Brother-in-law and latest romance, the Ukra scandal … Biden’s finger hunter

President-elect Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden (right) watch a college basketball game in Washington in January 2010. [로이터=연합뉴스]

There is a family that never showed up to Joe Biden’s campaign site, where his wife and daughter, as well as grandchildren and granddaughter, were mobilized. The only son, Hunter Biden, is 50 years old. He tried to give a video speech at the Democratic National Convention in August. Rather, Hunter’s story did not come to light on the scene of US President Donald Trump’s campaign.

America’s Voice of America even assessed that “President Trump’s ‘October surprise’ was a hunter.” An email containing the context of the ‘Ukraine scandal’ was reportedly found on Hunter’s laptop last month.

A clothing website specializing in t-shirt printing in the United States sells clothing that contains phrases that poke fun at Hunter Biden, who is under suspicion. [teepublic 캡처]

For Biden, who has secured the majority of the presidential constituency and in fact won the victory, the hunter is a “sick finger.” The original second son, Hunter, was born in the US state of Delaware in 1970. A week before Christmas 1972, he lost his mother and younger sister Naomi in a car accident. He and his brother Bo Biden were also seriously injured. In 2015, her brother, Bo Biden, died of a brain tumor. This is why Biden calls Hunter “my only surviving son.”

In June 2015, President-elect Joe Biden looks at the coffin in which the body of the eldest son, Bo Biden, is enshrined with his family, piled on the American flag, and transferred. [AP=연합뉴스]

In January 2009 Hunter Biden (left), elected Joe Biden (center), Biden’s eldest son, Bo Biden (right). [AFP=연합뉴스]

Biden is a ‘family man’ who has unusual affection for his family, but Hunter was a ‘sick finger’. It’s because Hunter’s career and personal life are so burned out that the mainstream US media calls him “messy.”

Hunter, a lawyer and lobbyist, was different from his older brother, Bo, who ran the typical career of an elite politician as the Delaware Attorney General. In 2014, he tested positive for cocaine and was kicked out of the US Navy reserve forces.

In particular, Hunter has been criticized for being a ‘deadly romance’ even in the United States while dating Holly Biden, the wife of his brother who died in 2015. At the time, he was separated from his wife and was legally married, for what the voice of criticism was even louder.

At the time, Biden-elect also embraced Hunter with a position where “Hunter and Holly applaud for getting over the pain of (Bo Biden’s death) together.” In the end, Hunter ended his “ close up romance ” in two years and married Melissa Cohen, a South African-born filmmaker, last year.

The biggest problem was the “Ukraine scandal” or the “hunters scandal”. Hunter served as a director of Ukraine’s largest natural gas company, Burisma Holdings, for five years starting in April 2014, receiving about $ 50,000 (approximately 56 million won) per month. During this process, a “conflict of interest” controversy arose with Biden-elect, then vice president.

This is because Ukraine’s Attorney General Victor Shokin was removed from office in 2016 under pressure from Vice President Biden at the time he was trying to investigate Burisma. Biden insisted that the Ukrainian parliament was only removing former president Shokin, a corrupt man, by lobbying the European Union as anti-corruption, and that he had nothing to do with his son Hunter.

However, last month, focusing on local conservative media like the New York Post, a senior Ukrainian official from Burisma in April 2015 found an email on Hunter’s laptop that read, “Thank you for inviting me to Washington. and give me the opportunity to meet your father.

President Trump’s side has been using Hunter’s email in campaign campaigns, saying it was irrefutable proof (conclusive evidence) of the “Ukraine scandal.” The authenticity of Hunter’s laptop and emails has yet to be clarified.

President-elect Joe Biden’s second son, Hunter Biden, gives a video address at the US Democratic National Convention on August 20. [AFP=연합뉴스]

In response, Biden has consistently denied that it was a baseless attack. In the first televised debate of the presidential election, when President Trump raised the issue of attacking Hunter, he said: “Like many people, Hunter had a drug problem. But now I’ve gotten over it and I’m very proud of it. ”

President Trump launched a general offensive during the presidential election, aiming to achieve the same effect as Hillary Clinton’s “email door” in 2016, but did not change course.

Even if Biden enters the White House, it seems unlikely that Hunter will enter the White House as Trump’s eldest daughter, Ivanka. Professor Jeong-Geon Seo of Kyung Hee University said: “Biden has been criticizing the four years of President Trump. One of the most critical criticisms was that he went into family policy by putting Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump on the back of a assistant”. . Professor Seo said, “There is no basis for bringing the second child” and “There is no possibility of the Hunter entering the White House.”

James Kim, a senior fellow at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies, also said, “There are few cases in the United States where the president has done family politics while giving children a role in the White House,” he said. “President Trump is an unusual case.”

Reporter Seok Kyung-min [email protected]