Hunter Biden Admits He’s ‘Privileged’ After Dad’s Pardon — And Still Finds A Way To Scorn Trump

Hunter Biden acknowledged Monday that his father’s 2024 pardon was a gift of “privilege” — and used an interview to blast President Donald Trump’s “revenge tour.”

In an interview published Monday on Substack with journalist Tommy Christopher, Biden said Trump’s victory “changed everything” and argued he would have fought and won on appeal “under normal circumstances.” He also said he was “incredibly grateful” for the leniency and that he “realized[s] how lucky I am. (RELATED: ‘I Learned to Make My Own’: Hunter Biden Details the Depths of Cocaine Addiction)

“I realize how privileged I am,” Biden said, adding, “My father would not have forgiven me if President Trump hadn’t won… Donald Trump went and changed everything,” and accused the president of launching a “revenge tour” with an “absolute obsession with my father.”

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks with his son Hunter Biden upon arrival at the Delaware Air National Guard Base in New Castle, Delaware, June 11, 2024, as he travels to Wilmington, Delaware. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

Biden has also presented himself as a potential political target in the absence of a pardon. “I think [it] would have made me… the easiest target… to intimidate and… influence my entire family into… silence in a way that… is not as easy for him to do [with] I am pardoned,” he said.

The Justice Department’s pardon warrant shows that Joe Biden’s December 1, 2024 pardon expunged Hunter’s tax and gun convictions and largely covered potential offenses from January 1, 2014 until the pardon date.

Biden’s move against Trump included a shot at former New York congressman George Santos, whose federal sentence of more than seven years Trump commuted on Friday; the move sparked immediate backlash from critics in New York.

“I don’t think I need to argue in detail about why it was the right thing to do, at least on my father’s part, from his point of view,” he said of his own pardon – while returning to Trump: “He hasn’t… finished his revenge tour.”