Hunter Biden fires back at trolls over cocaine found at White House: ‘I would never have forgotten my drugs’

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Former President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, fired back at social media users after they accused him of leaving a bag of cocaine at the White House.

On Monday, Biden shared a video message announcing seven years of sobriety after his well-documented struggles with substance abuse.

“Seven years, clean and sober,” Biden said in the video. “I’m more proud of that than anything I’ve ever done in my life.”

He post quickly became a target for online trolls, one of whom said: “Bulls***. That was your bag of coke in the White House.”

“It most definitely was not. I would never have forgotten my drugs,” Biden quipped, which prompted laughter from the accuser.

Hunter Biden announced he’s been sober for seven years on June 1, 2026. His detractors used the opportunity to attack him on social media (Getty)

The social media troll was referencing the small bag of cocaine that was found in the White House’s West Wing in 2023, which sparked a Secret Service investigation.

Biden became a frequent target for right-wing operatives hoping to pin shame and scandal on his father before the 2020 U.S. election.

Former president Joe Biden also faced backlash on both sides of the aisle after pardoning his son in December 2024, claiming he had been “selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted” by the Department of Justice.

Hunter Biden was convicted of federal gun charges in June 2024, and pleaded guilty to nine federal tax charges in September of that year.

Jill Biden has discussed her son’s battle with drugs in her new memoir (Getty)

Just days before Biden made the post marking his sobriety, his stepmother — former First Lady Jill Biden — told The View that she wishes she’d discussed his struggles with addiction more during her time in the White House.

“I’m sorry that I didn’t talk about it a little bit more,” she said. “And I hope that by talking about it more as I go forward I hope that it offers other people hope … it is such a tough, tough thing to deal with,” she said.

In her newly-released memoir, View from the East Wing, Jill Biden wrote that she and her husband did not often discuss their son’s struggles.

“I think we were partly in denial,” she wrote.

She ponders in the book why Biden — who had resources, privilege, and a family who loved him — turned to drugs.