Doyle McManus: Hunter Biden — and Trump's children — follow a long line of White House relatives cashing in
by Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times
Oct 02, 2019
3 minutes
The tangled tale of Hunter Biden is worthy of a Russian, or maybe Ukrainian, novel: A ne'er-do-well son goes abroad to seek his fortune, but succeeds only in endangering his father's presidential campaign.
In 2014, Hunter, a not-very-successful lawyer who had been in and out of alcohol rehabilitation and debt, landed a lucrative job working for a Ukrainian energy mogul.
Big mistake. His father was vice president of the United States. No matter what work Hunter did or didn't perform, the aroma of influence-peddling was unavoidable. Second mistake: His father
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