The melodrama playing out in court has revealed a family devastated by the death of Hunter's brother Beau in 2015, and then again by Hunter's drug addiction - traumas that have shadowed Joe Biden's campaigns for president in 2020 and 2024.
Joe and Jill Biden circled the wagons around Hunter as he got sober and started a new family, according to six people familiar with the dynamics.
"I was at my lowest, [Hallie] was at her neediest, and we clung to each other with abandon," Hunter wrote about a period in the fall of 2016 after he'd been through a stint in rehab.
Buhle had been skeptical of Hunter spending so much time with Hallie Biden after Beau's death, but she wrote in her own memoir she didn't have confirmation their relationship was romantic until her daught...
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