Hunter Biden profile: could Joe Biden’s ‘problem child’ scupper his election hopes?

Scandal and addiction have dogged the Democrat’s second son - as Donald Trump has pointed out

Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Hunter Biden talk during a college basketball game in 2010.
Scandal and addiction have dogged the Democrat’s second son - as Donald Trump has pointed out
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The second and final US presidential debate featured a surprise guest last night, after Donald Trump invited a former associate of Joe Biden’s son Hunter to the political showdown.

Navy veteran Tony Bobulinsk “held an impromptu press conference” ahead of the televised clash in Tennessee in order to lay out “a string of claims about the Biden family’s foreign business dealings”, The Telegraph reports.

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Joe Evans is the world news editor at TheWeek.co.uk. He joined the team in 2019 and held roles including deputy news editor and acting news editor before moving into his current position in early 2021. He is a regular panellist on The Week Unwrapped podcast, discussing politics and foreign affairs. 

Before joining The Week, he worked as a freelance journalist covering the UK and Ireland for German newspapers and magazines. A series of features on Brexit and the Irish border got him nominated for the Hostwriter Prize in 2019. Prior to settling down in London, he lived and worked in Cambodia, where he ran communications for a non-governmental organisation and worked as a journalist covering Southeast Asia. He has a master’s degree in journalism from City, University of London, and before that studied English Literature at the University of Manchester.