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Amid all the scrutiny, Joe Biden promised last year that if he was elected president, no-one in his family would hold a job or have a business relationship with a foreign corporation or foreign government.

Questions about Hunters potential conflicts of interest by a senior State Department official we’re raised as far back as 2015.

Joe Biden’s son defends foreign dealings

US Republican lawmakers launched an investigation and found last year that Hunter’s work for the Ukrainian firm had been “problematic” - but there wasn’t evidence that US foreign policy was influenced by it.

No criminal charges were proven against Burisma either. The company issued a statement in 2017 saying “all legal proceedings and pending criminal allegations” against it were closed.

Last year, Yuriy Lutsenko, the prosecutor in Ukraine who succeeded Viktor Shokin, told the BBC that there was no reason to investigate the Bidens under Ukrainian law.

There is nothing illegal about sitting on a board of a company whilst family members serve in government.

Hunter Biden’s lawyers said in statement in October 2019 that he had undertaken “these business activities independently. He did not believe it appropriate to discuss them with his father, nor did he.”

Hunter told the New Yorker magazine that on the only occasion he had mentioned Burisma: “Dad said, ‘I hope you know what you are doing.’”