Hunter Biden was furious with former President Barack Obama when he led then-President Joe Biden off the stage at a 2024 fundraiser, saying he “knew that that was going to be a meme.”
Hunter Biden recounted his fury over the incident to ABC’s Johnathan Karl in one of their interviews for the book, fully titled Retribution: Donald Trump and the Campaign That Changed America.
Karl revealed that Hunter’s reaction to the viral moment was that of a son extremely frustrated with how the public would perceive the image of Obama helping out Joe Biden, a then-presidential candidate whose age was already under the microscope.
“I almost jumped up on the stage and said, ‘Don’t ever f***ing do that to the president of the United States again. Ever,” Hunter Biden said to Karl.
“I knew that that was going to be a meme,” Hunter Biden said. “That really, really, really, really pissed me off.”
The June 2024 fundraiser held in Hollywood raised $28 million for Joe Biden’s reelection campaign. The record-breaking fundraiser came just over a week before the then-president’s infamous debate performance, which was part of the catalyst for his ultimate withdrawal from the 2024 presidential race and the face-off between former Vice President Kamala Harris and President Donald Trump.
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Karl’s book is the latest of several high-profile accounts that have come out in recent weeks detailing the ins and outs of the campaign. Harris released her memoir about the campaign, 107 Days, in September, in which she described Joe Biden’s decision to run for reelection as an act of “recklessness.”
