When it emerged that Hunter Biden had fallen in love with his brother’s widow, they looked to Joe Biden to tell the children – and the world.
Hallie Biden awoke on an October morning in 2018 after Hunter Biden, the brother of her deceased husband Beau, had spent the night. While he slept, she dropped her two kids off at school and then returned to rummage through the truck he had parked outside, anxious as to what the admitted drug addict might be hiding.
accusations of betrayal and unfaithfulness multiplied as the family struggled to find its way out of a morass of drugs, grief and troubled love affairs.The rash decisions Hunter and Hallie made that October day have now propelled him into court, enormously complicating a Biden re-election campaign that many Democrats believe will determine the future of American democracy.
People close to Hunter Biden say he has largely stabilised his life in the intervening six years, and they worry about the toll such a trial could take on someone who has struggled with addiction through much of his life. Hunter Biden’s ex-wife, Kathleen, who left the family orbit after Beau died and Hunter started a relationship with Hallie, is also on the witness list. She could not be reached for comment.
Kathleen and Hallie bonded, sharing an interest in running and facing together the challenges of marrying into a prominent political family. When Kathleen discovered that Hunter was having an affair in 2014 after seeing photos on his iPad, Hallie was one of the few people she confided in, according to Kathleen’s 2022 memoir“If you leave him, Kathleen, he’ll find someone else, and then you’ll have to live with that,” she recalled Hallie telling her.
Hunter also urged his reluctant father to provide a statement as a way to break the news to the rest of the family, and to the world. The store owner knew the Biden family lived a few miles away. He also knew that Joe Biden, a sponsor of a federal assault weapons ban that passed in 1994, was not considered a gun rights supporter. The owner told federal prosecutors in a recent interview, a transcript of which was filed in court, that he wanted to complete the sale quickly, thinking it would be bad for business if Joe Biden’s son was known to be a customer.
He then went to a second-hand store next door and bought more items. The gun salesman, according to an interview with federal agents, said an employee of the second-hand store told him Hunter had purchased a rubber chicken. He “is not sure whether the employee was making a joke,” an FBI interviewer wrote, “or if Biden actually bought a rubber chicken”.
Just before noon, according to the video footage, Hallie arrived back at Janssen’s. She checked two trash cans, and when she could not find the gun, she approached the store owner and relayed what had happened. The police officer asked whether Hunter had told anyone about the incident, including his father. “I have never called my dad for anything,” he replied, according to the police report. “I have always handled my own affairs.”
Cursing the FBI, he wrote that the gun had been in a locked car, adding: “What more can I do than come back to you to try again. And you do this???? Who in their right mind would trust you would help me get sober?”“I’m sorry. I just want you safe. That was not safe,” Hallie wrote back. “And it was open unlocked and windows down and the kids search your car.”
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