Hunter Biden spoke with “Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan” for a wide-ranging and remarkable interview. In this segment, he defends his painting career as completely separate from his father’s career and his position on the board of Burisma as something he was “100% qualified” to do. “You know how many stories The New York Times wrote about my art? Like a dozen,” Hunter Biden said. “To what end?” “And they were selling golden sneakers and Bibles to people off their donor list. The New York Times was still writing stories about the legitimacy of me deciding that I wanted to be a painter or not,” he said. “How do you move forward in this world if every discussion you begin is a defense of, I know why I went on the board of a Ukrainian natural gas company?” he said. “A lot of it had to do with money, 100%. You know, I had an organization that was willing to pay me for a service that I was 100% qualified to do.” “At the time they were writing about my art, Jared Kushner was in Saudi Arabia after being the head of the Middle Eastern policy group for the White House, and covering for the leader of Saudi Arabia in the murder of Khashoggi, collecting $ 2.1 billion investment.”

HUNTER BIDEN: The first show that I had in LA, I didn’t offer anything for sale. I just did the show-it wasn’t even for sale. And immediately it became this thing, you know, like I realized that, you know, that also gave me a gift, which is this: I don’t give a sh*t, I paint. I paint every day, and I paint for the people that I love. I paint for myself. And one day I’ll have another show. But I really don’t give a sh*t what the New York Post or James Comer of Kentucky, the chairman of the Oversight Committee, thinks about my paintings or what anybody really thinks, for that matter. I guess the whole point of even talking about it was, is that it wasn’t just the investigations-the congressional, the DOJ, all of it. It wasn’t just the constant from the Murdoch media empire and all of the ancillary organizations around it. In The New York Times-you know how many stories The New York Times wrote about my art? CHANNEL 5: How many? HUNTER BIDEN: I don’t know, like a dozen. To what end? I mean, really, to what end? I mean, at the time they were writing about my art, Jared Kushner was in Saudi Arabia after being the head of the Middle Eastern policy group for the White House, and covering for the leader of Saudi Arabia in the murder of Khashoggi, collecting $ 2.1 billion investment when he was doing that. And they were selling golden sneakers and Bibles to people off their donor list. The New York Times was still writing stories about the legitimacy of me deciding that I wanted to be a painter or not. CHANNEL 5: Well, as you mentioned, it’s a business. Businesses are profit-driven, and they know that there’s a bigger appetite, a larger media market that’s going to prefer to hear about Hunter Biden’s potential artistic career after the scandal, versus a typical, you know, Kushner-Trump family corruption thing possibly happening in a different country. They know that Trump’s audience is going to be more hungry for anything about you than about- it’s the classic diversion thing, too. It’s like, “Don’t look at what I’m doing. Look at this guy.” HUNTER BIDEN: You know, one of the things that’s interesting is that when we first talked, I said to you-when we had a brief conversation about whether we’d do this or not-I said, I suspect that many people in your audience, like your kind of, for lack of a better phrase, your loyal listeners, would probably have looked at me over the past five years and said, We don’t know if Hunter Biden is the villain that they say that he is, but kind of a sleazeball. I recognize that. And the question that I have is, how do you move forward in this world if every discussion you begin is a defense of-I know why I went on the board of a Ukrainian natural gas company. A lot of it had to do with money, 100%. You know, I had an organization that was willing to pay me for a service that I was 100% qualified to do. I went to Yale Law School. I served on dozens of boards before this. I was an expert in corporate governance. I have an encyclopedic knowledge of the region. I had served on a major infrastructure company’s board and had done work in global aid relief throughout the entire world. And had an enormous list of connections of my own. And I was qualified to be on that board. And it gave me the freedom at a time when I really needed the freedom to be with my family, to focus on my brother’s health. And I chose to do it. And I was transparent about it. And I did it.

Here’s Channel 5’s remarkable full interview with Hunter Biden:
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