{"id":70560,"date":"2024-06-11T16:35:05","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T16:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/11\/hunter-biden-conviction-is-latest-twist-in-family-story-and-could-shape-months-ahead-for-us-president\/"},"modified":"2024-06-11T16:35:05","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T16:35:05","slug":"hunter-biden-conviction-is-latest-twist-in-family-story-and-could-shape-months-ahead-for-us-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/11\/hunter-biden-conviction-is-latest-twist-in-family-story-and-could-shape-months-ahead-for-us-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunter Biden conviction is latest twist in family story – and could shape months ahead for US president"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Joe Biden so often talks about “inflection points'”.<\/p>\n

He has repeatedly framed his own presidency through a series of global inflection points – era-defining moments in which he has tried to cast himself as the sober voice of calm leadership.<\/p>\n

His life story too has been defined by a series of personal and tragic inflection points which have shaped his political journey: the death of his first wife and baby daughter in a car crash in 1972, the death of his elder son Beau from cancer in 2015.<\/p>\n

Now, the criminal conviction of his son Hunter<\/a><\/strong> is without question another deeply personal moment of inflection and it could well shape the months ahead.<\/p>\n

Hunter Biden latest as president’s son is found guilty<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

President Biden<\/a><\/strong> has always allowed his personal experience to influence his journey.<\/p>\n

It was Beau who had encouraged him to run for president in 2015. He chose not to – Beau was the future for the Bidens.<\/p>\n

The younger Biden had a promising political future ahead of him. Or so they had thought.<\/p>\n

Beau’s death changed everything professionally and personally for the family.<\/p>\n

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Professionally, Joe Biden was drawn back to politics to stand against Donald Trump in 2020.<\/p>\n

It was a decision he made to fulfil his late son’s wish and to finish a journey Beau could not.<\/p>\n

Personally too for the Bidens, Beau’s death was profoundly consequential.<\/p>\n

It compounded Hunter’s struggles with addiction and it precipitated a relationship between Beau’s widow and Hunter.<\/p>\n

It’s possible to draw a line from Beau’s passing to the conviction of his brother this week in Delaware.<\/p>\n

As one family friend told the Washington Post in February: “Everything would have been 180 degrees different if Beau had lived – there’s no question. I don’t think Hunter’s life goes off the rails\u2026”<\/p>\n

The unnamed family friend told the newspaper: “If Beau wasn’t president of the United States now, he’d be on his way to it. And Joe Biden would never have been president. He would be happily retired.”<\/p>\n

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The question is what this latest in a series of sliding door moments means for President Biden. What will he do now?<\/p>\n

The Biden family has rallied around Hunter at the trial.<\/p>\n

The president released an unusual and deeply personal statement<\/a><\/strong> of support at the start and the First Lady, Hunter’s stepmother, has been present almost every day.<\/p>\n

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Hunter Biden conviction will supercharge Trump rhetoric – analysis<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The family’s anguish and pain has been clear and compounded no doubt by the politics – the controversy and scandal of a member of the first family on trial.<\/p>\n

Remember, the Republicans have sought blood at every stage. Hunter has been their target for years. This conviction will supercharge their rhetoric.<\/p>\n

The 81-year-old president chose to run for president again. It has put him under huge scrutiny and immense personal and professional pressure.<\/p>\n

In the midst of a gruelling election campaign, Biden is lagging in the polls against Donald Trump, a deeply controversial convicted criminal<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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He is managing multiple acutely dangerous global crises and he is maintaining a globe-trotting schedule that would challenge someone half his age.<\/p>\n

His age and agility – both physically and mentally – are a constant focus and consistently a worry.<\/p>\n

Since his State of the Union speech in March, at which he exceeded performance expectations, he has noticeably aged.<\/p>\n

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He is the presumptive Democratic Party nominee for president but this status is only confirmed at the party’s convention in August.<\/p>\n

There has been no suggestion from the president or his campaign team that he is having second thoughts.<\/p>\n

But in a life journey directed by so many personal moments of anguish, the president’s reaction to this latest twist in his family story could be an inflection point of its own.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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