Jimmy Kimmel, Hunter Biden Laugh About Crack Addiction Without Any Questions About Why He Was Qualified For Burisma

It’s good to be a Democrat.

On Thursday night, President Joe Biden’s son Hunter appeared on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” to promote his just-released memoir, “Beautiful Things.” As expected, Kimmel treated Hunter in a way the children of Republicans would never be treated by the host.

The New York Post’s Maureen Callahan described the episode succinctly: “Never have two people found crack addiction so funny, or international influence-peddling so banal, or obvious lies so easy to explain away.”

As The New York Post previously reported, Kimmel lightly touched on the controversy reported last fall by the Post involving a laptop the younger Biden left at a repair shop in Connecticut that contained compromising photos and emails.

“You say you don’t know,” Kimmel said to Hunter, referring to Biden’s claim he doesn’t know whether the laptop was his or not, “which is hard to believe unless you read the book. I’m surprised you have shoes on.”

“Pants were the problem,” Hunter replied, leading to laughter. “Now look, I really don’t know and the fact of the matter is, it’s a red herring. It is absolutely a red herring. But I am absolutely, I think, within my rights to question anything that comes from the desk of Rudy Giuliani. And so, ‘I don’t know’ is the answer.”

Kimmel, Callahan noted, didn’t ask Hunter why he could recall so many of his experiences with crack but not whether the laptop left at the repair shop was actually his, even though it has been independently authenticated as belonging to him.

Hunter has previously suggested that if there were a laptop out there with compromising information on him – which, we know there is – then perhaps it was stolen or hacked.

“Not that I remember at all,” Hunter said previously. “Certainly, there could be a laptop out there that was stolen from me, that could be that I was hacked, it could be that it was Russian intelligence, it could be that it was stolen from me.”

Hunter insisted to Kimmel that despite his crack addition, poor memory, and bad behavior, he was qualified to sit on the board of a Ukrainian energy company that paid him $50,000 a month for unknown services.

“I went to Yale Law School. I served on at least a dozen boards before Burisma,” Hunter told Kimmel. “I was vice chairman of the board of Amtrak. I was chairman of the board at World Food Program U.S., supporting the largest humanitarian organization in the world. I had an expertise in corporate governance. I was asked to serve on the board for corporate governance.”

As Callahan noted:

Also: If Hunter was such a raging addict for decades, punching holes in vodka bottles to drink faster, blowing his family’s savings on drugs, booze and prostitutes, dying, as he writes, “to have conversations with someone who wasn’t a dealer or gangbanger or bouncer or stripper” — what kind of work could he possibly have been doing for Burisma or his Chinese benefactors? The answer, of course, is nothing. They were paying for access to the Biden family.

The Daily Wire’s Luke Rosiak reported that Biden in his memoir wrote of letting a crack dealer live with him for months as “a deranged, crack-addled version of the Odd Couple.”

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