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Did you send it or do you want suggested edits? It is honest and beautiful. What I would add are only some corrections of a grammatical nature. I could also make a few other edits, with humility. Would you like me to?


> On Jan 18, 2019, at 12:26 AM, Robert Hunter <rhbdc@icloud.com> wrote:
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>> From: Hunter Biden <hbiden@rosemontseneca.com>
>> Subject: Its long and too much by way too much but...I ts tru.
>> Date: January 18, 2019 at 12:25:45 AM EST
>> To: Doug Brinkley <douglas.brinkley@gmail.com>
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>> Chris I usually never respond to tabloid journalists, but I think you're a good writer and I actually know some people- friends and colleagues of your’s who say you're a good guy, So for some reason it's really important to kms right now for you to understand why the American people- Republicans Democrats, Southerners, Northerners, Farmers, Lawyers, Cops, and cab drivers love my dad and respect him as much as they do. They dont all agree with some of his political beliefs, but I can tell you they do genuinely love him and admire and respect him because they remind them of their dad who lost a wife and child when they were just infants, but never stopped loving them. He reminds them of the brother who always showed up just when you needed him most no matter what. He reminds them the grandfather who held the whole family together when they center of his world fell out from beneath him again. He reminds of the son who looked at his mom and dad and said when I grow up I want to be just as tough and smart as you mom and I want to be as courageous and generous as you dad. He gives them hope that they can face the same adversities and tragedies and stumbles and embarrassments as all families and do it with grace and compassion and and so much strength.
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>> They know that we Biden's are different in the privileges being a US Senator can afford you but not iota different from the agony and joy everyone will face to some degree in their lives. The only difference for my family Chris is all the ups and downs have been played out on the television and thew tabloids. You might think thats been hard but it actually has given all us 3 gifts that most in the midst of the scrum never see and those that live more private lives don't’ think they have to face. This family has been made unbreakable. None of has ever asked nor even thought to ask their blood Would you still love me if I…?” And its made us understand that the one thing that binds us all not just my family everyone you will ever meet is what it is to feel pain and how the even the smallest gesture of genuine kindness and love can make you hope for a better day.
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>> The reason people love my Dad Chris iOS because he’s the son they hope to raise he’s the parent they hope to be he’s the brother and friend we all look up to. They love him Chris because he is as real an American as they are and they all want to be. He’s not perfect’ he’s got a horrible temper, he spoils his grandkids, he loves my Mom almost too much and he still thinks he can still make me angrier than anyone on earth sometimes. There’s nobody I want to make more proud of me than my Dad and there’s no-one that I know can ever be more proud of me and my whole family. May Dad never has asked anyone of us to be less human he’s just taught us all what it means to be a good man in hard world.He taught me what his mom and dad taught him “Always remember no man is better than you and you are no better than you.”if er to break I m certain they would all say —no one will ever know you better than your brothers and your sisters you always take their side no matter how badly they screwed up. Every Biden kid knows there’s nothing that they could do to make anyone in this family to stop loving you. And finally always be kind to the people in pain (unless they hurt your grandmother your mom your aunt or your sister- then you're free to beat the shit out of them if your sister hasn’t beat you to it.)
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>> That's a long way of answering your questions about whether my divorce which I promise isn't anything but a sad moment in 23 years of loving and being loved by someone I still love and respect or my brothers death and how the whether you think the work i've chosen two do in my career that like being a Jesuit Volunteer for a year after college running an emergency service shelter living on 80 dollars a month in wages made my dad question my judgment any more than as 38 year old Yale Law graduate who was before that a banker and after that a government employee at the department of commerce as an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University masters program in the School of Foreign Service, or the five years I worked as a valet parking cars at night to help pay for college or unloading rail cars of frozen beef every summer 12 hours a day or as waiter (who was demoted to bus boy) or how about when I was the Chairman of the Board of the US World Food Program that supports over half the budget of the largest humanitarian organization in the world or for free because the former board members like bob dole and George McGovern and current people like one of my mentors Sandy BERGER asked me to. I've liked some jobs more than others. I like the stuff I did for free better than the stuff that’s supported me and Kathleen since we had my oldest daughter Naomi in my first year of law school. I loved lobbying for my Jesuit University clients. I was extremely proud of goin g to the senate as a young lawyer with Jesuit University Presidents of inner City Schools who were asking for help from the federal government to get things like mobile dental clinics in Detroit in the 90’s at a time when Detroit proper didn’t have a single dentists office within the city limits. I loved helping trial lawyers lobby shut down the manufacture and distribution of Oxycontin by Purdue Pharma. One of my favorites was accepting George W. Bush’s appoint meant to be Vice Chairmen of the Board of Amtrak. I loved and still love how hard and smart the people that actually run the railroads worked.
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>> And Chris seeing that you actually had the nerve to ask a 49 year old man and father of 5 if my Dad may not run for President because its been reported during my divorce that i've gone strip clubs, or whether I went to rehab and quit drinking when my brother asked me to when I 33 years old because he said it took up too much time we could be spending together, or that I relapsed when Beau died and Kathleen and I separated 2 months later— the answer I=s No and what a stupid fucking question. You think that any American is not going to vote for my dad because my wife and I lost our shit after 23 years of marriage when the kindest most generous most loving man either of was will ever know died at 46. No again. You think there’s a family in America that doesn’t have a loved one that's struggled with alcoholism or addiction- you think my dad’s less proud of me or more proud of me for never giving up on it and never feeling ashamed of things people shouldn’t be ashamed of. Is your dad thinking of not going too work tomorrow Chris because you turned out to be taBLOID Lazy journalist.
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