{"id":2465760,"date":"2025-07-23T14:47:01","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T18:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ex-obama-aides-fire-back-at-hunter-bidens-sense-of-entitlement\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T14:48:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T18:48:07","slug":"ex-obama-aides-fire-back-at-hunter-bidens-sense-of-entitlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ex-obama-aides-fire-back-at-hunter-bidens-sense-of-entitlement\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Obama aides fire back at Hunter Biden\u2019s \u2018sense of entitlement\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fex-obama-aides-fire-back-at-hunter-bidens-sense-of-entitlement%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2465760&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The hosts of the podcast *Pod Save America*, including former Obama aides Tommy Vietor and Jon Favreau, responded critically to Hunter Biden&#8217;s recent interview, describing it as frustrating and marked by a &#8220;sense of entitlement.&#8221; Hunter Biden had accused various Democrats and claimed figures like George Clooney pressured his father, Joe Biden, to drop out of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dems-lost-all-credibility-on-social-distancing-after-biden-celebrations\/\" title=\"Dems Lost All Credibility On Social Distancing After ... Celebrations\">presidential race<\/a>. Vietor acknowledged Hunter&#8217;s anger but said the three<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/iran-nuclear-talks-resume-in-vienna-amid-new-complications\/\" title=\"Iran Nuclear Talks Resume in Vienna Amid New Complications\">-hour interview<\/a> largely portrayed him as playing the victim. He also criticized Hunter&#8217;s position on the board of Burisma as a prime example of Washington nepotism and dismissed Hunter&#8217;s claim that Joe Biden&#8217;s debate performance was impaired by Ambien, suggesting rather that age was more likely the factor. Favreau emphasized that Joe Biden&#8217;s initial decision not to drop out was influenced by a narrow circle of advisors, despite widespread concerns about his age. Both commentators urged that politicians need to listen more closely to voters instead of isolating themselves. Additional commentary from the *Washington Examiner* suggested that Hunter Biden&#8217;s interview was a deliberate attempt to defend the family&#8217;s reputation, but that it may have harmed their public image and the Democratic Party.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Ex-Obama aides fire back at Hunter Biden&rsquo;s &lsquo;sense of entitlement&rsquo;<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2175575\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>The hosts of <em>Pod Save America<\/em> pushed back against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3477980\/takeaways-hunter-biden-interviews-drug-use-laptop-joe-dropout\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Hunter Biden<\/a>&lsquo;s accusations against a myriad of Democrats, calling his interview &ldquo;very f***ing grating.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Biden criticized the hosts during a three-hour interview, saying &ldquo;vultures&rdquo; such as George Clooney and others pressured his father, former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/daily-memo\/3479468\/undiluted-unadulterated-joe-biden-id-hunter-biden-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Joe Biden<\/a>, to drop out. Co-host Tommy Vietor, who was a spokesman for former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3479063\/obama-responds-trump-treason-claims-russia-2016-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Barack Obama<\/a>, said Monday he understood why the former first son was &ldquo;mad,&rdquo; but the interview came off as &ldquo;three hours of Hunter playing the victim.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/education\/3479453\/byron-york-suggests-trump-focus-on-fight-against-woke-academia\/\">Byron York suggests Trump focus on fight against &lsquo;woke academia&rsquo;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3479670\/fema-chief-david-richardson-texas-flood-response-congress\/\">FEMA chief &#8216;can&rsquo;t see anything that we did wrong&#8217; in Texas flood response<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3479285\/bryan-kohberger-four-life-sentences-face-to-face-victim-families-idaho\/\">Bryan Kohberger sentenced to life in prison after face-to-face encounter with victims&#8217; families<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;You were on the board of Burisma because of who your dad is, and that is what people hate about Washington, and it was part of the problem,&rdquo; Vietor said Monday on the podcast.<\/p>\n<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H5NN8pa2pj0?si=YWBFEPQH1H8Z9QMX\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>    <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;And like, there&rsquo;s some other weird s*** like, he blames the debate on Biden&rsquo;s staff saying they gave him Ambien on his foreign trip. But like, Biden got back from the G7 on June 14, the debate was June 27. If Ambien was the issue &hellip; I don&rsquo;t think it&rsquo;s Ambien, it&rsquo;s age, right?&rdquo; Vietor said.<\/p>\n<p>Vietor criticized Hunter Biden and his family for their &ldquo;sense of entitlement&rdquo; in believing Joe Biden was &ldquo;owed the presidency.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Co-host Jon Favreau, a former chief speechwriter for Obama, said it&rsquo;s &ldquo;no wonder&rdquo; that Joe Biden did not initially drop out since he only spoke to his son, former first lady Jill Biden, and adviser Mike Donilon. Favreau said multiple polls showed &ldquo;everyone&rdquo; believed the former president was too old to continue leading the country.<\/p>\n<p>Favreau said he hopes Democrats learn that a candidate cannot &ldquo;have a bubble&rdquo; of only a few people and ignore criticism. He also said candidates need to &ldquo;listen to the f***ing voters.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3477980\/takeaways-hunter-biden-interviews-drug-use-laptop-joe-dropout\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong>TEN TAKEAWAYS FROM HUNTER BIDEN MEDIA BLITZ: DRUG USE, LAPTOP SCANDAL, JOE BIDEN&rsquo;S DROPOUT<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>&lsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3478791\/salena-zito-hunter-biden-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Salena Zito<\/a> said it appeared Hunter Biden was &ldquo;very intentional&rdquo; in rebuking multiple Democrats, since the Biden family feels it is &ldquo;entitled&rdquo; to feeling &ldquo;vindicated.&rdquo; However, she also said the family is unaware of the &ldquo;damage&rdquo; it is doing to its reputation and the Democratic Party as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>&lsquo;s<em> <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3478908\/joe-concha-hunter-biden-mocks-sanctimony\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Joe Concha<\/a> was similarly critical of Hunter Biden&rsquo;s interview, saying the claim that Joe Biden was on Ambien during the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >presidential debate reaches &#038;ldquo<\/a>;a whole new stratosphere of sanctimony.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2175575\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2175575\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-Obama aides slam Hunter Biden&#8217;s &#8216;entitlement&#8217; in interview<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2632,"featured_media":2465761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Hunter-Biden-and-Wife.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[32528,5315,5894],"class_list":["post-2465760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-hunter-biden","tag-obama","tag-politics"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Hunter-Biden-and-Wife.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2632"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2465760"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2465764,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465760\/revisions\/2465764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2465761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2465760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2465760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2465760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}