How did Marion Barry die? Hunter Biden bragged he ‘smoked crack’ with late DC mayor
Washington DC's former mayor late Marion Barry is being talked about currently, six years after his death. President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden's old recording surfaced on the Internet on May 28 and in the eight-minute, 15-second recording, he was heard boasting about the time he "smoked crack" while still in college with then-Mayor Barry. In the clip, Hunter and another man were debating whether civil rights icons Martin Luther King III and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi ever turned to cocaine and that's when Barry's name came up.
"Although the mayor from DC did," the other man can be heard saying in the audio recording. "Marion Barry," asked Hunter after which he went on to make a candid confession. "You know what? I actually smoked crack with Marion Barry. I swear to f---king God," he said, to which the man replied with, "Jesus." Hunter went ahead to offer details about when it happened, saying, "I was in Georgetown and he used to go to a place right next to The Guards,” referring to the bar which shut down in 2012.
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Hunter continued talking about his crack-smoking memories with Barry in the audio saying, “And I was a sophomore, I guess, there was — a junior when that happened. But he used to come there and drink, like late-late. And I would be there. And he would go the bathroom.” The other man diverted the 51-year-old to another subject after this point. The recording was retrieved from the laptop he left at a repair shop in Delaware in April 2019 and the title of the audio suggests it was created on January 5, 2019. Hunter graduated from Georgetown University in 1992 and his struggle with drug addiction and alcoholism is something he has addressed publicly. Barry's tryst with cocaine too was something that was known to the public and covered widely by the media but it never stood in the way of his political career. The politician famously recaptured City Hall after he was released from jail for crack cocaine possession.
How did Marion Barry die?
The controversial mayor had collapsed on November 22, 2014, and was taken to the United Medical Center in Washington, DC, where he died. He had just been discharged from Howard University Hospital where he had been admitted on November 20, 2014. The cause of death was revealed to be hypertensive cardiovascular disease, with kidney disease, and his struggle with diabetes too contributed to his demise. He was also known to struggle with a blood infection and had survived prostate cancer.
His death came just months after he had released a book, his autobiography titled 'Mayor For Life: The Incredible Story of Marion Barry Jr.' After the release, he had spoken to a publication, and during the chat, he reiterated that his struggles with the law never hindered the progress he was seeking for Washington residents, especially, the lower-income citizens. “I serve as an inspiration for those who are going through all kinds of things,” he said. “Whatever storm they’re going through, they can learn from me.”