Hunter Biden slams Don Jr and Eric Trump in new memoir: 'I’ve worked for someone other than my father'
Hunter Biden has taken a swipe at former President Donald Trump's kids in his forthcoming memoir, 'Beautiful Thing,' accusing them of cashing in on their father's wealth and fame.
According to an excerpt from the book obtained by The Guardian, Hunter wrote, “I am not Eric Trump or Donald Trump Jr. I’ve worked for someone other than my father. I rose and fell on my own.”
He also accused the former president of being “a vile man with a vile mission" as he tried to spin Hunter's foreign business ties to discredit his father's 2020 campaign. In the end, however, Trump was unsuccessful as President Joe Biden managed to restrict the 45th president to just a term. “I became a proxy for Donald Trump’s fear that he wouldn’t be re-elected,” Hunter reportedly writes. “He pushed debunked conspiracy theories about work I did in Ukraine and China, even as his own children had pocketed millions in China and Russia and his former campaign manager [Paul Manafort] sat in a jail cell for laundering millions more from Ukraine.”
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“None of that matters in an up-is-down Orwellian political climate,” the president’s son continued. “Trump believed that if he could destroy me, and by extension my father, he could dispatch any candidate of decency from either party, all while diverting attention from his own corrupt behavior.” He said that Trump showed “trademark callousness” in playing “the only card he ever plays: attack”.
In his memoir, Hunter also addresses his lucrative board of directors membership at the Ukrainian gas giant Burisma; while denying that his ties to the company were unethical, Hunter writes if given a chance to go back in time, he would not have joined the company. “I did nothing unethical, and have never been charged with wrongdoing,” Hunter wrote. “In our current political environment, I don’t believe it would make any difference if I took that seat or not. I’d be attacked anyway. What I do believe, in this current climate, is that it wouldn’t matter what I did or didn’t do. The attacks weren’t intended for me. They were meant to wound my dad.”
Hunter has received much scrutiny over his gig with Burisma, for which he was paid a lucrative $83,000 per month to serve as a board member, as he did not have any expertise in the oil and gas industry. Biden defended Hunter then, saying he was proud of how he has handled his struggles with addiction and telling viewers during one of the presidential debates: “There’s a reason why [Trump is] bringing up all this malarkey. He doesn’t want to talk about the substantive issues. It’s not about his family and my family. It’s about your family.”
Hunter also writes about the brief romantic relationship he had with Beau Biden’s widow, Hallie, after his brother's death. “Our relationship had begun as a mutually desperate grasping for love we both had lost, and its dissolution only deepened that tragedy,” he writes.
'Beautiful Things' comes out on April 6.