Hunter Biden convinced his father Joe in early 2017 to release a statement approving the case he was having with his late brother Beau’s widow, Hallie Biden, telling Joe that if he didn’t, the relationship “would look wrong”.
“‘Dad,’ I told him, ‘if people find out, but they think you’re not approving it, it looks wrong,” wrote Hunter Biden in his book, “Beautiful Things”, to be released on April 6. of the book was obtained by Fox News.
He approached his father only after he was put “in a box” by a reporter calling to confirm or deny the relationship. Biden had left the vice presidency just a month earlier, according to Hunter Biden. He told his father that he and Hallie were “incredibly lucky” to have met.
He suggested that Biden’s grandchildren would pay the price emotionally if the former vice president did not make a positive statement about the case. “‘Children need to know that there is nothing wrong with that, and the only person who can tell them that is you,'” Hunter pleaded.
The senior Biden was reluctant, but finally agreed to make a statement:
“We are all lucky that Hunter and Hallie met while they were rebuilding their lives after so much sadness. They have the full and complete support of me and Jill and we are happy for them.”
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The next day, the news appeared and, according to Hunter, “it was the beginning of the end”.
In fact, instead of putting their lives together again, Hunter says that he and Hallie were living “lives of silent despair” that were now on “full display” to the public and noted that he continued with his long history of substance abuse after “kickback” after rehabilitation.
“I was madly trying to hold on to a slice of my brother and I think Hallie was doing the same,” wrote Hunter.
Neither of them had planned a long-term relationship, but now they felt they needed to try to maintain it.
“If we weren’t fully in, we were worried, the relationship would be perceived as a lewd adventure,” he wrote. “So we tried to make something work that, in retrospect, was never in the cards.”
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A series of catastrophes followed, like “torrential rain everywhere”. Hunter’s daughters were “devastated”. Their commercial ventures “evaporated”.
He admitted that “he could have handled all this more effectively” if he had been “clean and sober”.