Hunter Bidenthe youngest son of the American president, gave a special press conference on Wednesday to clear his father of his involvement in his controversial cases, which were heavily criticized by the republican opposition.

“Let me say it as clearly as possible: My father was not financially involved in my companies.”, Hunter Biden stated very seriously to the US Congress. “Not as a practicing lawyer, nor as a member of the board of directors (of Ukrainian gas giant) Burisma, nor in my cooperation with a Chinese businessman, nor in my investments here or abroad, let alone as an artist,” says he. mention.

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The conservatives, with a majority in one of the two chambers of the US Congress, they accuse Joe Biden of using his influence when he was Barack Obama’s vice president (2009-2017) to get his son to do shady business in China and Ukraine. For this reason they have opened an investigation into political process (impeachment) in Congress, which they want to formalize on Wednesday afternoon.

The president, Democrats and his son deny the allegations. Hunter Biden, a 53-year-old former businessman turned artist, has become the favorite target of the American right.

The president’s son He acknowledged that he had made ‘mistakes in his life’, but blamed ‘the Trumpists’that is, against former Republican President Donald Trump’s supporters, who are trying to “dehumanize” him in order to “harm” his father.

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“They violated my privacy, attacked my wife, my children, my family and my friends. “They have ridiculed my fight against addiction,” added Hunter Biden, who suffered from alcohol dependence and a crash and was charged with two criminal offenses. “They belittled my recovery and tried to dehumanize me, all to shame and harm my father, who dedicated his entire life to public service,” he said.

For this reason, Hunter Biden refused to participate in a closed-door hearing organized by Republicans who summoned him to the Capitol on Wednesday. Joe Biden has never spoken in detail about his youngest son’s problems, but he has always been supportive.

“Throughout my battle with addiction, my parents were by my side; They literally saved my life,” Hunter Biden said on Wednesday. He insists he is now ‘clean’, has remarried and is the father of a son whom he has named Beau in honor of his late brother. (JO)