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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Andrew Feinberg

Hunter Biden hits out at GOP ‘weaponisation’ of addiction in rare op-ed

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Hunter Biden is hitting out at Republicans’ use of his past alcohol and drug problems as fodder to embarrass his father with a new op-ed in which he warns that the practice could discourage Americans who suffer from addition from seeking treatment.

In the column published by USA Today, the Yale-educated attorney and former lobbyist — who is President Joe Biden’s youngest and only surviving son — writes that the “weaponisation” of his well-documented struggles by “partisan and craven factions” in the GOP could be a “real threat to those desperate to get sober but are afraid of what may await them if they do”.

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