Remarkable column from Hunter Biden..

Disgraced first son Hunter Biden pulled the addiction card Thursday, claiming in an op-ed that he is a victim of “political weaponization” of his past vices — as he stares down the barrel of potential charges related to his shady financial activity and other behavior.

“After what I have gone through since my brother [Beau] died in 2015, and the perpetual public humiliation of me, I am now certain I can survive anything (except a drink or a drug),” Hunter, 53, wrote in the piece published by USA Today.

“The effort of recovery is something that should be celebrated, and I hope that despite my role as the punchline and punching bag for some, others will also make the effort I have made,” he added.

Hunter then went on to attack conservative media, his father’s political rivals and the Justice Department for holding his feet to the fire over possible criminal conduct including alleged tax evasion, overseas influence peddling, and illegal possession of a firearm.

“My struggles and my mistakes have been fodder for a vile and sustained disinformation campaign against [President Biden], and an all-out annihilation of my reputation through high-pitched but fruitless congressional investigations and, more recently, criminal charges for possessing an unloaded gun for 11 days five years ago – charges that appear to be the first-ever of their kind brought in the history of Delaware,” he wrote.

The piece ran below an earnest, first-person headline that read: “I fought to get sober. Political weaponization of my addiction hurts more than me.”

“The weaponization of my addiction by partisan and craven factions represents a real threat to those desperate to get sober but are afraid of what may await them if they do,” Hunter claimed.

The op-ed was published one day after the House Oversight Committee released a memo alleging that Joe Biden got $40,000 in “laundered” funds from Chinese government-linked CEFC China Energy via a transfer from first brother James Biden and his wife Sara.

Hunter himself pleaded not guilty to three counts last month related to his illegal purchase of a firearm while addicted to illicit substances after a wrist-slap plea deal imploded under scrutiny from a Delaware federal judge July 26.

House Republicans are nearly two months into a sweeping impeachment inquiry of President Biden’s role in Hunter and James’ foreign business affairs and whether he received money from them. The probe has been triggered in part by testimony from IRS whistleblowers that the initial criminal investigation of Hunter Biden was rife with political favoritism and that investigators were blocked from pursuing lines of inquiry that could lead to the president.

Many critics weren’t buying the first son’s sob story.

“There are lots of crackheads,” X user Varad Mehta wrote. “Very few that I’m aware of prostitute themselves off their name because it’s the same name as the vice president of the United States.”

“1) I pray Hunter is in fact sober, though this level of untreated narcissism suggests serious ongoing problems. 2) legit LOL at USA Today for running this on-its-face absurd interference for Biden family business corruption,” Federalist editor-in-chief Mollie Hemingway wrote on X.

“He’s playing the victim card,” user J. Scott Shipman wrote in response to Hemingway.

He’s playing the victim card.

“The message of Hunter Biden’s op-ed today is that because Republicans are so mean to him, other addicts might not seek treatment,” said a disbelieving Joe Gabriel Simonson of the Washington Free Beacon.

“Hunter Biden’s woe-is-me oped in USA Today is a strategic misdirection as congressional investigators close in on his father’s financial involvement in the family’s corrupt influence peddling schemes,” wrote Post columnist Miranda Devine. “It’s not about you, Hunter.”

Fox News contributor Joe Concha said the first son was using his addiction as “a crutch.”

“The criticism has zero to do with his addiction and everything to do with influence peddling,” he added. “What a joke …”