Hunter Biden Claims Picture of Him Doing Drugs Was Staged Because He Smoked Crack Not Meth

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Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden and subject of Republican congressional inquiries, is test-driving a new defense of his past behavior.

In an interview with the Daily Beast, the younger Biden takes aim at Fox News over its coverage of him.

“Go back and look at the Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity shows, look at what they’re doing as they’re talking about me and Ukraine, and Romania, and all the other total absolute bullshit that the ‘laptop’ does not prove in any way. “But in the end, on the split-screen next to them is always a picture of me. Usually shirtless with a cigarette or a crack pipe in my mouth,” mused Biden.

He went on to theorize that certain incriminating photos of him were “staged,” pointing to one particularly well-circulated picture as as an example.

From the interview:

There was a wide selection for Fox to choose from: Biden nude, using crack, frolicking with sex workers, using crack in the nude with sex workers. Some are selfies, and some were taken by sex workers or fellow drug users. Biden cannot recall the circumstances around many or say who took them or why.

By way of example, he pointed to one of the more notorious photos—of him asleep in a bed with a glass pipe in his mouth. “Clearly someone took that picture,” Biden said. But, he added, “that’s actually a meth pipe,” not a crack pipe, and he said he never used meth. That photo, he contends, was staged.

Biden also issued a thinly-veiled threat to Fox, warning it that it might not enjoy the fruits of another lawsuit after its settlement with Dominion Voting Systems.

“Think about five years of a systemic fucking campaign to vilify and dehumanize me,” said Biden. “If we ever got them, it would make Dominion look like fucking, in my opinion, you know, pattycakes.”