Hunter Biden wants to be Gavin Newsom’s huckleberry … err Vice President. Gavin Newsom decided to host Hunter Biden for his podcast. The full episode will air later this morning. The teasers however, have opened both up to mockery dialed up to eleven.

TMZ obtained an exclusive snippet from the conversation ahead of Friday’s episode release … and it’s worth checking out. Watch the clip to see Hunter’s reaction after Newsom playfully introduces him as a presidential candidate and suggests he’s generating plenty of buzz.

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The podcast drops as Hunter’s been making plenty of noise online lately … a recent social media spree has thrust him back into the political spotlight and sparked fresh chatter about his future.

I do have to laugh at all of this. Hunter has a future?? How? He’s freaking broke! He owes a metric ton of money to a lot of people, including the attorneys who were left holding the bag! He lost all of his ink blots in the Palisades Fire, has zero credentials when it comes to back room deal making the he did while Dad was VP and President, and has yet to pay Navy Joan any child support. 

So this so-called “fresh chatter” is absolutely ludicrous. Especially when you have Governor Hair Gel Newsom bringing him on to his podcast. 

.@HunterBiden spent years being the story — now he's telling it.

Listen to our episode of my podcast tomorrow, June 12 at 9am PT. pic.twitter.com/hYAdZklxec

— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) June 11, 2026

Awwww…would you look at that? Hunter is all serious with the nice button down shirt, glasses, and very carefully groomed facial hair. He definitely wants to be someone.. ANYONE’S Huckleberry! Gavin is at the top of the list. 

What I find comical is that Gavin oh so seriously proclaims that Hunter has been the story for years, but now he gets to tell HIS story. Which will, I’m sure, include everything involving Burisma and Ukraine, back room dealings, his cocaine benders, helping mask his Dad’s cognitive decline, and running as fast as he can from providing any support for his 7 year old daughter. 

One of the things he evidently WILL talk about is how Graham Platner is getting dragged for making understandable mistakes.

Hunter Biden thinks Graham Platner is getting a raw deal.

The former president’s son defended Platner’s besieged Senate candidacy during an appearance on California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s podcast, according to a clip shared first with POLITICO, seeking to rebut a cascade of criticism surrounding allegations about his treatment of ex-girlfriends and his tattoo of a symbol associated with Nazis. He suggested that most Americans would fail a “show me your phone” test of their past behavior.

“If that’s the standard by which we are going to judge people, particularly people in elected office,” Biden told Newsom, “then I don’t think we’re going to have many people in elected office.”

Both Biden and Platner have been giving their party headaches. Some Democrats have fumed that the scandal-marred Biden’s public re-emergence could damage their political prospects, while others are increasingly concerned that Platner could cost them a vital Senate seat in Maine after convincingly winning his primary on Tuesday.

Graham Platner CHOSE to put a very specific Nazi Totenkopf tattoo on his body. He CHOSE to be a serial sleaze guy who has evidently cheated on every woman he’s been with. He CHOSE to laugh at and slam fellow soldiers and proclaim that he knew better than Marcus Luttrell, and that Chris Kyle was a loser.  

Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner (D.) suggested that legendary “American Sniper” Chris Kyle shot innocent civilians in Iraq in order to inflate his kill numbers. Platner also bristled at the idea of the former Navy SEAL and his platoon being dubbed “heroes.”

Platner, running for Senate against Sen. Susan Collins (R.), lashed out at Kyle and members of the SEAL’s “Task Unit Bruiser” in a May 2024 podcast interview on Green Beret Chronicle Show in which Platner, a former Marine, discussed his deployment in 2006 to Ramadi, a hotbed of insurgent activity during the Iraq war. In the interview, Platner—who did not belong to an elite Special Forces unit like the SEALs—took issue with public portrayals of Task Unit Bruiser and Kyle as heroes of the Iraq war.

For Platner to make these claims, tells you all you need to know about HIS lack of character. 

When you compare Hunter to Graham, there isn’t much daylight between them. At least both of them have the endorsement of the harpies at The View…

Yet here he is looking oh so serious, announcing that he’s Gavin’s Huckleberry. 

The Secret Service detail assigned to Hunter’s VP laptop is going to need their own therapist.

What a time to be alive!

Grab the popcorn! 🍿

— SeaCat (@CatherineInSea) June 12, 2026

Hunter, this isn’t Tombstone and you are definitely NOT Val Kilmer. 

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