‘This Is Not Joe Biden’s Baby’: ‘The View’ Hosts Clap Back On Outrage Over Hunter Biden’s Child
Columnist sought to make child's status an issue
The women who host the popular TV talk show The View forcefully countered a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist’s attack on President Biden over his grandchildren.
At issue is a young girl in Arkansas, who turns 5 years old in August, who was born of a brief encounter between Biden's son, Hunter, and a woman named Lunden Alexis Roberts.
Columnist Maureen Dowd published a column Monday savaging Biden for allegedly callous treatment of the girl — named Navy Joan — by not acknowledging her as a seventh grandchild.
“Joe Biden’s mantra has always been that ‘the absolute most important thing is your family’,” Dowd wrote. “It is the heart of his political narrative. Empathy, born of family tragedies, has been his stock-in-trade. Callously scarring Navy’s life, just as it gets started, undercuts that.”
However, the hosts of The View, on ABC, generally took a different stance.
“It shouldn't have been directed to Joe Biden, it should be to be directed to Hunter Biden. It's five children, not four, Hunter, because this is not Joe Biden's baby. And I think it's very hard for Joe Biden to be a grandfather to the child if his son is not being a father,” said Ana Navarro, a former Republican political strategist. “He can talk to his child, he can advise Hunter, but look, what is -- what is absolutely evident to me is that the right-wing and the MAGA world has decided to weaponize Hunter Biden against his dad.”
“Maybe Maureen Dowd should find something else to write about,” said actor Whoopi Goldberg, before co-host and attorney Sunny Hostin added — to studio audience applause, “Yeah. Write about something else.”
The co-hosts also offered some understanding — and compassion — for the young child at the heart of the matter.
“I’m estranged from my father. And I can’t pretend to know what’s going on with the child. But I know that someday, she will be old enough to read and hear the speeches where he says my six grandchildren, and just leaves out that there’s the seventh,” said Alyssa Farah Griffin, who worked in the White House for Donald Trump, before becoming a persistent Trump critic. “If he could even just change that language, to me, that would be enough, because I don’t know what’s going on behind closed doors, but she will someday be old enough to know that he was choosing to reject her and not acknowledge her as his child.”
Hostin acknowledged the difficulty of the situation with the girl.
“I’m sort of split on this, because I hate this for that child. You’re not asked to be brought into the world, you’re just — it’s just a circumstance, you know. And apparently, this was sort of — more of a one-night stand, it wasn’t like they had a relationship. He was in the throes of addiction when this woman became pregnant, and she is posting pictures of the baby, like with an Air Force One cap and — and at the Jefferson Memorial, and so [the girl's mother] is sort of trying to, I don’t know, wedge herself into the family, and I don’t think that’s the right way to do it,” she said. “And I agree, I mean, this is Hunter’s issue, and I don’t — I think that the president who loves his family so much, I think is just following what his son has set in motion.”
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