Black clouds are gathering over the White House. Who he met Joe Biden Recently he said he saw a worried and resigned man. The president has just returned from a hellish week that began with a news conference in Vietnam where he appeared tired and confused. This was followed by news of the start of the impeachment trial of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and the strike by the auto workers union. The final blow came from a “friend” journalist, David Ignatius, who, in the pages of the Washington Post, after acknowledging his great contributions, called on old Joe to step aside and make way for a younger candidate.
However, none of this hurt the president as much as the announcement of charges against his son Hunter by special prosecutor David Weiss. And it couldn’t be otherwise for a man who has made family his focus in a life marked by political successes that come with difficulties – Joe ran for the White House in 1988 and 2008 before his victory in 2020 – and immense tragedies. A circumstance that inextricably links the Bidens with the Kennedys, another American dynasty of Irish origin characterized by joy and sadness.
Just elected for the first time senate In 1972, Joe lost his wife Neilla and daughter Naomi Christina in a car accident. The couple’s other young children, Beau and Hunter, were also in the car. The two children survive and the future president will raise them with love and devotion, later supported by his new wife Jill Tracy Jacob, with whom he will have another daughter. Every evening for 36 years, Joe has taken the train from Washington to Wilmington, Delaware so as not to miss dinner with his family.
The senator has big dreams for his eldest son, Beau. He sees him as the best version of himself and imagines him as his political successor. Hunter, a lawyer and lobbyist who grew up in his brother’s shadow, loves maintaining casual social relationships in the business world. Shortly after graduating from Yale Law School, Hunter became involved in drugs and alcohol and developed an addiction that would stay with him for many years.
Beau’s death in 2015 from a brain tumor upsets the family’s balance. Joe, wanted by Barack Obama As his deputy, he decides to leave the field to the candidacy Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election. For Hunter, the descent into the abyss is accelerating, a period of his life that is still the focus of Republican attacks and for which the indictment is now available.
In 2014, Hunter was appointed to the board of Burisma, the Ukrainian energy company under investigation for corruption, and has ties to other foreign companies in China, Romania and Kazakhstan. Republicans suspect that the son of the then vice president used “that.”Illusion of access” to his father in a “have an impact on human trafficking“, the contours of which are not entirely clear.
Hunter Biden with son and father Joe.
The charge brought against the 53-year-old a few days ago concerns the illegal possession of a purchased weapon by providing false information about drug consumption. The trial is expected to take place fully in 2024 election campaign. However, there is a possibility that we will soon be charged with crimes related to tax evasion. It is precisely in this context that Hunter has now sued the US Internal Revenue Service for the unauthorized disclosure of his tax information and the failure to protect his private documents.
The Republican candidate Donald Trump He expressed disappointment that the investigation did not shed light on his father Joe’s role in and about Hunter’s affairs Corruption in the White House. Even though no evidence has emerged against the president, Biden is accused of “not knowing how to say no” to his son, as some of his confidants report in the New York Times. A “sin” that will not be the subject of a court ruling, but that Americans may not forgive in the voting booth.
Beyond the court events, the crimes committed and the president’s misjudgments, what is striking is that the impressive a series of missteps Hunter’s campaign has become the subject of political conflict between Democrats and Republicans. In fact, details have come to light about his addiction, his divorce after a long marriage, a failed relationship with Beau’s widow and an encounter with a stripper from whom a recently acknowledged daughter was born. In normal times, battling the demons of the son of the most powerful man in the world would have been viewed as a family matter to be kept out of the election campaign. However, these are not normal times in America.