A self-confessed drug addict, with a life of sentimental scandals and shady deals in China or Ukraine, Hunter Biden, the wayward son of the president of the United States, adds a new episode to his rebellious life: an accusation for having illegally purchased a weapon for the one who could go to prison.
The imputation. Hunter Biden was charged this Thursday with lying when purchasing a revolver, saying that he was not a drug user. He faces a maximum of 25 years in prison. The indictment announced this Thursday does not mention the other crime for which Hunter Biden is also investigated, irregular tax filing.
Family tragedies. Born in 1970, Robert Hunter Biden is the second child the president had with his first wife, Neilia. In 1972 a car accident killed her and her youngest daughter. Hunter and his older brother, Beau, survived. Another of the great family tragedies in Hunter Biden’s life was the death of his older brother, Beau, in 2015, as a result of a brain tumor. A dramatic event that worsened his complex relationship with one of the elements that has marked his life: drugs.
The first controversy, in his first job. Hunter studied History at Georgetown University, in Washington, and graduated in 1992. He has a master’s degree in law from Yale University. In 1996, he began his career at the bank holding company MBNA and this position was already surrounded by controversy, since Joe Biden, then a senator, promoted legislation that favored the online banking industry.
A life of addictions. As he has acknowledged in interviews, Biden Jr. has been a user of different types of drugs and alcohol for decades. In 2013 he was kicked out of the Navy for testing positive for cocaine on his first weekend of duty. When his first wife, Kathleen Buhle, filed for divorce, she asked a court to freeze his assets due to “financial concerns for the family” as he “extravagantly” spent money on drugs, alcohol, prostitutes, strip clubs and gifts for her. women. He denied these claims. He did talk about drugs in his memoir Beautiful Things and confessed that his addictions worsened when his brother died.
Cloudy business. Hunter Biden’s first major political scandal took place in 2012, when Biden was Barack Obama’s vice president and made trips to Ukraine amid the conflict over the Crimean peninsula. Hunter accepted a position on the board of directors of the then largest private gas company in the country, Burisma, with a salary of more than $50,0000 a month. Since then, the issue of a possible conflict of interest has been used by Republican figures such as Donald Trump, who accuses, without evidence, the current president of having illegally benefited from his son’s business in Ukraine.
Trump’s theory without evidence. In 2018, with Biden already sounding like a presidential candidate, when federal prosecutors led by Trump began an investigation into Hunter’s finances, which showed that he had not paid taxes between 2017 and 2018 and that he had signed separate agreements with Chinese executives. In the 2020 presidential campaign, the “Hunter issue” was one of the main weapons that Trump used against his rival. With four criminal charges against him, the accusation against Hunter Biden is a perfect fit for the former president to continue talking about a Biden family network of dark businesses that, for the moment, only exists in his imagination.
Relationship. Hunter Biden has five children with three different women: three with his first wife, one with his current wife, Melissa Cohen, and a four-year-old daughter with Lunden Roberts, an Arkansas woman he met while battling drug addiction. drugs. With the latter she went to court to dispute the paternity of the girl, which she ended up certifying with a DNA test. After Buhle’s divorce after 24 years of marriage, his romance with Hallie, the widow of his deceased brother, was publicized, although they separated shortly after and the president’s son married a South African film director, Melissa Cohen, whom he ended up dating. to know
