House Republicans are no closer to tying Hunter Biden’s activities to Joe
At the start of his memoir, “Beautiful Things”, published in 2021, Hunter Biden, the second son of the president of the United States, begins with a single claim that summarises the argument of the book. “I am not Eric Trump or Donald Trump, Jr,” he writes. “I’ve worked for someone other than my father, rose and fell on my own.”
Over the next 220 pages, he takes readers through his childhood, his deep love of his brother Beau, who died in 2015 at the age of 46, his businesses and, in sordid detail, his use of crack cocaine and alcohol. Yet the theme that keeps coming back is his independence. “There is no question that my last name has opened doors,” the younger Mr Biden admits. And his accomplishments “sometimes crossed into my father’s spheres of influence during his two terms as vice-president”. But they were, he maintains, still very much his own, just as his failures and addiction were too, and nothing to do with his father.
Republicans desperately wish they could show otherwise. Since January, the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, and its Republican chairman, James Comer, have been digging through the younger Mr Biden’s records, in a search for something incriminating that would tie President Joe Biden to his son’s chaotic business practices. On May 10th Mr Comer held a press conference to unveil more details about the $10m or so that was paid between 2015 and 2017 to firms owned by Hunter, as well as to his uncle, James, both their wives, Beau’s widow and their children, by various foreign sources.
2023-05-28 09:41:26
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