Comedian Tim Dillon ridiculed NewsNation host Chris Cuomo’s attempt to portray former President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, as a typical drug addict during a Tuesday podcast.
In 2019, President Donald Trump 2019 requested that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky probe Biden’s pressure on the country to fire a top prosecutor who was digging into his son’s Ukrainian business ties.
Cuomo, on “The Chris Cuomo Project,” suggested that Trump unfairly targeted Biden and his son based on his addiction, insisting that Hunter was “a typical drug-addled person,” but Dillon cited his own experience with addiction to mock the comparison as absurd.
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“Look at what happened with Trump, okay? You can write three books about how what happened to him with Russiagate — or whatever you want to call it — was wrong,” Cuomo said. “What was the first thing he did when he got in power? He went after Biden for being a Ukrainian Russian plant. The first thing he did was go after Biden and his son, weaponizing a guy’s addiction. I don’t know how much you know about that world.”
Dillon contrasted his own life with Hunter’s, despite their shared history of addiction.
“I was an addict for many years. I started doing cocaine at 12 and I stopped at 25. And I never ended up in the Ukraine. And I never took a photo of everything I did and put it on a laptop and then dropped it off at Circuit City!” the comedian said, laughing.
“But you know very well that Hunter Biden is a typical drug-addled person,” Cuomo responded.
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Dillon pushed back immediately.
“I know a lot of drug-addled people — very few of them ended up in the Ukraine,” the comedian said. “And I mean, their dads weren’t the vice president. It’s a unique life, let’s say that … None of my drug addict friends ended up in Malibu selling art for $80,000.”
“You would have to find drug-addled people who also were wealthy with connections to people in power. A lot of junkies don’t wind up that way,” Cuomo said, which Dillon acknowledged was accurate.
Cuomo also acknowledged that Biden was wrong to allow Hunter to engage in foreign business dealings while he was in office. He said his father, former Democratic New York Gov. Mario Cuomo, would not have enabled him or his brother, former Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, to do so.
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“Joe should have never let his son be doing deals like he was when Joe was in office. My father would have never allowed it,” he said. “My brother never did anything like that, He wouldn’t allow me to do it. And I had opportunities falling on my head all the time that would have been legal.”
Hunter allegedly influence-peddled by leveraging his father’s political position to engage in lucrative foreign business dealings while Biden was vice president. Hunter’s first art sale with a professional art dealer occurred on Dec. 11, 2020, just after his father was elected president, his art gallerist testified in 2024.
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