Hunter Biden becomes scorched earth with Trump cuts:
Hunter Biden isn’t limiting himself to what he believes is President Donald Trump’s most far-reaching foreign policy decision in his second term to date.
In a Substack interview with Mediaite journalist Tommy Christopher last week that lasted more than three hours, the son of former President Joe Biden called the current state of the Trump administration a “nightmare scenario.”
“We are not descending into autocracy. We are right in the middle of it,” he said, noting that Trump is “ignoring court orders” and “acting unconstitutionally, but in a way that there is no redress for it.”
Hunter Biden also suggested that the repercussions of Trump’s decision to close the US Agency for International Development (USAID) would continue to be felt for generations, pointing to a July study published by the medical journal The Lancet that predicted “a staggering number of preventable deaths” by 2030 as a result of its closure.
“I don’t think it was constitutional the way he ended USAID, which I think is going to have a bigger impact than any of the foreign policy decisions he’s made so far in terms of long-term impact,” he said. “Fourteen million people who would otherwise have lived healthy lives thanks to the generosity of the American people will die in the next five years.”
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The Trump administration began dismantling USAID in March. The agency officially closed for good in July and what remained of its programs was absorbed by the US State Department.
On the final day of USAID’s operation as an independent agency, former presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush sharply criticized its defunding in a prerecorded video, parts of which were shared with The News.
While Joe Biden has kept a low profile since leaving office, Hunter Biden has been an outspoken critic of the Trump administration in recent months.
He has also aired his complaints about prominent members of the Democratic Party, who he believes unfairly pressured his father to drop out of the 2024 presidential race.
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In an interview with ABC News journalist Jonathan Karl for his new book, “Retribution: Donald Trump and the Campaign That Changed America,” Hunter Biden singled out Obama for leading the elder Biden offstage at a Hollywood fundraising event in June 2024.
“I knew it was going to be a meme,” he recalled in an excerpt from the book published by Axios last week. “That really, really, really, really made me angry.”