Hunter Biden appears to have found a new way to turn his most infamous scandal into a business opportunity: a meme coin based on the laptop that has followed him since the 2020 presidential campaign.
The former first son announced Monday that he will launch $LAPTOP on September 9, teasing the cryptocurrency with a video compilation of media figures, politicians, and Trump administration officials discussing his notorious computer. The token is set to launch on Base, the blockchain network developed by Coinbase.
The announcement comes after weeks of Hunter Biden attempting to rehabilitate his public image through an unlikely media blitz, including podcast appearances and interviews with figures from both the Left and Right. Now, rather than simply discussing the controversies that made him famous, Biden appears ready to monetize them.
The $LAPTOP token will have a supply of one billion coins, with Biden and other founders receiving 30% of the supply. Those tokens will be locked for six months and then vest over two years, <a href="https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/hunter-biden-and-his-laptop-enter-the-cryptosphere-with-new-meme-coin-4d46fc9c">according</a> to The Wall Street Journal. Another 20% will be distributed through airdrops, including to cryptocurrency users who lost money on President Donald Trump&#8217;s $TRUMP meme coin and to subscribers of <a href="https://substack.com/@hunterbiden">Biden&#8217;s Substack</a>.
The remaining supply includes allocations for liquidity and operations, charity, and a mechanism that could destroy as much as 30% of the tokens depending on certain events. Among the events tied to the potential token burn are: Bitcoin reaching another all-time high, $LAPTOP surpassing $TRUMP in market value, and a Democrat winning the 2028 presidential election. If the specified conditions are not met, the corresponding tokens would instead be donated to charity, according to the Journal.
Meme coins are generally speculative assets whose value is driven largely by attention, hype, and association with a recognizable person or cultural phenomenon rather than an underlying business or utility. Market analysts have repeatedly warned that they can experience enormous price swings and rapid collapses.
Crypto traders have <a href="https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/09/08/crypto-traders-turn-on-hunter-biden-s-laptop-memecoin-before-it-even-launches">publicly blasted</a> the project, with some accusing Biden of squandering the credibility he had gained through his recent appearances and commentary. The crypto exchange Kraken also deleted a promotional post for the token following backlash. Journalist Andrew Callaghan said neither he nor his Channel 5 media company —which hosted a controversial interview with Nick Fuentes and Biden— was involved with the project despite a mailing list associated with Callaghan being among the groups eligible for an airdrop.
The backlash is particularly notable because Biden has spent recent months attempting to establish himself as a serious voice on cryptocurrency. He has described decentralized digital currency as the “inevitable future” and has increasingly discussed crypto in his public appearances and writing. 
The laptop was abandoned at a Delaware repair shop in 2019, and its contents became a major political controversy during the 2020 presidential campaign. The material included evidence of Biden&#8217;s drug addiction and records relating to his foreign business dealings. Now, Biden is turning his signature debacle into a tradable asset.
The move also places him in the increasingly crowded world of celebrity and political meme coins, following similar ventures associated with Trump, first lady Melania Trump, and former New York City Mayor <a href="https://apnews.com/article/eric-adams-crypto-meme-coin-942bad447d2598b9cb7dbd6c98060a25">Eric Adams</a>. Trump&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-begins-presidency-as-a-crypto-billionaire-with-meme-coins">$TRUMP token</a> initially soared before losing most of its value, with the token now trading far below its peak.
For a man who has spent years trying to escape the shadow of the laptop, Hunter Biden has put it right back at the center of his public identity and put a price tag on it.

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Hunter Biden said &#8220;may have to&#8221; enter the 2028 presidential race in an <a href="https://wabcradio.com/show/the-cats-roundtable/">interview</a> Sunday, a notable shift from his previous dismissals of the idea.
Speaking with radio host John Catsimatidis on WABC&#8217;s &#8220;Cats Roundtable,&#8221; Biden was asked whether he had considered a White House bid. &#8220;If I get your endorsement, I may have to,&#8221; he told Catsimatidis, a billionaire grocery chain owner and ally of President Donald Trump. Biden added that his central concern would be the roughly 50 million Americans he said are still struggling with addiction.
