In late 2018 Hunter was in his ‘penultimate odyssey through full blown addiction’, according to his memoir, skulking in Connecticut motels and frittering away thousands on prostitutes and crack cocaine.

His private bankers at Wells Fargo sent him an email on December 17, 2018 warning that he had just 44 cents left in his account, according to records obtained by DailyMail.com from his abandoned laptop.

Hunter responded with a jumbled reply, ordering them to transfer $20,000 from his daughter Maisy’s educational savings account.

He told the wealth managers: ‘liquidate what you can’ and ‘Live [love] you both’.

[The smartest man Joe Biden knows, as one person (or more) quipped on Twitter. — Ed]