And if I hadn't of pulled out of my tailspin, I wouldn't have been able to continue. And the fact of the matter is that addiction hits hard and fast. Well, I had a successful business beyond Burisma. I don't want to say the exact number right now because I don't want to get it wrong, but I was paid very well.īecause there are sections in the book when you describe that you would be ensconced for weeks in hotel suites, cooking and doing crack, while your dealers would clear out the minibar, order room service all on your tab. Well, what I know now is that it was certainly not wise in this political environment to create that perception, and that's why I would not do it again. And at the end of the day, the question was whether it was wise. But, you know, I worked hard to graduate Yale Law School. Oh, I think that in every instance it is important for me to make that clear and to be honest about that. I was a lawyer for Boies Schiller Flexner, which is one of the best law firms in the world.

I had an expertise in corporate governance. I was on about a dozen boards before I joined the board of Burisma. Now, an investigation by Senate Republicans didn't find any wrongdoing or improper influence, but was it a wise thing to do? You were on the board of a Ukrainian energy company while your father was involved in making U.S. I mean, we are struggling with two pandemics right now, the coronavirus but also a pandemic of addiction, which ultimately I hope we start to talk about as a mental health issue rather than just a criminal justice issue. Yeah, I think there's so many people that love someone that's struggling with addiction. Your father said to you when that happened, in your recollection in the book, he says, 'I don't know what else to do. He tells NPR that it 'was certainly not wise in this political environment to create that perception' of corruption 'and that's why I would not do it again.'īut that's what recovery is about - is getting honest with yourself and understanding the power of that drug or power of the addiction. policy toward Ukraine is not clear.' Biden says he did nothing unethical. Trump's effort to pressure Ukraine to investigate the Bidens led to Trump's first impeachment.Īn investigation led by Senate Republicans found that Hunter Biden's position on the company's board raised concerns about a possible conflict of interest but concluded 'the extent to which' his role 'affected U.S. Former President Donald Trump portrayed it as a corrupt deal that involved Joe Biden. He also addresses his well-paid work for the Ukrainian gas company Burisma, which began in 2014 while this father, Joe Biden, was vice president. There was 'never a moment that they weren't trying to save me,' Biden says.

In an interview with NPR's Scott Simon airing on Morning Edition, Biden credits his family's unflinching love for his survival. Hunter Biden says his addictions worsened after his brother Beau's death in 2015.

'And my two boys, but for the jaws of life, and a rescue crew saving their life, would not have been around either.'įriday morning, on the 48th anniversary of the accident, the president-elect refrained from public events, instead visiting the graves of his late wife, Neilia, and daughter, Naomi, at Brandywine Roman Catholic Church with his wife, Jill, near his home in Wilmington, Delaware.Hunter Biden, at the time serving as board chairman of World Food Program USA, with then-Vice President Joe Biden in 2016. 'My wife was killed and my daughter was killed,' he continued. A tractor trailer hit your wife and your three children while they were shopping,'' Biden recalled at a campaign event in Newton, Iowa, last August. She was so nervous, she said, 'You gotta come home. They put a pretty young woman on the phone. 'I was down in Washington hiring staff and I got a phone call from a first responder.

But it was a different headline a month after the election that would forever change his life: 'Biden's wife, child killed in car crash.' Caleb Boggs to represent Delaware in the Senate - one of the youngest people ever elected to the body. In November 1972, Joe Biden made headlines as the 29-year-old lawyer who pulled off an upset win against Sen.

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