Hunter has also struggled with drug and alcohol abuse — a tumultuous personal life that was the subject of a recent wide-ranging profile in the New Yorker magazine. Hunter lamented his personal life getting in the way of his relationship with his father during the 2020 presidential campaign. Hunter recalled to the New Yorker how he and Beau previously campaigned voraciously for his father but that he’d skipped a 2020 rally in Philadelphia because of his personal issues.
In January 2025, Special Counsel David Weiss released a final report defending the investigation into Hunter Biden, rejecting claims that the prosecutions were politically motivated. Weiss wrote that Hunter “consciously and willfully” lied about his drug use when he bought a firearm in 2018, even though he was using crack cocaine at the time. He also argued that the tax case — in which Hunter failed to pay more than $1.4 million over several years — was legitimate, calling the prosecution “the embodiment of the equal application of justice.”
