Jill Biden is admitting to a major regret regarding her stepson Hunter. Indeed, she claims to regret not speaking out more about Hunter’s issues with drug addiction during her time as First Lady.
‘Hunter Was A Drug Addict…’
Jill, 74, is currently promoting her new memoir “View from the East Wing,” which hit stores on Tuesday. In the book, Jill admitted that addiction was previously something that she and her husband Joe Biden, 83, never discussed in their household.
“I think we were partly in denial,” Jill acknowledged.
Jill went on to say that it was difficult for her to understand how someone with a loving family, a good education, and a lucrative career could ever turn to drugs.
“It’s hard for me to say this, but Hunter was a drug addict,” Jill said while appearing on The View on Tuesday. She added that Hunter’s spiral into addiction was “a really hard time for our family to go through.”
“I’m sorry that I didn’t talk about it a little bit more,” the former First Lady admitted. “And I hope that by talking about it more as I go forward, I hope that it offers other people hope. It is such a tough, tough thing to deal with.”
Jill Defends Hunter Pardon
While being interviewed by CBS News last Sunday, Jill defended Joe’s decision to pardon Hunter, 56, before he left office. This move was met with tons of backlash, as Joe had repeatedly promised that he would not pardon his son.
“When [President] Trump was elected, things changed. And we knew that he would target Hunter. And we just could not let our son go to jail on a charge that no one would go, I mean, no one has ever gone to jail for,” Jill said.
“Did you urge the president to pardon Hunter?” asked CBS News’s Rita Braver.
“Oh, gosh, I truly supported it,” Jill replied. “I wanted him to pardon Hunter at that point, and I agreed with Joe.”
Joe Pardons Hunter
Joe pardoned Hunter in December of 2024. This came one month after Donald Trump defeated Joe’s Vice President Kamala Harris in the presidential election.
In June of 2024, Hunter had been found guilty in a federal case on three felony charges. Indeed, these charges were in connection with his purchase and possession of a gun in 2018. In issuing his pardon for Hunter, Joe claimed that the charges against his son had only been handed down specifically for political reasons.
“No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter’s cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my son. And that is wrong,” Joe said as he announced the pardon.
“There has been an effort to break Hunter — who has been five and a half years sober, even in the face of unrelenting attacks and selective prosecution,” he later added. “In trying to break Hunter, they’ve tried to break me — and there’s no reason to believe it will stop here. Enough is enough.”
The Bidens and their fellow Democrats spent years claiming that “nobody is above the law.” In issuing a pardon for Hunter, however, both Joe and Jill Biden showed that they view their own family as being very much above the law.
Jill can voice her regrets about not speaking out about Hunter’s drug addiction all that she wants to. But perhaps it’s his pardon that she should truly be wishing that she could take back.
The hypocrisy of the left never ceases to amaze.