Asked what would qualify him for office, Biden pointed to the Constitution rather than his own resume. &#8220;He is my qualification for becoming president, if you believe in the Constitution of the United States of America that you swear to uphold and protect,&#8221; he said, adding that he wants the next president &#8220;to commit to one thing: adhering to the rule of law.&#8221;
The comment sits awkwardly alongside Biden&#8217;s own legal history; his father granted him a full and unconditional pardon in December 2024, wiping away federal convictions on gun and tax charges before he could be sentenced.
The remark also stands in contrast to comments Biden made in August during an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEGP_dd2zig">appearance</a> on HBO&#8217;s &#8220;Real Time with Bill Maher,&#8221; where he waved off the idea of running and joked that anyone hearing he&#8217;d announced a campaign should &#8220;check and see if I relapsed.&#8221;
In the Catsimatidis interview, Biden stopped short of declaring a campaign and instead praised the depth of the Democratic field, name-dropping Gov. Andy Beshear (D-KY) and Gov. JB Pritzker (D-IL) before saying, &#8220;I love Gavin Newsom, personally.&#8221; Newsom, who <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/us/politics/gavin-newsom-2028-race.html">has acknowledged</a> eying a run after this year&#8217;s midterms, has separately polled ahead of both Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio in hypothetical general election matchups, <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/6039336-rubio-outperforms-vance-poll/">according</a> to an August Emerson College/The Hill survey. Other Democrats frequently mentioned as potential 2028 contenders include Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA), former Vice President Kamala Harris, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.
Any Biden candidacy would almost assuredly draw renewed scrutiny of his colorful personal and legal history. He was convicted in 2024 on federal gun charges tied to a 2018 firearm purchase, during which he falsely denied drug use, and separately pleaded guilty to federal tax charges. His father&#8217;s sweeping, unconditional pardon in 2024 covered any such conduct dating back a decade.
Biden has spoken candidly about his addiction struggles, including in his 2021 memoir, and said in the interview that he recently marked seven and a half years of sobriety.

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Embattled former first son Hunter Biden came out as &#8220;a little bit&#8221; gay during a recent podcast interview, putting the number at just under 50%.
Biden spoke with host Luke Beasley on his <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_GblOwaOUQ">eponymous podcast</a> and joked about his orientation for a good part of the show&#8217;s opening bit.
Beasley kicked things off by first pretending to announce that former President Joe Biden was going to be on the show — and then feigned disappointment when he realized his guest was actually Hunter Biden. After reading off some of the former president&#8217;s resume, Beasley asked Hunter, &#8220;So what do you do?
&#8220;Seriously?&#8221; Biden asked, before joking that he&#8217;d better admit now to being a &#8220;central figure&#8221; in the Biden crime family.
&#8220;No, what do you do besides be related to someone cool?&#8221; Beasley asked.
When they had exhausted that avenue, Beasley turned to Biden and announced, &#8220;Let&#8217;s get serious. I&#8217;m gay.&#8221;
&#8220;Really? Wow. Seriously. I’m so amazed you’re gay,&#8221; Biden replied.
&#8220;Are you gay?&#8221; Beasley asked.
&#8220;Only a little bit,&#8221; Biden replied.
Beasley followed up, asking Biden whether &#8220;a little bit&#8221; meant &#8220;more or less than 50 percent.&#8221;
Biden: &#8220;48.6.&#8221;
&#8220;If you were gay, would I be your type?&#8221; Beasley asked.
Biden appeared to backtrack his announcement, saying, &#8220;No, a little bit more masculine would be my type, if I was gay.&#8221;
Beasley pivoted to ask Biden about his art, saying that he&#8217;d heard somewhere that the former president&#8217;s son was a painter. When Biden said yes, he was a painter, Beasley replied simply: &#8220;Gay.&#8221;
&#8220;So you&#8217;re like very &#8230; colorful,&#8221; Beasley continued, clearly alluding to the LGBTQ Pride flag. &#8220;A &#8230; rainbow of colors.&#8221;
They kept coming back to the topic, and after a while, Biden said he wanted to revise his number: &#8220;Maybe I take back 48.5. More like 47 after that conversation. My gaydom went down a percentage point.”
He raised the topic once more as the interview came to a close, declaring, &#8220;I just wanted to let you know that I am back up to 48.5 percent gay.&#8221;
Biden&#8217;s comments came just weeks after he said, on another podcast, that the biggest problem in Washington, D.C., was the &#8220;closeted gay mafia&#8221; — which he claimed was made up mostly of Republican men — who ran everything.
