President Joe Biden randomly stopped by his daughter-in-law’s house days before she is scheduled to testify in her brother-in-law and ex-lover Hunter Biden’s federal gun trial.
Hallie Biden, the wife of Biden’s late son Beau Biden, is slated to speak during the trial, which begins on June 3, about the younger Biden son and the three federal felony charges he accumulated for allegedly lying on a federal form about his extensive and public drug use during a revolver purchase in 2018.
Biden, with the White House press pool in tow in a van, rolled up to Hallie’s Delaware residence on Saturday night for what appeared to be a “brief” private chat away from cameras and reporters.
The White House insisted to the New York Post that the stop had nothing to do with Hallie’s role as a witness in the government’s prosecution of Hunter and everything to do with Beau’s death.
“He visited her because of the approaching 9th anniversary of Beau’s passing,” White House spokesman Andrew Bates said.
While Biden has made several public appearances related to the anniversary of his son’s passing in recent years, his travel schedule does not suggest he had an annual habit of dropping in on his daughter-in-law at her house days before Beau’s death date.
Biden is no stranger to using his son’s death to score political points, but Hallie’s role as a key witness for the prosecution of her ex-boyfriend raises questions about the president’s alleged deviation from his standard Beau
