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Hunter Biden is staging one of the most unlikely reinventions in politics, attempting to charm and disarm the internet trolls who feasted on the darkest moments of his life.
Why it matters: Former President Biden's 56-year-old son spent years as the ultimate MAGA villain, staying largely silent as his addiction, legal troubles and personal life were used as a cudgel against his father's presidency.
Now seven years sober, Hunter Biden has re-emerged with a raw, self-deprecating candor that is drawing grudging respect — and even empathy — from some of his former tormentors.
Zoom in: Biden's unlikely charm offensive began last month with a nearly two-hour interview with Candace Owens, the conservative podcaster and conspiracy theorist who had spent years mocking his addiction.
The surprisingly warm conversation began with an olive branch: "I've heard you call me a crackhead many times," Biden told Owens. "And the truth of it is, I was a crackhead."
Owens, citing addiction in her own family, apologized and admitted to treating Biden as a "caricature" rather than a person. "It means the world," an emotional Biden replied.
This week, Biden took that humility to X, where he's begun directly engaging critics and trolls with the same unflinching honesty and dark humor.
When one user accused him of being the mystery culprit who left a bag of cocaine at the White House in 2023, Biden shot back: "It most definitely was not. I would never have forgotten my drugs."
When a MAGA account said she'd rather "live under a rock than smoke it," Biden replied: "Me too. It was awful." Her tone softened: "Glad you're off that stuff. Hope you stay clean. You deserve a better life than you were living."
Between the lines: Biden's softer public image has come with a sharp political edge.
He has used his own scandals as a populist contrast against Trumpworld — arguing that MAGA spent years obsessing over a supposed "Biden crime family" while ignoring the Trump family's profiteering.
In the Owens interview, Hunter portrayed his father as an outsider to elite corruption, saying Joe Biden was "never part of the Epstein class" and never turned public office into a personal business opportunity.
On X, he has attacked CNN's Jake Tapper — co-author of "Original Sin," the bestseller on Joe Biden's decline — for panning Jill Biden's new memoir while, in Hunter's telling, giving Trump and his family a pass. (Disclosure: "Original Sin" was co-authored by Axios reporter Alex Thompson.)
The other side: Not everyone is buying the reinvention.
Much of MAGA world remains unmoved, with prominent influencers arguing that Biden owning his addiction does nothing to answer the corruption questions they've long raised.
Some critics argue the Owens détente came at a cost: To win her over, Biden indulged her conspiracy theories — about Charlie Kirk's killing, about Trump's assassination attempts, about Israel's influence over America — and bonded over a shared sense of elite victimhood.
The bottom line: No one seems more amused by Hunter Biden's new viral fame than Hunter Biden.
"WTF timeline are we on," he posted Thursday after someone called him "the MAGA whisperer" — a title he said he would "gladly take."
He went on to accuse the "Epstein Elite Oligarch class" of deliberately dividing Americans, before delivering a closing manifesto:
"Love your neighbor. Be yourself. Radical honesty. No f*cks given, no f*cks taken. Everything else is just noise."
I saw his interview with Channel 5 and it was pretty interesting. It gave me the impression he's trying to become an Anthony Bourdain type of personality. I'm not sure how well that meshes with his northeastern WASP pedigree since the interview took place in his California mansion overlooking the ocean where he paints all day. Drugs are the only thing this guy has in common with the plebs, which is more than most rich politicians. It will be interesting to see how far that gets him, he might make it in politics as a populist if he talks about something other than Trump ever.
His wife brought him Matzah ball soup during the interview so we know he's got the US Dept. of Israel on his side.
Hunter Biden and Austin Peterson for the Democratic presidential ticket in 2028, call it the crack team. The economic woes and debt crisis will be solved with a new Columbian trade deal and a quick triple chuck on the dice game at Stake.us
This article was obviously written by ChatGPT which is a bad enough sign as is.
Hunter and/or somebody in the DNC simply just bought a bunch of likes. He makes it pretty obvious that his shit is botted since he's been getting like 800 views, 700 likes, 0 retweets, and 0 comments all within 4 minutes. Literally none of those 5 numbers can be explained away when put together in any combination unless you admit to botting.
In a now delete tweet that I didn't clip, Christian Nationalist and Fuentes glazer Andrew Torba retweeted a Hunter Biden post bashing Trump. Biden is also getting interviewed by Candice Owens (nitter), so it looks like the entire retarded right is going to be backing this degen.
In a now delete tweet that I didn't clip, Christian Nationalist and Fuentes glazer Andrew Torba retweeted a Hunter Biden post bashing Trump. Biden is also getting interviewed by Candice Owens (nitter), so it looks like the entire retarded righting is going to be backing this degen.
I could understand how Obama and his family received attention even after his tenure. First black president, first trans First Lady, two hideous nog children. Etc etc. But with the Bidens, there's... nothing. Joe has dementia, Jill is a scarecrow in a pantsuit, and Hunter is a degenerate crack vacuum. None of them possess any charisma or notable talents. Journocunt cumrags know that there's no presidential library coming for no. 46, that all the water they carried for four years ultimately amounted to nought, and Biden will be forgotten. He's already a distant memory, at least to me.