&#8220;I believe the biggest problem in America is not the oligarchy; it’s the closetocracy. Everybody knows there is this closeted gay mafia, largely Republican, that exists in DC. The only reason that is relevant is I believe that internal conflict creates so much vitriol inside a person that they take it out on the rest of the world,&#8221; he told Jennifer Welch on her &#8220;I&#8217;ve Had It&#8221; podcast.
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Former First Lady Jill Biden is still wondering whether someone could have slipped something into then-President Joe Biden&#8217;s drink ahead of his disastrous 2024 debate with now-President Donald Trump.
Biden sat down with Jamie Kern Lima on her eponymous <a href="https://youtu.be/Vg83Xxndc_k?si=RZrJyR27HDWvstm_">podcast</a>, and the conversation turned to that moment — the moment that even the president&#8217;s staunchest allies and defenders had to admit that something was not right with his cognitive function.
&#8220;Still to this day, you don&#8217;t have a gut instinct on what — what was that moment?&#8221; the host asked.
&#8220;No,&#8221; Biden replied. &#8220;I mean, there&#8217;s all kinds of theories — you know, he had been traveling. I know he was tired, he didn&#8217;t feel well that day when I saw him, but there was nothing definitive that I could point to.&#8221;
&#8220;And I had been on the road for two weeks up until that moment, so I wasn&#8217;t with him. I didn&#8217;t see him days before, weeks before,&#8221; she added. &#8220;I saw him maybe one hour before.&#8221;
&#8220;And there&#8217;s no way anyone could have, God forbid, laced his drink or something —&#8221; Kern Lima suggested.
&#8220;Who knows? Who knows?&#8221; Biden answered.
&#8220;Who knows?&#8221; Kern Lima repeated.
&#8220;Right? Who knows?&#8221; Biden said again.
Kern Lima also asked the former first lady what she might say if embattled former First Son Hunter Biden ever decided to run for office — or even for president.
&#8220;You know, I do have a funny answer for that,&#8221; Biden said, adding, &#8220;I would say, &#8216;Run.&#8217; But then you take that how you want to &#8230; So, you know, Hunter&#8217;s got to find his own path. And whatever he decides to do — I feel that with all our kids &#8230; whatever they decide to do, we will support them. We&#8217;ll support them, 100%.&#8221;
Biden went on to say that she&#8217;d felt the same way about supporting her husband no matter what, claiming that she&#8217;d found it &#8220;daunting&#8221; when he decided to run for president, but her desire to &#8220;support&#8221; him ultimately won out.

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Former President Joe Biden&#8217;s prostate cancer has progressed beyond the bone metastases disclosed at his 2025 diagnosis and is causing him significant pain, his son Hunter Biden said in an interview Friday.
“The cancer has spread, metastasized into his bones and further,” Hunter Biden said during an interview with <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8ey458pv5o">BBC Newsnight</a>. “It’s very painful and it’s very debilitating in many respects.”
Hunter Biden became emotional while discussing his father’s condition, describing it as “really sad to watch” and saying he wished the former president would complain more about what he is experiencing.
Joe Biden, 83, was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joe-biden-diagnosed-with-aggressive-form-of-prostate-cancer">diagnosed</a> with an aggressive form of prostate cancer in May 2025, several months after leaving the White House, following a medical examination prompted by urinary symptoms. His office said at the time that the cancer had a Gleason score of 9 and had already metastasized to his bones, while describing it as hormone-sensitive and therefore potentially responsive to treatment.
Hunter Biden said his father remains active despite the progression of his illness. “He’s still out there. He’s still doing his thing,” Hunter Biden said. “He so believes in this country.”
“My dad is, to this day, the center of our family,” he added. “He’s the best father, the best husband, the best grandfather.”
Biden’s health became a major issue during the final year of his presidency, particularly following his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-plummets-in-betting-markets-as-cnn-polling-shows-trump-won-debate-in-blowout?author=Ryan+Saavedra&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Biden+Plummets+In+Betting+Markets+As+CNN+Polling+Shows+Trump+Won+Debate+In+Blowout">June 2024 debate</a> performance against now-President Donald Trump. Hunter Biden said he was “shocked” while watching the debate. “I knew something was wrong,” he added.
