An emotional President Biden fought back the tears when he discussed his son Hunter’s new memoir and said, ‘My son is back. ‘
‘The honesty with which he came forward and talked about the problem. And the hope that it gave me hope to read it, ”Biden said in an interview with CBS News that will be broadcast before Sunday’s Super Bowl game.
“My son is back,” Biden told anchor Nora O’Donnell in an excerpt released late Saturday when he became emotional and choked on tears.
“I’m sorry to be so personal,” he told O’Donnell.
Hunter has struggled with addiction all his life and has undergone treatment in a number of rehabilitation centers.
In 2014, he was discharged from the Navy Reserve after failing a drug test.
Biden said his son’s story reflects the struggle many American families are going through.
“You know, I’m betting there’s no family you know who does not have someone in the family who has had drug or alcohol problems,” the president said.
Hunter, whose book will be released in April, became a target of intense scrutiny during his father’s presidential campaign when The Post published a series of instant reports on its dealings with Ukraine and China.
Hunter introduces his father, then the vice president of the Obama administration, to a top executive at Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company that hired Biden on its board, less than a year before Elder Biden put pressure on government officials. exercise to dismiss a prosecutor who watched. the company in.
The revelations were found in emails on a laptop that Hunter left at a computer repair shop in Wilmington, Del.
Hunter’s business transactions in China also made headlines during the campaign, and White House press secretary Jen Psaki said last week that he was still disrupting his investments at Bohai HarvestRST (Shanghai) Equity Investment Fund Management Co., known as BHR. .
“He worked to close his investment, but I’ll definitely point you out – he’s a private citizen.” I will show you or his lawyers from outside on any update, ‘Psaki said during her daily briefing.
His continued interest in the company comes despite his father’s promise that Hunter or other family members would not be involved in businesses or businesses that would cause conflict with his administration.
BHR is controlled and funded by the Chinese government, including the Bank of China.