A COLLECTION. FULL GUIDES. THEIR RECORD.
Fifty years of public life, family loss, and money questions. This is a people collection: start with full guides and the biography. Hunter’s prosecutions, Burisma, the laptop, and China business are live deep guides nested here; cover-up of decline is live as a nested deep. Older case pages stay linked as nest gateways while they convert. This page is not a fact-check board. Cover-up of decline is rated on its own spine — separate from whether unelected staff exercised presidential power. Historical 2014–2019 Burisma / prosecutor record only — no current-war framing.
COMBINED TIMELINE
Dated events merged from nest gateways and full guides inside this collection. Color marks the child topic. Click a point to open that guide’s timeline.
FULL GUIDES INSIDE THIS HUB
Each full guide is a complete AI Files topic — story-first, with pictures, a critical path and theories rated against it. More Biden Family topics will land here as nest pages are rebuilt. Historical 2014–2019 Burisma / prosecutor record stays on the table; current-war framing does not.
FULL GUIDECOURT / 2018–2025
Gun trial, tax case, plea collapse, Weiss, convictions, pardon — the court spine.
Illustrated guide: Delaware gun trial, California tax case, collapsed plea, Special Counsel Weiss, convictions, and the December 2024 pardon. Rival theories mapped. Nest under The Biden Family Files.
FULL GUIDEUKRAINE BUSINESS / 2014–2019
Board seat, pay tallies, State warning, Archer brand — the Burisma spine.
Illustrated guide: appointment, money, Kent conflict warning, Archer “brand” and Dubai ask, Shokin adjacency labeled carefully. Nest under The Biden Family Files.
FULL GUIDEDELAWARE / PLATFORMS / 2019–2026
Custody, authentication, platform suppression, and the letter — one spine.
Illustrated guide: Wilmington drop-off, FBI subpoena, NY Post story, Twitter/Facebook limits, fifty-one intel letter, WaPo/CBS forensics, June 2024 trial exhibit. Authenticity, suppression, and the letter rated separately.
FULL GUIDECHINA BUSINESS / 2013–2025
BHR, CEFC/Ye, wires, “big guy,” Ho — family money spines rated apart.
Illustrated guide: Air Force Two introduction, BHR and the $1.5B myth, Ye Jianming and CEFC wires, Hudson West III, the May 2017 email, Patrick Ho, bank memos, and Joe knowledge vs receipt. Nested under The Biden Family Files.
FULL GUIDEDECLINE / CONCEALMENT / 2023–2026
Cheapfakes, Hur, debate, Original Sin, Fifths — concealment on its own spine.
Illustrated guide: sharpness messaging, Special Counsel Hur, June 2024 debate collapse, family hold and withdrawal, Tapper/Thompson, O’Connor and aides taking the Fifth, House decline file. Autopen power-usurpation kept separate. Nested under The Biden Family Files.
CONVERTING
Cover-up of decline
Hunter prosecutions, Burisma, Laptop & the 51, and Five full guides are live (prosecutions, Burisma, laptop, China business, cover-up of decline). Case nest gateways below stay linked while other nests convert. Prefer a FULL GUIDE card whenever one exists. Cover-up of decline is already rated Documented on its own spine — separate from autopen / “running the country.”
CONTEXT BEFORE CONTROVERSY
Scranton and Wilmington formation; Burisma and the Shokin fight; CEFC-era money and the “big guy” email; the laptop, platforms, and the 51 letter; prosecutions and pardons; the House inquiry and the failed Smirnov tip; Hur, the debate, withdrawal, and decline-cover claims. The background supplies context for the files; it does not decide contested theories. Links open full guides and nest gateways — this hub is a collection gateway, not a deep-guide chapter product.
1972–2026 / WILMINGTON · WASHINGTON
Joe Biden served thirty-six years as a senator, eight as vice president, and four as the 46th president. His son Hunter, his brother James, and other relatives built businesses that traded on the family name; those ventures — Burisma, CEFC-linked wires, laptop material, federal gun and tax cases, an impeachment inquiry, and post-presidency decline/cover-up fights — are the claim spines of this collection. This hub separates contemporaneous records and official documents from viral claims that overreach the evidence. A board seat is not proof the vice president sold policy. Association is not knowledge. Inquiry is not conviction. A pardon is clemency — not a verdict rewrite. The 51 intelligence letter’s “earmarks” language is not a forensic finding that laptop emails were fabricated. Deep guides under Full guides carry chapters and critical paths; nest gateways stay maintained records.
Joe Biden was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, in 1942 and grew up in Wilmington, Delaware. In November 1972, at twenty-nine, he won a U.S. Senate seat. Five weeks later his first wife, Neilia, and their infant daughter, Naomi, were killed when their car was struck by a tractor-trailer; sons Beau and Hunter survived. He was sworn in beside their hospital beds. That crash is a documented family tragedy. A detail Biden later told about the crash — that the other driver was drunk — is not supported by the contemporary record and is treated in the family-history nest as an unsupported public claim, not as settled fact.[1][2]
He married Jill Jacobs in 1977. He served thirty-six years in the Senate, survived two brain aneurysms in 1988, ran for president in 1988 and 2008, and became Barack Obama’s vice president. Beau Biden — Delaware’s attorney general and an Iraq War National Guard veteran — died of brain cancer in May 2015 at forty-six. Hunter, the younger son, became a lawyer and lobbyist and has written publicly about addiction. Ashley Biden, born in 1981 per Jill’s and independent profiles (an archived White House retrospective says 1980; this hub uses 1981), is the youngest child. Loss and public office are the load-bearing biography spine; they do not decide later money, laptop, or pardon fights.[1][3]
Deep gateways (not rewritten here): family history, Hunter’s life, Jill Biden, Beau and cancer. Association of family tragedy with later business or political claims is narrative adjacency — not proof of those claims. This hub keeps Scranton-to-Wilmington formation separate from Burisma, CEFC, laptop authentication, and clemency files linked below.
