· NY Post
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· The Atlantic
It was something of a political hall of mirrors: Hunter Biden arriving at Candace Owens’s house, sitting in a book-filled room decorated with a crucifix and orchids in the shape of a heart, holding a coffee cup labeled conspiracy theorist, and answering a range of questions from a podcast host who has called him “an alleged sex predator” and “A DEGENERATE THAT SHOULD BE IN PRISON” who comes from a “SCUM family.” The first question: “The cocaine that was found at the White House, was it yours?”
To say this was an unusual pairing is an understatement. To claim it was Frost/Nixon is an overstatement. But it said something about modern-day politics—and the weirdness of online culture—that the son of a former Democratic president and a right-wing podcaster were sitting there together, conversing for nearly two hours, finding common ground on being misunderstood, on being targeted by a powerful president, and on questioning the circumstances of Charlie Kirk’s death and whether the assassination attempts against Donald Trump were staged.
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Owens apologized for treating Biden like “a caricature” and joining the “political machine” that attacked him during one of the lowest moments of his life (“I’m really sorry that I contributed to that. Like, I just feel really shitty”). He lavished her with praise (“You’re probably the most effective communicator I’ve ever heard behind the microphone”). She encouraged him to spend time in confession (“Don’t worry,” he responded, “I’ve been to confession”), and he giddily proposed that they go see Pope Leo XIV together: “For real, let’s go to the Vatican.” Biden offered book recommendations (“Have you ever read The Devil’s Chessboard?”), and Owens complimented his intelligence (“Not to be rude, but I thought you were dumb”).
Much of the conversation focused on Biden’s recovery story, human details of which Owens seemed largely unaware. “I just didn’t even consider: He’s a crackhead. That’s actually a very relatable thing,” she said at one point. (Never mind that in December 2024 she devoted a segment to President Biden pardoning his son, in which she mentioned “crack” more than two dozen times over about 20 minutes.) To anyone who has read Hunter Biden’s 2021 memoir, followed his federal court cases, or heard him in previous interviews, there were a lot of familiar themes: The guy who has long had addiction issues, and been in and out of rehab through much of his adult life. The guy who spiraled further after his brother died. The guy who watched as compromising photos, his private text messages, and more than a decade of emails became public fodder and complicated his dad’s campaign and presidency. “It forced me into a choice,” he said. “And the choice was: Do I get out of bed and live, or do I die? And it became that much of a dichotomy. And I chose to live, and it wasn’t easy.”
Biden has spent years living under Republican attacks. Owens herself led many of them alongside other fixtures of the hard right. Former Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene once, during a congressional hearing, held up graphic images of Biden engaged in sex acts. Yet earlier this week, Greene wrote on social media, “I am so interested in this interview. This is what real journalism looks like along with where the political underground of America is moving.” Both Owens and Greene have been repeatedly criticized for making anti-Semitic comments, downplaying the Holocaust, and playing into anti-Jewish tropes.
The most revealing moment came toward the end, as Biden recounted the attacks he faced. “They 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,” he said. Owens locked eyes with him and apologized several times. “Genuinely, I’m so sorry,” she said. “I did partake in just the inhumanity of just Look at this guy at the worst moment of his life, with prostitutes. He’s on crack, he’s on drugs, and we should make fun of him.” Biden began tearing up, wiping his eyes. “For you to say that to me, I truly mean it, just from a purely selfish point of view, means the world. And I truly didn’t come here for that.”
But why was he there? Why did he recently reactivate his account on X? And what’s next for the man many Republicans have loved to hate and many Democrats have hoped would disappear?
I have gotten to know Hunter Biden quite well over the past few years. I spent months in 2021 combing through a copy of his hard drive—the product of an infamous laptop that he allegedly dropped off at a computer-repair shop and never retrieved—and learned way more about him than I cared to. The research produced a number of stories about his business pursuits, about his relationship with Tucker Carlson, and about how he benefited from his family name.
