Fox host calls the Bidens the 'Fidel Castros and the Maduros of American politics'

• Fox & Friends Weekend host Rachel Campos-Duffy suggested the Bidens are socialist leaders.
• She made the remarks during a segment that touched on Hunter Biden's laptop.

A Fox & Friends host on Friday compared the Biden family to ex-Cuban leader Fidel Castro and Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

Fox & Friends Weekend host Rachel Campos-Duffy made the remarks during a segment that briefly touched on Hunter Biden's laptop.

In what appears to be a diatribe against the US press, Campos-Duffy said news outlets have avoided covering the story. It's been a subject of controversy since The New York Post claimed in October 2020 to discover a laptop that belonged to Hunter that contained emails linking his business dealings to now President Joe Biden.

Campos-Duffy said the laptop story "is finally catching up."

She then tried to make a connection between the Biden administration and Castro and Maduro, the former leader of Cuba and the present-day socialist leader of Venezuela, respectively. She said Hispanics who left countries like Cuba and Venezuela are feeling like they never left.

"Hispanics also know what shamelessly corrupt government looks like—that's why they left those countries," she said. The story of Hunter Biden is so corrupt, it's so grotesque, it's so disgusting, they recognize it right away."

The Biden family, she added, is "just like the Castro families, they're just like the Maduro families."

"And Hispanics are looking at this crappy economy ... and they're going, I don't like this, this is the same kind of dysfunction I saw in the country I left," she continued. "So yeah, the media can't ignore this anymore."

Castro, who died in 2016, was a dictator who imposed communist rule over Cuba for five decades and nearly plunged the world into nuclear war. Under his reign, millions of Cubans fled the country. Maduro since taking power in Venezuela has faced numerous accusations of human-rights abuses.