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Hunter Biden and Candace Owens Are BFFs Now

Hunter Biden blames "the Epstein class" for turning on his dad.

Robby Soave | 5.21.2026 10:15 AM

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Hunter Biden has sat down for an interview with Candace Owens; it hasn't aired yet, but select clips are available on social media. So while it's not yet possible to get a feel for the overall tone of the conversation, we can nevertheless conclude that there is at least some warmth between the two. For instance, Biden can be seen praising Owens for asking supposedly tough questions about the assassination of Charlie Kirk. She has stated plainly that she does not believe the official story, and has suggested that Kirk's wife, Erika Kirk, his organization, Turning Point USA, or even the state of Israel could be somehow involved.

There is no evidence whatsoever for any of these claims. On the contrary, the alleged killer's motive and opportunity are overwhelmingly clear, and he also confessed.

Biden apparently disagrees.

"I listen to you and I go 'right on,'" says Biden during the interview, specifically referencing Owens' desperate mission to connect the Israeli government to Kirk's assassination.

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By all accounts, Biden is no longer smoking crack, so one might wonder why he would agree to sit down with Owens and also validate her unhinged conspiracies. The answer, however, becomes obvious in this clip: He is still trying to salvage his dad's reputation and also attack the people who forced him off the ticket in 2024.

"The D.C. elite of the left, they crushed my dad because he was never part of that club, he was never part of the Epstein class," says Biden.

This Thursday. Hunter Biden and me. @candaceoshow pic.twitter.com/iNISQNoIGA

— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) May 18, 2026

This is complete nonsense, of course. Joe Biden was not "crushed" by the leaders of his political party because they were in cahoots with the financier and convicted sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein. Powerful elites did not turn on Biden because he was threatening to expose their complicity in sex trafficking. Biden was forced out of the campaign because his advanced age and infirmity had rendered him patently unfit to serve another term. Despite the best efforts of his inner circle to conceal this reality from the public, it nevertheless became obvious to everyone after the disastrous June 2024 debate.

Hunter Biden wants to rewrite history, however. He wants to pretend that a nonexistence group of people, "the Epstein class," had something to do with his dad's ignominious exit. And so he's found someone who is well known for seizing upon claims that are manifestly not true and peddling them to a large and unfortunately gullible audience.

Thus the malleability of the grifter. Owens is, of course, a long-time critic of Hunter Biden and has no love for his father, either. But at present, she has other priorities. So it makes perfect sense that she would be willing to absorb Hunter Biden's conspiracy theories about the Democratic elites betraying his father, in service of her overall agenda of spreading nonsense.

Owens could always surprise me and ask Hunter Biden to defend his absurd claims. I wouldn't count on it.


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I am not sure I'm going to be able to finish the final season of The Boys. It's really, really bad. Three episodes in, I am enjoying having Soldier Boy (Jensen Ackles) back, and that's about it. The showrunners have made the obnoxious decision to transform Homelander into a full-on, completely unsubtle parody of Trump, and it's really grating. This has somehow rendered him much less terrifying. Also, the main characters still being alive is no longer plausible whatsoever. They've had far too many encounters with the bad guys in which no one important gets lasered to death.

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  1. JesseAz (RIP CK)   2 months ago

    You know who else has been screaming about the epstein class for the last year?

    1. mad.casual   2 months ago

      I must say, Reason criticizing other members of the journalist class for being shiftless and pandering is entertai... interesti... ironi... hypocrit... Well, I'm not sure what it is, but it's something.

      1. damikesc   2 months ago

        I coulda sworn that Candace and Tuq'r losing their minds was proof of the Trump coalition splitting up.

  2. damikesc   2 months ago

    "I am not sure I'm going to be able to finish the final season of The Boys. It's really, really bad. Three episodes in, I am enjoying having Soldier Boy (Jensen Ackles) back, and that's about it. The showrunners have made the obnoxious decision to transform Homelander into a full-on, completely unsubtle parody of Trump, and it's really grating. This has somehow rendered him much less terrifying. Also, the main characters still being alive is no longer plausible whatsoever. They've had far too many encounters with the bad guys in which no one important gets lasered to death."

    I am beyond amazed that a streaming show ends up being absolute shit. The writers are garbage and their abysmal writing used to be covered up by releasing the entire season of a show at one time, so you could stream the nonsense and not really sit back and think about how terrible and empty the program is/was.

    This has been the nadir of television. Nothing has been worse than what we currently have.

    1. Eeyore   2 months ago

      I almost never watch anything past season 1. Even if season 2 is good it is never as satisfying as season 1. I didn't finish season 2 of The Boys.

      They should have just made Homelander trans. Or race swapped him for the last season. Or both.

      1. damikesc   2 months ago

        I heard one critique saying that television learned the wrong lesson from "Lost". They now have their mystery box but no idea what it is and even less of an idea on how to pay it off in the first place.

        1. Eeyore   2 months ago

          Lost was another show I started watching and never finished. If they put that show out today I would be tempted to accuse them of being AI generated slop.

  3. Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)   2 months ago

    Who cares what these two assholes think?

  4. Dillinger   2 months ago

    >>I am not sure I'm going to be able to finish the final season of The Boys.

    unwatchable before this final season which is a shame it started superbang

  5. GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND   2 months ago

    I’m not going to care about Candace Owens and her wine mom show no matter how hard people try to get me to.

  6. minus the clever name   2 months ago

    Hunter being the voice of decency and morality is maybe where he is MOST like his dad. Dad gave the Medal of Freedomto a woman that he says kills the most innocent human beings in cold blood.

  7. Uomo Del Ghiaccio   2 months ago

    If you couldn't listen to the interview, then you DON"T KNOW JACOB. Stop being a typical corporate media HACK!

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