Hunter Biden views his battle with sobriety as a key element of his father’s reelection bid against Former president Donald Trump.
The younger Biden was interviewed by Axios ahead of his closed-door congressional testimony on Wednesday and discussed why he believes his recovery from drug addiction is important for Joe Biden’s political prospects.
“Most importantly, you have to believe that you’re worth the work, or you’ll never be able to get sober. But I often do think of the profound consequences of failure here,” Biden told Axios.
“I have something much bigger than even myself at stake. We are in the middle of a fight for the future of democracy,” he added.
Axios‘s interview with Biden does not cover his foreign business dealings or his criminal charges. House Republicans are having Biden testify to advance the impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden over his apparent role in his family’s foreign business dealings.
Hunter Biden’s drug addiction ended on June 1, 2019, he said in July at the Delaware court hearing where his guilty plea agreement with federal prosecutors fell apart. His sobriety began shortly after he married his current wife Melissa Cohen, the mother of his son Beau.
“I don’t care whether you’re 10 years sober, two years sober, two months sober, or 200 years sober — your brain at some level is always telling you there’s still one answer,” Biden added.
In his memoir, “Beautiful Things,” Biden detailed his battle with drug addiction and his road to recovery. Excerpts from his memoir are featured in his federal tax indictment in California as evidence he had the necessary income to pay his taxes. The indictment accuses Biden of falsely deducting expenses incurred from trips to strip clubs, using a pornographic website, making payments to “various women,” and his membership at a sex club.
Hunter Biden is facing three federal gun charges in Delaware connected to his purchase of a firearm while he was addicted to drugs. Two of his gun charges are related to false statements he made about his drug addiction when he purchased the firearm, and the third charge is for allegedly possessing the firearm while he was a drug addict. He has pleaded not guilty to the tax and firearm offenses. Biden seeks to have both sets of charges dismissed and the details about his lifestyle removed from the tax indictment.
Images and videos of his lavish lifestyle held on his abandoned laptop archive thrust Biden’s drug addiction into the national spotlight long before his criminal indictments.