Hunter Biden also discussed his father&#8217;s decision to pardon him in the final weeks of his presidency, calling himself &#8220;the most privileged person there is&#8221; and <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8ey458pv5o">conceding</a> the pardon was &#8220;not good&#8221; for the American people, the Constitution or his father&#8217;s legacy.
Then-President Biden issued Hunter Biden a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/president-biden-pardons-hunter-claims-son-was-singled-out">full and unconditional pardon</a> in December 2024 covering his federal gun conviction, tax case and federal offenses committed between 2014 and 2024.
Hunter Biden said his father remains focused on his family and public life despite his illness. He concluded, “He’s the toughest man I know.”

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The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled Thursday that the federal government unconstitutionally applied a gun restriction law to a Texas man who regularly used marijuana, narrowing the reach of the same <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/supreme-court-unanimously-limits-use-gun-law-used-prosecute-hunter-biden">federal statute</a> that was used in the prosecution of Hunter Biden.
In <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-1234_g2bh.pdf">United States v. Hemani</a>, the Court held that prosecutors violated the Second Amendment when they charged Ali Hemani under a federal law prohibiting firearm possession by unlawful users of controlled substances.
Justice Neil Gorsuch, writing for the majority, emphasized that the ruling was limited and did not eliminate the government’s ability to disarm dangerous individuals, addicts, or people actively under the influence.
“We do not address efforts to ban addicts, or those presently intoxicated, from possessing a firearm,” Gorsuch wrote.
Hunter Biden was convicted in June 2024 before his father, President Joe Biden, pardoned him. &#8220;Those prosecuted under the law can face up to 15 years in prison and a permanent ban on owning firearms,&#8221; per <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-backs-marijuana-users-challenge-restriction-gun-ownershi-rcna266931">NBC News</a>.
The case centered on Hemani, a 27-year-old man who admitted to smoking marijuana approximately every other day. FBI agents later found a handgun in his home that he said he kept for self-defense.
Prosecutors argued that historical restrictions on so-called “habitual drunkards” justified modern restrictions on firearm ownership by illegal drug users. The Court disagreed.
“The government’s analogy fails under every measure it asks us to consider,” Gorsuch wrote. “The historical laws on which it relies targeted different kinds of people, did so for different reasons, and operated in different ways.”
According to the Court, historical laws focused on people whose substance abuse rendered them incapable of managing their lives. The modern federal statute broadly covers regular drug users regardless of whether they pose a threat or not.
Gorsuch also warned that the government’s interpretation could surpass marijuana users.
Under the government’s theory, he wrote, the law could apply to “a college student who routinely uses a friend’s Adderall to cram for exams” or “a husband who regularly takes his wife’s prescription Ambien to sleep.”
The Court noted that prosecutors never alleged Hemani was addicted to marijuana, used a firearm while intoxicated, threatened anyone, or posed a danger to himself or others.
The ruling drew praise from Second Amendment advocates.
<a href="https://judicialnetwork.com/">Judicial Crisis Network</a> President Carrie Severino <a href="https://x.com/JCNSeverino/status/2067611106579718494">called the decision</a> a significant affirmation of constitutional protections.
“Can habitual drug users be disarmed? The Supreme Court, looking to history and tradition *unanimously* says no in United States v. Hemani,” Severino wrote on X. “This case inspired strange bedfellows like pro-drug organizations allying with gun rights groups — and so perhaps it’s not surprising that it’s also a case where Justices Thomas and Jackson can agree.”
Severino also noted that the Court’s decision relied heavily on the historical tradition framework that has become central to recent Second Amendment cases.
The ruling carries additional significance because the same federal statute, <a href="https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/IF13195">18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3)</a>, played a central role in the prosecution of Hunter Biden, who was convicted in 2024 of illegally possessing a firearm while using illegal drugs.
However, the Court stressed that Thursday’s decision was narrowly focused on Hemani’s circumstances and did not invalidate the statute altogether.
In a separate opinion, Justice Samuel Alito, joined by Justice Elena Kagan, agreed with the outcome and argued that the government simply failed to demonstrate that Hemani resembled the severely impaired individuals historically subject to firearm restrictions.
The justices repeatedly emphasized that the ruling does not prevent the government from restricting firearm possession by dangerous individuals, addicts, felons, or people shown to pose a genuine threat.
