Pod Save America Hosts Snap Back at Hunter Biden: ‘You’re Not the F*cking Victim Here!’
The hosts of Pod Save America snapped back at Hunter Biden after he dismissed the podcasters as “junior fucking speechwriters” in a tirade against Democrats not supportive enough of his father, former President Joe Biden.
Hunter Biden lashed out at the Pod Save America hosts, actor George Clooney, and others he felt were partly responsible for his father eventually dropping his presidential campaign after backlash to a debate performance in June 2024. Hunter Biden dismissed the hosts of Pod Save America as opportunists milking their past as aides to former President Barack Obama.
“The Pod Save America guys were junior fucking speechwriters on Barack Obama’s Senate staff who have been dining out on the relationship with him for years, making millions of dollars,” Biden said of the podcasters.
Pod Save America is hosted by Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, Tommy Vietor and Dan Pfeiffer.
“First of all, that’s insulting. Jon, you were chief speechwriter,” Lovett sarcastically said on Monday after watching a clip of Biden trash them and other Democrats.
“I was chief speechwriter. I was the only one in the Senate office,” Favreau said, chuckling.
Vietor said he felt like he “got duped” after interviewing Biden in 2021 for the show and argued Hunter Biden represented a part of Washington, D.C. that turned voters off.
“What if we just stipulate for the hypothetical, like, yes, okay, all your business dealings were above board and legal, all your paintings were purchased by art lovers who loved the product and didn’t know your name, Trump is worse — You were on the board of Burisma because of who your dad is. And that is what people hate about Washington. And it was part of the problem,” Vietor said.
He and the others also mocked Biden for chalking up his dad’s debate performance against President Donald Trump to Ambien.
Vietor accused the former president’s son of being “obsessed” with the show and grievances over his father’s legacy.
“His big beef is that Republicans stick together and Democrats [aren’t] united, but he’s obsessed with this show, obsessed with George Clooney. They don’t talk about Gaza until two hours and 50 minutes into the interview. I’m guessing that that was the bigger threat to party unity than a George Cloony op-ed. You know what I mean? It’s just this sense of entitlement that from Biden, from his family, from the inner circle, that he was, like, owed the presidency, owed a second term. It’s just very fucking grating,” he said.
Lovett torched Hunter Biden as a “liability” to his father and accused him of painting himself as a victim.
“One thing we know is that Hunter Biden, throughout Joe Biden’s presidency, was a terrible liability for him. And put the addiction aside, it is because he was on Burisma, because he became an artist, because he part of a kind of sleazy Washington that, as Tommy said, people hated. You were a liability. You should be ashamed of the ways in which you made your father’s political life worse. And the idea that we’re going to listen to you now, like give me a fucking break. It’s ridiculous,” he said.
“If I was in a room with him and able to talk rationally, I would just be like, hey man, look around the world. Look at what’s happening in this country right now. Like, I know you’re angry personally, but you’re not the fucking victim here. We’re all living with what happened in this election,” Vietor later added.
“You got a pardon. You’re fine!” Favreau said, referring to Hunter Biden’s father issuing a pardon for his son during his last days in office.
Vietor and Favreau also responded to Hunter Biden through their X accounts.
“There goes my bid on that painting,” Favreau said, mocking Hunter Biden’s controversial turn to painting following his well-documented drug addiction.
“It’s good to see that Hunter has taken some time to process the election, look inward, and hold himself accountable for how his family’s insular, dare I say arrogant at times, approach to politics led to this catastrophic outcome we’re all now living with,” Vietor wrote.
Watch above via Pod Save America.