In 2014, while Joe Biden ran point on Ukraine policy for the Obama administration, Hunter Biden joined the board of Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian gas company whose owner, Mykola Zlochevsky, faced corruption investigations. Burisma paid roughly $83,333 a month to a firm tied to Hunter’s partner Devon Archer, from which Hunter was paid. A State Department official warned that the optics looked like a conflict of interest. Those appointments, payment levels, and the warning are Documented in the public file and mapped in the Burisma deep guide — not invented hub slogans.[4][5]
In 2015–2016 Joe Biden publicly pressed Ukraine to fire prosecutor general Viktor Shokin, tying a billion-dollar loan-guarantee package to anti-corruption conditions the Obama administration and European partners also supported. Critics treat the Shokin firing as protection for Burisma; defenders treat it as mainstream U.S./EU policy. The asked spines stay separate: (1) Did Hunter take a Burisma board seat and payments while his father shaped Ukraine policy? (2) Did Joe Biden condition aid on firing Shokin? (3) Was that pressure done to protect Burisma? Documented answers to (1) and (2) do not automatically prove (3). No CNN-hedge: rate each claim on its own documents.
Epistemology that does not bend here: a board seat is not proof the vice president sold policy. An email mentioning dinner or a call is not freestanding proof of a quid pro quo. Inquiry and committee letters are not convictions. Deep dive: Burisma (full guide) and nest gateway burisma/ — this hub only names the strand. Do not treat this biography block as a clone of that deep guide.[4]
After Joe left the vice presidency in 2017, Hunter and his uncle James Biden did business with CEFC China Energy and related entities. Subpoenaed bank records show millions moving from CEFC-linked companies into accounts associated with Hunter, James, and other relatives. A May 2017 email proposed equity shares including 10% “for the big guy,” whom former Hunter associate Tony Bobulinski later said meant Joe Biden. Joe has denied knowledge of or participation in those deals. Bank wires and the email text are Documented; whether “the big guy” was Joe, and whether Joe knew of or directed the venture, remain Contested on the public file.[8][10]
House Republican investigators later totaled more than twenty million dollars in foreign-linked payments across several countries into Biden-family-linked accounts over about a decade. That aggregate is a committee calculation from bank records — useful as a ledger of money movement, not by itself a finding that Joe Biden sold official acts. Rosemont Seneca, Owasco, and other vehicles appear in the nested China and bank-records files. Denials are evidence to note; they are not automatic clearance. Same conduct standards apply whether the surname is Biden or not.
Link out, do not clone: China business, “big guy”, bank records, James’s businesses, other foreign deals. Association of relatives with foreign counterparties is not knowledge by Joe of every wire. A proposed equity split is not a signed assignment to a sitting or future president. Deep guides carry the critical path; this hub is the gateway.[8]
In April 2019 a laptop was left at a Wilmington, Delaware repair shop (The Mac Shop) and not collected. The shop owner, John Paul Mac Isaac, later gave a drive to the FBI and a copy that reached Rudy Giuliani’s lawyer. On 14 October 2020 — three weeks before the presidential election — the New York Post published emails from that material. Twitter blocked links to the story for a time; Facebook reduced distribution. Fifty-one former intelligence officials signed a public letter saying the story had “the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation,” while stating they did not know whether the emails were genuine.[11][13]
Subsequent authentication: the laptop and its data were treated as Hunter Biden’s in federal proceedings; media organizations that initially hesitated later authenticated large portions of the email corpus. Media suppression and the “51 letter” are Documented as speech and platform acts — not as proof the laptop was Russian disinformation, and not as proof every viral claim drawn from the drive is true. Chain-of-custody disputes and selective leaking remain Contested terrain mapped in the nested guides.
Epistemology: a real laptop can still be spun. A suppressed story is not automatically a true story in every particular. The letter’s “earmarks” language is not a forensic finding that the emails were fabricated. Deep dives: laptop, authentication, censorship / platform actions, 51 intelligence letter. This hub does not rebuild those case guides.[11]
Special counsel David Weiss charged Hunter Biden with gun and tax crimes after a 2023 plea deal collapsed in open court. In 2024 a Delaware jury convicted him of three felony gun counts; he later pleaded guilty to nine tax counts. Two IRS agents (Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler) testified that the investigation had been slowed and constrained — whistleblower testimony that is evidence about process, not by itself a finding that Joe Biden ordered a cover-up. Court dockets and the plea/conviction record are Documented.[14][23]
Joe Biden said repeatedly, including in a June 2024 interview, that he would not pardon his son. On 1 December 2024 he issued a full and unconditional pardon covering Hunter’s federal gun and tax convictions and other potential federal offenses from 1 January 2014 through the pardon date. A pardon is a constitutional clemency fact. It does not erase the documentary spine of emails, bank wires, or board minutes, and it is not a judicial finding of innocence. “Pardon ≠ guilt erased” is the standing epistemology on this hub.
Later family-wide clemency announcements for James, Sara, and other relatives sit in the family-pardons nest as dated executive acts — separate from Hunter’s gun/tax case. Deep dives: Hunter prosecutions, Hunter pardon, family pardons, IRS whistleblowers / investigators. Accused denials and talking points about “weaponization” are noted; they do not decide the court record.[14]
House Republicans opened an impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden in September 2023 and formally authorized it that December. The inquiry’s most explosive early tip — an FBI Form 1023 summarizing a confidential human source’s claim that Burisma paid Joe and Hunter $5 million each — collapsed when the source, Alexander Smirnov, was charged with lying to the FBI and later pleaded guilty. A false informant tip is Documented as false; it does not wipe other bank, email, or testimony spines, and it does not prove every remaining claim.[17][18][24]
The committees’ August 2024 final report said Joe Biden had engaged in impeachable conduct involving influence and obstruction themes. The House never voted to impeach him. An inquiry and a staff/majority report are not a Senate conviction and not a criminal verdict. Hunter’s congressional testimony and related depositions are dated records in the nested inquiry and Hunter-congress nests — testimony is evidence to weigh, not automatic proof of every allegation put to him. Bank-record ledgers and email exhibits entered in the inquiry remain available to rate on their own spines even after the Smirnov tip failed.
