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ABC News Live. But ultimately the majority of the American people wanted Joe Biden to be the president regardless of any past wrongdoings or salacious theories about his family, and Hunter was right there on Nov. Not that Hunter — born Robert Hunter Biden — hasn't merited his share of scandalous headlines. The Yale Law School graduate married Kathleen Buhle in and they have three daughters together: Naomi again, in tribute to their late sister , born in ; Finnegan, born in ; and Maisy, born in The longtime couple split up in and divorced in , with Kathleen citing drug use and infidelity among her husband's shortcomings in her divorce filing.
Hunter went on to have a relationship with Hallie, his brother's widow. Then, in , he was sued for child support by Lunden Alexis Roberts, who claimed Hunter was the father of her child — referred to in court documents by the initials NJR — born in August Hunter at first denied having a sexual relationship with the woman, but in January an Arkansas judge signed off on an order of paternity , a DNA test having proven that he was the child's biological dad.
Hunter subsequently agreed to pay an undisclosed amount of monthly child support, according to CNBC. In May , Hunter married Melissa Cohen, a documentary filmmaker from South Africa, in a rooftop ceremony in Los Angeles after a whirlwind courtship.
Case in point: According to the New Yorker , just days after their first date, Hunter had "shalom" Hebrew for hello, goodbye and peace tattooed on the inside of his left bicep to match one that Melissa has. And then a few days after that , he proposed. After the ceremony, Hunter told the magazine, "I called my dad and said that we just got married.
He was on speaker, and he said to her, 'Thank you for giving my son the courage to love again. And the only thing that allowed me to see it was the fact that you never gave up on me, you always believed in me. Hunter and Melissa welcomed a son in March, and the 8-month-old was in his dad's arms when they were onstage with the whole family on Nov.
Hunter wasn't kidding about the whole family being in the habit of coming together for every significant family-friendly event on Joe's political calendar. Either on the phone, or I text with them. Natalie and Robert lived nearby, he shared, and — with social distancing the order of the day — "we sit on our back porch and they sit out on the lawn with two chairs there, and we talk about everything that is going on in their day.
And talk about being home from school. And who's driving whom crazy, and so on. Naomi Biden, who graduated from Columbia Law School this summer, tweeted out a photo of the five older grandkids hugging their grandpa when they found out he had won the election on the morning of Nov. Her pinned tweet , from Oct. We may not look intimidating, but remember, our Nana is DrBiden In it's a small world after all news, Naomi and Tiffany Trump were undergraduates at University of Pennsylvania together future President Donald Trump and future President-Elect Joe Biden both attended the graduation in , and Tiffany shared a photo of her and Naomi hanging out in the Hamptons in the summer of Joe is the eldest of four siblings, and sister Valerie Biden Owens has been a familiar figure on all the campaign trails in her brother's life.
In fact, she's been his closest political advisor for almost half a century. But my brother's even a better listener. Asked what she'd call him once he officially became president, Valerie said, "Joey. Don't underestimate the general excitement over the return of dogs to the White House after four years of there not being any first pets to coo over.
On the flight home to D. Biden came to the back of the plane for an off-the-record gaggle. When I composed myself, I looked up at Jill, and she, too, had tears in her eyes.
When Marine One—the helicopter that flies the president from the White House to his plane—lands and then roars up to disgorge POTUS and FLOTUS and the man carrying the football , it feels like a show of muscularity that is particular to the United States—one that is no longer in the hands of someone for whom that seemed to matter too much and for all the wrong reasons.
The quasi-march across the tarmac, the crisp salute to the commanders and sergeants in place to greet him—it suits Joe, in his aviators, so tall and thin in his impeccable blue suit. Their first stop is at a magnet school, Yorktown Elementary—and Mrs. There are 18 students in their third week of in-person learning. Press and staff, who are cordoned off in a corner of the room, outnumber the students, who seem startled into silent amazement by this once-in-a--lifetime intrusion into their precarious world.
After the Bidens enter the classroom—introduced as the Very Special Guests they most certainly are—Jill makes a beeline for a girl in the back of the room and then heads over to a student named Andrew. She hovers over his project, asks a series of thoughtful questions, while her husband, shifting from one foot to the other, looks a little out of place—letting the wife take the lead on this one.
Not a chance. He hesitates for a moment and then, perhaps realizing there are cameras trained on him, takes control. He turns to another kid. Everyone piles back into the plus-car motorcade, and off we go, passing clusters of people now lining the roads, everyone with cell phones up, many of them waving. Suddenly the whole caravan comes to a stop. Word comes through that Joe wants to say hello to the students and teachers who have gathered in front of a high school, including a group of Navy ROTC, flags erect.
The guys in the press vans leap out and race toward the front of the motorcade, and by the time I get there, the Bidens are just stepping out of the armored Cadillac known as the Beast. I watch, with some trepidation, as President Biden walks off down the road and into the grass.
He crouches into a deep knee bend, impressive for a year-old, as a little boy carrying a tiny American flag comes toward him. He embraces the child as Jill lingers on the macadam behind him in black-and-white stilettos, looking every inch a goddess at I had talked to Joe Biden on the phone a few times—once at their beach house in Delaware, the grandkids swirling around, eating cheesesteak hoagies, when someone handed me a cell phone: Joe wants to talk to you —but I had never met him in person.
On the flight back to D. It was part of his reluctance to run for the office in the first place. But I never had a desire for that piece of it. I think part of that got knocked out by being vice president.
And so she came in, I think—knowing the experience of being vice president, knowing the power of the presidency—knowing that she could change things. So proud. She would just go do it, and she got better and better. I ask if becoming president and first lady affected their marriage. But this life prevents it. Or grading papers. We have to figure out a way—and I mean this sincerely—to be able to steal time for one another. It has been tinkered with over the years, but it remains fundamentally the same: ridiculously beautiful.
And because it is early May, there are enormous, perfect blooms everywhere you turn, the smell intoxicating. The Bidens are gardeners. Do they run around? I throw the ball.
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