Politics
Hunter Biden Reveals Whether Cocaine Discovered by Secret Service in the White House Belonged to Him
Joe Biden‘s son Hunter Biden is opening up about his troubled past.
The former president’s 56-year-old son sat down with political commentator Candace Owens for a candid interview that premiered Thursday, May 21, on her YouTube channel. In it, they discussed his struggles with addiction, among other hot-button topics.
The outspoken podcaster — who has called Hunter a “crackhead” in the past and publicly criticized his father, 83, throughout the years — opened the episode of her show by acknowledging that “people are going to be like, ‘How on earth did this happen?'”
Explaining that she wanted to interview Hunter for a long time, Owens gave the father of five the space to tell his story. However, she began by asking Hunter if the small plastic bag of cocaine the United States Secret Service discovered inside the White House on July 2, 2023 belonged to him.
“No,” Hunter said. “After six years of this, I’ve been sober since June 1 of 2019 — clean and sober — and verifiably so by the Bureau of Probation, which I was drug tested randomly over the course of two years.”
“Beyond that,” he said, “I wasn’t even [at the White House].”
At one point during their conversation, Hunter acknowledged how he had heard Owens “call me a crackhead many times,” which she took accountability for.
“I’m sorry I contributed to that,” Owen answered. “I feel sh**ty… I genuinely am so sorry that I didn’t even consider, ‘He’s a crackhead.’ That’s a very relatable thing.”
“The truth of the matter is I was a crackhead,” he admitted. “I say that not to shock people… Crack cocaine carries such a stigma to it… There are so many people, 30 million Americans in active addiction or recovery. There’s not a single person I know who hasn’t been impacted by addiction.”
Hunter talked about how he became addicted to drugs, which he has spoken about before in his 2021 memoir Beautiful Things.
He has said that he believes his issues with addiction are linked to the trauma that he suffered in his childhood, including the 1972 car accident that killed his mother, Neilia Hunter Biden, and sister Naomi. Hunter, then 2, and his brother Beau (who died of glioblastoma in May 2015 at age 46) were in the car at the time.
