New York Post:
- Featured image – Joe Biden hair sniffing at his son Beau’s funeral
- Hunter went on to DATE his deceased brother’s widow
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s son Hunter has been back in the news since his father announced his 2020 run last year.
Hunter Biden made headlines again on Oct. 14 when The Post exclusively reported on emails between him and Vadym Pozharskyi, an adviser to the board at Ukrainian energy firm Burisma Holdings.
The emails reveal the possibility of a previously unreported meeting between the elder Biden and an official from Burisma, any involvement with which the Democratic presidential nominee has adamantly denied without going into detail.
Here’s what we know about Hunter Biden before he found himself swept up in yet another scandal.
Early life
Born on Feb. 4, 1970, Robert Hunter Biden and his older brother Beau’s lives were rocked when their mother, Neilia Biden, and sister, Naomi, were killed in a car accident in December 1972.
Just one month later, Hunter and Beau found themselves surrounded by reporters as their father was sworn in as the youngest-ever member of the US Senate.
The two boys continued growing up in Wilmington, Del., with their widowed father commuting back and forth each day by train to be with them at night.
The Biden brothers encouraged their father to date in the years after their mother’s passing, and he eventually did, meeting Dr. Jill Jacobs, who later became his wife and took his name.
They had a daughter, Ashley, born in 1981.
Love life
Hunter Biden met and married Kathleen Buhle in 1993. The two divorced in 2017 after a 22-year marriage that produced three daughters. In divorce papers, Kathleen accused her ex of blowing family funds on drugs and prostitutes.
The same year as the split — as was first reported by Page Six — Hunter began dating his widowed sister-in-law, Hallie Biden, who had lost her husband, Beau, to brain cancer in 2015.
The two began dating while he was recovering from a crack binge, which he explained in a New Yorker interview last July took place while grieving his brother’s death.
Hunter had been kicked out of his marital home with then-estranged wife Kathleen over his failure to stay sober, and began spending most nights at Hallie’s house “sharing a very specific grief” over Beau.
The former vice president did not initially know of the relationship, and found out after being reached for comment by Page Six.
After being made aware, the VP and second lady offered their blessing of the relationship in a statement.
“We are all lucky that Hunter and Hallie found each other as they were putting their lives together again after such sadness. They have mine and Jill’s full and complete support and we are happy for them,” the two said at the time.
And … more hair-sniffing from Joe at Beau’s funeral. Any wonder Hunter is messed up?
