Hunter Biden, age 56, just told the addiction podcast "Dopey" that his father — then the Vice President of the United States — showed up at a Washington, D.C. crack house to find him. Twice. With a Secret Service detail and a motorcade of SUVs parked outside.
"My dad showed up. He literally showed up at the house twice," Hunter said. Joe Biden reportedly tried to keep the entourage small, scaling back the motorcade as much as protocol allowed. There are only so many ways to make a vice presidential security detail blend into a drug den.
This is the same Hunter Biden who sat on the board of Burisma Holdings, one of the largest private natural gas producers in Ukraine, from 2014 to 2019 — collecting up to $50,000 a month. He had no background in energy. No experience in Ukrainian business. No qualifications beyond the last name on his driver's license. According to an NBC News analysis of his hard drive, Hunter and his firm pulled in approximately $11 million between 2013 and 2018.
And where did the money go?
Not into Ukrainian gas infrastructure. According to that same hard drive analysis, Hunter was burning through more than $200,000 a month from October 2017 through February 2018 alone — on luxury hotel suites, Porsche payments, dental work, and massive cash withdrawals. The Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles. Crack binges. Prostitutes. A man Hunter identified only as "Bicycles" — a homeless man he'd recruited to sell him crack and teach him how to smoke it.
That's the board member Burisma was paying a Fortune 500 salary to retain. A guy learning to cook crack from a homeless man he met on the street.
The New York Post reported on the latest revelations, which come from Hunter's appearance on the "Dopey" podcast — a show focused on addiction recovery. During the interview, Hunter described his father arriving at the house and asking, "Please, like, what are we gonna do tomorrow? What's the plan?" Joe Biden wasn't staging an intervention through aides or phone calls. He was walking through the door of a crack house with federal agents waiting in the car.
We were told for years that the Burisma arrangement was perfectly normal. A standard corporate board appointment. Nothing to see. Hunter had "value" to bring to the table. Democrats and their allies in the press spent the entire 2020 election cycle insisting that questions about Burisma were Russian disinformation, conspiracy mongering, and bad-faith attacks on a man struggling with addiction.
Now the man himself is on a podcast explaining that the addiction was funded, in part, by a Ukrainian energy company that hired him while his father was running American policy toward Ukraine. He's told interviewers that Burisma became what he called a "major enabler" during his steepest descent. The income didn't buy stability. It bought a longer runway for self-destruction — and it came with the implicit protection of his father's office.
The usual defense is that Hunter's personal struggles deserve compassion, not scrutiny. And addiction is a brutal thing. Nobody's arguing otherwise. But compassion for a man's disease doesn't require ignoring the fact that a foreign energy company was writing five-figure monthly checks to the sitting Vice President's son — checks that were being converted into crack cocaine, hotel rooms, and cash withdrawals at a pace that would bankrupt most small businesses.
That's not a personal failing. That's a national security question that never got answered.
Hunter wrote about some of this in his memoir, "Beautiful Things." He's given interviews to podcasters and YouTubers. He keeps telling the story. And every time he does, the details get worse — not because the media is digging, but because Hunter himself keeps volunteering information that would have ended any Republican's career on contact.
The story was always exactly what it looked like.
