Hunter Biden has said in a new interview that he never wanted his father, Joe Biden, to seek a second term as president, but that he refused to urge him to abandon the re-election bid. The remarks add to a series of unusually candid disclosures from Hunter Biden as part of a recent podcast and media tour, in which he has reflected on his experience as the son of a sitting president and offered blunt assessments of his father's administration.

The comments came during an NPR interview broadcast at the weekend, in which Hunter Biden discussed his reservations about a second campaign despite not voicing them to his father at the time. In related remarks from the same round of interviews, he also described Merrick Garland's tenure as attorney general as the "greatest mistake" of the Biden administration, underlining his willingness to criticise senior figures from his father's presidency publicly.