No smear pad: do not answer “were there foreign-linked payments to relatives?” by swapping in “was Smirnov’s $5 million claim true?” after that claim failed. Rate each spine on its own documents. Accused denials and partisan talking points on both sides are evidence to note, never the deciding proof that clears or convicts. Deep gateways: influence inquiry, Smirnov / 1023, Hunter’s testimony, what Joe knew. Inquiry ≠ conviction.[17]
In February 2024 special counsel Robert Hur declined to charge Joe Biden over classified documents retained from his vice presidency, writing that a jury might see him as “a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.” That charging decision and the memory language are Documented. They are not a medical diagnosis published as fact, and they are not a finding that staff “ran the country” by autopen. Four months later, the 27 June 2024 debate against Donald Trump ended Biden’s viable renomination path; he withdrew on 21 July 2024.[19][20]
After he left office, a House report accused aides of hiding his cognitive decline and questioned use of the autopen. The cover-up-of-decline deep guide rates concealment of decline as Documented on its own asked spine — separate from harder claims that unelected staff exercised presidential powers. No CNN-hedge: “was decline covered up?” is not answered by “did the autopen illegally run the executive branch?” Keep those files distinct. Prostate-cancer and other health headlines after leaving office sit in age-health / cancer nests as dated medical reporting, not as retroactive proof of every 2024 campaign talking point.
This biography closes the public-life arc so the hub can point honestly: classified documents (nest), debate and withdrawal, cover-up of decline, age and health, autopen, misstatements. Parent drawer: The Politicians Files. No new nests invented in this deepen.[19]
Official retrospective with an openly favorable perspective. It gives Ashley’s birth year as 1980; Jill’s official biography and the independent Ashley profile give 1981. This guide uses 1981 and does not adopt every claim in the retrospective.
Read the linked record and its date. A biography, witness account, court ruling and partisan interpretation establish different things.
Government commemorative announcement; reliable for the stated offices, service dates and death, but its praise is not an independent evaluation.
Republican majority report compiling documents and testimony; its characterizations are investigators’ conclusions, not criminal judgments. This guide uses its documented ethics warnings without adopting every allegation.
Primary transcript, especially pages 24–36, 101–108 and 124–126. Archer describes his recollections and understanding; distinguish what he heard directly from what he inferred.
The U.S. ambassador publicly accuses officials in the Prosecutor General’s Office of undermining a British case that had frozen $23 million of Mykola Zlochevsky’s assets.
Original public discussion in which Biden describes conditioning a loan guarantee on the prosecutor’s removal. His account establishes his stated action, not the motive asserted by later critics.
Traces the $3 million wire from State Energy HK to Robinson Walker LLC on 1 March 2017 and about $1.065 million then sent on to Biden family accounts.
Payments from Russia, Kazakhstan and Ukraine, including $3.5 million from Yelena Baturina to Rosemont Seneca Thornton in February 2014 and $142,300 from Kenes Rakishev for a car.
Primary transcript, inspected from downloaded PDF. Bobulinski attributes “big guy” to Joe Biden and alleges involvement; those are his claims. The final ownership documents and whether a transaction occurred are separate questions.
The story that launched the laptop controversy, built on Vadym Pozharskyi’s 17 April 2015 email.
Two experts verify about 22,000 of the roughly 129,000 emails on a copy of the drive; most could not be checked either way; signs that others had accessed and handled the data.
Original seven-page statement, including explicit acknowledgement of no evidence of Russian involvement. The authors were former officials speaking publicly, not issuing a current intelligence-community assessment.
Primary prosecutor’s final report, not a neutral court verdict on every family allegation. Cover letter says pardon prevents further charging decisions and report omits uncharged third parties. Primary PDF downloaded; introductory pages and Scarsi’s December 3 order in Appendix C inspected, not every appendix.
Official statement includes the complete operative pardon text. Biden’s claims of selective prosecution are his explanation, not an independent court finding.
Crucial date distinction: actual warrant says January 19, 2025; public announcement was January 20. Covers nonviolent federal offenses beginning January 1, 2014, through warrant date; five named adults only.
Contemporaneous wire report; authorization of an inquiry is not the passage of articles of impeachment.
Original majority investigators’ argument; conclusions about a conspiracy are attributed, not adopted as judicial findings.
Prosecutorial report and charging assessment, not a conviction or clinical diagnosis. Its large PDF may load slowly. The 200-word source-use budget is shared across this chapter.
Read the dated record and its stated scope.
The full majority report, with the Zients testimony about the 19 January 2025 pardons and the “I approve the use of the autopen” email.
Read the dated record and its stated scope.
Sworn congressional testimony is primary evidence of what witnesses said, not a verdict accepting all claims. Dates and institutional actions must be distinguished from inference of White House direction.
Wire reporting of the plea hearing, read with the subsequent judicial order and appellate memorandum. No assertion here that Russian contacts by themselves prove every claim about foreign direction.
RELATIONSHIPS WITH A PAPER TRAIL
Named people and organizations with documented ties on the Biden family’s public record. Edges below come from appointments, court and counsel filings, corporate roles, bank and email materials already treated in nested guides, and contemporaneous primary reporting — not from invented seating-chart adjacency. Contested influence claims are labeled Contested. Indictment is not guilt; a pardon is a clemency fact, not a verdict rewrite; association is not knowledge; inquiry is not conviction. Denials are noted; they do not by themselves clear the ledger. Deep narrative stays in the case files linked from Full guides — this hub does not clone Burisma, laptop, China, prosecutions, or cover-up deeps. Historical 2014–2019 Ukraine framing only; no Ukraine-war content.
Documented Married Joseph R. Biden Jr. in 1977; long public role as educator and, from 2021–2025, First Lady. Family adjacency and White House ceremonial roles are institutional facts.
Boundary First Lady role and educator career are not a corruption finding and not a substitute for the money, laptop, or pardon spines.
Sources Jill Biden nest gateway.
Documented Adult son; Burisma Holdings board member (2014–2019); CEFC-related and other foreign-facing ventures in the public record; federal gun and tax cases culminating in convictions and later presidential clemency.
Contested “Joe directed every deal” — harder claim than board seats, wires, and emails alone establish.
Epistemology Conviction and pardon are institutional outcomes. They do not erase emails, bank wires, or board minutes treated in nested guides. Pardon ≠ guilt erased.
