Candace Owens sat down with Hunter Biden for an interview this week and used the conversation to question whether President Donald Trump actually survived four assassination attempts, a claim that dismisses the documented record of charged suspects, a life sentence, and a death at the scene.
The unlikely pairing, a right-wing media figure and the son of former Democrat President Joe Biden, found common ground in alleging government corruption, accusing unnamed officials of running "psychological operations," and casting doubt on the FBI's conclusions about the July 2024 Butler, Pennsylvania, shooting that left Trump wounded and a rallygoer dead.
The Daily Caller reported Thursday that Owens used the interview to question the official accounts of the attempts on Trump's life and to revisit her ongoing accusations about the murder of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk. Hunter Biden, for his part, voiced agreement and alleged broad government "corruption" and "obfuscation", without citing specific evidence for either claim.
Owens did not mince words. She told Hunter Biden that the public is being lied to about the threats against the president:
"We're supposed to believe that [Trump] survived four, what do we got, four assassination attempts? The first president that's ever survived four assassination attempts? They lie to us about things, they make a big deal, and then they make it want to, you know, it's going to go away."
That statement does not hold up well against the public record. Authorities accused Thomas Matthew Crooks of the Butler assassination attempt in July 2024, Crooks was killed at the scene. Ryan Ruth is serving a life sentence for attempting to assassinate Trump in West Palm Beach, Florida, in September 2025. A man was shot allegedly trying to storm Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in February. And the Justice Department charged Cole Allen with attempting to take Trump's life on April 27.
These are not abstract claims from anonymous sources. They involve criminal charges, a conviction, a life sentence, and a suspect shot dead. Owens offered no explanation for why any of these cases should be treated as fabricated.
She also turned her fire on FBI Director Kash Patel, the Trump family, and others she said had "zero interest" in pursuing what she called "obvious holes" in the story of Kirk's death. Prosecutors in Utah have charged Tyler Robinson with Kirk's murder, and Robinson awaits trial. But Owens dismissed the official account.
"To see all of these people have zero interest in the obvious holes in this story, even if ultimately the holes get filled and there's a picture that makes sense, which I put that at zero percent chance. But just, you know, the fact that they have zero interest and are just accepting the narrative... I'm just done with politics."
Patel told Fox News in a November 2025 interview that the Bureau concluded Crooks acted alone and without foreign influence in the Butler shooting. The criminal investigation remains technically open.
Hunter Biden did not play the role of skeptical interviewer. He played cheerleader. When Owens described her frustration, Hunter responded with enthusiasm.
"I listen to you and I go, 'right on!'"
He went further, framing the conversation as a moral crusade. "Exactly. It is good versus evil," he said. He also defended Owens against critics who have questioned her accusations about Turning Point USA's leadership in the wake of Kirk's death.
"And the criticism of you for asking the questions for someone who was like a brother to you, it's like, what the [f-word] are you talking about?"
Hunter Biden has his own long history with federal investigators and the Justice Department, a history that includes allegations from Senate Republicans that the Biden DOJ sat on evidence tied to him. His willingness to sit across from Owens and nod along to conspiracy claims about the current administration's law enforcement apparatus carries a certain irony.
He also alleged broad government misconduct without offering specifics:
"This, what we're witnessing right now, isn't right. The level of corruption, the obfuscation. I mean, whether it's Butler or Charlie, or these things, it's just not right. And, I mean, it's so glaringly not right, it's almost as if they're saying, 'F, you.'"
Neither Owens nor Hunter Biden cited documents, filings, or named sources to support these claims during the interview as reported.
Owens has made the Kirk case a centerpiece of her public commentary for months. She has accused Turning Point USA leaders of betraying Kirk after his death and has questioned the official narrative around his murder. Prosecutors charged Tyler Robinson with the killing in Utah, and Robinson awaits trial.
Owens also targeted Kirk's widow, Erika Kirk, in the interview. "They're going to keep pretending and telling us that this is a totally normal, grieving widow, okay, no one's buying that," she said. "This is not how you would react to your husband being shot."
That line, publicly second-guessing a widow's grief, stands on its own. Owens offered no evidence to support the implication. The legal questions surrounding federal firearms law and its application have generated real legal debate in recent months, but Owens' claims about the Kirk case rest on insinuation, not filings or testimony.
She also looped in the recent White House Correspondents' Dinner incident, where Trump faced another threat. "There was so much theater to it afterward, so much theater, and now it's kind of, 'Okay, the Secret Service maybe shot each other and we're just going to quietly move on,'" Owens said. She did not provide evidence for the claim that Secret Service agents shot one another.
Owens described a worldview in which every official account is suspect and every institution, including the FBI under Trump's own appointed director, is complicit in deception. She called the situation "sheer evil" and accused the government of running inadequate "PSYOPs."
"They're not even trying.... It's so disrespectful that we're not even getting good PSYOPs anymore."
This is a familiar posture in American media: the claim that every official explanation is a cover story, that skepticism of the skeptic proves the conspiracy, and that the absence of evidence is itself evidence. It sells well. It does not require proof.
Hunter Biden promoted the interview on social media, posting on X: "Hope resides in real conversations like these, finding the humanity in each other first. That's how we cross the divide." The framing, two people from opposite political backgrounds finding common ground, obscures what they actually found common ground on: unsubstantiated claims about government-orchestrated deception.
The Biden family's complicated relationship with federal prosecutors is well documented. Hunter Biden's decision to lend his platform and credibility, such as it is, to conspiracy theories targeting law enforcement under a Republican administration raises its own questions about motive and audience.
The attempts on Trump's life are not theoretical. Thomas Matthew Crooks opened fire at a Butler, Pennsylvania, rally in July 2024 and was killed by counterfire. Ryan Ruth attempted to assassinate Trump in West Palm Beach in September 2025 and is now serving life. A man was shot trying to storm Mar-a-Lago in February. Cole Allen was charged by the Justice Department on April 27 with attempting to take the president's life.
These are documented law enforcement actions. Owens' suggestion that the public should doubt whether four attempts actually occurred runs directly against the criminal record. She offered no alternative explanation for the charges, the conviction, or the deaths.
Conservatives have legitimate questions about security failures, institutional accountability, and the pace of investigations. Those questions deserve serious treatment. What they do not deserve is to be bundled with unfounded insinuations about grieving widows, "PSYOPs," and fabricated assassination attempts, delivered in partnership with a Biden who has every personal incentive to undermine public trust in federal law enforcement.
Accountability requires evidence. Conspiracy requires only an audience willing to mistake suspicion for proof.