Hunter Biden takes aim at Kamala Harris, Jake Tapper in recent podcast appearance

Former Vice President Kamala Harris’ loss in the 2024 presidential election has been the subject of much debate and analysis, but this week, criticism of her candidacy came from a somewhat unexpected source.

As the Daily Mail reports, none other than former first son Hunter Biden weighed in on the electoral outcome, suggesting that the effective abandonment of his father by Democratic Party elites and their decision to back Harris instead is what ultimately led to Donald Trump’s victory last November.

Hunter holds forth

Post-mortem analysis of the Democrats’ decisive losses last fall has yielded a number of arguably plausible explanations.

Some point to Joe Biden’s disastrous June debate performance against Trump as a pivotal turning point, while others suggest that Harris’ truncated campaign season and her inability to articulate clear policy positions were to blame.

Hunter Biden, for his part, recently broke his silence to declare what he believes was the cause of the Democrats’ downfall, stating plainly, “We lost the last election because we did not remain loyal to the leader of the party.”

Mr. Biden delivered his assessment during an appearance on the At Our Table podcast hosted by former Democratic National Committee chair Jaime Harrison.

“That’s my position. We had the advantage of incumbency, we had the advantage of an incredibly successful administration, and the Democratic Party literally melted down,” Biden said, expressing what appeared to be not-so-subtle disapproval of Harris’ swift coronation as his father’s heir apparent.

Taking aim at Tapper

Harris was not the only target of Hunter’s ire, as he also let loose on CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios’ Alex Thompson for their book Original Sin, which addressed the increasingly apparent cover-up of President Biden’s cognitive and physical decline while in office.

In Hunter’s estimation, the very idea that there was some sort of “conspiracy” to keep his father’s condition hidden in a bid to retain power was simply a fiction designed to generate book sales.

The younger Biden went on to describe the nation’s capital — and the office of the presidency — as a “fish bowl” that renders it impossible to mask the degree of decline the authors suggested had gripped the president.

He added his belief that “the ability to keep a secret in Washington is zero” and expressed doubt about the anonymous sources quoted by Tapper and Thompson, claiming, “you can’t get one of them to go on the records and say, ‘I saw the president do X.’”

Secrecy, silence persist

However, despite Hunter Biden’s assurances that his father was fully competent and fit to execute the duties of the office he held, a congressional probe of the potential cover-up of serious decline has yielded developments that seem to justify the suspicions still harbored by many.

To date, Kevin O’Connor, former President Biden’s White House physician, and Anthony Bernal, a longtime aide to Democrat administrations and confidant to former first lady Jill Biden, have both invoked the Fifth Amendment to avoid providing testimony to the House Oversight Committee, as ABC News notes.

In response to those refusals, panel chair James Comer (R-KY) said on Wednesday that Harris and Mrs. Biden “should” now also be subpoenaed in the investigation, a scenario that could either perpetuate the shroud of secrecy surrounding Biden’s time in office or, depending on how the former VP responds, stoke the flames of anger that clearly still torment the former first son.

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