Sources Burisma · China business · Hunter prosecutions · laptop.
Documented Joseph R. Biden III; Delaware attorney general; Iraq War National Guard service; died of brain cancer in May 2015. Central to family biography and later Hallie Biden narratives.
Boundary Beau’s career and death are not a money-or-influence finding about Hunter’s later ventures.
Documented Youngest child; public social-work and nonprofit profile; diary/theft episode treated in personal-claims terrain as a separate file from foreign-money spines.
Boundary Her conduct or headlines are not automatically Joe’s or Hunter’s foreign-influence record.
Documented Brother; appears on CEFC-linked and other business strands with Hunter in subpoenaed bank and email materials; later named in family clemency announcements.
Association Shared ventures and wires with relatives — not automatic proof Joe knew or directed each deal.
Sources James’s businesses · China · family pardons.
Documented Beau’s widow; later personal relationship with Hunter appears in public reporting and in gun-case factual background.
Boundary Family grief and personal relationships are not foreign-influence findings.
Documented Hunter’s business partner; Burisma-linked firm payments; congressional testimony describing calls and dinners involving Joe as social/relationship facts he observed — not as proof of a policy sale.
Contested How far those social contacts imply knowledge of specific deals or official acts.
Sources Burisma deep / nest.
Documented Owner of Burisma Holdings; subject of Ukrainian corruption investigations during the board-seat years.
Boundary Owner’s legal troubles ≠ proof that Joe Biden sold the Shokin outcome for Hunter’s board seat. Rate Shokin and Burisma spines separately in the deep guide.
Documented Burisma adviser; “dinner with dad” style emails appear in the laptop corpus and are mapped in the pozharskyi nest / Burisma guide.
Contested Whether a dinner invitation email proves a working influence channel versus social courtesy.
Sources Pozharskyi email.
Documented Former Hunter associate on CEFC-related venture; public identification of “the big guy” in a May 2017 email as Joe Biden; turned over devices/materials he says corroborate his account.
Contested Whether Joe Biden knew of or participated in the proposed equity split — Bobulinski’s identification vs Joe’s denials.
Boundary A claimant identification is evidence to weigh, not a court finding. See big guy · China business.
Documented Source of multimillion-dollar wires into Biden-family-linked accounts after 2017, as shown in subpoenaed bank records cited in nested guides.
Association Corporate counterparty adjacency — not automatic proof of official-act sales by Joe Biden.
Sources China business · bank records.
Documented Named associate on foreign-facing ventures and bank-record distributions in the public investigative file.
Boundary Associate payments are not by themselves Joe Biden’s knowledge.
Documented Wilmington shop where a laptop was left in April 2019; drive provided to FBI and a copy that reached Giuliani’s counsel — chain-of-custody spine of the laptop file.
Contested Motive narratives and selective-leak claims around how copies moved; authentication of content is a separate Documented track in federal proceedings and later media work.
Sources laptop · authentication.
Documented Aides, physicians, and senior staff appear in reporting and a House report on concealment of cognitive decline and autopen use after 2024.
Contested Autopen / “who ran the country” theories — harder than the Documented concealment-of-decline spine in the cover-up guide.
Sources cover-up of decline · autopen · age/health.
Documented U.S. Attorney / special counsel who brought gun and tax charges after the collapsed plea; court outcomes followed.
Boundary Charging decisions and timing fights are process facts — not a proxy verdict on Joe Biden’s foreign-influence exposure.
Sources Hunter prosecutions.
Documented IRS agents’ whistleblower testimony on investigative constraints; House Oversight/Accountability and related committees’ inquiry record.
Boundary Whistleblower process claims and committee reports are not criminal convictions of Joe Biden. Inquiry ≠ conviction.
Sources investigators · inquiry.
Documented Public letter saying the New York Post laptop story had “classic earmarks” of a Russian information operation, while disclaiming knowledge of whether emails were genuine.
Boundary “Earmarks” language is not a forensic finding that the emails were fabricated. Later authentication of large portions of the corpus sits in the laptop guides.
Sources 51 letter · platform actions.
Documented 14 Oct 2020 New York Post publication; copy path via Rudy Giuliani’s lawyer from the Mac Shop material.
Boundary Publication and political sponsorship of a leak do not decide authenticity; authenticity and spin are separate ratings in-guide.
Documented Confidential human source behind the Form 1023 $5 million allegation; charged with lying to the FBI; pleaded guilty — tip treated as false.
Boundary A false tip does not erase other bank/email spines and does not prove remaining claims. No smear pad that swaps failed tip for the asked money questions.
Sources Smirnov / 1023.
Documented 1 Dec 2024 full pardon of Hunter covering gun/tax convictions and a dated federal window; later family clemency announcements for James and other relatives.
Epistemology Pardon ≠ guilt erased. Clemency does not rewrite emails, wires, board minutes, or prior court findings; it ends or blocks federal punishment for covered offenses.
Sources Hunter pardon · family pardons.
EVERY DATE IN EVERY FILE
213 dated moments from the story and all 37 files, oldest first. Each event links to its file and its sources. Open a period.
1942
THE STORY
Born in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
20 Nov 1942
FILE: THE FAMILY AND THE PUBLIC CAREER ↗
Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. is born in Scranton, Pennsylvania. The family moves to Delaware when he is ten.
7 Nov 1972
FILE: THE FAMILY AND THE PUBLIC CAREER ↗
At 29, Biden defeats the Republican incumbent J. Caleb Boggs in Delaware.
18 Dec 1972
THE STORY
Neilia and Naomi Biden are killed.
5 Jan 1973
FILE: THE FAMILY AND THE PUBLIC CAREER ↗
Biden takes the oath beside his sons’ hospital beds in Wilmington.
Mar 1975
FILE: JILL BIDEN: THE DOCTORATE, THE BABYSITTER STORY AND THE POWER BEHIND HIM ↗
By the couple’s account, Jill, 23, and Joe, 32, go on their first date.
17 Jun 1977
FILE: THE FAMILY AND THE PUBLIC CAREER ↗
They marry in New York; their daughter Ashley is born in 1981.
