Joe Biden’s granddaughter Naomi has jumped to his defense and torn into Jesse Watters for ‘crossing the line’ after branding the president a ‘bad father.’
In a bizarre rant, Watters, who left his wife of nine years, the mother of their twin daughters, for a Fox News producer who is 13 years his junior, attempted to tie Biden’s border policies with parenting during a broadcast from New Hampshire.
‘I knew Biden was bad on the border because he’s not the best father. The man can’t say no to his own son,’ the Watters’ World host said, referring to Hunter Biden, Naomi’s father.
‘He can’t say: “Stop!” He can’t have consequences for actions and that’s what you need, you need a man in charge on the border to say this is not going to be allowed,’ he continued.
Naomi Biden, 30, issued a fiery response on X, writing: ‘I have heard so many lies about my family, it takes a lot to make me upset. This crosses the line. Not sure how this man can call himself a reporter and I hope he never has a son or daughter who struggles with anything. You can disagree with his policies without being this ugly.’
Naomi issued this response to Watters’ rant
Naomi shot back at Watters, saying that you can disagree with the aging Democrat’s policies without getting so personal
President Biden has been widely criticized by conservatives for consistently supporting his son amid his legal troubles, investigations into his business dealings and his drug addiction
Biden pictured with his granddaughter, Naomi, in 2018
Biden has been widely criticized by conservatives for consistently supporting his son.
‘My son, like a lot of people … had a drug problem. He’s overtaken it. He’s fixed it. He’s worked on it. And I’m proud of him,’ he told Donald Trump on the debate stage in 2020.
In 2018, it emerged that Watters’ wife, Noelle, mother of his twin daughters, had filed for divorce after he admitted to an affair with Fox News producer Emma DiGiovine. The divorce was finalized in 2019.
Watters and DiGiovine tied the knot in December 2019. Their son was born in 2021, followed by a daughter in April 2023.
Watters made a creepy on-air admission about how he started pursuing DiGiovine by letting out the air in her tries so he could offer her a ride home.’
Hunter Biden spent a staggering $872K on prostitutes, porn and sex club memberships and took $1.6 M from ATMs
‘When I was trying to get Emma to date me, first thing I did, let the air out of her tyres,’ he said on The Five in April 2022. ‘She couldn’t go anywhere, she needed a lift. I said “Hey you need a lift?” She got right into the car.’
Watters failed to mention he was married at the time, adding: ‘It was a happy ending.’
Naomi Biden has been increasingly outspoken politically as the presidential campaign ramps up in 2024.
Just two weeks ago, Naomi took on Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene after the Trump supporting Georgian alleged that Hunter ‘fled’ a House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing.
‘Actually, it appears everyone fled the scene when she started lying,’ Naomi wrote.
In November 2023, Naomi branded President Barack Obama’s closest advisor David Axelrod a ‘jerk’ after the strategist after he suggest that President Biden not run in 2024.
‘Looking forward to proving the political pundits wrong… again,’ she wrote Monday.
She then retweeted a post on X post dunking on Axelrod commented on Biden failing to capture any delegates in New Hampshire back in 2020.
‘Disingenuous – you’ve been predicting his demise & doubting his resilience since beginning. There’s a difference between being entitled to an opinion & relishing a platform to disparage AND between journalism & being a jerk with a microphone. Up next ‘who’d of thought he’d win’,’ she wrote in February of that year.
Jesse Watters and Emma DiGiovine are pictured outside of Fox News headquarters in 2018
It was 2018 when Watters was divorcing his first wife Noelle Watters, pictured, who is mother to his two daughters
Naomi Biden (L), the granddaughter of US President Joe Biden, and her husband Peter Neal arrive for a State Dinner at the White House in October 2023
Naomi Biden said she looked forward to proving pundits wrong, and reposted her 2020 post suggesting Axelrod was a ‘jerk with a microphone’
While in the summer of 2022, Naomi told Republican Senator Ron Johnson that she would come to his office and call her dad Hunter to speak to him if the lawmaker voted for gun reform legislation.
