Hunter Biden sat for a nearly 1 hour and 50 minute interview with Candace Owens on Thursday, using the rare appearance to revisit the personal and political fights that have shadowed his family for years. The conversation, on Owens’ podcast, moved from addiction and sobriety to the laptop controversy, the Biden family’s treatment by the political class and his attacks on Donald Trump and his allies.
Owens, a right-wing commentator, opened by saying she would not ask Biden to say anything bad about his father. Biden did not hold back anyway. He said he had been “verifiably” sober since 2019 and said he had been randomly drug tested for two years under his probation deal. The worst relapse in his history with drug addiction, he said, came after the death of his brother Beau Biden.
He also tried to recast one of the most damaging episodes in his political life. Biden described the laptop controversy, which erupted months before the 2020 election, as a hard drive of stolen and hacked material that was misrepresented. He said he was prepared to take ownership of the fact that he was not a “good guy,” but said the broader campaign against him and his family went far beyond his own conduct.
The interview took aim at the political forces Biden believes helped turn him into a permanent target. He said his father was crushed by the “D.C. elite” because he was never part of the “Epstein class,” adding, “He lived in Delaware.” He also said Trump’s backers are linked to Jeffrey Epstein while discussing the Epstein files, and Owens answered, “He’s protecting his donors without question.”
Biden’s comments pulled the discussion back to Donald Trump repeatedly. He said, “The president of the United States of America has posted images of himself as a king, I think half a dozen times now…when are people going to wake up?” He also argued that the United States needed to stop the “wholesale murder of a population in Gaza,” and added, “He didn’t greenlight to turn Gaza into a Trump golf course.”
He went further, comparing government deals involving Donald Trump Jr. and Jared Kushner. Biden said Don Jr. got “the single largest loan guarantee from the Department of Defense ever handed out of over $600 million for an energy company,” and described it as a fusion energy company for which he had zero experience. The remarks widened an interview that began as an unlikely personal sit-down and turned into a broadside against the political and business world around the president.
The exchange lands in the middle of the same controversies that have followed Biden for years: his drug use, the laptop fight and the family’s place in a brutal political campaign. It also folds in another fight now consuming Trump’s orbit, the Epstein files, and gives Owens a platform for the kind of combative exchange her audience expects. What makes the interview stand out is not that Biden defended himself. It is that, for nearly two hours, he spoke as if he had decided to answer everyone at once.
For anyone who has followed the Biden family story, the question now is not whether Hunter Biden will keep talking. It is whether this interview becomes a one-off curiosity or the opening to a more aggressive public defense from a man who has spent years being spoken about more than heard.
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