The tragedies of the Biden family have played out on the national stage. Over 1,000 people attended the funeral of President Biden’s firstborn child, Beau, which was broadcast live and featured a eulogy from President Obama. His other son, Hunter, was humiliated last month during a trial that spotlighted for the world his sordid history of addiction and infidelity.
Both boys had already survived a fatal car crash, which robbed Joe Biden of his first wife and one-year-old daughter in 1972. Biden had just been elected to the U.S. Senate for the first time and was officially sworn into office at the hospital where he watched over the surviving boys. His public life was always intertwined with personal catastrophe.
This time, in 2024, the Biden clan desperately tried to keep the unfolding tragedy out of the public glare.
