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“We’re from the same place… I went to school with your high school girlfriend,” Tucker Carlson reminds Hunter Biden at the beginning of their interview.
Much like Donald Trump, Hunter and Tucker style themselves as establishment insiders gone rogue. Hunter wrote Carlson’s son a letter of recommendation that was later found on the infamous laptop, Tucker recalls. “You and I both know the Epstein class very well,” says Hunter, ruefully adding that he was afforded “incredible privileges” because of his father.
At one point Tucker motions to a picture on the wall of his great grandfather with Teddy Roosevelt. Their chat, released on YouTube yesterday, comes across as a sort of family affair.
If such an encounter had taken place five years ago we might have expected a clash for the ages. Today, however, the world is very different and the Hunter-Tucker chat therefore mostly consists of a search for common ground. Both men agree that social media is harming the body politic. “We are being fed the equivalent of a suicide pact,” says Hunter of these websites, which as a recovering addict he compares to “a pocketful of heroin.”
