Hunter Biden Claims Dad Was Pushed Out of Presidential Race Because He Was Not Part of the ‘Epstein Class’

In arguably his most high-profile interview to date since his father left the presidency, Hunter Biden is claiming that President Biden was pushed out of the 2024 presidential race, partly because he was never a part of the “club” that was the “Epstein class.” Mr. Biden went further to imply that it may have been the Israeli government that was behind sowing allegations that the then-president had accepted bribes from foreign officials. Mr. Biden has been one of the most recognizable faces in national politics for the better part of seven years. Following his business dealings in Ukraine, President Trump dispatched allies to dig up dirt on the Biden family, as it had become clear that Mr. Trump may eventually have to face off against the elder Mr. Biden in the coming 2020 presidential election. The plan to implicate the then-former vice president in a corruption scandal eventually became the basis for Mr. Trump’s first impeachment. Since that impeachment, the younger Mr. Biden has gone through a presidential campaign, two prosecutions, and a grant of clemency from his own father. Now, since his father has departed public life, Mr. Biden is speaking out against those he claims have wronged his family. In an interview with Candace Owens released Thursday, Mr. Biden implied that the two major accusations that his father was in any way corrupt had come from the Israeli government. Those allegations came from two individuals — Gal Luft, an Israeli national who has been indicted here in the United States, and Alexander Smirnov, an Israeli national who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about allegations that the Biden family had been bribed. “I’ll give you this. You want your little conspiracy [theory]. Go look up Gal Luft and Alexander Smirnov,” Mr. Biden told Ms. Owens during their interview. He described Luft and Smirnov as the “two principal individuals” who made allegations that the elder Mr. Biden had been corrupt or had accepted bribes. “One of them is a fugitive from justice wanted by Interpol and the United States government — Gal Luft — who is a former IDF officer who is believed to be living in Israel as a fugitive, [whom] the Israelis will not help us locate,” Mr. Biden said during the interview. “[T]he other one is Alexander Smirnov, who is a known Israeli intelligence agent who was in a prison in the United States, serving six years, and they can’t find him.”“There are forces that I used to say, ‘Oh, this is bulls–,” Mr. Biden said, implying that he now believes this new conspiracy theory. During the beginning of their conversation, Ms. Owens asked about Mr. Biden’s struggle with addiction and his ensuing sobriety. He said he drew strength from his relationship with his brother Beau Biden, who died in 2015. He also mentioned his current wife, Melissa Cohen Biden. Later on, the two lamented the fact that the government may be lying about Charlie Kirk’s assassination and who may actually be behind it. Mr. Biden told Ms. Owens that he watches her question Kirk’s death and says to himself, “Right on!”When she went on to highlight the fact that she often questions Kirk’s widow, Erika Kirk, Mr. Biden said, “Yeah,” seemingly in a sign of support for her theories about Kirk’s death. “I’ve stopped with this left-versus-right, Democrat-versus-Republican — I am like, this is sheer evil versus good,” Ms. Owens said, at which point Mr. Biden reached out to shake her hand. “Exactly. It is good-versus-evil,” Mr. Biden told her. “They have torn the mask off of this.”He want on to say that he would want Ms. Owens on the case if he was ever killed. “I pray to god that, by the end of this, you think of me as a friend because if anything ever happened to me, I want you [investigating]. You and Melissa team up,” he said with a laugh.The former first son went on to claim that his father — whose abysmal debate performance against Mr. Trump in 2024 led to party leaders calling for him to step aside in the presidential contest — was actually pushed out because he was not a part of the “club” that was the “Epstein class.”“You think that I’m going to defend the DC elite of the left? They crushed my dad. When they saw their chance, they did everything in their power to push him out,” Mr. Biden claimed. “You know why? Because he was never part of that club. He was never a part of the Epstein class.”

Hunter Biden Claims Dad Was Pushed Out of Presidential Race Because He Was Not Part of the ‘Epstein Class’

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