17 Jun 1977
FILE: JILL BIDEN: THE DOCTORATE, THE BABYSITTER STORY AND THE POWER BEHIND HIM ↗
They marry at the United Nations chapel in New York.
23 Aug 1987
FILE: JOE BIDEN’S TALL TALES ↗
At the Iowa State Fair Biden uses passages from the British Labour leader Neil Kinnock without credit.
23 Sep 1987
FILE: JOE BIDEN’S TALL TALES ↗
Biden withdraws from the 1988 Democratic race after the Kinnock lines, a law-school plagiarism finding and exaggerations of his record come out.
1988
FILE: THE FAMILY AND THE PUBLIC CAREER ↗
Biden survives two brain aneurysms, the first nearly fatal, and is out of the Senate for seven months.
Aug 1993
FILE: ASHLEY’S DIARY AND TARA READE ↗
Tara Reade says Biden assaulted her in a Senate corridor; she worked in his office in 1992–1993.
Jan 2007
FILE: JILL BIDEN: THE DOCTORATE, THE BABYSITTER STORY AND THE POWER BEHIND HIM ↗
The University of Delaware awards her an Ed.D. for research on community-college student retention.
20 Jan 2009
FILE: THE FAMILY AND THE PUBLIC CAREER ↗
Biden becomes Barack Obama’s vice president after 36 years in the Senate.
May 2013
FILE: HUNTER BIDEN: ADDICTION, THE NAVY AND LIFE AFTER THE PARDON ↗
Ensign Hunter Biden, commissioned through a direct program, reports to a public-affairs unit in Norfolk.
Dec 2013
FILE: CHINA: WHAT HUNTER’S DEALS ACTUALLY PAID ↗
Hunter travels with his father on an official trip and introduces him to his business partner Jonathan Li.
Feb 2014
FILE: HUNTER BIDEN: ADDICTION, THE NAVY AND LIFE AFTER THE PARDON ↗
He is administratively discharged after testing positive for cocaine.
14 Feb 2014
FILE: MOSCOW’S MAYOR’S WIDOW, A KAZAKH OLIGARCH AND A ROMANIAN TYCOON ↗
Yelena Baturina wires $3.5 million to Rosemont Seneca Thornton.
Apr 2014
THE STORY
Hunter joins the board.
Spring 2014
FILE: BURISMA: WHAT WAS HUNTER PAID TO DO? ↗
British authorities freeze accounts linked to Burisma’s owner, Mykola Zlochevsky, in a money-laundering investigation.
Apr 2014
FILE: BURISMA: WHAT WAS HUNTER PAID TO DO? ↗
Devon Archer joins Burisma’s board; Hunter follows. The company announces Hunter’s appointment in May.
Spring 2014
FILE: MOSCOW’S MAYOR’S WIDOW, A KAZAKH OLIGARCH AND A ROMANIAN TYCOON ↗
Baturina and Kenes Rakishev attend a dinner with Hunter that Joe joins.
Apr 2014
FILE: MOSCOW’S MAYOR’S WIDOW, A KAZAKH OLIGARCH AND A ROMANIAN TYCOON ↗
Rakishev wires $142,300 to Rosemont Seneca Bohai; the same amount goes to a car dealer for Hunter the next day.
16 Oct 2014
FILE: HUNTER BIDEN: ADDICTION, THE NAVY AND LIFE AFTER THE PARDON ↗
The Wall Street Journal reports the discharge; Hunter says he is “embarrassed.”
Jan 2015
FILE: BURISMA: WHAT WAS HUNTER PAID TO DO? ↗
A London court releases the funds after Ukrainian prosecutors fail to provide supporting documents.
Feb 2015
FILE: BURISMA: WHAT WAS HUNTER PAID TO DO? ↗
State Department official George Kent later testifies he raised concerns about Hunter’s role with the vice president’s office.
10 Feb 2015
FILE: DID BIDEN GET THE PROSECUTOR FIRED TO PROTECT BURISMA? ↗
Viktor Shokin becomes Ukraine’s prosecutor general.
Apr 2015
FILE: THE EMAIL THAT STARTED IT ALL: DID JOE MEET THE BURISMA MAN? ↗
Hunter hosts a dinner in Georgetown; Joe Biden attends. Archer later lists Pozharskyi among the guests.
17 Apr 2015
FILE: THE EMAIL THAT STARTED IT ALL: DID JOE MEET THE BURISMA MAN? ↗
Pozharskyi writes: “Dear Hunter, thank you for inviting me to DC and giving an opportunity to meet your father and spent some time together.”
30 May 2015
FILE: THE FAMILY AND THE PUBLIC CAREER ↗
Beau Biden, the former Delaware attorney general and Iraq veteran, dies of brain cancer at 46.
24 Sep 2015
FILE: DID BIDEN GET THE PROSECUTOR FIRED TO PROTECT BURISMA? ↗
U.S. Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt publicly accuses prosecutors of undermining the British case against Zlochevsky.
Nov 2015
FILE: MOSCOW’S MAYOR’S WIDOW, A KAZAKH OLIGARCH AND A ROMANIAN TYCOON ↗
Bladon Enterprises starts paying Robinson Walker LLC.
Dec 2015
FILE: BURISMA: WHAT WAS HUNTER PAID TO DO? ↗
Archer testifies that Burisma executives asked Hunter to “call D.C.” to ease pressure on the company.
Dec 2015
FILE: DID BIDEN GET THE PROSECUTOR FIRED TO PROTECT BURISMA? ↗
Biden presses President Poroshenko and the Rada on corruption; the White House briefs reporters on the prosecutor general’s office.
10 Feb 2016
FILE: DID BIDEN GET THE PROSECUTOR FIRED TO PROTECT BURISMA? ↗
IMF chief Christine Lagarde says the program is at risk without “a substantial new effort” against corruption.
12 Feb 2016
FILE: DID BIDEN GET THE PROSECUTOR FIRED TO PROTECT BURISMA? ↗
A bipartisan Senate Ukraine Caucus letter presses Poroshenko to reform the prosecutor general’s office.
29 Mar 2016
THE STORY
Ukraine’s parliament dismisses the prosecutor general.
