What’s Hunter Biden up to? He’s doing what Bidens always do

Hunter Biden goes on Tucker Carlson, of all people, and just says the quiet part out loud. That's the story here, not the specific grievance he aired that day. This is a man who spent years being shielded by a White House communications operation, by a Justice Department that slow-walked his case, by a press corps that mostly looked the other way until the laptop story got too big to ignore. Now he's out doing interviews like a guy with nothing left to lose, and the strategy he described to Tucker is basically: attack, deflect, make it about everyone else's corruption instead of his own.

That's the family playbook, and it always has been. Joe Biden built a fifty-year career on being the guy who never quite gets his hands dirty while the people around him, his son very much included, cash in on the family name. Hunter's laptop, the foreign business deals, the artificially inflated art sales to donors, none of that happened in a vacuum. It happened because being a Biden opened doors that stayed shut for everyone else.

What's almost admirable, in a grim way, is how unbothered he seems about any of it. He's not hiding from the scrutiny anymore, he's narrating his own defense on a show millions of people watch, betting that saturation and shamelessness will do what legal maneuvering couldn't. Maybe it works. It's worked for this family before.