Still, the unanimous ruling marks another major Second Amendment decision from a Court that continues to require the government to justify firearm restrictions through the nation’s historical tradition of gun regulation.

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Embattled former first son Hunter Biden published a lengthy critique of President Donald Trump&#8217;s White House celebrations ahead of America&#8217;s 250th birthday — particularly the UFC fight that took place on the South Lawn on Sunday.
Biden&#8217;s father, former President Joe Biden, hosted a White House LGBTQ Pride celebration during which a trans-identifying man flashed his fake breasts on the South Lawn — but Hunter Biden argued that it was the UFC fight that crossed the line, disgracing the people&#8217;s house.
Biden&#8217;s comments were a direct response to podcaster Joe Rogan, who had taken part in the White House events that night, after he welcomed anyone who had a problem with the UFC fight there to &#8220;shut the f*ck up.&#8221;
&#8220;Dear Joe, I wish I could sit down with you face to face and explain why so many of us were offended by the UFC fight on the South Lawn of the White House,&#8221; Biden wrote in an <a href="https://x.com/HunterBiden/status/2067549698861277391">X post</a>.
He began by praising the UFC for building a great brand, saying that the organization itself had nothing to do with his distaste for the event.
&#8220;For me, it had nothing to do with the UFC or who showed up for the fights. The brand you and Dana have built is a bona fide American success story. More power to you. As for the fighters, in my book, anyone brave enough to put it all on the line in the arena is remarkable to witness. Their dedication and discipline inspire me. I don’t understand anyone who can’t admire that,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And as for the people who attended, I, for one, love Shane Gillis. I think he’s hilarious and brilliant. It was a show. A once-in-a-lifetime spectacle. I can’t blame anyone for wanting to witness it firsthand.&#8221;
&#8220;My problem is that I believe some of our public spaces are sacred,&#8221; he added without a trace of irony. &#8220;And unlike many of the great powers that came before us, these American monuments belong to all of us. Not to whoever happens to hold power at the moment. The White House does not belong to Donald Trump. It does not belong to any President. It belongs to the people.&#8221;
Biden went on to argue that Trump was treating the White House like his own personal and private &#8220;Colosseum&#8221; and complained that he had held the UFC fight at the White House specifically to show the American people that he believed he could do anything he wanted with the property.
&#8220;To treat it as Caesar treated the Colosseum is antithetical to everything our founding fathers fought for. This is not Rome. Presidents are not emperors doling out bread and circuses for the peasants. The White House is the People’s House. This &#8216;celebration&#8217; could have happened in any stadium within a stone’s throw of the South Lawn. No one would have had an issue with it. But that was obviously Donald Trump’s whole point,&#8221; Biden complained. &#8220;By holding the event on the South Lawn, what he was saying to the rest of us is: &#8216;This is my house. I own it. I will do with it what I please. I’ll build a colosseum and have the gladiators fight under my gaze. I’ll tear down the East Wing. I’ll pave over the Rose Garden. I’ll cover everything in gold and marble. I’ll erase the names of all the men who came before me.'&#8221;
&#8220;The fights,&#8221; Biden insisted, &#8220;were an exhibition of imperial domination, not a celebration of our 250th anniversary as a democracy.&#8221;
&#8220;The White House belongs to us. All of us. The person who sits behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office is nothing more than an honored guest. A temporary caretaker. The President is our servant. Not our Caesar,&#8221; Biden concluded, adding in his postscript that he was still down for a &#8220;cage match&#8221; with Donald Trump Jr., so long as it took place &#8220;anywhere but the South Lawn.&#8221;
Adding a twist of irony, former Secretary of State <a href="https://x.com/HillaryClinton/status/2066171075495616809">Hillary Clinton</a> issued a similar statement as the UFC fights began, as she reminded everyone that the White House belonged to the people and should be respected by the presidents who had only a temporary residence there: &#8220;It&#8217;s not his house. It&#8217;s our house.&#8221;
Clinton was immediately <a href="https://x.com/BuzzPatterson/status/2066214469286727869">reminded</a> that her husband, former President Bill Clinton, had shown his respect for the people&#8217;s house by carrying on an affair with an intern in the Oval Office.