2017
FILE: CHINA: WHAT HUNTER’S DEALS ACTUALLY PAID ↗
Hunter buys a 10% stake in BHR’s management company for about $420,000.
Feb 2017
FILE: CHINA: WHAT HUNTER’S DEALS ACTUALLY PAID ↗
Hunter meets CEFC chairman Ye Jianming in Miami.
16 Feb 2017
FILE: “A WELL-MEANING, ELDERLY MAN WITH A POOR MEMORY” ↗
A month out of office, Biden tells his ghostwriter he has “just found all the classified stuff downstairs.”
1 Mar 2017
FILE: CHINA: WHAT HUNTER’S DEALS ACTUALLY PAID ↗
State Energy HK, linked to CEFC, wires $3 million to Rob Walker’s company; about $1.065 million goes on to Biden family accounts.
2 May 2017
FILE: “10 HELD BY H FOR THE BIG GUY?” ↗
Hunter introduces Bobulinski to his father in Los Angeles, the night before Joe speaks at the Milken conference.
13 May 2017
THE STORY
The CEFC equity email.
13 May 2017
FILE: “10 HELD BY H FOR THE BIG GUY?” ↗
James Gilliar proposes the split: “20 H, 20 RW, 20 JG, 20 TB, 10 Jim, 10 held by H for the big guy?”
28 Jul 2017
FILE: JAMES BIDEN: AMERICORE, THE CHECKS AND THE REFERRALS ↗
Joe lends James $40,000; it is repaid on 3 Sep 2017.
30 Jul 2017
FILE: “10 HELD BY H FOR THE BIG GUY?” ↗
Hunter’s WhatsApp threat to a man named Zhao, from IRS evidence.
Aug 2017
FILE: CHINA: WHAT HUNTER’S DEALS ACTUALLY PAID ↗
A CEFC-linked company sends $5 million to Hudson West III, Hunter’s joint venture with CEFC.
Aug 2017
FILE: “10 HELD BY H FOR THE BIG GUY?” ↗
Hunter strikes a separate deal with CEFC that leaves out Bobulinski, Gilliar and Walker.
Nov 2017
FILE: CHINA: WHAT HUNTER’S DEALS ACTUALLY PAID ↗
CEFC’s man in New York is arrested on bribery charges.
12 Jan 2018
FILE: JAMES BIDEN: AMERICORE, THE CHECKS AND THE REFERRALS ↗
Joe lends James $200,000; it is repaid on 1 Mar 2018 with money James had received from Americore.
23 Jan 2018
FILE: DID BIDEN GET THE PROSECUTOR FIRED TO PROTECT BURISMA? ↗
Biden tells the Council on Foreign Relations how he threatened to withhold the loan guarantee.
Aug 2018
Roberts gives birth in Arkansas.
12 Oct 2018
FILE: HUNTER IN THE DOCK: THE GUN, THE TAXES AND THE DEAL THAT BLEW UP ↗
Hunter buys a Colt Cobra .38 in Wilmington and answers “No” to the drug-use question on the federal form.
Jan 2019
FILE: THE UKRAINE CALL: TRUMP, GIULIANI AND THE BIDENS ↗
Giuliani begins meeting Ukrainian prosecutors, including Shokin and Yuriy Lutsenko, about the Bidens.
25 Mar 2019
FILE: CHINA: WHAT HUNTER’S DEALS ACTUALLY PAID ↗
Ho gets three years.
Apr 2019
FILE: BURISMA: WHAT WAS HUNTER PAID TO DO? ↗
Hunter’s board term ends.
12 Apr 2019
FILE: THE LAPTOP FROM HELL: HOW IT GOT OUT ↗
A MacBook Pro is left for data recovery at John Paul Mac Isaac’s shop in Wilmington and never collected.
Jul 2019
FILE: “I HAVE NEVER SPOKEN TO MY SON ABOUT HIS BUSINESS” ↗
Tax returns show $15 million earned in 2017–2018.
25 Jul 2019
FILE: THE UKRAINE CALL: TRUMP, GIULIANI AND THE BIDENS ↗
Trump asks Zelensky to “look into” Biden and the prosecutor’s firing.
Aug 2019
FILE: “I HAVE NEVER SPOKEN TO MY SON ABOUT HIS BUSINESS” ↗
Biden: “I have never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings.”
4 Sep 2019
FILE: DID BIDEN GET THE PROSECUTOR FIRED TO PROTECT BURISMA? ↗
Shokin signs a statement for a European court saying he was forced out because of Burisma.
25 Sep 2019
FILE: THE UKRAINE CALL: TRUMP, GIULIANI AND THE BIDENS ↗
The White House releases the rough transcript.
Nov 2019
A test establishes that Hunter is the father.
Nov 2019
FILE: BURISMA: WHAT WAS HUNTER PAID TO DO? ↗
Russia’s GRU begins a phishing campaign against Burisma, a security firm reports in January 2020.
9 Dec 2019
FILE: THE LAPTOP FROM HELL: HOW IT GOT OUT ↗
FBI agents serve a subpoena for the laptop and hard drive.
18 Dec 2019
FILE: THE UKRAINE CALL: TRUMP, GIULIANI AND THE BIDENS ↗
The House impeaches Trump for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
16 Jan 2020
FILE: THE UKRAINE CALL: TRUMP, GIULIANI AND THE BIDENS ↗
The GAO finds the hold on Ukraine aid violated the Impoundment Control Act.
5 Feb 2020
FILE: THE UKRAINE CALL: TRUMP, GIULIANI AND THE BIDENS ↗
The Senate acquits Trump, 52–48 and 53–47.
11 Feb 2020
FILE: JOE BIDEN’S TALL TALES ↗
On the campaign trail Biden says he was arrested in South Africa trying to see Nelson Mandela.
28 Feb 2020
FILE: JOE BIDEN’S TALL TALES ↗
Biden says he was “stopped,” not arrested.
Mar 2020
The Independence County court approves a support settlement.
25 Mar 2020
FILE: ASHLEY’S DIARY AND TARA READE ↗
Reade makes the assault allegation on a podcast and later files a police report.
