Even Hunter Biden isn’t pretending anymore.
The former president’s son admitted this week that his father’s handling of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan was an “obvious f**king failure,” putting a blunt, unsparing label on what many Americans have long viewed as one of the most humiliating and deadly episodes of Joe Biden’s presidency.
Hunter made the remarks during an appearance on the Shawn Ryan Show, where he also broke from Democrat orthodoxy on immigration. While arguing in favor of legal immigration, Hunter criticized policies that elevate illegal entrants over Americans who served the country. “We need vibrant immigration,” he said, “but we don’t want immigrants that are coming here illegally draining us of resources and also being prioritized above people that are actual literal heroes that are coming home” after decades of war. The comment echoed a core argument advanced repeatedly by Donald Trump, who has framed Biden-era border policy as both reckless and morally inverted.
But it was Afghanistan that drew Hunter’s sharpest verdict. Asked directly what his father got wrong in office, he pointed to the August 2021 withdrawal that left Americans and allies scrambling as the Taliban swept back into Kabul. “I think one of the failures was the way in which they executed the withdrawal from Afghanistan,” Hunter said. “I think it was an obvious f**king failure.” Thirteen U.S. service members were killed in a suicide bombing at Abbey Gate during the evacuation, a loss that became a defining symbol of the administration’s collapse overseas.
That assessment stands in stark contrast to Joe Biden himself, who insisted in 2023 that he made no mistakes in the withdrawal despite bipartisan criticism, military testimony, and the visible chaos that unfolded on the world stage. The administration has long resisted accepting responsibility, even as the consequences linger.
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BREAKING: Biden’s presidential library fundraising has hit rock bottom, per New York Times reporting.
Key details from IRS filings:
– Zero new donations in 2024, Biden’s entire final year in office.
– Foundation seeded with just $4M leftover from his 2021 inauguration.
– Projects only $11.3M total by end of 2027, a tiny fraction of the $200M goal aides have discussed.
– Far below what recent presidents raised for their libraries.
Insiders now say discussions are underway to merge the project with existing Biden institutes at the University of Delaware to make it viable.
Biden Has Raised Little of What He Needs to Build a Presidential Library
His library foundation has told the I.R.S. that by the end of 2027 it expects to bring in just $11.3 million — not nearly enough for a traditional presidential library.
Former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. has raised only a small fraction of the money needed to construct a presidential library, leaving uncertainty about when a library might be built and its viability as a stand-alone project, according to public filings and interviews with his donors.
In filings with the Internal Revenue Service, Mr. Biden’s library foundation revealed that it had not received any new donations in 2024, the final year of his presidency. The foundation was instead seeded entirely with $4 million left over from his 2021 inauguration.
The library foundation declined to say what it had raised in 2025. It said that Mr. Biden was only now beginning to actively raise money. He is holding the first event for potential library donors on Monday in Washington’s Georgetown neighborhood.
Still, Mr. Biden’s foundation told the I.R.S. this year that it expected to bring in just $11.3 million, total, by the end of 2027. That would be far below the pace set by other recent presidents, and far less than the $200 million that Mr. Biden’s aides say they want to raise eventually.
Partly because of that poor fund-raising,
discussions are underway about consolidating a potential Biden library with pre-existing Biden institutions at the University of Delaware, according to four people who were granted anonymity to talk about the private planning process. That might allow the library to take advantage of the millions of dollars that the university, the former president’s alma mater, has already raised to build a “Biden Hall.”
So far, some of Mr. Biden’s most loyal contributors said they had not been contacted by anyone about giving to the library.
Other Democratic donors have said that even if Mr. Biden asks them, they are unlikely to give money because they are focused on fighting President Trump or are embittered by Mr. Biden’s term in office.
John Morgan, a longtime Democratic donor who was one of Mr. Biden’s top bundlers, said he would not give “a penny” to the former president’s library, citing poor treatment from Mr. Biden’s staff.
“The Biden staff, they ruined any type of good library for him,” Mr. Morgan said. “He’ll be lucky to have a bookmobile.”
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