An excited President Biden fought back tears as he discussed his son Hunter’s new memories, saying, “My boy is back.”
“The honesty with which he went ahead and spoke about the problem. And the hope that has given me the hope of reading it, ”Biden said in an interview with CBS News that will air before Sunday’s Super Bowl game.
“My boy is back,” Biden told anchor Nora O’Donnell in a snippet released late Saturday while he was moved and shed tears.
“I’m sorry to be so personal,” he told O’Donnell.
Hunter has been battling addiction throughout his life and has been treated at various rehab facilities.
In 2014 he was discharged from the Navy Reserve after suspending drug testing.
Biden said his son’s story reflects the struggles many American families are going through.
“You know, I’ll bet there’s no family you know that doesn’t have someone in the family who has drug or alcohol problems,” the president said.
Hunter, whose book will be published in April, became the target of intense scrutiny during his father’s presidential campaign when The Post published a series of box office reports on his dealings with Ukraine and the United States. China.
Hunter introduced his father, then vice president of the Obama administration, to a top executive of Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company that hired Biden on his board, less than a year before former Biden pressured government officials for them to fire a prosecutor who had looked like the company.
The revelations were found in emails from a laptop Hunter left at a computer repair shop in Wilmington, Del.
Hunter’s business relations in China also generated headlines during the campaign, and White House press secretary Jen Psaki said last week that she was still untangling her investments with Bohai HarvestRST (Shanghai) Equity Investment Fund Management Co., known as BHR.
“He has been working to develop his investment, but I would certainly point you out, he is a private citizen, who would point you to him or his lawyers abroad in any update,” Psaki said during his daily session.
His continued involvement in the company comes despite his father’s promise that Hunter or other family members would not participate in any company or business that could create conflicts with his administration.
BHR is controlled and financed through the Chinese government, including the Bank of China.