I also wrote about Biden’s attempts to become an artist, along with the ethical concerns his ambitions raised in the White House and the congressional investigations that followed. That all can seem quite quaint now. For some time, Biden has been privately angry about the Trump family and their business pursuits that involve far more money and foreign countries, pose far more conflicts of interest—and get far less scrutiny. That anger burst out in the interview with Owens.
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“I had two shows and probably sold a total of 20 paintings,” he said. “And you had a problem—not you; well, you too—had a problem with me being this emblem of corruption?” Owens agreed, and said she would forever distance herself from the Trump family and now sees their business pursuits on a far different scale of corruption. “I wish I could go back to the days where I thought, like, Hunter Biden’s art was the most corrupt deal that was done in politics,” she responded.
Owens largely steered clear of the topic of Joe Biden, explaining that it would be “completely demonic” to try to get Hunter to say anything bad about his dad. Not that he would. He views himself as something of a defender of the Biden legacy at a time when so many Democrats have ridiculed the former president for deciding to run for reelection. But Owens did try to get him to address the subject of Kamala Harris, who replaced his dad on the ticket. Biden demurred, saying that he didn’t know her well and that she was always nice to him. “I’m not dodging the question,” Biden said, “but I don’t want to shit on the vice president.”
The free-ranging interview also provided a window into what I’ve long seen as Biden’s willingness to entertain ideas that can seem far-fetched, his deep skepticism of certain parts of the federal government, and a worry over the vindictiveness of the current administration.
Although his father granted a sweeping pardon to him for crimes committed in the past, Biden expressed worry about being framed or targeted by Trump in the future. Before getting on flights, he said that he has a witness watch him pack his bags, afraid that someone might plant drugs. Given his track record, he said, no one would believe that he’s clean and sober.
At one point, Biden asked to keep one of Owens’s trademark coffee mugs (the ones with Conspiracy theorist on them), and they both suggested that the assassination attempts against Trump and the murder of Kirk, a close friend to Owens, could have been staged. They have every right, the pair agreed, to question whether they were. “It’s almost as if they’re just saying, like, eff you,” Biden said of those who dismiss their questions.
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“It’s so disrespectful that we’re not even getting good psyops anymore,” Owens responded. “Like, we’re supposed to believe he’s survived four—what are we at, four assassination attempts? The first president that’s ever survived four assassination attempts? They lie to us about things.”
The two also think something else has changed. “There is a meanness. A willingness to adopt very, very un-American tactics against our opponents because it’s become a zero-sum game,” Biden said. “It’s not just, I disagree with you. It’s, You need to be punished. You need to be punished for what you believe.”
As to Owens’s first question about the cocaine found at the White House in July 2023—which, at the time, spawned its own conspiracy theories—Biden said it most certainly wasn’t his. He’s been sober, he said, since June 1, 2019. “I’m an easy target. And understandably so. I’ve been, I think, probably the most famous addict—and famous person, because of the grace of God, in recovery.”
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DE PERE - The Phantoms handed the Pirates their first Fox River Classic Conference loss of the season.
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West De Pere scored a run in the third inning, Bay Port scored in the fourth to tie the game, then West De Pere scored the go-ahead run in the sixth inning.
Holden Mulloy and Josh Kelly had two hits for West De Pere. Ethan Collar and Sammy Berg drove in runs.
Nolan Sell pitched a complete game for the win. He allowed four hits, walked one and struck out five.
Eli Hart had two hits for Bay Port. Carson Hawley had a hit and an RBI.
Quinn Broeckman pitched six innings for Bay Port. He allowed five hits, two runs (one earned), walked one and struck out two.
Bay Port falls to 21-3 overall and to 16-1 in the FRCC. The Pirates were attempting to become the third team in FRCC history to have an undefeated conference season.
DE PERE - Cade Grapentine hit a two-run home run to right field in the top of the fifth inning to give the Ships a 3-1 lead in their Fox River Classic Conference win over the Redbirds.
Grapentine finished with two hits and two RBIs. Noah Blaser also had two hits for the Ships.
Ryan Martin, Max Zimmerman and Isaac Herlache each collected two hits for De Pere.
Colton Setzer hit a solo home run for De Pere and had two RBIs.