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Embattled former First Son Hunter Biden offered an extensive defense of Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner, arguing that his critics should be the first to reveal the contents of their own phones.
Biden, speaking with Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA), explained away everything from Platner&#8217;s Nazi-inspired tattoo to his apparent history of troubling behavior with women before arguing that he made up for any shortcomings by taking appealing political positions. Biden also suggested that Platner&#8217;s issues were irrelevant anyway, since the people raising concerns about him were probably equally dirty.
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Newsom raised the question about Platner, who has faced a number of controversies since he rose to the top of the heap in Maine, asking Biden what he made of the way things had played out in recent weeks.
&#8220;What do think in the context of authenticity versus the audacity frame of Platner as a — as, you know, an example?&#8221; Newsom asked, referencing Platner&#8217;s tattoo and vulgar comments he&#8217;d made on social media.
Biden began by attributing Platner&#8217;s previous behavior to his military service and his struggles with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, alluding to his own troubled history as a drug addict and suggesting that he of all people would recognize someone who was trying to right his own course.
&#8220;He&#8217;s not saying something new today that he wasn&#8217;t saying four months ago,&#8221; Biden said. &#8220;Or five months ago, which is this: he was a veteran, a combat veteran, and when he came back he had some real issues with PTSD, and that trauma, and whatever way that he was working it out, I think he has been really open about &#8230; he wasn&#8217;t a good person.&#8221;
Biden then compared Platner&#8217;s struggles to his own, saying that he knew how much &#8220;stamina&#8221; and &#8220;courage&#8221; it took to turn things around.
He went on to declare that he was &#8220;99% certain that Graham Platner is no Nazi,&#8221; and argued that people should stay out of the Maine Democrat&#8217;s relationship with his wife.
&#8220;I always say to people, like, show me your phone,&#8221; Biden continued, and Newsom laughed. &#8220;Give me access to your iCloud. Let&#8217;s go through it and pull everything that we can that is inappropriate, that is off-color, that is — you know, that selfie that you took when you were drunk off your ass and you sent it to your blah, blah, blah. Like, show me your phone!&#8221;
Biden argued that, by that standard, no one would ever be qualified to hold public office — and appeared to suggest that for that reason, people should ignore the furor around Platner.
In his final defense, Biden said he did not believe Platner was abusive, and he was worth supporting because no matter what his personal issues might be, he supported things like government-provided free healthcare and sticking it to billionaires.

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Hunter Biden said he would appear on a presidential ticket if he ran as California Governor Gavin Newsom’s vice president. 
Biden made the comments during an appearance on Newsom’s podcast when asked if he would consider a potential presidential run. The younger Biden has been on a media tour in recent weeks, attempting to rehabilitate his image, prompting some Democrats to suggest he should run for president.
“Here&#8217;s the deal. I&#8217;ll run, but only as your VP, because the truth of the matter is the vice president&#8217;s residence is a lot cooler. It&#8217;s a lot easier job too,” Biden <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iVut-mWQU8">told</a> Newsom in an interview released Friday. 
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“The grandeur of the White House is, it never gets old,” Biden added. “But you really do feel like you&#8217;re in a gilded cage.”
In other podcast appearances, Biden has lashed out at the Democratic establishment.
&#8220;There is this very powerful group of people, and they all go to the same dinner parties and they are all part of the same financial ecosystem, that continues to fill their pockets in the Democratic Party, which I think is the one thing that makes it very, very, very difficult for the Democratic Party to ever actually achieve the real systemic change that we need in order to rehabilitate that brand,&#8221; he <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXeKCysfsxk">told</a> Molly Jong-Fast.
Last week, President Donald Trump said that if the scandal-plagued Democrat Graham Platner could perform well in Maine, then maybe Biden could in a presidential race. 
&#8220;Hey, if the guy from Maine can do well,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;Well, I guess Hunter could do well, too, because the guy from Maine is a basket case.&#8221;
Biden defended Platner during his appearance on Newsom’s podcast, claiming it took “courage” for him to launch a Senate campaign after previous mistakes. 
“He was a veteran, a combat veteran, and he came back. He had some real issues, and with PTSD, and, and that trauma, and whatever way that he was working it out, I think he had been really open about,” Biden said.