1 May 2020
FILE: ASHLEY’S DIARY AND TARA READE ↗
“It is not true. This never happened.”
30 Jun 2020
FILE: “$5 MILLION EACH”: THE FBI INFORMANT’S BRIBERY STORY ↗
An FBI agent records Smirnov’s claim that Zlochevsky said he paid the Bidens $5 million each.
26 Aug 2020
FILE: THE LAPTOP FROM HELL: HOW IT GOT OUT ↗
Mac Isaac emails Giuliani’s lawyer that he has copies of the drive.
Sep 2020
FILE: ASHLEY’S DIARY AND TARA READE ↗
Aimee Harris and Robert Kurlander sell the diary and other belongings for $40,000 to Project Veritas.
10 Sep 2020
FILE: THE UKRAINE CALL: TRUMP, GIULIANI AND THE BIDENS ↗
Treasury sanctions Andrii Derkach, who spread Biden material, as a Russian agent.
23 Sep 2020
FILE: DID BIDEN GET THE PROSECUTOR FIRED TO PROTECT BURISMA? ↗
Ukrainian police close a case opened on Shokin’s complaint for lack of a crime; a court upholds the closure in 2021.
29 Sep 2020
FILE: “I HAVE NEVER SPOKEN TO MY SON ABOUT HIS BUSINESS” ↗
The Bidens report $985,233 in 2019 income.
Oct 2020
FILE: THE 51 SPIES WHO SIGNED THE LETTER ↗
Morell later testifies that the call “set in motion the events that led” to the letter.
14 Oct 2020
THE STORY
The New York Post publishes the first emails.
14 Oct 2020
FILE: THE EMAIL THAT STARTED IT ALL: DID JOE MEET THE BURISMA MAN? ↗
The New York Post publishes “Smoking-gun email reveals how Hunter Biden introduced Ukrainian businessman to VP dad.”
14 Oct 2020
FILE: THE LAPTOP FROM HELL: HOW IT GOT OUT ↗
The New York Post publishes the Pozharskyi email.
14 Oct 2020
FILE: TWITTER, FACEBOOK AND THE FBI: WAS THE STORY SUPPRESSED? ↗
Twitter blocks links to the Post story and locks @nypost; Facebook limits its distribution.
19 Oct 2020
FILE: THE 51 SPIES WHO SIGNED THE LETTER ↗
Politico publishes the statement with 51 signatures.
20 Oct 2020
Senate Republicans match emails to Secret Service travel records.
22 Oct 2020
FILE: “10 HELD BY H FOR THE BIG GUY?” ↗
Before the final debate, Bobulinski says Joe was involved.
22 Oct 2020
FILE: THE 51 SPIES WHO SIGNED THE LETTER ↗
Biden cites the letter: “There are 50 former national intelligence folks who said that what this — he’s accusing me of is a Russian plan.”
11 Dec 2020
FILE: JILL BIDEN: THE DOCTORATE, THE BABYSITTER STORY AND THE POWER BEHIND HIM ↗
A Wall Street Journal op-ed urges her to drop “Dr.”
20 Jan 2021
THE STORY
Biden is sworn in.
Jul 2021
FILE: HUNTER’S PAINTINGS: WHO BOUGHT THEM? ↗
The White House says the gallery will not disclose buyers.
30 Mar 2022
Two experts verify nearly 22,000 of about 129,000 emails.
7 Jul 2022
FILE: JAMES BIDEN: AMERICORE, THE CHECKS AND THE REFERRALS ↗
Americore’s bankruptcy trustee sues James for $600,000.
25 Aug 2022
FILE: ASHLEY’S DIARY AND TARA READE ↗
Both plead guilty to conspiring to transport stolen property across state lines.
Sep 2022
FILE: JAMES BIDEN: AMERICORE, THE CHECKS AND THE REFERRALS ↗
The claim is settled for $350,000.
7 Oct 2022
FILE: THE IRS WHISTLEBLOWERS AND THE SPECIAL COUNSEL ↗
Shapley says Weiss told senior FBI and IRS officials he was “not the deciding person” on charges.
2 Nov 2022
FILE: “A WELL-MEANING, ELDERLY MAN WITH A POOR MEMORY” ↗
Biden’s lawyer finds classified documents in his former Washington office.
21 Nov 2022
A forensic firm hired by CBS finds no sign of tampering in the copy it examined.
12 Jan 2023
FILE: “A WELL-MEANING, ELDERLY MAN WITH A POOR MEMORY” ↗
Garland names Robert Hur special counsel.
20 Jan 2023
FILE: “A WELL-MEANING, ELDERLY MAN WITH A POOR MEMORY” ↗
FBI agents search the house and take more documents.
Feb 2023
FILE: THE LAPTOP FROM HELL: HOW IT GOT OUT ↗
Hunter’s lawyers ask prosecutors to investigate those who spread his data, and he countersues Mac Isaac.
8 Feb 2023
FILE: TWITTER, FACEBOOK AND THE FBI: WAS THE STORY SUPPRESSED? ↗
Former executives tell the House the block was a mistake.
16 Mar 2023
FILE: THE BANK RECORDS: $20 MILLION AND WHERE IT WENT ↗
The Oversight Committee traces $1.3 million from Rob Walker’s accounts to Biden family members.
10 May 2023
FILE: THE BANK RECORDS: $20 MILLION AND WHERE IT WENT ↗
More than $10 million from foreign companies; the Romanian payments surface.
10 May 2023
FILE: THE 51 SPIES WHO SIGNED THE LETTER ↗
House Republicans say the campaign exploited the signers’ credentials.
30 May 2023
FILE: ASHLEY’S DIARY AND TARA READE ↗
Reade appears in Moscow and asks Vladimir Putin for citizenship.
Jun 2023
A new agreement includes some of his paintings for the child.
7 Jun 2023
FILE: THE IRS WHISTLEBLOWERS AND THE SPECIAL COUNSEL ↗
Weiss writes Congress that he has “ultimate authority” over the case.
20 Jun 2023
FILE: HUNTER IN THE DOCK: THE GUN, THE TAXES AND THE DEAL THAT BLEW UP ↗
Prosecutors file two tax misdemeanors and a gun charge to be resolved by diversion.
