Hunter Biden, the son of former President Joe Biden, is set to appear on conservative commentator Candace Owens’ podcast in one of the most unlikely media pairings of the political year, with a preview clip released Monday revealing that the interview covers addiction, the laptop controversy, the Charlie Kirk assassination, Joe Biden’s presidency, and the Gaza conflict.
Owens has spent years publicly mocking Hunter Biden as a drug addict, making her the last interviewer most observers expected him to choose, but the trailer released on X signals that the two found unexpected common ground across several subjects.
The opening exchange cuts directly to the tension, with Hunter addressing Owens’ long history of calling him a crackhead: “I’ve heard you call me a crackhead many times, and the truth of the matter is, I was a crackhead,” he says, before describing how his marriage fell apart and sent him into what he called “a really, really dark cycle.”
He also disclosed that at his lowest point he was drinking a handle of vodka a day, a revelation that goes further than his previous public statements about the severity of his addiction.
On the laptop controversy, Hunter dismisses the story as “bulls***,” a position consistent with his legal team’s longstanding argument that the revelations from the device exposed the depths of his personal struggles rather than constituting evidence of broader political wrongdoing.
He also takes aim at what he describes as the DC elite of the left, accusing figures including George Clooney, James Carville, David Axelrod, Anita Dunn, and Jake Tapper of orchestrating the effort to remove his father from the 2024 presidential race, saying they crushed his father because he was “never part of that club.”
Hunter makes an explicit reference to the Epstein affair in defending his father, telling Owens that Joe Biden was “never part of the Epstein class,” a phrase that will draw attention given how frequently Democrats have sought to tie Republican figures to Epstein-adjacent scrutiny.
On the Charlie Kirk assassination, Hunter endorsed Owens’ approach of publicly questioning the official narrative, telling her that criticism of her for asking such questions was incomprehensible, an alignment that will surprise observers given that Owens has been among the most prominent conservatives to question the government’s account of Kirk’s death.
Hunter also attacked the Trump administration’s approach to Gaza, saying his father “didn’t green-light to turn Gaza into a Trump golf course with the maitre d’ being Jared Kushner,” a shot that will delight parts of the left even as the messenger complicates the message.
The interview airs Thursday May 21 on the Candace Owens Show and is expected to generate substantial cross-partisan attention given the unusual nature of the pairing and the breadth of topics the preview suggests were covered.
