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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Lloyd Green

If We Break review: Hunter Biden as horror husband and political problem

Hunter and Kathleen Biden seen in Washington in 2016.
Hunter and Kathleen Biden seen in Washington in 2016. Photograph: Paul Morigi/Getty Images

Hunter Biden was a nasty husband. On top of his penchant for addiction and excess, verbal abuse littered his marriage to Kathleen Buhle. In her memoir, If We Break, Buhle recounts how the 46th president’s surviving son regularly taunted her for supposed intellectual shortcomings.

Amid booze-soaked benders and drug-fueled rages, Biden called his wife “goddam dumb”, the “dumbest person” he had met. “Get away from me, you idiot,” he purportedly thundered.

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