Hunter Biden Says Closeted Gay Men In Washington ‘Take It Out’ On The World And ‘Everyone’ Knows Who They Are
by Nicole Stawiarski · Thought CatalogUpdated 4 minutes ago, July 24, 2026
“I believe that internal conflict creates so much vitriol inside a person that they take it out on the rest of the world, and they do. And so what they do is their whole lives, they’ve been closeted, and so you have this like black ball inside yourself, this like blackened heart by the fact that you can’t be who you want to be. And so you take it out on everybody else.”
“Everybody knows there is this closeted gay mafia, largely Republican, that exists in Washington, D.C., and everybody knows every single one of them, who is gay,” Hunter Biden said on the “I’ve Had It” podcast.
The comment resurfaced this week when Don Lemon pressed him on it. Lemon had asked why Republicans seem so fixated on gay men, and Biden went further than he had on the podcast: “There is a contingency, a cabal, a word that is, you know, gives it too much credit, of gay Republican men that are closeted and have an enormous amount of self-hate.”
His theory is that the hiding curdles into politics. “I believe that internal conflict creates so much vitriol inside a person that they take it out on the rest of the world.”
Lemon asked directly: “Was Lindsey Graham one of them?” Biden: “Of course he was. And I don’t say that to say something negative, as my grandmother would say, never speak ill of the dead. I wrote what I wrote about Lindsey Graham and the Lindsey Graham that I want to remember. But everybody knew that Lindsey Graham was gay.”
When Lemon pushed for more names, Biden dodged with a lawyer’s caution (“I’m already in enough lawsuits, Don”), then floated them anyway as questions he claimed not to answer: “Are you asking me if Josh Hawley is gay? Are you asking me if Stephen Miller is gay? Are you asking me if Speaker Johnson’s gay? I personally, I don’t know.” Then he added: “Give me another minute and I’ll come up with six more names.”
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Later in the interview, Lemon brought up a segment he does with podcaster Jen Welch called “Top or Bottom” and started reading names: “Stephen Miller.” “Mike Johnson.” Biden laughed it off (“Out of the room. Oh, Jesus. I just hope that they’re not on either side”) without engaging.
He also flagged his own hesitation about the tactic. “I’m still kind of stuck in my generational piece of wanting to respect people’s privacy about their sexuality,” he said, citing what it took to come out when he was in high school. Lemon’s counter was hypocrisy: if a closeted lawmaker legislates against LGBTQ people, the privacy calculus changes.
The remarks land in the middle of Biden’s unfiltered media tour after his federal pardon, which has already included sit-downs with Nick Fuentes and Candace Owens. He offers no evidence beyond insider gossip, resting the whole thing on “everybody knows.”
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