President Biden appeared to admit Tuesday that his son Hunter lied about his drug use to buy a gun — a federal felony — by pointing to the first son’s memoir, which describes his roaring crack cocaine addiction at the time.
In the president’s first public comments since the Washington Post reported last week that investigators believe
there’s enough evidence to charge Hunter, 52, with both tax fraud and lying on the gun purchase form, Biden told CNN’s Jake Tapper that his son now is “on the straight and narrow.”
“Well, first of all, I’m proud of my son,” said Biden,
whose involvement in his son’s overseas work will be a top focus of Republicans if they retake Congress in the Nov. 8 midterm elections.
“This is a kid who got, not a kid — he’s a grown man. He got hooked on — like many families have had happen, hooked on drugs. He’s overcome that. He’s established a new life.
“He is — I’m confident that he is — what he says and does are consistent with what happens,” Joe Biden added. “And for example, he wrote a book about his problems and was straightforward about it. I’m proud of him.”
The president then veered into discussing Hunter’s controversial firearm purchase in October 2018.
“He came along and said, by the way, this thing about a gun — I didn’t know anything about it. But turns out that when he made [an] application to purchase a gun, what happened was he say —- I guess you get asked, I don’t guess, you get asked a question, are you on drugs or do you use drugs? He said no. And he wrote about saying no in his book.”
“So I have great confidence in my son,” Biden concluded. “I love him and he’s on the straight and narrow and he has been for a couple years now. And I’m just so proud of him.”
A copy of the Oct. 12, 2018, gun transaction form indicates that Hunter had answered “no” to the question, “Are you an unlawful user of, or addicted to, marijuana or any depressant, stimulant, narcotic drug, or any other controlled substance?”
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