President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, responded to repeated criticism from a former family friend, Sen. Lindsey Graham.
Hunter Biden has been promoting his memoir, which touches on his battle with addiction and his work in Ukraine, a subject scrutinized by Republicans, Graham included.
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He called the South Carolina senator’s treatment of him “sad” in a Thursday night interview with Jimmy Kimmel.
“I had a deep respect for Sen. Graham, and it’s just sad to see the way in which he has decided to not just attack me, but to approach politics,” Hunter Biden said, adding that “politics has become so toxic” and that he hopes his father can use “his genuine desire to take some of that toxicity out again.”
Republicans are right to investigate Hunter Biden’s ties to the Ukrainian company Burisma, and doing so “does not make me a Russian agent,” Graham, who is on the Senate Judiciary Committee, previously said.
Former President Donald Trump was right to ask Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate the Bidens’ ties to Burisma in July 2019, Graham has also said. The conversation was the impetus behind Trump’s first impeachment and subsequent acquittal.
Hunter Biden, in the interview, talked about how when he and his brother were young, they would meet their father’s Senate colleagues of both parties, who “were like uncles” to them.
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First lady Jill Biden has also rebuked Graham for his treatment of her stepson, saying the relationship between the Bidens and the South Carolina senator had soured.
“Well, you know, Lindsey — I don’t know what happened to Lindsey. And we used to be great friends and friends with John McCain. We traveled together with the Foreign Relations Committee. We’ve had dinner. You know. And now, he’s changed,” she said, later adding, “You know, it’s hard when you — I don’t know — consider somebody a friend, and they’ve said so many things, so many negative things. And it’s — that’s been a little hurtful.”
