Hunter Biden Responds To Claims He Should Run For President

Hunter Biden said he would appear on a presidential ticket if he ran as California Governor Gavin Newsom’s vice president. 

Biden made the comments during an appearance on Newsom’s podcast when asked if he would consider a potential presidential run. The younger Biden has been on a media tour in recent weeks, attempting to rehabilitate his image, prompting some Democrats to suggest he should run for president.

“Here’s the deal. I’ll run, but only as your VP, because the truth of the matter is the vice president’s residence is a lot cooler.
It’s a lot easier job too,” Biden told Newsom in an interview released Friday. 

“The grandeur of the White House is, it never gets old,” Biden added. “But you really do feel like you’re in a gilded cage.”

In other podcast appearances, Biden has lashed out at the Democratic establishment.

“There is this very powerful group of people, and they all go to the same dinner parties and they are all part of the same financial ecosystem, that continues to fill their pockets in the Democratic Party, which I think is the one thing that makes it very, very, very difficult for the Democratic Party to ever actually achieve the real systemic change that we need in order to rehabilitate that brand,” he told Molly Jong-Fast.

Last week, President Donald Trump said that if the scandal-plagued Democrat Graham Platner could perform well in Maine, then maybe Biden could in a presidential race. 

“Hey, if the guy from Maine can do well,” Trump said. “Well, I guess Hunter could do well, too, because the guy from Maine is a basket case.”

Biden defended Platner during his appearance on Newsom’s podcast, claiming it took “courage” for him to launch a Senate campaign after previous mistakes. 

“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,” Biden said.

Biden, who was convicted on drug and gun charges, also defended his father’s decision to pardon him, claiming it was done to protect him from Trump. 

“It would have been like having a gun to my family for the next four years at least, and so that’s why he pardoned me,” he said. “It’s a really incredibly rational decision, and it was a really difficult decision, and you know how proud of my dad I am. The fact of the matter is, 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.”

Biden’s pardon covered a sweeping time for crimes “committed or may have committed” for an 11-year period dating back to 2014. That protected the younger Biden from outstanding scrutiny on his questionable business dealings in Ukraine and China.

Before the pardon, Biden was offered what Republicans called a sweetheart deal because it would likely have allowed him to avoid prison time. A judge later declined to approve the deal, citing concerns over its constitutionality and the scope of immunity it offered. The Biden family complained that the deal was axed due to unfair “political pressure.”

His case then went to trial. A Delaware jury convicted him in June 2024 on three felony counts of lying on paperwork for a revolver and owning a firearm while being a drug addict in 2018. 

Earlier this week, Biden admitted that his father had “lost a step” due to his age despite the Democratic Party’s insistence for much of his presidency.

“It was not like a surprise that people, as they get old, particularly at that age, they literally lose a step. Like, my dad lost a step,” he said. “That does not mean, per se, that there is a cognitive decline, but instead of embracing it, I think that they tried to kind of obfuscate it.”