‘.@RonJohnsonWI, if you vote for stricter gun control measures, I will personally come into your office and call my dad on speakerphone so that you can confess your undying love for him directly,’ she wrote on Twitter.
Johnson is one of Hunter’s most outspoken critics, hitting the president’s son on a number of topics including his business dealings and his Secret Service detail. He has accused Hunter of financially profiting from Joe Biden’s time in public office.
Last week, federal prosecutors urged a judge on Tuesday to reject Hunter’s efforts to dismiss the gun charges against him, revealing that investigators last year found cocaine residue on the pouch the president’s son used to hold his gun.
In pressing for the case Biden’s son to proceed, prosecutors said ‘the strength of the evidence against him is overwhelming’ and pushed back against Hunter Biden’s claims that he is being singled out for political purposes.
In addition to ‘incriminating statements’ Hunter made about his drug use in his 2021 memoir, investigators found a white powdery substance on the brown leather pouch he used to store the gun after pulling it from the state police vault last year, prosecutors wrote.
An FBI chemist determined it was cocaine, they said.
‘To be clear, investigators literally found drugs on the pouch where the defendant had kept his gun,’ prosecutors said.
Hunter has pleaded not guilty to charges accusing him of lying about his drug use in October 2018 on a form to buy a gun that he kept for about 11 days.
Biden has amassed a $71 million campaign war-chest. He turns 81 this month, and has faced calls to clear the field amid strong head to head polling by Trump even while the former president faces 91 indictment counts
He has acknowledged struggling with an addiction to crack cocaine during that period in 2018, but his lawyers have said he didn’t break the law. Hunter Biden has since said that he’s stopped using drugs and has worked to turn his life around.
His attorneys didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment on the prosecutors’ filing Tuesday.
These criminal proceedings could have been avoided with a plea deal last year, but an agreement with federal prosecutors fell apart and now the president’s son is facing the spectacle of a trial this year while his father is campaigning.
He was indicted after the plea deal broke down when a judge who was supposed to sign off on the agreement instead raised a series of questions about the deal.
He had initially agreed to plead guilty to misdemeanor tax charges and would have also avoided prosecution on the gun charges had he stayed out of trouble for two years.
It was the culmination of a yearslong investigation by federal prosecutors into the business dealings of the president’s son.
His lawyers have urged the judge to dismiss the gun case, alleging he was ‘selectively charged’ for improper political purposes.
They have argued that special counsel David Weiss — who also serves as U.S. attorney for Delaware and was originally appointed by Trump — ‘buckled under political pressure’ to bring more severe charges amid criticism of the deal from Trump and other Republicans.
Hunter defied a subpoena last month requiring him to sit for a closed-door deposition as part of the GOP impeachment investigation into whether President Joe Biden was connected to or profited from his son’s shady business deals
Prosecutors, however, said there is no evidence ‘to support his allegation that the Executive Branch, led by his father, President Biden, and its Justice Department, led by the Attorney General appointed by his father, authorized prosecution by the U.S. Attorney and Special Counsel of their choosing for an ‘improper political purpose.’
‘The charges in this case are not trumped up or because of Trump — they are instead a result of the defendant’s own choices and were brought in spite of, not because of, any outside noise made by politicians,’ prosecutors wrote.
Hunter’s criminal proceedings are also happening in parallel to so far unsuccessful efforts by congressional Republicans to link his business dealings to his father.
Republicans are pursuing an impeachment inquiry into Biden, claiming he was engaged in an influence-peddling scheme with his son.
But House Republicans on Tuesday halted plans to hold Hunter in contempt of Congress for defying a congressional subpoena in their ongoing investigation, citing negotiations with his attorneys that could end the standoff.
No evidence has emerged so far to prove that the president, in his current or previous office, abused his role or accepted bribes, though questions have arisen about the ethics surrounding the Biden family’s international business dealings.