The Daily Signal - Victor Davis Hanson: Hunter Biden Slips the Truth We All Knew About Joe Biden’s White House

Episode Date: July 25, 2025

The disturbing implications? For years, America was led by a cognitively impaired president, while his scandal-plagued son acted as a key adviser behind the scenes. On this week’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” Hanson asks the question: Who was really running the White House during Biden’s term? “ He just said about the laptop—in which he is seen using drugs, he's in pornographic poses, but most importantly, he references his father as “the big guy” and "the 10% guy," and he laments that he is the bagman for the family. It's very incriminating. But he doesn't—as he has before—he has never denied that it was his.  “What I'm getting at is this: It's very dangerous to think that for four years we had a president who was mentally challenged, cognitively disabled, suffering dementia. And the close circle around them—whether they were former Obama operatives or Biden senatorial family, or his own real family—that these people were running the country. And the last year or two, if you look at photographs, videos of Biden giving a speech, Biden traveling, there's one constant. It's Hunter Biden. Hunter Biden was his eyes and his ears. And he was a close—and maybe the closest—adviser to his father.” 👉Don’t miss out on Victor’s latest videos by subscribing to The Daily Signal today. You’ll be notified every time a new piece of content drops: https://www.youtube.com/dailysignal?sub_confirmation=1    👉If you can’t get enough of Victor Davis Hanson from The Daily Signal, subscribe to his official YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@victordavishanson7273    👉He’s also the host of “The Victor Davis Hanson Show,” available wherever you prefer to watch or listen. Links to the show and exclusive content are available on his website: https://victorhanson.com  (0:00) Hunter Biden's Interview (0:59) Hunter Biden's Defense of His Father (1:42) Attacks on Democratic Figures (2:17) Hunter Biden's Hypocrisy and Scandals (3:33) Hunter Biden's Laptop Controversy (5:07) Conclusion Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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We'd love to talk, business. I would like to talk a little bit about the strange bizarre, endless run-on, crazy interview that Hunter Biden gave with Andrew Callahan, a so-called internet influencer. It's very dangerous to think that for four years, we had a president who was mentally challenged, cognitively disabled, suffering dementia. And the last year or two, if you look at photographs, videos of Biden giving a speech, Biden traveling, there's one constant. It's Hunter Biden. And after listening to that video, you can appreciate just how close we came to utter chaos and disruption that a mentally challenged president and his addicted son had the most power of anybody in the entire world and were running this government.

Hello, this is Victor Davis-Hansson for the Daily Signal. I would like to talk a little bit about the strange, bizarre, endless run-on, crazy interview that Hunter Biden, Joe Biden's son, gave with Andrew Callahan, a so-called Generation Z Internet influencer. In this long interview, it was a spirited defense of his father, claiming that he was not demented at all, that he was in full control of his faculties, and he had a wonderful administration, and he was unfortunately aborted, kicked out, deposed by a sinister array, of characters whom he level at whom he accused as being incompetent so he attacked George Clooney who had written a letter about an op-ed about Joe Biden's cognitive problems he went after David Axelrod who was also a advocate of

removing Biden and putting in Harris said he has only his only claim to fame as he won one election that's kind of true in the case of Obama and and as Hunter said Obama was the reason he was elected, not Axelrod. He went after James Caraville. He went after Jake Tapper. He went after the entire Democratic establishment. But what was very strange about what he did, he revealed himself. He attacked grifters in the Democratic Party that made a lot of money. That's what he did. He said these people were unethical. That's what he was. Remember, he was a tax cheat. He never reported fully the income that he made by trading off his father's name. He never truly gave us the full account of the Biden consortium, what his uncle and cousins,

what they were actually doing to get such an enormous amount of money. He never explained why he accepted a pardon from his father. He never explained why his father actually signed his pardon in opposition to what. what he did everybody else almost with an auto pin. And then it got very bizarre. He never mentioned that he had dated his brother's widow and got her hooked on dangerous drugs. In fact, when he mentioned drugs, I thought he might refer to the cocaine that was found in a mail slot in the West Wing. He didn't. Instead, he gave a defense of cocaine and suggested it's not nearly as toxic as alcohol.

When he was asked about the laptop, and remember, the laptop was in the possession of the FBI for one year, and they authenticated it as genuine wine, and they knew it was genuine wine. At the same time, they kept silent when 51 intelligence authorities lied to the American people, and Joe Biden used that lie in the second debate of the 2020 campaign to say that Donald Trump was lying that this laptop, quote, had all the earmarks of Russian information efforts, meaning disinformation. He didn't mention any of that. In fact, he just said about the laptop in which he is seen using drugs.

He's in pornographic poses. But most importantly, he references his father as the big guy and the 10% guy, and he laments that he is the bagman for the family. It's very incriminating. But he doesn't, as he has before, he has never denied that it was his. He never denies it's his. He just says it's irrelevant. If anybody had a laptop and you looked into it, all kinds of stuff would come out. He doesn't talk about his art, that con where he was doodling and blowing pain on through his nose

and then hawking that art to buyers who wanted influence with his father. His protestations that his father was heroic, that he was one of the best democratic senators we've had, that his presidency was a smashing success or laughable. So what am I getting at? What I'm getting at is this. It's very dangerous to think that for four years we had a president who was mentally challenged, cognitively disabled, suffering dementia. and the close circle around them, whether they were former Obama operatives or Biden's senatorial family or his own real family,

that these people were running the country. And the last year or two, if you look at photographs, videos of Biden giving a speech, Biden traveling, there's one constant. It's Hunter Biden. Hunter Biden were his eyes and his ears, and he was a close, and maybe the closest advisor to his father. And after listening to that video, you can appreciate just how close we came to utter chaos and disruption that a mentally challenged president and his addicted son had the most power of anybody in the entire world, and we're running this government with the help of who knows, Who? We have no idea. Bottom line, if you listen to even a clip of that interview, it's frightening that this man was anywhere near the presidency and how he got near the presidency and how the president was the president is a scandal in itself of historical proportions. Thank you very much.

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