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Candace Owens — once one of the loudest voices hammering Hunter Biden over drugs, prostitutes and the infamous laptop saga — just pulled a political U-turn so sharp it could leave tire marks. In a jaw-dropping sit-down Thursday, Owens practically handed Hunter Biden a public absolution, admitting she now feels “really sh*tty” for helping fuel years of ridicule aimed at the former first son’s addiction spiral.
The bomb-throwing conservative firebrand and podcast queen sat across from President Joe Biden’s scandal-plagued son for a sprawling conversation about faith, shame, politics and public humiliation — and instead of fireworks, viewers got something closer to a therapy session.
Hunter, long painted by conservatives as the living symbol of elite Democratic hypocrisy, reflected on surviving years of public disgrace after his drug abuse and personal implosions became global tabloid fodder. “Like I wouldn’t be here, we couldn’t have this honest conversation,” Biden said. “I couldn’t get to know you as a human being if every single thing didn’t occur behind it.”
He added that the only way he found peace was after the world had already stripped him bare. “And it’s that piece of life that like the only way I got it is when they just tore off all my clothes, tarred and feathered me, and put me in the center of town and said, ‘Look at him.’ And I survived.”
That set the stage for Owens’ stunning confession. “I feel like I have to say, like I’m really sorry that I contributed to that,” Owens told him. “Like I just feel really sh*tty. Like, I feel guilty.”
The commentator — who spent years criticizing media censorship surrounding Hunter’s scandals and blasting Democrats for protecting the Biden family — said she now believes parts of the political and media ecosystem turned Hunter into less of a person and more of a punching bag.
Owens lamented the social-media age, arguing Americans now live in a culture obsessed with digging up every bad decision forever.
“A lot of these kids growing up aren’t going to even know what it was like before social media, where you could just make a mistake and like have that be over,” she said. “Now it’s like they’re digging and they’re finding people’s tweets from when they’re 17.”
“I just saw you as a caricature,” Owens admitted.
She said she had bought into a warped political mindset that reduced Hunter Biden to “he’s a crackhead,” instead of viewing him as an addict whose life detonated in public view. “And like, you know, like that’s actually a very relatable thing,” Owens continued. “He shouldn’t be … to have every worst thing that you have ever done [exposed publicly].”
Owens went even further, calling the years-long feeding frenzy around Hunter’s personal collapse “inhumane.” “It’s not who I want to be,” she said. “I did partake in just the inhumanity of just, ‘Look at this guy at the worst moment of his life.’”
Then she rattled off the ugly catalog that made Hunter Biden a permanent fixture of cable-news outrage cycles: “with prostitutes, he’s on crack, he’s on drugs and we should make fun of him because it makes us feel good.” Owens concluded: “It was a really warped viewpoint … and hearing you speak about it today I’m just like wow, it’s so gross that I partook.”
Critics on the right are unlikely to buy the sudden empathy campaign. To conservatives, Hunter Biden wasn’t mocked simply because he was an addict — he was scrutinized because his business dealings, foreign connections and legal troubles intersected with serious questions about political influence and the Biden family brand.
