Hunter Biden now says his father showed up at his Washington, DC, residence, where Hunter was actively smoking crack cocaine, at least twice, arriving in a motorcade of roughly six SUVs with Secret Service agents in tow.
The 56-year-old made the disclosure on a new episode of the Dopey addiction podcast, hosted by David Manheim, describing in detail how the then-Vice President would call repeatedly and then drive over to knock on his door. Hunter said he would hear the vehicles pull up, look out the window, and watch his father climb out of an SUV flanked by agents, then open the door in what he called "all of the obviousness of someone that was, you know, in distress," as first reported by Page Six.
The account raises a blunt question that Hunter Biden himself does not seem interested in answering: how did the sitting Vice President of the United States visit a home where crack cocaine was being used, more than once, with a federal security detail, without triggering any official intervention?
Hunter Biden's own words on the podcast leave little room for ambiguity about the scene. He described Joe Biden trying to keep the motorcade small, and failing.
"I mean, again and again. He'd call and he'd call, and then... he literally, you know, would drive over with a, you know, with a motorcade. You know what I mean? Like as small as he could possibly make it."
He went further, describing the arrival in concrete terms: approximately six SUVs pulling up, Joe Biden stepping out with "one or two" Secret Service agents who "have to be next to him," and then the knock. Hunter said Joe Biden's message was simple, asking what the plan was for the next day, pleading with his son to get help.
Hunter also told Manheim that he believes his father "ran into" his roommate, a woman known only as "Bicycles", someone Hunter described as a crack dealer he had sought out to sell him the drug and teach him how to smoke it. She eventually moved in with him at the DC residence.
So the Vice President's motorcade rolled up to a home occupied by his crack-addicted son and the dealer who supplied him. And the public heard nothing about it for years.
When Manheim asked Hunter how he paid for his lifestyle during this period, Hunter was remarkably candid. He said he "never went broke" because he still had income, specifically, his seat on the board of Burisma, the Ukrainian energy company.
"I took that when my dad was vice president, and then for three years after I was still on the board, and the requirement of the board would be that I would show up for four meetings a year, even when I was a crack addict and out of my mind. I could show up for four meetings a year."
That board seat, as the New York Post detailed, paid as much as $1 million per year, roughly $50,000 a month, from 2014 to 2019. Hunter had no energy industry experience. The income funded not only his crack use but also, by his own account, prostitutes and luxury hotel stays. Burisma was dissolved in 2023.
Hunter previously described having sat on approximately 14 boards of major national and international organizations and having served as "of counsel" at the prominent law firm Boies Schiller. All of that fell away as his addiction deepened.
Joe Biden, meanwhile, was the Obama administration's point person on Ukraine during the period his son held the Burisma position. In December 2024, as Newsmax reported, Joe Biden pardoned Hunter with a sweeping grant covering federal offenses from January 1, 2014, through December 1, 2024, a window that encompasses the entire Burisma tenure and the crack-fueled years Hunter now describes so freely on podcasts.
Hunter told Manheim that in 2018 he left Washington for what the podcast host called a "crack road trip" to Los Angeles. He checked into the Chateau Marmont, the legendary Hollywood hotel where John Belushi overdosed decades earlier.
Hunter said the Belushi connection was not lost on him. It was, he claimed, part of the point.
"I was trying to commit suicide without having the courage to to do it in a very direct route, like I mean, who else does that other than somebody that knows that they want to?"
He stayed in one of the hotel's bungalows for roughly two months. In his 2021 memoir, Beautiful Things, Hunter reportedly wrote about picking parmesan cheese out of the rug at the Chateau and smoking it, believing it was crack, and said he became "absurdly good at" cooking crack while living there. The Chateau Marmont did not comment.
Hunter described the people who surrounded him during this period as "drug dealers to prostitutes to sex workers," saying they were the only people who did not immediately tell him he belonged in prison or treatment. He said he lived among them for roughly two years, starting at the Chateau and eventually drifting through motels and what he called "really dark places." Periodically, he said, "a check would come in from somewhere."
That "somewhere," by his own admission, was largely Burisma, the Ukrainian energy company whose board he sat on thanks to his father's position. The son of the Vice President was smoking crack in a Hollywood hotel bungalow, funded by a foreign energy company with business before the U.S. government, and no one in official Washington raised an alarm. Hunter Biden himself has recently described Merrick Garland as his father's "greatest mistake" as attorney general, but the failures of oversight here stretch far beyond any single appointee.
Hunter Biden is now sober and in the middle of what amounts to a wide-ranging media tour. He has appeared with Tucker Carlson, Bill Maher, Candace Owens, ex-CNN anchor Don Lemon, and YouTuber Andrew Callaghan. The Dopey podcast appearance is the latest stop.
The interviews have produced vivid, sometimes shocking admissions, the kind of material that, under different political circumstances, would prompt congressional hearings and wall-to-wall cable coverage. Instead, Hunter moves from microphone to microphone, offering confessional details while the institutional questions pile up unanswered.
Chief among them: what did the Secret Service do with the information that the Vice President's son was using crack cocaine in a residence the VP himself visited? Were reports filed? Was any law enforcement agency notified? Hunter's account places federal agents at the front door of a home where illegal drugs were being used by the protectee's own family member. Standard protocol would demand documentation. None has surfaced publicly.
The broader Biden legacy continues to fracture. Jill Biden has floated a drugging theory for Joe's disastrous 2024 debate performance. Even Kamala Harris has declined to name Biden among the most effective presidents. And Hunter himself keeps adding to the record, not through subpoenas or depositions, but through podcast appearances where the host asks friendly questions and no one follows up on the institutional implications.
Hunter's latest round of interviews, including a stop on Gavin Newsom's podcast, has the feel of a man who believes the pardon settled every account. He talks freely about crimes he committed, people he endangered, and a foreign board seat he held while incapacitated by addiction, all with the confidence of someone who knows no prosecutor can touch him now.
Joe Biden's December 2024 pardon swept away any federal criminal exposure for Hunter spanning a full decade. That decade includes the Burisma board tenure, the crack use in Washington, the Chateau Marmont stay, and everything in between. The pardon does not, however, answer the questions Hunter's own words keep raising.
A Vice President drove a motorcade to a house where his son was using crack. The son funded his addiction with money from a Ukrainian energy company tied to U.S. foreign policy. The son sat on that company's board for years while, by his own description, he was "out of my mind." And then the father pardoned the son for everything that happened during that window.
Hunter Biden treats all of this as a recovery story. The rest of the country is entitled to see it as an accountability story, one where every institution that should have acted instead looked the other way.