On the record · Updated October 1, 2026
son of Joe Biden
52 things Hunter Biden said, verbatim, from June 7, 2026 to August 14, 2026, each linked to where it ran. Grouped by the story each one belongs to.
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“I know you’re not an antisemite. I’m 100% sure you’re not. My point being is that if it’s antisemitic to point out that Bibi Netanyahu is evil incarnate, then … I don’t know what to say to people anymore.”
on Hunter Biden defending calling Netanyahu evil incarnate
The Algemeiner Hunter Biden, Tucker Carlson Unite Over ‘Evil Incarnate’ Netanyahu, Blame Israel for Laptop Scandal ›
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“But he’s still out there, he’s still doing his thing, he so believes in this country, and as long as he’s alive, I promise you he’s going to continue to fight.”
on Joe Biden continuing to fight despite his cancer spreading
Washington Examiner Joe Biden’s cancer ‘has spread’ and is ‘very painful’: Hunter Biden ›
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“I think if he had just been diagnosed with prostate cancer, that’s one thing because that can be cured, but the fact that it metastasized to his bones, that makes it a whole different story. And so I think Joe will live with cancer till the rest of his life.”
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“I wish he would complain more, because it’s not good. The cancer has spread, it has metastasized into his bones and further. It’s very painful, and it’s very debilitating in many respects, but he’s still out there and he’s still doing his thing,”
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“I think Joe will live with cancer for the rest of his life,”
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“I’m an easy target. And understandably so. I’ve been, I think, probably the most famous addict—and famous person, because of the grace of God, in recovery.”
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“I think voters are concerned with the present and the future, and I think that we need an all-hands-on-deck approach, and that that includes the voices of people like Joe Biden and Barack Obama, and retired political leaders from throughout our party’s history, and I’m grateful for Joe’s leadership,”
CNN Two years after their last debate, Biden jabs at Trump: ‘What a loser’ ›
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“The middle is not a strategy. It's an empty room. Voters reached past the establishment to grab someone who actually believes something”
Blaze Media Hunter Biden wants Democrats to learn EXTREME lesson from NYC elections ›
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“Endorsements from the current Democratic leadership now read like warnings”
on how Democratic leadership endorsements have become electoral liabilities
Blaze Media Hunter Biden wants Democrats to learn EXTREME lesson from NYC elections ›
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“Endorsements from the current Democratic leadership now read like warnings. The establishment wing of the party is no longer a sword. It's a question mark,”
on NY primary results signaling waning Democratic establishment influence
USA Today Hunter Biden criticizes establishment politics in post on NY primaries ›
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“You would think that, you know, past has something to do with winning an election. And I would say his past is not the greatest,”
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“Give me access to your iCloud. Let’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!”
on Hunter Biden defending Graham Platner amid scrutiny of his past
The Daily Wire - Breaking News, Videos & Podcasts Hunter Biden Defends Graham Platner With A ‘Show Me Your Phone’ Challenge ›
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“There is a meanness. A willingness to adopt very, very un-American tactics against our opponents because it’s become a zero-sum game,”
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“All I know is that I’m grateful he did it for me, and all I can say to anybody out there is, what would you have thought of my dad if he did not do that for me?”
The Guardian Hunter Biden talks about how his father’s cancer has spread and is causing him pain ›
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“I was the only one in the world that could have gotten what I got from the only person in the world who could give it, my father.”
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“the most privileged person there is”
on Hunter Biden's self-description while acknowledging his pardon's cost to the country
The Daily Wire ‘Very Painful’: Hunter Biden Says Father’s Cancer Has Spread Beyond His Bones ›
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“We’re being divided on purpose by the Epstein Elite Oligarch class because as long as we’re at each other’s throats, they get fat and rich off of our misery.”
on claim that elite class benefits from public division, referencing Epstein
The Guardian Hunter Biden for president? Stranger things have happened | Arwa Mahdawi ›
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“These people don’t deserve to be compensated. They deserve to be put in jail for a long, long, long time.”
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“I’m 28 felonies, 6 bankruptcies, and an Epstein bromance short of his checkered past.”
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“I don't have any assets. I don't own a car. I don't own a phone,”
on Hunter Biden's sworn testimony about family finances amid a $17M legal bill dispute
Fox News Hunter Biden claims under oath that his family is broke amid fight over $17M legal bill ›
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“His lies caused real damage and endangered my family,”
on winning a $1.7 million defamation verdict against the former Overstock CEO
NBC News Politics Judge awards Hunter Biden $1.7 million in defamation suit against former Overstock CEO ›
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“The court determined that everything he said about me was a complete fiction.”
