Hunter Biden acknowledged Monday that his father’s 2024 pardon was a gift of “privilege” — and used an interview to blast President Donald Trump’s “revenge tour.”

In an interview released Monday on journalist Tommy Christopher’s Substack, Biden said Trump’s win “changed everything” and argued he would have fought and won on appeal “in a normal circumstance.” He also said he was “incredibly grateful” for clemency and “realize[s] how lucky I am.” (RELATED: ‘I Learned How To Make My Own’: Hunter Biden Details Depths Of Cocaine Addiction)

“I realize how privileged I am,” Biden said, adding, “My dad would not have pardoned me if President Trump had not won … Donald Trump went and changed everything,” and accused the president of launching a “revenge tour” with an “absolute obsession with my dad.”

US President Joe Biden talks with his son Hunter Biden upon arrival at Delaware Air National Guard Base in New Castle, Delaware, on June 11, 2024, as he travels to Wilmington, Delaware. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

Biden also cast himself as a would-be political target absent the pardon. “I think [it] would have made me … the easiest target … to intimidate and … impact my entire family into … silence in a way that … is not as easy for him to do [with] me being pardoned,” he said.

The Justice Department’s clemency warrant shows Joe Biden’s December 1, 2024 pardon wiped out Hunter’s tax and gun convictions and broadly covered potential offenses from Jan. 1, 2014, through the clemency date.

Biden’s swipe at Trump included a shot over the former New York congressman George Santos, whose more-than-seven-year federal sentence Trump commuted Friday; the move drew immediate backlash from critics in New York.

“I don’t think that I need to make much of a detailed argument for why it was the right thing to do, at least from my dad, from his perspective,” he said of his own pardon — while still returning to Trump: “He’s not … finished with his revenge tour.”