"I will choose to remember the time before Trump. Because I believe in an America after Trump."

[bigtree]

Hunter Biden @HunterBiden
When I heard about Senator Graham’s death last night, the first thing I thought about was not all the things he said and did in service of Donald Trump. I thought of the time before Donald Trump when he was a brother to Senator John McCain.

A time when senators from different parties could fight about politics and still be friends. A time when a conservative Republican from South Carolina could say of my father: “If you can’t admire Joe Biden as a person, you’ve got a problem. He’s the nicest person I’ve ever met in politics. As good a man as God ever created.”

That is the Senator Graham I will remember today. Not because I have forgotten what came after. Because in that memory there is hope. Hope for a country where brothers can fight like hell over policy and still share a meal, and a laugh, and the loss of the people they love.

I will choose to remember the time before Trump. Because I believe in an America after Trump.

9:01 AM · Jul 12, 2026

x.com/HunterBiden/status/2076290915602182414

[marble falls]

1. YES! We need more of this!!!

[OGBuzz]

2. Imagine Uday or Qusay Trump making such a statement. Hunter Biden is a good man.

[niyad]

3. That last line!!!

[Wounded Bear]

9. A mantra for our time...nt

[Walleye]

4. I will never forgive him for the way he turned on Joe Biden.

[yardwork]

5. Well, that was a much needed statement.

I didn't know that Graham ever said that.

It makes me sad.

[bigtree]

8. fwiw

[yardwork]

11. That's interesting. Thanks for that link.

To me that was the look of a man in turmoil. I think we all can guess what Trump did to him.

Trump is a very evil person.

[betsuni]

6. K&R

[SuzyandPuffpuff]

7. Ftw

Beautiful. We should all b so big in our hearts. However when the fetid orange moist infected anus leaves... not too sure I will b as classy as Hunter! Can try 😁

[BlueMTexpat]

13. You are a better

person than I.

I won't even try.

[Wuddles440]

10. Hunter continues to make...

impressive observations and memorable statements. Kudos to him!

[NH Ethylene]

12. Nice statement, but I will always picture Graham with a brown nose,

From his nose up Trump's ass.

What smidgeon of good he has ever done will never make up for this treachery.

[NNadir]

14. Hunter Biden is turning out to be a great man; clearly his father's son, imbued with a sense of decency.

[LuvLoogie]

22. Someone who survives the darkness does

not come through unscathed. He was fortunate to have been fortified with his father's love, patience, and wisdom - - throughout his life. He comes from a strong family. He did not waste those gifts and resources. They have grown in him. He has a wisdom born of personal trials.

[Grim Chieftain]

15. That is what true ethics looks like

Thank you, Hunter Biden, for your heartfelt post. Your dad taught you well.

Bookmarked.

[ColoringFool]

16. Well, shoot, man. Tears were NOT on my agenda for today.....

For Joe and his character and his being attacked by all sides.

For Lindsay Graham, a once-honorable man who betrayed his country and himself over what I will always believe was blackmail by Trump.

And for the United States, because "After Trump" will require more effort, more will, more money, more architectural restorations, more DOGE-hit re- hiring, more political conversions, more arrests and punishments, more legal reversals, more justice, more integrity, more courageous elected Democrats and more SCOTUS members to follow Lindsay Graham.....

than the mere word "hope" can cover.

[efhmc]

30. Had to cry also for Joe and for our country's loss.

[orleans]

17. hunter biden has a wonderful way with words -- k&r nt

[hamsterjill]

18. Classic!!!!

That's an amazing way of looking at things. Hunter Biden is really coming into his own.

I love the statement about believing in an America after Trump. I hope there will be a time when, after Trump, politicians can again argue on the floor, shake hands, and go have a beer.

[relogic]

19. "where brothers can fight like hell over policy and still share a meal, and a laugh"

That part of his statement is perplexing to me. It’s like jubilant, guffaws with festive friends you just observed ripping the guts out of bunnies while you eat their mothers. I’m never so inclined to break bread so readily with folk who think that the deplorable causes and ideals they’re committed to don’t matter or have consequences for the rest of us.

[Mr.Bee]

20. We'd Better Pass Laws

Like Germany did after Hitler!

[Cosmocat]

21. I like Hunter a good bit like most here

But, this kind of like Michelle Obama (who is incredible) thing with the "when they go low we go high thing."

This stuff appeals to US, but not to them and not to the muddle headed middle.

The fact is the America that came before DT was what made DT possible.

Decades of right wing gaslighting that was accepted and normalized.

DT did not HAPPEN to us.

He was possible because the conservative hate machine and republican party chipped away at the decency and integrity and the country's adherence to norms.

All he did was more overtly say and do what the traditional politicians didn't have the stomach after they had whipped the base into a mass of brain eating zombie - DT gave them the brains to eat.

And, radically drove the destruction of our democracy even further.

They hole will be WAY deeper if / when he is gone, than it was when he came down the escalator.

This is nice thought, but we are not going back to what we were.

There are way too many forces at work, too many fires burning hot in too many places.

[Pluvious]

23. Like the way you included the link...

... when you don't wish the tweet to be rendered

I'll start using this method too

Cheers

[AZLD4Candidate]

24. What is the difference between a convicted felon and someone else? A decision that takes one second of your life

The second he became a trumpian ass-kisser is the day all "good" memories of Lady Graham died.

Sorry Hunter. . .he threw whatever good he had in his body away for political power and sucking up. He did it with McCain, he did it with Trump.

Being in love with a memory is what all abused spouses and partners do (male and female since abuse takes many forms). I refuse to be that and no one else should either.

Fuck Lindsay and I hope he rots in hell.

[Johonny]

25. The GOP has been mostly worthless my whole life

The party of Lincoln now the party that's stinkin'.

[Joinfortmill]

26. What a class act Hunter is. Trump must have had something BAD on Graham.

[nini]

27. Death isn't a free pass to excuse your actions.

Graham consciously decided to participate in a fascist takeover of our democracy. My love of country is glad he can no longer do that.


HE is the one that decided to turn his legacy into shit.

[The Roux Comes First]

28. And They Tried to Tell Us Graciousness and Civility Are Dead!

Although plentiful evidence suggests they never existed for his majesty and by implication his horde of brain-damaged cultists.

[LT Barclay]

29. Hunter Biden just needs to go ahead and run for office. The republicans have already dug up everything they can about

him and he can obviously take them on in the PR sphere. I've been fooled before, but he seems to be a genuine and a decent person.