Posted on 05/08/2025 7:37:55 PM PDT by bimboeruption
With former President Joe Biden emerging from a the darkness after the Democratic defeat in November, Americans might have to get used to seeing the octogenarian meandering out in public for a while yet to come.
Now getting media advice from a high-powered former spokesman for the Pentagon, according to Politico, Biden did an interview with the BBC published Wednesday that was basically an attack on President Donald Trump and a defense of his own sorry record.
He sat for a meeting Thursday with the shrews from “The View,” in an appearance that even the Hollywood trade mag Variety called a “botched attempt to restore his legacy.”
And, according to veteran journalist Mark Halperin, who cited a source he described as “very familiar with the Bidens,” he could be doing it all because his family needs the money.
Halperin made the remarks Thursday on “The Morning Meeting,” a podcast he co-hosts on the 2Way social media network with former Trump White House press secretary Sean Spicer and Dan Turrentine, a Democratic operative who served as national finance committee chairman for Hillary Clinton while she was marking time in the Senate before running for president in 2008.
Check it out below:
A source “very familiar with the Bidens” tells @MarkHalperin that “Biden Inc.,” the family business that generated millions of dollars in revenue to support their lifestyle, has dried up. “The trough is empty, the spigot is turned off,” says Mark. “Biden Inc. needs a source of… pic.twitter.com/T1CVgO7p4Z
— 2WAY (@2waytvapp) May 8, 2025
It might sound rich to claim the Bidens are broke, considering that Biden himself is a former United States president.
It might puzzle those who remember that notorious first son Hunter Biden is a world-class grifter who used a late-life turn toward “arts” to sell paintings for obscene amounts of money that had nothing to do with his talents.
And for those Americans who know that House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer’s investigation documented that multiple members of the former president’s extended family were on the receiving end of an influence-peddling scheme that netted millions of dollars from Biden’s “public service” as Barack Obama’s vice president, it might seem baffling.
But, Halperin noted, “Biden Inc. has collapsed.”
“All those Biden grandkids had a lavish lifestyle, which they very much liked,” he said.
“Hunter made hundreds of thousands of dollars, millions of dollars. Joe, as a former president, is not in position to get the same kind of paid speeches, corporate boards, book deal …
“Biden Inc. needs a source of revenue,” Halperin said.
“And Hunter, even though he was pardoned and is not going to go to prison, Hunter does not have great earning capacity.”
(As an aside, to say “Hunter Biden does not have great earning capacity” is an understatement on the scale of, “The Donner Party didn’t have a great plan for the Sierra Nevadas.” His “professional” experience was paved by his father’s name, his paintings were a joke from the get-go — no matter what The New York Times pretended. He probably couldn’t sell a sex tape these days, since anyone interested could have seen it all on his laptop by now.)
“The trough is empty. The spigot has shut down,” Halperin said. “They need a way to get back in the game to make big money.”
Halperin’s co-hosts agreed with the potential premise, with Turrentine noting that at Biden’s advanced age of 82 (and an old 82 at that), any kind of new gig is going to be questionable.
Spicer, meanwhile, started his comments with a succinct summation: “The grift is over.”
“I don’t see where the new source [of money] is,” he said. “No. 1, no one wants to know what he thinks. No. 2, he doesn’t know what he thinks, and that’s a bigger problem.”
After the furious activity of Trump’s first 100 days in office, and no signs that that activity is going to be slacking in the next 100 days, it might already feel to most Americans that the long, national nightmare of the Biden presidency is much further behind the country.
But for the Biden family itself, if Halperin and his source are to be trusted, the nightmare might only be just beginning.
I want to see Hunter the lot lizard giving truckers BJ’s for $5
Joe just needs pre-paid funeral expenses.
Fully agree.
The favors and the grifting of Biden and Hunter alone made them a fortune in secret accounts.
Dem elitists are never worried about poverty.
Bernie, Pelosi, Biden and son and others are classic top echelon Marxists ruling in mansions over the struggling and inferior subjects below them. Us.
“...a 30 million dollar book deal “
Publisher would lose all that money because Biden voters are stupid, don’t know how ro read. Maybe publisher could donate it to the new Trump-hating pope to distribute among the clergy.
Just rig up a robot that looks like Joe and have it deliver pre-recorded messages. Throw in a few harmless gaffs so it looks real. Robo-Brandon. He can get half a mil per speaking engagement.
Chicoms all tapped out?
I can understand how Hunter spent money (booze, whores, and drugs)...but the rest of the family?
No luxury yacht...no fantastic Hollywood properties....no private jets...no one with four ex-wives. Joe himself...makes $413,000 a year from combined gov’t pension, and probably near $40,000 a year from Social Security.
Megyn Kelly discusses Jill Biden’s constant interruptions to defend her husband Joe Biden’s work ethic despite obvious cognitive decline, The View’s predictable refusal to ask critical questions, her revealing comments hinting at internal tensions within the Democratic Party, speculation about why the Bidens are on a media tour, and more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIVIgbLThVs
Hunter just needs to make another painting.
No security clearance anymore, too. I remember Trump revoked it some time ago.
Didn’t I just read here on FR yesterday that a 30 million dollar money laundering book deal is in the works for slow Joe? Good luck to whoever the Ghost writers are. One can only assume Taco Jill will be the one providing the bs to put that piece of trash together. As far as I know she unlike Joey can string two sentences together.
They have UNTOLD MILLIONS somewhere offshore or here under fake names.
AND THREE PENSIONS from what I read yesterday.
I tried to watch his ‘interview’ yesterday. They way Whoopee handed it over the the woman whose husband has been charged with RICO crimes was hysterical. But, I couldn’t stand more than about 20 secs of listening to that stuttering pedo who showered with his daughter and I turned it off.
Considering the millions if not billions this crime family bilked here and there over the decades, they can’t possibly be broke.
I could half see the Biden gang doing an old style PBS type pledge drive.
Tote bags by Dr.Jill and Hunter’s art.
They surely made a lot of money!
Enough for normal people to live on for thousands of years!
Why can they just downsize a little and live like everybody else does.
Joe made (legally) $400,000 a year as a president.
That’s about what lot’s of people made in their lifetimes.
And that’s after senatorial and vice-pres salaries which are pretty good too.
Why can they live within their means?
Biteme is acting very unpresidential.
It is in character since he was really never president
Biden’s joint annual pension from his decades in congress and 4 years as president is over $400,000 a year and has automatic increases for inflation. Just imagine the lifestyles any of us could have with that income while in retirement.
Unfortunately for the Bidens, they are accustomed to blowing that much money away in just a couple of days. It’s time for them to get a real life.
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