Biden, who was convicted on drug and gun charges, also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/president-biden-pardons-hunter-claims-son-was-singled-out">defended</a> his father’s decision to pardon him, claiming it was done to protect him from Trump. 
“It would have been like having a gun to my family for the next four years at least, and so that’s why he pardoned me,” he said. “It’s a really incredibly rational decision, and it was a really difficult decision, and you know how proud of my dad I am. The fact of the matter is, he chose me over his legacy, because no matter what you say, that’s going to be one of the first things that is written about.”
Biden&#8217;s pardon covered a sweeping time for crimes “committed or may have committed” for an 11-year period dating back to 2014. That protected the younger Biden from outstanding scrutiny on his questionable business dealings in Ukraine and China.
Before the pardon, Biden was offered what Republicans called a sweetheart deal because it would likely have allowed him to avoid prison time. A judge later declined to approve the deal, citing concerns over its constitutionality and the scope of immunity it offered. The Biden family complained that the deal was axed due to unfair “political pressure.”
His case then went to trial. A Delaware jury convicted him in June 2024 on three felony counts of lying on paperwork for a revolver and owning a firearm while being a drug addict in 2018. 
Earlier this week, Biden admitted that his father had &#8220;lost a step&#8221; due to his age despite the Democratic Party&#8217;s insistence for much of his presidency.
&#8220;It was not like a surprise that people, as they get old, particularly at that age, they literally lose a step. Like, my dad lost a step,&#8221; he said. &#8220;That does not mean, per se, that there is a cognitive decline, but instead of embracing it, I think that they tried to kind of obfuscate it.&#8221;

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Hunter Biden, the embattled son of former President Joe Biden, finally weighed in on the cocaine that was discovered in the White House while his father was president.
Biden posted a video on Monday announcing that he had officially been sober for seven years, prompting a slew of responses on X. Some congratulated him for reaching the milestone, while others questioned whether he was telling the truth.
&#8220;Bullsh*t. That was your bag of coke in the White House,&#8221; one said.
&#8220;It most definitely was not. I would never have forgotten my drugs,&#8221; Biden replied.
But it didn&#8217;t end there.
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Biden shared a second video on Tuesday about gratitude, saying that true gratitude could only be reached when people were able to be grateful for the bad along with the good — and then went on to explain that he was grateful for his past struggles with addiction because they&#8217;d laid him bare (literally) and made him better able to &#8220;connect&#8221; with people.
&#8220;I&#8217;m grateful that I was a crack addict,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And I don&#8217;t say that with the slightest bit of irony or bullsh*t. It has given me to me right here.&#8221;
He went on to say that he was able to reach this kind of gratitude because his addiction had resulted in everything being &#8220;taken away&#8221; from him.
&#8220;All that addiction took away from me, and then all that the consequences took away from me, any sense of me being better than anyone &#8230; I get to approach you and you get to see all of me,&#8221; he added, poking fun at himself and the nude photos that went public with the discovery of his abandoned laptop.
&#8220;You get to see the nude pictures, you get to see me in grief, you get to see me at my worst,&#8221; he said.
One person responded to the video on X with the comment, &#8220;Crack head. I’m sure it was your coke in the White House. Embarrassment you are. You belong behind bars. Loser.&#8221;
Biden fired back, saying, &#8220;I was most definitely a crack head. It most definitely was not mine. You can’t embarrass me anymore. And you have a nice day, my friend.&#8221;
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I was most definitely a crack head. It most definitely was not mine. You can’t embarrass me anymore. And you have a nice day my friend.
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Less than a gram of cocaine was found in a heavily trafficked area of the White House near the West Wing. It was discovered in July of 2023, and no suspect was ever publicly named.

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Former first lady Jill Biden said during a recent interview that she supported then-President Joe Biden&#8217;s plan to pardon his embattled son Hunter, claiming that the Department of Justice — run by his administration — was &#8220;not fair&#8221; to the younger Biden.
Biden, doing press for her upcoming memoir titled &#8220;View from the East Wing,&#8221; joined host Rita Braver for an interview that aired on the CBS News program &#8220;Sunday Morning&#8221; — and she <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/06/01/us-news/jill-biden-admits-i-wanted-joe-to-pardon-hunter-claims-process-was-not-fair-to-ex-first-son/">suggested</a> that the pardon was ultimately prompted by the Democratic Party&#8217;s 2024 loss and the fear that President Donald Trump would push for additional prosecution against Hunter.
