Hunter Biden’s years of personal grief and public missteps are focus of House impeachment probe

WASHINGTON (AP) — As his father stood in the Rose Garden at the White House in the fall of 2015 and announced he would not run for president, Hunter Biden was facing his own crossroads.

It was a deeply emotional and traumatic time for Joe Biden and his close-knit family, still reeling from the death of his oldest son, Beau, that spring, as Donald Trump was making his unexpected entry into U.S. presidential politics.

In deciding to forgo a White House run, then-Vice President Biden was preparing to enter private life for the first time in his long political career, potentially teaching or launching a policy center. Hunter, who had recently agreed to a lucrative position on the board of Ukrainian energy firm Burisma, was working to stay sober, mend his marriage and rebuild from devastating grief.

“As horrible as I feel, I have a feeling of real purpose,” he said after his brother’s funeral.

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