‘The View’ Says Hunter Biden’s Child Support Settlement Should Not Be Linked to Joe Biden: “It’s Not the President’s Baby”

The View is returning from their week-long hiatus and diving right into a thorny topic: Hunter Biden‘s fifth child. The panel kicked off a discussion today about an op-ed published in The New York Times Saturday (July 8), in which Maureen Dowd asked President Joe Biden to acknowledge Hunter’s young daughter, who is four years old and lives in Arkansas with her mother.

Whoopi Goldberg wasn’t pleased with Dowd’s request, arguing that the columnist should be “kvetching” at Hunter, not his father, since the child is his.

“It’s not the president’s baby,” Goldberg said, and Ana Navarro agreed, adding that the Times column should have been “directed at Hunter Biden” instead of his dad.

“I think it’s very hard for Joe Biden to be a grandfather to the child if his son is not being a father,” she added, referring to Hunter’s contentious paternity dispute and subsequent child support case with the mother of his daughter, which he settled last month.

Navarro, analyzing the Hunter criticism beyond the Times op-ed and looking at it in a wider political scope, added, “What is absolutely evident to me is that the right wing and the MAGA world has decided to weaponize Hunter Biden against his dad. Everything and anything Hunter does and does not do is going to be weaponized.”

Conservative commentator Alyssa Farah Griffin had a less forgiving take, arguing that the president could “at least change that language” where he refers to the number of grandchildren in his family and be more inclusive of Hunter’s four-year-old.

“She will someday be old enough to know that he was choosing to reject her and not acknowledge her,” Griffin said.

But she seemed to be the only one at the table siding with Dowd. Sunny Hostin chimed in after Griffin, agreeing with Goldberg and Navarro that the issue was Hunter’s to deal with, not his father’s.

“The President, who loves his family so much, is just following what his son has set in motion,” Hostin said.

Goldberg closed out the conversation by suggesting that Dowd “find something else to write about,” which Hostin enthusiastically agreed with.

“This is not anybody’s business,” Goldberg said. “Nobody needed to know about this. This is private.”

The View airs weekdays at 11/10c on ABC.