WASHINGTON – After more than a half-century in politics, no subject may be more personally painful nor politically problematic for President Joe Biden than his troubled son, Hunter. Hunter is by all accounts a gaping wound in the president’s heart and the most sensitive soft spot in his campaign armour. Read more at straitstimes.com.
of jeopardising national security and obstructing justice, invariably generated comparisons between two vastly different cases.
“Slap on the wrist” became the official phrase echoed by Republicans like Representatives James Comer of Kentucky and Elise Stefanik of New York. It is a debate Mr Biden would just as soon not engage in, and he stayed quiet in the hours after news of his son’s plea agreement broke, authorising a White House spokesman to say only that he and the first lady “love their son and support him as he continues to rebuild his life”.
Hunter Biden has become in some ways a more extreme example of the phenomenon in an era when whatever restraint about a president’s family that might have existed in the past has long since vanished. His work in Ukraine helped lead to Trump’s first impeachment, his laptop led to allegations that Twitter covered up on his behalf, and his business dealings have prompted sprawling congressional inquiries.
While Beau Biden grew up to become a successful politician who his father imagined might become president himself one day, Hunter struggled with alcohol, drugs and personal issues. After Beau Biden died of brain cancer in 2015, a distraught Hunter spiralled into repeated bouts with crack cocaine that ultimately destroyed his marriage.
At one point, when he disappeared for nearly a month, he opened his door to find his father, then the vice-president, trailed by Secret Service agents. “You need help,” his father said. As Hunter Biden wrote, “He wouldn’t leave until I agreed to do something.”
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