Hunter Biden tears into infuriating MAGA double standard

President Donald Trump is allegedly benefiting from a double standard in which his health issues are not scrutinized as much as those of his Democratic predecessor — at least, according to a child of that same former president.

“I’m never gonna convince Jake Tapper that my father was perfectly capable of executing his charge as president of the United States the entire time he was president of The United States,” Hunter Biden, the son of former President Joe Biden, told journalist Tommy Christopher for a Substack interview for Jim Acosta in an interview published on Thursday. The younger Biden was referring to Trump’s repeated gaffes and alleged signs of dementia, which became particularly prominent during his recent trip to Turkey.

“What I don’t understand is, I think ... that it really does have these cult dynamics that are part of it,” Biden told Christopher. “Which is that when people are presented with the evidence, ... like the lunar eclipse didn’t occur and the spaceship didn’t arrive and we weren’t all teleported to Venus. Like, when that doesn’t happen with the cult leader ... they just double down. They double down because they’re so invested into the entirety of the narrative that they bought into and made it part of their identity.”

He added that Trump recently appeared to fall asleep while his cabinet stood behind him, closing his eyes and yet, as Acosta put it, being defended by his supporters as supposedly “just blinking.”

“There were moments in time where people said, ‘Oh look at Joe Biden!’ when he would sit down like that and I thought that that was unfair,” the younger Biden told Acosta. “And so what they do is they play the whole tape though. And he literally is sleeping! He’s sleeping. There’s no like a way around it. It is not once, it is not twice. It’s over and over and again now.”

The younger Biden said he suspects Trump's drowsiness has to do with his heart, noting the bruises on his hands and neck, his lengthy absences and a recent period when he had “drooping of the right side of his face.”

“It’s clearly he has a pulmonary issue,” Biden said. “... or something else. I’m not a doctor, but he’s clearly got something. And by the way, that’s okay, too but they’re never gonna tell us the reality of what’s going on because we don’t deserve it. We don’t deserve that.”

Speaking to AlterNet for this article, former Tufts University psychiatrist Dr. Henry Abraham — who recently lead a letter to Congress expressing alarm over what he claimed were signs of Trump’s cognitive decline — agreed with the younger Biden’s analysis.

“First of all, I think Biden's performance during that one debate was pretty emblematic of a probable dementing process; unfortunately, or fortunately, that was the only real window we had onto his infirmities of old age,” Abraham told AlterNet. “That's not the case with Trump — Trump has given us a huge data set of red flags. It's hard to imagine any reasonable psychiatrist seeing those in any patient and not recognizing them for what they are. So the data set on one side is very small; the data set on the other is the largest we've ever had for any sitting president.”

Abraham added, “More data is better than less data — that's the best I can say. So — is it a double standard? Sounds like a double standard, or — I'd call it a quadruple standard.”