Adultery memoir deepens scandal over Joe Biden’s son

Hunter Biden’s wife found out about his affair with his brother’s widow after their daughters saw text messages on his phone, she reveals in new tell-all book.

US President Joe Biden hugs his son Hunter Biden and US First Lady Jill Biden after being sworn in as the 46th US President.

Hunter Biden’s wife found out about his affair with his brother’s widow from two of her daughters after they saw text messages between them on his phone, she reveals in her memoir.

Kathleen Buhle, 52, wrote that she had already thrown the president’s son out of the family home after finding a crack pipe, having previously stuck with him after he admitted seeing prostitutes on business trips.

Buhle’s book, If We Break: A Memoir of Marriage, Addiction, and Healing, to be published on June 14, is the latest embarrassment for the Biden White House after revelations from a laptop belonging to Hunter, 52, abandoned in a repair shop in 2019.

The computer contains photographs and video clips of sexual liaisons and apparent drug-taking, while emails show that he turned to his father to help pay personal and professional debts - despite assurances from Biden, 79, that he never spoke to his son about his business dealings.

Hunter Biden and his widowed sister in law turned lover Hallie Biden.

In her book, Buhle recalled the moment she learned of her husband’s affair from her daughter. “I received the kind of call that tightens every parent’s chest. ‘Mom, I need to talk to you,’ Finnegan mumbled through tears,” she wrote, according to an extract of her book in People.

In late 2016, Buhle drove to see Finnegan at the home of a therapist called Debbie they had all been seeing. A second daughter, Naomi, was on the phone. “Debbie looked me in the eye and calmly said ‘Kathleen, Hunter’s having an affair with Hallie [widow of his older brother Beau, who died of brain cancer the previous year] . . . ‘We found his phone,’ Finnegan said. ‘There were text messages between them,’ Naomi added.”

Buhle told how she began tracking Hunter’s spending after kicking him out. “I found a credit card charge for $US10,000 at a hot tub store in Los Angeles. I found hundreds at liquour stores and strip clubs,” she wrote.

The book comes after an analysis of Hunter Biden’s emails and other documents revealed that he made about $US11 million from 2013-2018 but spent so freely that by early 2019 he had debts of more than $US800,000.

The bulk of his income came from his seat on the board of a Ukrainian natural gas company and two deals with Chinese business interests. His spending is harder to fathom but included homes and cars, failed business ventures, and spending on strip clubs and his addiction to drugs and alcohol.

An email from Hunter Biden’s personal assistant shows a recourse to his father for debts of $US818,665.

Hunter Biden with an unnamed woman at Chateau Marmont.

According to a spreadsheet from the laptop, Hunter’s debts in 2019, months before Joe Biden announced his run for the presidency, included several years of overdue taxes as well as legal bills and fees for the restructuring of two business deals, one of which was a stake in a Chinese investment company.

“I spoke with Hunter today regarding his bills,” wrote Katie Dodge, Hunter’s assistant, in an email on January 17, 2019 to “VP team” that copied in Hunter, an accountant and one of Joe Biden’s close advisers.

“It is my understanding that Hunt’s dad will cover these bills in the short-term as Hunter transitions in his career,” Dodge added.

There is no indication in the emails whether his father made the payments. The White House did not respond to a request for comment.

John Paul Mac Isaac, the computer repair shop owner behind the data being made public, has written a book to be published in November.

In American Injustice, he said he made repeated attempts to return the laptop before handing it to the authorities. He said he was angry that, after he gave the material to the FBI, it did not feature in the first impeachment of President Trump over his pressure on President Zelensky of Ukraine to investigate the Bidens. Mac Isaac said that spurred him to hand a copy of the data to Robert Costello, a lawyer for Rudy Giuliani, who was acting as Trump’s counsel.

The Times