/-----/ You had me up to this part: "Joe is not involved in any of Hunter's sleazy dealings." You don't know what happened behind the scenes. To think Hunter kept this from his father is ridiculous.
No, to me, it is not hard at all to think he would keep his unethical sleazy-ness away from his father....
Like him demanding in an email that was brought forth, the China business follow thru with the $5 million in the business partnership that was agreed on.....and not put up yet....
Do you REALLY THINK that when Hunter said his dad was sitting there blah blah blah, that Joe Biden was actually sitting with Hunter at the time he made this unethical threat?
Not a CHANCE, that Joe was sitting there with him....
Hunter is doing this on his own....he's using his Name, like a spoiled brat of a lot of well known in politics, but to an even higher level in my opinion, with no regard to hurting his father and father's reputation....just a gawd awful thing to do against his father, and the nation....
I think it was some kind of psychotic reaction to Beaux having terminal cancer, or not getting the family attention he was used to, because they were all focussing on Beaux, or his own sadness to Beaux's death and facing possibly his own young death from cancer some day, and basically his own psychological problems whatever they are that I am just speculating on, lead to the heavy drugs and his addition to prostitutes....and then to his poor business behavior of using his and father's last name to get business consultation deals and partnerships, he might not have gotten.... Likely for money for his addictions...who knows?
It's an embarrassment to how he handled himself....
And NO, I DO NOT think Joe was a part of it.....
If anything Joe as a father, is kicking himself for not seeing what was happening to Hunter while his brother was dying and after Beaux's death when Joe was still mourning his first born son's death....
Joe really really loves his boys, since they were in the car accident that killed their mother and sister... Without strings or conditions, as a father, really loves his only son left....he is trying to keep Hunter off drugs, and in the straight lane, and trying to help him to keep his nose clean, pun intended, even while sitting as president, family matters to him....
Going after hunter in congress in this manner, is to hurt Joe Biden where is does hurt, by hurting his family....like a mob boss would do, to a foe from another mob boss family. Congress is doing this witch hunt for one person, Donald Trump, again...imo.