Hunter Biden began affair with brother’s wife after he wanted ‘to help her kids,’ explosive book claims
HUNTER Biden claims in a new book that his 'star-crossed coupling' with his brother's widow started because he wanted to help her children.
The president's controversial son says he didn't have much in common with Hallie Biden when they started their affair after his brother Beau's death from brain cancer.
The 46 year old brunette was a school admissions counselor. Hunter, 51, was a Washington lobbyist battling drug addiction, according to his memoir, Beautiful Things, that will be released next week.
"He admits they didn't have much to talk about and that it was a star-crossed coupling," a publishing insider told The Sun.
"But he found her incredibly sexy. She had these wide eyes and a smile he calls 'hypnotic."
"He wasn't close to her before Beau died but after she was widowed, she was left with two children to bring up -- a son and daughter -- and Hunter would stay at her house in Delaware to help her with them.
'"He'd get there early evening, in time for dinner, and help put the kids to bed and tell them stories about growing up with their dad.
"He slept on a murphy bed in the den, then took them to school in the morning.
"After Beau's funeral, he'd even suggested to his own wife, Kathleen, that he move with her and their kids into Hallie's house where they all would live as one big extended family."
That idea went nowhere, the publishing insider says. "Hunter's marriage rapidly was going onto the rocks and he turned to Hallie, not Kathleen, for help after one of his crack cocaine binges.
"It ended up in Arizona, where he checked himself into a wellness centre for hypnotherapy and cleansings.
He admits they didn't have much to talk about and that it was a star-crossed coupling.
A publishing insider told The Sun
He found her incredibly sexy. She had these wide eyes and a smile he calls 'hypnotic.
"He didn't smoke crack for the first time in 14 days or more but he didn't trust himself to stay sober on the trip back east so he phoned Hallie and asked her to accompany him.
"She flew out the next day and the book says by the time they returned home Hunter says they were a "couple."
After the trip, Kathleen found texts between them. Hunter says everything blew up after that.
"She filed for divorce and it was leaked to the press that he was dating Hallie."
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The book reveals that Hunter was behind an extraordinary statement in which Joe Biden said he supported the affair.
"Joe is really straitlaced and he was reluctant,' says the publishing insider.
"But he said he'd do whatever Hunter thought best."