Hunter Biden’s emergence shadows his father’s presidency

Every day, Hunter Biden calls his sponsor three times, trying to keep his drug and alcohol addiction at bay. Every night, by his own account, President Biden calls him before he goes to bed — and, if Hunter doesn’t pick up, a string of texts follows. And almost every minute, he says, he realizes how tenuous his life still is. “I’m concerned. I really am. In the sense of, I have a healthy fear,” the president’s only living son said at the end of a 90-minute discussion with Marc Maron on his “WTF” podcast. “I’m not living in that. But you know, I’m leaving here and I’m going straight home.”... What becomes vividly clear is the sheer depth of the alcoholism and drug addiction Hunter is fighting and the ever-present danger of a relapse that could endanger not only his own health and life, but his father’s well-being and even the trajectory of his presidency. “I have a healthy fear of relapse,” Hunter, 51, told NPR recently. “It’s too much a part of my story. I’m only one choice away from being back exactly where I was. And that’s the conundrum for everyone that’s in recovery. It never goes away. It only hides.”
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