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Details of the turmoil in Joe Biden’s family keep being made public by Joe’s own Justice Department. Some legal experts argue that the level of personal details in the filings ahead of Hunter Biden’s criminal trials are meant to embarrass rather than prosecute, a feeling shared by many people close to the Biden family.
The revelations are particularly painful for a family that prefers family matters to be guarded and can quickly dump people who break the code.
Hunter’s ex-wife Kathleen Buhle wrote in her 2022 memoir when instructing her mother not to reveal that Beau Biden was sick: “After twenty years with the Bidens, I knew that everything in the family was meant to stay private.”
In court filings this week and the original indictments, the special counsel’s office said the upcoming trials would include materials from:
<><>Hunter’s divorce from Buhle
<><>Text messages with family members including his daughter
<><>Pictures and videos of him smoking crack cocaine
<><>Receipts of money spent on clothes and “various women”
<><>Tax documents from Lunden Roberts, a woman with whom
<><>Hunter had a child w/ Roberts and then denied he was the father.
<><>texts from Hunter at the depths of his addiction
<><>at the time he is accused of purchasing a gun
<><>falsifying the gun app, saying he was not an addict.
One filing on May 20 includes a text message Hunter sent to Hallie on November 3, 2018: “I’m a liar and a thief and a blamer and a user and I’m delusional and an addict unlike beyond and above all other addicts that you know and I’ve ruined every relationship I’ve ever cherished.”
Guilty.