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Hunter Biden Thought His Brother’s Death Opened The Door For Him To Run For Office

Proposed to woman who had his "striking blue eyes"

Luke Rosiak
Hunter Biden Thought His Brother’s Death Opened The Door For Him To Run For Office
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Hunter Biden’s memoir is framed as a howl of mourning for his brother, Beau, who died of cancer at age 46. But a day after Beau’s funeral, his cocaine-addicted sibling believed that his tragic passing might create an opening to run for office himself.

In “Beautiful Things,” his book released Tuesday, he recounts an interaction with his then-wife Kathleen as they returned home from the funeral:

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