was involved. Committee chair Rep. James Comer (R-KY) said the deposition must remain behind closed doors, but an additional public hearing was welcome.
In the interview on Friday, Biden acknowledged criticism that he had been too quiet amid the investigations against him.
“There was a point where the advice from the smart people in the room was that this was nothing more than a distraction as related to what really matters to the American people, and adding my voice to it would only add fuel to the fire,” the president’s son said. “Now that thesis has been completely blown out of the water because it’s not possible that the fire could be any hotter.”
