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Robin Abcarian: Hunter Biden may have cashed in on his daddy's name, but he's got nothing on the oldest Trump kids

Last summer, in an excruciatingly detailed New Yorker profile, former Vice President Joe Biden's son Hunter came clean about his struggles with addiction, his foreign business dealings and his run-ins with the law. If the piece was meant to inoculate Hunter's father against a drip-drip-drip of revelations about Hunter that would distract from Joe's presidential campaign, it was an abject failure.

Hunter has become the Republican Party's new punching bag.

"The vice president's son gets paid $50,000 a month and gets hired by a company in an industry he has no experience in and, oh, that's fine?" said an

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