An emotional President Biden fought back tears as he discussed his son Hunter’s new memory – saying “My boy is back”.
“The honesty with which he took a step forward and talked about the problem. And the hope that – it gave me hope to read it “, said Biden in an interview given to CBS News, which will be broadcast before the Super Bowl match on Sunday.
“My boy is back,” Biden told anchor Nora O’Donnell in an excerpt. released late Saturday as he became emotional and stifled tears.
“I’m sorry I became so personal,” he told O’Donnell.
Hunter struggled with addiction throughout his life and underwent treatment at a number of rehabilitation facilities.
In 2014, he was discharged from the Navy Reserve after failing a drug test.
Biden said his son’s story reflects the struggles many American families are going through.
“You know, I bet there’s no family you know who doesn’t have someone in the family who has a drug or alcohol problem,” the president said.
Hunter, whose book will be released in April, became the target of intense scrutiny during his father’s presidential campaign, when The Post published a series of blockbuster reports on its relations with Ukraine and China.
Hunter introduced his father, then 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 old Biden pressured officials. to fire a prosecutor who had appeared in the company.
The revelations were found in emails on a Hunter laptop left at a computer repair shop in Wilmington, Del.
Hunter’s business transactions in China also generated headlines during the campaign, and White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said last week that he was still investing in Bohai HarvestRST (Shanghai) Equity Investment Fund Management Co. , known as BHR.
“He worked to develop his investment, but I would certainly point you out – he is a private citizen – I would refer you to him or his outside lawyers for any updates,” Psaki said in his daily session. .
His continued stake in the company comes despite his father’s commitment that Hunter or other family members would not be involved in any business or enterprise that would create conflicts with his administration.
BHR is controlled and funded by the Chinese government, including the Bank of China.