Kate Bedingfield on Hunter’s Guilty Verdict: It’s Obviously ‘Very Hard’ for Joe Biden

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BEDINGFIELD: “Well, personally, it’s very hard. I mean, he is — the Biden family is incredibly close. They’re very close-knit, they lean on each other. I worked for Joe Biden for almost 8 years, I sat in countless meetings in different scenarios, including in the Oval Office when a member of his family would call him and he would stop a meeting and step out to take a call from his family. I mean, he truly puts family first. So, for him, obviously this is very hard. It’s hard to watch your son grapple with the kinds of demons that Hunter Biden has been dealing with. It’s hard to watch somebody in your family who you love deal with addiction and all of the awful things that can flow from that. So this is hard. I don’t think that it will — you know, it’s not something that’s going to knock him sideways, prevent him from focusing on being president of the United States. He’s very resilient. He has dealt with a lot of personal tragedy in his life while also being in public office. He obviously lost his son Beau to brain cancer while he was vice president. So he’s somebody who has dealt with personal difficulty while handling the rigors of public office and he’ll do that here. But of course, it’s hard for him.”