Two Hunter Biden emails in one week. I know. Stay with me.
We had him for an hour on Wednesday, in his garage, with the paintings behind him, and he kept answering questions the way people answer them when nobody has prepped them and nobody upstairs has to approve it. David Shuster asked him where Kamala Harris fits into all of this. Watch it above! ⬆
He started generous, and he meant it—Doug and the vice president have always been kind to him personally. Then he flagged what was coming as the part he probably was not supposed to say, and said it anyway.
“I just think that she’s not a very good politician.”
On her running from Joe Biden’s record, he would not give her a pass on what he called the disloyalty of it. “It leaves a distaste in my mouth,” he said. And then, separating the personal from the professional: “I think it is also just stupid politics.”
Then he did the math out loud. Eighty-one million people voted for his father. Not merely against Trump—because those people never showed up again, for anyone. He described the waitress in Green Bay with three kids and an Uber shift on the side, whose husband drives a truck, who goes to mass on Sunday, and who voted for Joe Biden eagerly because she believed he knew what her life was actually like.
Run away from that at your peril, he said.
As far as we can tell, that is the first time he has said any of it on the record. It happened on our show.
And that was one answer out of an hour. He walked through Don Jr.’s scorecard—$3.9 billion in defense contracts to a private equity shop formed weeks before the inauguration—while the political press is somehow still asking about his paintings, which earned about $200,000 a year from buyers who each had to testify to Congress under oath. He challenged Don Jr. to a UFC fight for the third time and noted that only one of them would pass the required drug test. He described what he said to Matt Gaetz behind closed doors about drug use. And he took Jake Tapper apart, on camera, by name.
Here is the ask, and I am going to make it plainly.
That interview happened because there was no network lawyer, no corporate parent, and no booker worried about losing access next month. Hunter Biden sat down with us and told the truth as he sees it, unvarnished, and we ran it unvarnished. That is the entire product. It is also expensive to make, and the only people paying for it are subscribers.
This clip is free. Most of what we do now is not, because it cannot be.
There are seventy-two days until the midterms. For the next seventy-two days, the corporate outlets are going to do what they did in 2024—platform the liars, fact-check nobody, and then write the book about it afterward. We are going to do the opposite, four live shows a week, and you can watch every minute of it.
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Nobody handed Hunter a script. Nobody hands us one either. That is what you are paying for.
—Cliff
