Hunter Biden Denies White House Cocaine Was His — But It’s The Explanation He Gave That Has People Talking
Hunter Biden is once again publicly denying that he was the person who left cocaine behind at the White House in 2023.
President Joe Biden’s son wrote Monday that “It most definitely was not” his coke in response to a comment on an X post celebrating his seven years of sobriety.
“I would never have forgotten my drugs,” he added.
The Secret Service found a small bag of cocaine in a White House common area around three years ago, prompting a brief evacuation and speculation about the culprit.
President Joe Biden and his family were at Camp David when the cocaine was discovered. Still, the GOP latched on to Hunter Biden’s past drug use and accused him of leaving behind the cocaine.
The Secret Service closed the investigation a little over a week after the drug was discovered. No one was identified as a suspect.
Hunter Biden first denied that the cocaine was his in 2025, saying he had been clean and sober since June 2019.
“Why would I bring cocaine into the White House, stick it into a cubby outside of the situation room in the West Wing when I wasn’t there?” he told journalist Andrew Callaghan last year. “Anyway, who the fuck knows?”
On Monday, Biden reiterated that it was his seventh anniversary of getting clean from drugs and alcohol.
“Hey, everybody,” he said in the video message shared Monday on X. “Just a quick message to say thank you to everybody who has messaged me today on seven years clean and sober. I’m more proud of that than anything I’ve ever done in my life.”
Biden has been open about his past drug use, specifically in his 2021 memoir, writing that his substance addiction caused him to go into a “deep descent” in 2015 after his brother, Beau Biden, died of cancer at age 46. He told right-wing podcaster Candace Owens last month that he decided to get clean after the contents of his laptop became public.
“Something broke in me in a good way, which was that I no longer have any fear,” he said, according to The Washington Post.
“I don’t blame people who are not realizing that I have worked my effing ass off,” he added. “I mean, in this environment, the best thing I’ve ever done is stay clean and sober through all of that.”
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