Former first son Hunter Biden denied Thursday that he had anything to do with the infamous bag of cocaine discovered at the White House in 2023.
“No,” Biden responded when asked point-blank by right-wing podcaster Candace Owens if the bag discovered by Secret Service near the White House Situation Room three years ago was his.
Biden, who got hooked on crack cocaine after his brother’s death in 2015, told Owens he’s been “clean and sober” since June 1, 2019.
“Verifiably so, by the way,” he said of his sobriety, pointing to random drug testing he claims he was subjected to “over the course of two years” as a gun and tax trials played out.
“But beyond that is … directly to your question: I wasn’t even there,” Biden continued.
Biden, who was issued a blanket pardon by his father for any crimes committed between Jan. 1, 2014, and Dec. 1, 2024, seemed to suggest a White House visitor or administration staffer was responsible for bringing in the baggie.
“People have to understand … where that cocaine was found … that is where visitors come in and, and they come over from the old executive office building, staff, to go to the, go to the Oval [Office] or go to the chief of staff office or to the offices in the West Wing, and it was found in a cubby, right outside of the Situation Room – and it’s like, no possibility, not even remotely, beyond the fact that I wasn’t even there,” he explained.
Former President Joe Biden, Hunter, and other members of the first family were at Camp David in Maryland when the dime-sized bag of cocaine was found on July 2, 2023, a Sunday night.
Hunter Biden had been spotted at the White House by reporters the Friday before the discovery, when the first family departed Washington for Camp David.
“I spent probably, you know, over the course of four years maybe 25 days at the White House. Like 25 nights. Thirty, if, you know, I’m being fair,” Biden said, calling himself an “easy target … understandably so” for suspicion.
Biden then bragged that he’s “probably the most famous addict” in recovery for substance abuse.
The Biden administration never determined the origin of the bag of cocaine.
The FBI, under the Trump administration, reopened the case in 2025 but has not made any arrests.
