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Disgraced first son Hunter Biden turned on his father, Joe, in a wide-ranging podcast interview this week, acknowledging that the 46th president’s lax immigration policy and move to pull US forces out of Afghanistan were both catastrophic failures.

“We need vibrant immigration,” the 55-year-old told “The Shawn Ryan Show” during a five-and-a-half-hour conversation that dropped Monday.

“But we don’t want immigrants that are coming here illegally, draining us of resources, and being prioritized above people that are actual, literal heroes, that are still recovering from 21, 20 years of endless war — or anybody else in our society.”


  President Joe Biden and son Hunter Biden stepping out of a bookstore while shopping in Nantucket, Massachusetts, on Nov. 29, 2024. AFP via Getty Images President Joe Biden and son Hunter Biden stepping out of a bookstore while shopping in Nantucket, Massachusetts, on Nov. 29, 2024. AFP via Getty Images

During Joe Biden’s presidency, an estimated 2.4 million immigrants entered the US each year, according to the Congressional Budget Office — with a Goldman Sachs analysis finding that 60% crossed the border illegally.

Earlier in the interview, Hunter claimed that his father’s White House had secured an agreement from Republicans to back a sweeping border bill negotiated by Sens. James Lankford (R-Okla.), Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) and Chris Murphy (D-Conn.).

“And then Donald Trump stepped in six months before the [2024] election, and told [Republicans] that he was gonna primary every single one of them that voted for that, because we’re addicted to the problem,” said the younger Biden.

While the Biden White House insisted congressional legislation was needed to secure the border, Trump has relied on executive action throughout his two terms to crack down on illegal immigration.

Elsewhere in the interview, Hunter admitted to interviewer Shawn Ryan that the botched bugout from Afghanistan “was an obvious f—ing failure.”


  US soldiers stand on the tarmac as a US Air Force aircraft prepares for takeoff from the airport in Kabul on Aug. 30, 2021. AFP via Getty Images US soldiers stand on the tarmac as a US Air Force aircraft prepares for takeoff from the airport in Kabul on Aug. 30, 2021. AFP via Getty Images

“I think that there was a better way to do it, and … I can blame it on his generals, I can blame it on [other] people [for] the way in which we did it, but — and my dad always knew this also, is that the buck stops with him.”

The rushed withdrawal from Afghanistan was punctuated by an ISIS-K suicide bombing at Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport that killed 13 US service members who were attempting to process Afghans fleeing the reconquering Taliban.

Hunter specified that “I think leaving Afghanistan was the right thing to do,” but agreed with his interviewer when Ryan said, “I cannot f—ing stand the way the Afghan withdrawal happened.”

“I hear your anger about that,” the former first son responded. “And I don’t have any response to it other than the fact that I know that my dad came from a position that 20 years was enough, and it was not in the interest of anyone in the United States [to remain there].”

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