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Hunter Biden
Robert Hunter Biden is an American artist, disbarred former attorney, and businessman. He is the second son of former president Joe Biden and his first wife, Neilia Hunter Biden. Hunter Biden was a founding board member of BHR Partners, a Chinese investment company, in 2013, and later served on the board of Burisma Holdings, one of the largest private natural gas producers in Ukraine, from 2014 un…
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business · American businessman and lobbyist (born 1970) · lawyer · businessperson · also Hunter Biden, Biden
Born 4 February 1970 · Q5944264
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2026· 10 entries
“smoking crack every 15 minutes”
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“individuals for whom there is considerable reason to believe violated various federal laws in accessing, copying, manipulating, and/or disseminating Mr. Biden”
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“capitalized from various sources with a total of 30 million RMB (Renminbi), or about $4.2 million, not $1.5 billion”
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“s vice-presidential campaign that it was time for his lobbying activities to end. Navy Reserve Biden”
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Public attention spiked: 14,896 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.5× the usual 4,291, with 1 article edits. Editors noted: Early life and education ce
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Public attention spiked: 15,511 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.6× the usual 4,291, with 1 article edits.
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Snopes rated the claim “Hunter Biden, former U.S. President Joe Biden's son, genuinely said he would consider running with California Gov. Gavin Newsom as his vice-presidential running mate in 2028.” Mixture.
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Public attention spiked: 27,714 Wikipedia readers in one day, 6.5× the usual 4,291, with 0 article edits.
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Snopes rated the claim “After an X user posted, "That was your bag of coke in the White House," in June 2026, Hunter Biden responded, "It most definitely was not. I would never have forgotten my drugs."” Correct Attribution.
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2025· 1 entry
Began working as the development director for a nonprofit tenants' rights organization
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2024· 20 entries
And he could have faced up to 17 years in prison
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USA Today rated the claim “Image shows Joe Biden using son Hunter for photo opportunity in 1973” False.
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Which did not occur due to him being pardoned by his father on December 1
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FactCheck.org rated the claim “In 1994, a crime bill authored by Joe Biden locked Black men up for years for the same gun charge he just pardoned Hunter Biden for today.” Distorts the Facts.
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PolitiFact rated the claim “Photo shows President Joe Biden used his son Hunter’s injuries from a car accident as a photo opportunity when taking the oath of office for Senate in 1973.” False.
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Lead Stories rated the claim “Biden smiled when reporter asked if Hunter should be pardoned” Edited Audio.
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FactCheck.org rated the claim “Elon Musk said, “Anyone glorifying the lawlessness behind Biden pardoning his son will be suspended from X permanently.”” No Evidence.
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Biden issued a full and unconditional pardon for his son
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Claimed: “Hunter Biden was "singled out" and "unfairly" prosecuted "only because he is my son."” — rated No Clear Evidence by FactCheck.org.
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Biden's defense lawyer Abbe Lowell revealed that Biden would change his plea from not guilty to guilty in the federal tax case
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USA Today rated the claim “Hunter Biden seen nude on hotel surveillance, chasing and dragging woman” False.
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On charges of unlawfully possessing a gun as a drug user, lying on a federal form when he bought the gun, and making a false statement about information required to be collected by a federally licensed gun dealer
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PolitiFact rated the claim “Hunter Biden, “BLM rioters” and “COVID criminals” have “0 indictments”” False.
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Which discussed emails found on the laptop
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The Washington Post rated the claim “"We believe that one of the classified documents may be on an email that was in Hunter Biden’s laptop to Ukraine at a time when Hunter Biden was trying to prove his worth to Burisma.”” False.
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Biden pleaded not guilty to the tax charges
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The Washington Post rated the claim ““Joe Biden knew exactly what he was doing, he knew exactly how his family was receiving tens of millions of dollars from our enemies around the world.”” False.
