Embattled first son Hunter Biden attacked Fox News and The New York Post in an op-ed, published Thursday by USA Today, in which he accused the two outlets of running a “disinformation campaign” to use his personal struggles to destroy his father, President Joe Biden.
The younger Biden began his piece with a brief history of his battle with substance abuse — and, noting correctly that most Americans know at least one person who has struggled with addiction, said that the only reason anyone cared about his personal issues was the fact that he was the son of the president of the United States.
“My struggles and my mistakes have been fodder for a vile and sustained disinformation campaign against him, and an all-out annihilation of my reputation through high-pitched but fruitless congressional investigations and, more recently, criminal charges for possessing an unloaded gun for 11 days five years ago – charges that appear to be the first-ever of their kind brought in the…