Hunter Biden appeared to have used his father’s Delaware home as an office, with secret documents kept within its walls.
The president’s son, now 52, listed his father’s Wilmington mansion as his home following his 2017 divorce from Kathleen Buhle.
He had bills registered at the home in 2018 and 2019, the New York Post reported Saturday, and he asked his assistant to send boxes of his office equipment to the residence.
“Having stock shipped to my parents’ guest house,” he told his assistant, Katie Dodge, in a December 2018 text message.
Hunter Biden, pictured in July, appeared to have used his father’s Delaware home as an office from 2017-19 while secret documents were kept inside
A box labeled “Important Documents + Photos” appears to have been left unsealed on a table at President Joe Biden’s Delaware home
Hunter Biden, now 52, was then exploring business and investment opportunities with partners in China, Ukraine and beyond.
It is now known that secret documents were kept in the house.
Jim Hanson, a national security adviser and president of WorldStrat, said Hunter’s running a private company from an office where government documents were illegally held was a recipe for disaster.
“Having access to US classified information makes it much easier to exploit your business,” he told the newspaper.
“You know things that others don’t know or can’t know. That’s a very definite possibility.’
He added that Hunter, who has a known history of drug and addiction problems, was also prone to allowing outsiders access to the information.
“He’s a degenerate junkie who hangs out with foreign prostitutes,” Hanson said.
“How can this go wrong in a place where there are piles of documents hidden everywhere?”
Hunter Biden registered his father’s house (pictured) as his residence when he divorced his former wife in 2017
A special counsel has been appointed to investigate how classified documents ended up in Joe Biden’s home and his think tank’s DC offices.
On Friday, NBC News reported that Joe Biden’s personal notebooks were among the classified documents taken.
The notebooks contained notes on his official business as vice president, the network said, including details of his diplomatic engagements during the Obama administration.
The notebooks, of which there were many, a source said, had no secret markings.
At least a few documents were found in Biden’s garage at his home in Wilmington, Delaware. Biden’s sons Beau and Hunter converted the car for him
Jason R. Baron, a former National Archives trial director, told NBC News that personal notebooks are considered classified if they contain classified information and are government property if shared with employees.
“Handwritten personal notes of a former president or vice president are considered presidential records only if they have been shared or communicated with other White House or federal agency staff for use in conducting government business,” Baron said.
“A past president or vice president has the right to take personal notes from the White House – they are not official records that end up in the legal custody of the National Archives at the end of a term.”
When asked about the notebooks, a spokesman for Biden’s personal attorney, Bob Bauer, said they would not comment.
“As noted in the statement released Jan. 14, consistent with our view of the requirements of our cooperation with the DOJ on this matter, we will not comment on the accuracy of reports of this nature,” the spokesman said.