on the court's ruling in his defamation suit against the former Overstock CEO
NBC News Politics Judge awards Hunter Biden $1.7 million in defamation suit against former Overstock CEO ›
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“he said it at a moment in time where he thought that he was going to be the next president of the United States and there would be a Justice Department that would treat me fairly,”
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“If it was in a Mitt Romney administration, if it was in a John McCain administration, if it was in anybody that was an actual Republican and not a tyrant or a fascist, my dad would not have pardoned me,”
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“It would have been like having a gun to my family’s head for the next four years at least, so that’s why he pardoned me. It’s a really incredibly rational decision and a really difficult decision,”
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“The reflecting pool reflects something even worse than the narcissism and incompetence at the core of this administration,”
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“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 him,”
CNN Two years after their last debate, Biden jabs at Trump: ‘What a loser’ ›
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“It’s not just his vanity projects, tearing down the East Wing of the White House making room for his ballroom, putting his name on the Kennedy Center, building an arch in his own honor, even hiring his own pool guy to fix the reflecting pool. Woah! What a loser,”
CNN Two years after their last debate, Biden jabs at Trump: ‘What a loser’ ›
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“an exhibition of imperial domination, not a celebration of our 250th anniversary as a democracy,”
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“My problem is that I believe some of our public spaces are sacred,”
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“were an exhibition of imperial domination, not a celebration of our 250th anniversary as a democracy.”
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“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,”
on Hunter Biden's cage match challenge to Don Jr. over a South Lawn event
One America News Network Hunter Biden challenges Don Jr. to MMA cage match: ‘Your call on the venue. Anywhere but the South Lawn’ ›
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“By holding the event on the South Lawn, what he was saying to the rest of us is: ‘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,'”
on Hunter Biden's cage match challenge to Don Jr. over a South Lawn event
One America News Network Hunter Biden challenges Don Jr. to MMA cage match: ‘Your call on the venue. Anywhere but the South Lawn’ ›
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“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,”
on the limits of presidential power
The Daily Wire - Breaking News, Videos & Podcasts Hunter Biden ‘Offended’ By UFC At The White House. Joe’s South Lawn Had A Man Flashing Fake Breasts. ›
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“But you really do feel like you’re in a gilded cage.”
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“What makes me angry is that Trump wants to give taxpayers’ money, your money, to the January 6th insurrectionists. That’s what he wants to do,”
on Trump's plan to give taxpayer money to January 6th defendants
CNN Two years after their last debate, Biden jabs at Trump: ‘What a loser’ ›
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“Like, we’re supposed to believe he’s survived four—what are we at, four assassination attempts? The first president that’s ever survived four assassination attempts? They lie to us about things.”
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“You know who stuck with my dad? 100 percent … Black Caucus, the Hispanic Caucus, Progressive Caucus,”
TheGrio Hunter Biden gets blunt about how Black women are the backbone of the Democratic Party: ‘Black women got my dad elected’ ›
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“You what got my dad elected? Black women. Period, the end.”
TheGrio Hunter Biden gets blunt about how Black women are the backbone of the Democratic Party: ‘Black women got my dad elected’ ›
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“Everybody knows there is this closeted gay mafia, largely Republican, that exists in Washington, D.C., and everybody knows every single one of them, who is gay,”
on his claim about closeted gay Republicans in Washington
The Advocate Hunter Biden calls out 'closeted gay mafia' of D.C. Republicans ›
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“The only reason that is relevant is because I believe that internal conflict creates so much vitriol inside a person that they take it out on the rest of the world, and they do.”
on why he says closeted Republicans direct internal conflict outward
The Advocate Hunter Biden calls out 'closeted gay mafia' of D.C. Republicans ›
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“It’s not just, I disagree with you. It’s, You need to be punished. You need to be punished for what you believe.”
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“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 … he wasn’t a good person.”
on Graham Platner's combat service and struggles with PTSD afterward
The Daily Wire - Breaking News, Videos & Podcasts Hunter Biden Defends Graham Platner With A ‘Show Me Your Phone’ Challenge ›
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“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,”
on Hunter Biden describing a combat veteran's PTSD and trauma
The Daily Wire - Breaking News, Videos & Podcasts Hunter Biden Responds To Claims He Should Run For President ›
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“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,”
The Daily Wire - Breaking News, Videos & Podcasts Hunter Biden ‘Offended’ By UFC At The White House. Joe’s South Lawn Had A Man Flashing Fake Breasts. ›
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“I’m supposed to hate Tucker Carlson because he’s an antisemite,”
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“The cancer has metastasized into his bones and further. It’s very painful and it’s very debilitating.”
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“The cancer has spread, metastasized into his bones and further. It’s very painful, and it’s very debilitating in many respects. But he’s still out there,”
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“The only thing that I’d say about my dad, about his health right now, is I wish he would complain more, because it’s not good.”
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“No matter what I do, there's no privacy. I've been told for seven years, eight years now, that ‘this will go away. They'll stop focusing on you.’ That hasn't happened.”
on years of persistent scrutiny he says has never let up
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“The vast majority of people on both sides, their entire image of me was a ne'er-do-well, failson, drug addict, degenerate that couldn't string two words together. And so just by being able to sit upright and not drool, I think people are like, ‘Wow, that was amazing.’”
on public perception of him shifting despite his past reputation as an addict
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“I have not heard anything in any way that would say to me that he’s an abusive, misogynistic, antisemitic or racist person,”
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