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Biden sued Rudy Giuliani alleging Giuliani was responsible for the "total annihilation" of his privacy due to his involvement in releasing data from his laptop computer
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Though NBC News reported that it was unclear what impact the suspension would have on his livelihood as he was currently working as an artist
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As of December 2024, Biden has not met his daughter with Roberts in-person, and has only met with her virtually.
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2023· 4 entries
Biden was indicted in California on nine tax charges, including three felony and six misdemeanor offenses
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Federal prosecutors explained that the "ongoing" aspect of the investigation referred to possible charges under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA); FARA requires that anyone who acts on the behalf of a foreign go
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In a deal with prosecutors, Biden agreed to plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges of failure to pay income tax, and to enter a pretrial diversion program related to a felony gun charge of unlawful possession of a f
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Biden sued Garrett Ziegler's Marco Polo organization, accusing the group of invasion of privacy for publishing 128,000 of his emails that were recovered from his lost laptop computer
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2022· 1 entry
Biden filed a motion in September 2022 to reduce his child support payments, on the basis of reduced income; Roberts opposed this request and also petitioned the Arkansas court to change the child's surname to Biden, so that his daughter might benefit from associations with Biden's family.
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2020· 3 entries
Twenty days prior to the 2020 United States presidential election, the New York Post published an article based on content provided to the publication by Donald Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani and former chief st
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Claimed that Russian businessperson Yelena Baturina, the wife of former Moscow mayor Yury Luzhkov, wire-transferred $3
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Their son, named Beau in honor of Biden's brother, was born in March 2020 in Los Angeles.
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2019· 4 entries
Against Trump on the grounds that he may have sought to use U
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The Wall Street Journal confirmed that Trump was incorrect in claiming that Hunter received this $1
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Without evidence, that Joe Biden had sought the dismissal of Shokin in order to protect his son and Burisma Holdings
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Biden initially denied that the child was his, but a DNA test, conducted as part of a paternity suit filed in May 2019 by Roberts, confirmed he is the father.
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2018· 3 entries
The relationship with Roberts resulted in the birth of Biden's fourth daughter, in August 2018.
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Telizhenko offered him money to lobby Republican senators in support of pro-Russian television stations in Ukraine
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Hunter Biden had paid rent while residing at his father's Delaware home, where classified documents had been found
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2017· 1 entry
At a discount to actual value and with borrowed money
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2016· 3 entries
Biden began a relationship with his brother's widow, Hallie Olivere Biden
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“s lawyer described as seeking to arrange an introduction between Burisma and the then president of Italy”
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Biden wrote a letter to the U
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2015· 1 entry
During Joe Biden's vice presidency
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2014· 1 entry
(equivalent to $4,759,980 in 2025) to Rosemont Seneca Thornton, of which Biden had previously been a partner
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2013· 1 entry
And later served on the board of Burisma Holdings, one of the largest private natural gas producers in Ukraine, from 2014 until his term expired in April 2019
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2009· 1 entry
Biden, Devon Archer, and Christopher Heinz founded the investment and advisory firm Rosemont Seneca Partners
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2006· 1 entry
Biden and his uncle James Biden purchased international hedge fund Paradigm Global Advisors with an $8 million promissory note (equivalent to $12,776,494 in 2025)
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2001· 2 entries
Was also rehired by MBNA as a consultant, where he was paid a yearly $100,000 retainer until 2005
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Biden became a lobbyist, co-founding the firm of Oldaker, Biden & Belair
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1997· 1 entry
A year after he graduated from Yale Law School, after finding that Biden violated state's attorney conduct rules
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1996· 1 entry
Biden accepted a consultant position at the bank holding company MBNA, whose employees donated more than $200,000 (equivalent to $410,567 in 2025) to his father's senate campaigns over the years
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1993· 1 entry
Biden married Kathleen Buhle
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1970· 2 entries
In Wilmington, Delaware, the second son of Neilia Biden (née Hunter) and Joe Biden
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Born 1970-02-04.
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