A new book by Bob Woodward details the emotional turmoil President Biden faced over his son Hunter's legal controversies, weighing heavily on his decision to exit the race.
President Joe Biden’s decision to exit the presidential race in July was motivated in no small part by the high-profile struggles that plagued his son, Hunter Biden, in the final years of his first term — leaving him with a 'crushing' sense of guilt that those close to the outgoing president say plagued him more than the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East.
As Woodward reports, Biden struggled mightily to accept that consensus — first, by attempting to brush off his catastrophic performance as a bad night and an event he could recover from in the months ahead. The tsunami of pressure on him to drop out only got stronger. In fact, according to Woodward, Biden was leaning in the direction of staying in the race on July 4, when he met with Secretary of State Antony Blinken for a private lunch.
For Biden, this knowledge left him 'heartbroken' and affected him more than the major crises playing out abroad in Europe and the Middle East, sources told Woodward. These things took the president 'off an even keel,' preoccupied him and taken 'a lot out of him' in recent years. In describing the president's inner turmoil to Woodward, Blinken himself teared up, thinking of his own relationships with two young children.
The book does not detail the extent to which Hunter's legal woes and investigations were directly involved in the president's decision to step down, which was likely the result of myriad factors, internal party pressures, and deeply personal considerations. The White House did not respond to Fox News's request for comment on the matter.
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