‘Personally Painful’: Hunter Biden Speaks Out for First Time on Bombshell Kamala Harris Book

Former first son Hunter Biden spoke out for the first time about former Vice President Kamala Harris’s bombshell book tour, calling some of her comments “personally painful,” while still expressing great admiration for her.

VP Harris stunned the political media world with surprisingly candid excerpts from her campaign tome 107 Days, and has continued to make waves on a media tour in support of the book since its Sept. 23 release.

Hunter Biden sat down for a rare three-hour-plus interview on Substack this week, during which he said he hadn’t read the book but expressed deep disappointment in the comments that have come out from it. It was one of the most emotional exchanges in the interview:

TOMMY CHRISTOPHER: Former Vice President Harris is on a book tour. She wrote a book, and I have not had a chance to read the book, but I’ve seen her on the tour.

Here’s some things that she said that a lot of Biden fans aren’t really happy with. But why don’t you tell me about it? What your feeling is about it.

HUNTER BIDEN: I didn’t read it. I really didn’t. I’m just really disappointed. I’ve just heard some of the things. I tried to block it out.

I don’t know. I guess we have to get everybody out there–. I know– I heard some of the thing that she said. Don’t– I know, Tommy, you’re just trying to get me going here and. And I think that I think more than more than anything, I just is like. I don’t…

You know, it’s too easy to like, just to fall back on that, you know, the, you know the, the Truman quote, what I don’t even know whether he said it or not. If you want a dog in Washington, you know, in DC, get a dog. I mean, if you want to friend in Washington get a, get dog. (Yeah.)

But that’s, you now, my dad’s been there for, you know a long, long time. And not of Washington, but he served there and went back to Delaware every day, almost every day.

And, um… And I don’t know, I’d have to admit, it’s personally painful.

I just think that people like particularly the vice president is that– I guess my… Personally, you know, sense of loyalty. Is it for her to, in a book, to try to distance herself and take the– what I would call the really easy path to distance herself.

To– what I guess she thinks. I think that the biggest complaint about the vice president has always been is that, which I never believe, and I really mean it, is that she is not authentic.

And I mean, I know that that was during the primary and that while she was vice president and before that is that she’s just not, you know, she’s.

And I think to do something that is so inauthentic. In the way in which she, the criticism allowed her to kind of like play both sides of it, right?

Like, oh, she had a feeling, but she didn’t say anything. (Laughs) What are you talking about? Like, what are you talkin’ about?

…Anyway, but that just makes me, again, it’s like, you now, because I really love, I love what she represented, and I love the fact that my dad made the decision.

That– here, let me tell you about loyalty. The reason that he picked Kamala Harris is because of the fact that he believes, and I certainly believe, the most powerful force within the Democratic Party is and always has been the African-American women.

They’re the heart and soul and the conscience of the Democratic party. And that’s why he thought it was so important to have, to have not, and by the way, and she had an incredible resume and is perfectly capable of being president of the United States and I would have gladly voted for her.

He chose her out of loyalty and I just don’t understand, I guess I don’t understand why someone would choose the expedient path as it relates to that relationship, their own political expediency.

Biden had a lot more to say about the ex-veep, which you can see via the Tommy Christopher Substack interview series or on Mediaite later this week.