Hunter Biden appeared to raise concerns about his father’s immigration policies, saying the U.S. would be better off without “immigrants that are coming here illegally, draining us of resources.”
“I don’t even know if I’m a Democrat anymore,” the son of former President Joe Biden said Monday in a wide-ranging interview on “The Shawn Kelly Show.”
Biden, 55, said America is “addicted to the problem” of immigration and everyone is “talking past each other.” He added that “anybody” running for president will try to fix the “immigration issue.”
“We need immigration,” Biden said. “We need vibrant immigration, but we don’t want immigrants that are coming here illegally, draining us of resources, and also—and being prioritized above people that are actual, literal heroes, that are coming home, that are still recovering from 21, 20 years of endless war.”
Later in the interview, Biden admitted to being $15 million in debt.
He also slammed the United States’ botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, which was ordered by his father.
“I think the failure, one of the failures, was the way in which they executed the withdrawal from Afghanistan,” Biden said. “I think it was an obvious f—— failure. Thirteen Marines are dead. I think that there was a better way to do it, and I think that—and I can blame it on his generals, I can blame it on the people, the way in which we did it, but my dad always knew this also is that the buck stops with him.”
Biden thinks withdrawing from Afghanistan was “the right thing to do,” though he disagrees with the method.
“I think that in terms of the 20 years of blood that your brothers gave to for an endless war in $8 trillion dollars, is that there is a never-ending lust to continue to sell material, and our blood, sweat, and money to a country that has—that has never been anything but a killing ground for empires,” Biden said.
“So regardless, whether you believe that or not, the execution of the withdrawal resulted, I think, in—and by the way, you can blame part of it on [President Donald] Trump and that he let all those people out of the prison, the Taliban—but you know what, it stops with the president.”
He said his dad now feels the “same way that I do” about the withdrawal and is “crushed” by the thought of the lives lost.
“I think that there’s a lot of things that you can’t imagine, the kinds of decisions that you have to make as a president, and that if you have a heart and you care, it just must be so overwhelmingly, beyond comprehension, difficult,” Biden said.