Bennett Johnson earned the win for Manitowoc. The starting pitcher surrendered eight hits and three runs over 6⅔ innings, striking out four and walking one.
Kasen Gregoire took the loss for De Pere. He went 6⅔ innings, allowing four runs on five hits, striking out three and walking two.
GREEN BAY - The Hornets scored five runs in the third inning and two in the fourth inning in the Fox River Classic Conference win over the Tritons.
Carlos Prado had two hits, including a double, and drove in a run for Preble. Will VanBoxel added a double and two RBIs.
VanBoxel pitched five innings for the win. He allowed four hits, three runs (one earned), walked five and struck out three. Jackson Zegers pitched two scoreless innings. He allowed two hits, walked one and struck out two.
Tripp Wroblewski had two hits, including a double, for Notre Dame.
PULASKI - The Red Raiders scored five runs in the first inning and six in the second inning in the five-inning victory over the Trojans.
Mason Heintz had two hits and an RBI for Pulaski. Brayden Wiedeman had a double and three RBIs, while Ben Marsh and Braun Wotruba each drove in two runs.
Pulaski had five pitchers each throw one inning, limiting Southwest to five hits.
ASHWAUBENON - Brett Rybarczyk pitched 6⅔ innings to power the Golden Raiders to the Fox River Classic Conference win over the Jaguars.
Rybarczyk allowed five hits, walked one and struck out 11. Tristan Hundt recorded the final out via strikeout.
Hundt had two hits, including a triple, and drove in a run for Sheboygan North.
DENMARK - The Thunder scored three runs in the second inning and two in the sixth inning in the nonconference win over the Vikings.
Caden Steffens had three hits, including a double, and drove in one run for Seymour.
Brayden Banker pitched a complete game for the win. He allowed five hits, three runs (one earned), walked one and struck out five.
Ozzie Enz had two hits for Denmark.
Cade Delarwelle pitched six innings for the Vikings. He allowed nine hits, five runs (all unearned), walked two and struck out two.
GREEN BAY - The Hawks scored four runs in the third inning, four in the fifth and seven in the sixth in the victory over the Red Devils.
Douglas Yates had a triple and an RBI for Green Bay East.
OCONTO - The Blue Devils scored a run in the fourth inning to take a 2-1 lead and added a run in the fifth inning in the nonconference win over the Panthers.
Jameson Lassanke, Davis Knoll and Roman Cantu each had a hit and an RBI for Oconto.
Oconto Falls was led by Landon Timm, who had two hits. Logan Berg had a hit and an RBI.
Knoll pitched a complete game for the win. He allowed three hits, walked three and struck out seven.
LAONA - The Rebels scored four runs in the first inning and finished with 10 hits in the nonconference win over the Badgers.
Remington Buchanan had two hits and an RBI for Niagara. Wyatt Dunkes also had two hits, including a double.
OSHKOSH - The Goslings had 14 hits and the Hornets banged 13 hits in the nonconference matchup.
Cali Craig had three hits and two RBIs for Watertown. Lexi Lambert also had three hits, while Ava Novotny had two RBIs.
DENMARK - The Vikings scored four runs in the first inning and two in the second to lead 6-1 and went on to the nonconference win over the Redbirds.
Vanny Umentum had three hits, including two doubles, and drove in five runs for Denmark. Maggie Frank had two hits and an RBI, Shaelyn Kraschnewski had three hits, and Rebekah Dittmer drove in three runs.
De Pere was led by Jaelyn Craig, who had three hits including a double, a triple, and drove in two runs. Bella Robinett added two hits and Allie Frederiksen drove in two runs.
KIMBERLY - Vada Sousek scored twice for the Papermakers in the nonconference victory over the Phantoms.
Katie Owens, Emily Urban, Ashlyn Krueger and Lauren Warner also scored for Kimberly.
Owens added two assists. Krueger, Sadie Strong and Maya Bies also had assists.
Bee Brockert and Naomi Sotomayor shared time in goal for Kimberly and neither made a save.
This article originally appeared on Green Bay Press-Gazette: Green Bay area high school sports results for Friday, May 22