Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, says that Republicans are trying to harm him in order to make his father look bad as President.
He said that if he died, it would be really hard for his father to handle. He told this to musician Moby in a podcast that aired on Friday.
The first part of the broadcast was recorded before Mr. Biden was accused of nine serious tax crimes on Thursday.
Republicans say that the president and his son are using their influence to benefit themselves.
The White House said the congressional investigation into the president is just a fishing expedition and not serious.
Hunter Biden, who used to have a problem with crack cocaine, was talking to his friend Moby from his house in Malibu, California. They met while they were both getting help for using drugs and alcohol.
“They are trying to do something wrong or illegal. ” “They are trying to ruin the president’s term in a careful and sensible way,” he said on Moby Pod.
“They want to kill me because they know it will hurt my father a lot. They also want to ruin my presidency by making me start using drugs again,” he said.
He said it’s not about him. He thinks these people are very sad and sick. They have probably experienced traumas in their lives, and now they want to hurt others.
He said that conservative news outlets were bothering him.
Mr Biden said he will stay clean and sober because he doesn’t want people to use him as an example of why people in recovery can’t be trusted.
On Thursday, the government in California accused Hunter Biden of not paying taxes for four years and spending lots of money on drugs and escorts.
He is also being investigated for possibly lying about using drugs when he applied for a gun.
President Biden went to Las Vegas, Nevada for a campaign event. His press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, was asked about the new charges for Hunter while they were on Air Force One.
She said Mr Biden is “happy about his son”.
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