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Tuesday, July 22, 2025
Hunter Biden slams Netanyahu for being ‘wrong every time’ on Iran
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Former US president Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, tears into Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu along with critics of his father’s handling of the war in Gaza.
In an expletive-ridden interview with the web series “Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan,” the scandal-prone Hunter Biden argues that Netanyahu’s policies regarding Iran have been motivated by a desire to stay out of prison, amid the premier’s ongoing criminal trial.
“Netanyahu has been promising us that Iran was on the verge of a nuclear weapon for 22 years now?… He’s been wrong every time. He’s the boy who cried wolf and one day the wolf is going to be pushed,” says Hunter Biden.
He blasts progressives who criticized his father for not reigning in Israel more throughout the war, pointing out that Joe Biden had withheld bunker-buster bombs from Israel and coaxed Jerusalem into allowing aid into Gaza at the beginning of the war.
“Where are [those critics] now?… More people have died in Gaza between when [Trump] was inaugurated and today than at any time between Oct. 7 and when my dad left office.”
The younger Biden says Trump has given Netanyahu a free hand to “bom[b] the s**t out of whatever remains of a mosque in Gaza and [turn] it into a golf course” — apparently a reference of the US president’s plan to turn Gaza into a “Mideast Riviera.”
Hunter Biden unloads on Netanyahu:
– Iran: “Does anybody think that [he] is not doing this to save his own ass so that he doesn't end up in jail?”
– Gaza: “Bombing the shit out of whatever remains of a Mosque in Gaza and turning it into a golf course.. is not going to work.” pic.twitter.com/lV1p7bBg1T
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