The View hosts reacted on Monday to President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden’s presence at a state dinner last week honoring Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and the subsequent criticism that followed.
Hunter Biden’s plea agreement with the Department of Justice was revealed in a filing early last week. According to the filing, he will plead guilty to two counts of “willful failure to pay” his federal income taxes, and will also enter a “pretrial diversion agreement” for possession of a firearm “by a person who is an unlawful user of or addicted to a controlled substance” to avoid the felony charge.
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Some were shocked that Hunter Biden attended the high-profile state dinner.
Hosts Ana Navarro and Sunny Hostin defended Joe Biden and his son, hitting critics for a lack of compassion.
“I’ve known Joe Biden since he was a senator, for about 20-some years. I can’t tell you how much his life has been marked by losing, not one child, but two children. And once you’ve lost a child, I think you are absolutely determined — it’s even more urgent. It’s even a bigger issue that you will not lose another one,” said Navarro.
“The Hunter Biden story, the scandal, the this, the that — it’s also the story of a father’s love, and Joe Biden has never and will never give up on his son Hunter and will never treat him lesser than,” she continued.
According to the host, “He is a father first. Take it or leave it. That’s who he is. That is part of his heart. There was 380 people at this dinner. It’s not like Hunter was sitting at Merrick Garland’s lap. It was a bunch of people — part of the reason that Hunter Biden has been able to get out of addiction is because Joe Biden embraced him entirely the entire time.”
Hostin agreed, adding that, “What seems to get lost in all of this discussion about Hunter Biden is his addiction. He’s an addict. He has had this addiction for many years, and to various things, and I wonder where our compassion is.
“I mean people are talking about ‘Well, this is nepotism,’ and perhaps it is, and I hate nepotism. I think things should be earned and not given, but no one wants to talk about the fact that Ivanka [Trump] got, you know, three Chinese patents after her dinner with President Xi from China at Mar-a-Lago,” she claimed.
Hostin further echoed that the scandal is actually “a father trying to keep his son, who suffers from addiction, close.”
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When Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was questioned about Hunter Biden’s presence at the dinner, she said, “I’m just not going to get into discussions, personal family discussions.”
“That’s his son. He’s a family member, and it’s not uncommon,” she added, defending his presence.
