Kathleen Buhle, first wife of Hunter Biden -Joe Biden’s only living child with Neilia Hunter-, she feared being ostracized from the Biden clan due to the United States Secret Service’s refusal of protection when her father-in-law was Vice President of the United States. The revelation is contained in the book. If We Break Up: A Memoir of Marriage, Addiction, and Healing, of his authorship, and that arrives at North American newsstands next week. People magazine and The Guardian have already had access to an extract and a copy, respectively.
Joe Biden proved to be a doting father-in-law as soon as he greeted her for the first time: “his hands on my cheeks and he looked into my eyes, his nose almost touching mine”. The tenderness did not end there and the then Delaware Senator clarified to Kathleen:
Honey, my son tells me he loves you, which means I love you too. Do you understand? Love you.”
In addition to a good first impression, Biden… “the sun around which everything [família] to turn” — introduced the then-daughter-in-law “like a daughter” wherever they went.
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The new book doesn’t just feature heartwarming family moments. Buhle also addresses a meeting with a US Secret Service agent shortly before Joe Biden became Barack Obama’s vice president in January 2009. The official revealed that “Hunter and the girls would have an item assigned. Two agents with them 24 hours a day.” Kathleen would only be “included in any plan” if there was “some kind of emergency”.
Suddenly, I felt ashamed. He knew that the Secret Service would be a part of this new life, but he didn’t know how. East [o que acabara de acontecer] Did it mean that I was less important than my husband and daughters? What I heard in your words: He wasn’t really a Biden.”
She even asked her husband to relinquish Secret Service protection, “but it was unbreakable“. “Kathleen, it’s always been that way. It is not personal. The daughters-in-law never had protectionHunter replied.
According to place of the Secret Service, “by law, the Secret Service is authorized to protect: the President, the Vice President (or others close in succession to the Office of the President), the President-elect, and the Vice President-elect; the close relatives of the aforementioned persons”, among others.
“Finally,” Buhle came to understand that the rules dictated that it be so, but does not hide that not receiving protection is still a “wound”. And there are episodes that you will not forget. When she walked with her husband, for example, he asked her not to walk in front of her. This, she explains, would cause the agents to have to walk in front of him as well — “an echo for me to leave the scene”, she characterized her among the 304 pages of the literary piece. “Maybe a part of me knew that I would soon have to fight harder than ever to stay in my marriage.”
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Kathleen recalled another “an old memory” dating back to the beginning of their marriage: a family photo shoot where “Hunter’s aunt was in charge of everything.” First, she suggested a photo with only Joe Biden and Jill Biden, the current First Lady, posing. “At one point he announced, ‘Now we’re just going to capture Biden’s blood.'”. Buhle was left out of the circuit.
In 2017, Joe Biden had been vice president for five years, two officers questioned her about Hunter’s whereabouts. He had gone to Mexico to participate in “another recovery program” after battling drug and alcohol addiction.
I texted Hunter and told him to call the Secret Service agent,” Buhle writes. “He told me that he was going to ask to be released from government protection. After nearly six years of Secret Service protection, Hunter would now be on his own.”
Today, as the son of the President of the United States, Hunter Biden is once again under the protection of the Secret Service, an operation whose high points have been widely publicized, such as, for example, the 30 thousand dollars (about 28 thousand euros) that he pays monthly for a mansion in Malibu so that the agents protecting Hunter are as close as possible to the property leased by the eldest heir and Joe Biden.
Source: Observadora
