Hunter Biden

I think that it was that they purposely conflated, you know, my, I wrote a book.

which came out in April of 2021, in which I did something that very few people, I think, ever that are kind of like similarly situated to me do, in which I was 100% frank about the fact that not only was I an addict, not only was I an alcoholic, I don't really see the distinction between the two when they're both drugs, but I was a crack addict.

Like, I was a degenerate crack addict.

I mean, I've heard you call me a crack addict many times, and the truth of the matter is, I was a crack addict.

And I say that not to shock people, because it's really shocking.

Crack cocaine carries such a stigma to it, to begin with.

But I say it because I think that there are so many people, I don't think, I know, there are so many people.

I think that there's, you know, at any given time, 30 million Americans that are either in active addiction or in recovery.

There's not a single person that I know that hasn't been impacted by addiction at some level, in some form, personally, or with someone that is one degree of separation from them that they love.

no one that i know least of all me yeah and it yeah and and um and part of that one of the reasons i'm here the stories that you tell about that in terms of um my family your family and uh and and there is where the common ground is for me i'm i i can 100 say this is that

A friend of mine said, gave me this quote about two years ago, and it's become my mantra.

It's Mother Teresa.

Well, it's attributed to Mother Teresa.

It is, if you want to change the world, go home and love your family.

That's, that is my, that's, that's my everything, uh, now.

And, um, and part of that is not just the family that you have, um, by, uh, blood and birth, but also the community that, uh, that you're inextricably, uh, tied to.

And that community for me is the recovery community and it's people that are still sick and suffering from addiction.

And so the biggest reason that I wanted to come talk to you, beyond the fact, and this is not me blowing smoke, I think that

Regardless of whether I agree with you, you're probably the most effective communicator I've ever heard.

Thank you.