&#8220;The Justice Department changed, and the process was not fair to Hunter,&#8221; she claimed.
Hunter, 56, initially landed a sweetheart deal that only gave him probation on three separate gun charges and tax evasion to the tune of $1.4 million — but left it on the table when his attorneys demanded immunity for him for any potential violations of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hunter-biden-plea-deal-almost-derails-after-questions-about-scope-of-deal-immunity">Foreign Agents Registration Act</a>, ostensibly because any charges in that particular ballpark could also implicate other family members like his father.
He was charged and tried in both cases by special counsel David Weiss, acting on behalf of Biden&#8217;s Justice Department. He was convicted in Delaware on the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/special-counsel-david-weiss-makes-statement-after-hunter-biden-convicted-on-felony-gun-charges">gun charges</a> in June 2024 and took a plea on the tax charges in September. At the time, then-President Joe Biden and everyone in his inner circle declared that he would not pardon his son.
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But when former Vice President Kamala Harris failed to win her abbreviated White House bid, the Biden family calculus changed.
&#8220;When Trump was elected, things changed and we knew that he would target Hunter. And we just could not let our son go to jail on a charge that no one would go — I mean, no one has ever gone to jail for,&#8221; Jill insisted, adding, &#8220;I truly supported it. I wanted him to pardon Hunter at that point, and I agreed with Joe.&#8221;
President Biden issued a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/liar-liar-biden-pardons-hunter-after-all">sweeping pardon</a> for his son on December 1, 2024, and also pardoned several other family members at the same time.
Jill explained that he did so, &#8220;I suppose for the same reason, that he felt that they would be targeted.&#8221;

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Embattled former first son Hunter Biden raised eyebrows on Thursday when he said he&#8217;d be &#8220;open&#8221; to a &#8220;cage match&#8221; with two of President Donald Trump&#8217;s sons, Eric and Donald Trump Jr.
The younger Biden announced that he&#8217;d been invited — and that he had accepted the invitation — to join Andrew Callaghan&#8217;s Channel Five Carnival Tour. The tour is described as a blend of live music, rap battles, magic, and full screenings of controversial documentaries. Biden then added that Callaghan had pitched a finale idea that he couldn&#8217;t pass up: a &#8220;cage match&#8221; in which he would face both Eric and Donald Trump Jr.
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Son of former U.S. President Joe Biden, Hunter Biden said he would be open to a &#8216;cage match&#8217; with President Donald Trump&#8217;s sons. <a href="https://t.co/oxoo7Cx3kx">pic.twitter.com/oxoo7Cx3kx</a>
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&#8220;Hey guys, Hunter Biden here,&#8221; Biden said, speaking directly to the camera. &#8220;I just got a call from Andrew Callaghan. He asked me to come out on the Channel Five Carnival Tour at the end of the month. I think we start in Phoenix and then we go to San Diego, and we end in Albuquerque. And I think he&#8217;s trying to organize a cage match, me versus Eric and Don Jr. I told him I&#8217;d do it, 100% in if he can pull it off. And if he can&#8217;t, I&#8217;m still coming.&#8221;
A <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/04/09/us-news/hunter-biden-is-too-broke-to-pay-lawyer-challenges-trumps-sons-to-a-cage-match/">report</a> from the New York Post, published on Friday, suggested that Hunter Biden might be less motivated by revenge fantasy than by his own personal financial situation. The report alleged that Biden, who has been living abroad, is deep in debt and struggling to pay his attorneys.
And if Hunter Biden&#8217;s posturing sounds familiar, it should: his father, former President Joe Biden, once made a similar remark about confronting President Trump.
During a 2018 speech, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/21/politics/joe-biden-donald-trump">Biden</a> famously told a room full of College Democrats at the University of Miami, &#8220;They asked me would I like to debate this gentleman, and I said no. I said, ‘If we were in high school, I’d take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him.'&#8221;
Trump fired back at Biden via X (still Twitter at the time), saying, &#8220;Crazy Joe Biden is trying to act like a tough guy. Actually, he is weak, both mentally and physically, and yet he threatens me, for the second time, with physical assault. He doesn’t know me, but he would go down fast and hard, crying all the way. Don’t threaten people Joe!&#8221;

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