'The View' co-host lauds Hunter Biden as 'riveting' after podcast sit-down, calls him 'biggest troll'

"The View" co-host Ana Navarro praised Hunter Biden as "riveting" and "the biggest troll" Thursday on the ABC show's "Behind the Table" podcast while previewing their 90-minute interview and arguing that scrutiny of his Burisma income paled beside the Trump family's earnings during President Donald Trump's second term.

"The monetization of the presidency, the fact that Hunter got dragged through the coals and brought into a congressional hearing by Republicans for the money that he was making in Burisma, which is not even chump change in comparison to the billions of dollars that the Trump family has made off the presidency," Navarro said.

Navarro called the comparison one of several "double standards" discussed during an interview for her "Bleep! with Ana Navarro" podcast.

"I wanted him on because I’ve been seeing his social media and he has become the biggest troll, but he does it also with humor," Navarro said.

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Navarro cited Biden's response to a user who blamed him for cocaine discovered at the White House in July 2023.

"And he’s like, ‘No, I would have never forgotten my coke,’" Navarro said.

The Secret Service closed its investigation without identifying a suspect, though the FBI reopened the case in 2025. Fox News Digital reached out to the FBI and the White House for comment, but did not immediately receive a response.

Navarro described the lengthy conversation as compelling from start to finish.

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"Hunter Biden is riveting, riveting. We talked for over an hour and a half," Navarro said. "Here’s the problem: The interview was scheduled at the same exact time as the Argentina versus England [World Cup] game."

Burisma paid Biden and business associate Devon Archer $1 million each annually after they joined its board in 2014, according to the House Oversight Committee. He joined when his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, helped lead U.S. policy toward Ukraine during the Obama administration.

Hunter Biden sat for a closed-door House deposition in February 2024 during the Republican-led impeachment inquiry into his father. The full House never voted on articles of impeachment.

Navarro also defended Hunter Biden's art sales and maintained that the transactions received scrutiny.

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"And while his father was president, he didn’t make any money. He made money off his paintings… every painting he sold had to go through vetting, and he had been painting his entire life," Navarro said.

The White House rejected Navarro’s comparison, arguing Trump’s children built successful businesses independently while dismissing Hunter Biden’s credibility.

"President Trump’s children are extremely successful business leaders in their own right running multi-billion-dollar corporations. Hunter Biden smoked crack, banged hookers, and sold ugly paintings for hundreds of thousands of dollars. No one cares what he has to say," White House communications director Steven Cheung told Fox News Digital.

Biden's former gallerist, Georges Bergès, testified that a buyer-anonymity agreement did not take effect until September 2021 and that Biden knew about 70% of his buyers, Fox News Digital reported. Ten buyers paid $1.5 million for his artwork, of which Biden received $900,000, according to the Washington Post.

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Reuters estimated in June that Trump and his sons had added at least $2.3 billion to the family fortune through their main cryptocurrency ventures since he returned to the White House. Trump said this month that he did not manage his personal finances.