2 Jul 2023
FILE: THE COCAINE IN THE WEST WING ↗
Officers find a white powder in a cubby for phones at the West Executive Avenue entrance.
13 Jul 2023
FILE: THE COCAINE IN THE WEST WING ↗
The Secret Service closes the investigation for lack of physical evidence.
19 Jul 2023
FILE: THE IRS WHISTLEBLOWERS AND THE SPECIAL COUNSEL ↗
Shapley and Ziegler testify publicly to the House Oversight Committee.
20 Jul 2023
FILE: “$5 MILLION EACH”: THE FBI INFORMANT’S BRIBERY STORY ↗
Grassley publishes the redacted form.
26 Jul 2023
FILE: HUNTER IN THE DOCK: THE GUN, THE TAXES AND THE DEAL THAT BLEW UP ↗
Judge Maryellen Noreika questions the immunity terms; Hunter pleads not guilty.
31 Jul 2023
FILE: THE EMAIL THAT STARTED IT ALL: DID JOE MEET THE BURISMA MAN? ↗
Archer places Pozharskyi at the dinner.
31 Jul 2023
FILE: “I HAVE NEVER SPOKEN TO MY SON ABOUT HIS BUSINESS” ↗
Archer says Joe was put on speakerphone with associates about 20 times.
9 Aug 2023
FILE: THE BANK RECORDS: $20 MILLION AND WHERE IT WENT ↗
Payments from Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan bring the total above $20 million.
11 Aug 2023
FILE: HUNTER IN THE DOCK: THE GUN, THE TAXES AND THE DEAL THAT BLEW UP ↗
Garland makes Weiss a special counsel.
28 Aug 2023
FILE: ROBERT L. PETERS AND ROBIN WARE ↗
The Archives tells a court it holds about 5,400 pseudonym records.
12 Sep 2023
FILE: THE IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY THAT NEVER IMPEACHED ↗
Speaker Kevin McCarthy directs committees to open an impeachment inquiry.
14 Sep 2023
FILE: HUNTER IN THE DOCK: THE GUN, THE TAXES AND THE DEAL THAT BLEW UP ↗
A Delaware grand jury indicts Hunter on three gun counts.
7 Dec 2023
FILE: HUNTER IN THE DOCK: THE GUN, THE TAXES AND THE DEAL THAT BLEW UP ↗
A Los Angeles grand jury returns nine tax counts.
13 Dec 2023
FILE: THE IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY THAT NEVER IMPEACHED ↗
The House formally authorizes the inquiry on a party-line vote.
13 Dec 2023
Hunter skips a subpoenaed deposition and speaks to reporters outside the Capitol.
Jan 2024
FILE: HUNTER’S PAINTINGS: WHO BOUGHT THEM? ↗
The gallerist tells Congress who bought the work.
Jan 2024
Prosecutors describe obtaining the laptop and Hunter’s iCloud data under warrant.
8 Feb 2024
FILE: “A WELL-MEANING, ELDERLY MAN WITH A POOR MEMORY” ↗
Hur declines to charge; Biden answers that night: “My memory is so bad, I let you speak.”
14 Feb 2024
FILE: “$5 MILLION EACH”: THE FBI INFORMANT’S BRIBERY STORY ↗
Special counsel David Weiss charges Smirnov with lying to the FBI and creating a false record.
14 Feb 2024
FILE: THE IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY THAT NEVER IMPEACHED ↗
Weiss charges Alexander Smirnov with fabricating the $5 million bribery claim.
19 Feb 2024
FILE: HUNTER’S PAINTINGS: WHO BOUGHT THEM? ↗
Morris says he bought 11 paintings for $875,000.
21 Feb 2024
FILE: JAMES BIDEN: AMERICORE, THE CHECKS AND THE REFERRALS ↗
James tells investigators his brother had no involvement in his businesses.
28 Feb 2024
FILE: “10 HELD BY H FOR THE BIG GUY?” ↗
Hunter tells Congress his father was not next to him and never had a stake.
28 Feb 2024
FILE: “I HAVE NEVER SPOKEN TO MY SON ABOUT HIS BUSINESS” ↗
Hunter tells Congress his father never benefited from his business.
28 Feb 2024
He testifies for hours behind closed doors.
12 Mar 2024
FILE: “A WELL-MEANING, ELDERLY MAN WITH A POOR MEMORY” ↗
“I did not sanitize my explanation. Nor did I disparage the President unfairly.”
9 Apr 2024
FILE: ASHLEY’S DIARY AND TARA READE ↗
Harris is sentenced to a month in prison and three months’ home confinement.
17 Apr 2024
FILE: JOE BIDEN’S TALL TALES ↗
In Pennsylvania Biden says his uncle Ambrose Finnegan’s body was never recovered because of cannibals in New Guinea.
7 May 2024
FILE: JAMES BIDEN: AMERICORE, THE CHECKS AND THE REFERRALS ↗
A former Americore figure is sentenced to ten years in a separate fraud.
4 Jun 2024
An FBI agent shows the jury the laptop and its serial-number match.
5 Jun 2024
FILE: THE BANK RECORDS: $20 MILLION AND WHERE IT WENT ↗
The committees cite more than $18 million to the family and $27 million including associates.
5 Jun 2024
FILE: JAMES BIDEN: AMERICORE, THE CHECKS AND THE REFERRALS ↗
Republicans refer James for prosecution for false statements.
5 Jun 2024
FILE: THE IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY THAT NEVER IMPEACHED ↗
Committees refer Hunter and James for prosecution over false statements.
5 Jun 2024
The chairmen refer him for allegedly making false statements.
6 Jun 2024
FILE: “I WILL NOT PARDON HIM”: THE PARDON ↗
Asked by ABC’s David Muir, Biden rules out a pardon.
11 Jun 2024
THE STORY
Hunter is found guilty on gun charges.
11 Jun 2024
FILE: HUNTER IN THE DOCK: THE GUN, THE TAXES AND THE DEAL THAT BLEW UP ↗
A Delaware jury convicts on all three gun counts.
14 Jun 2024
FILE: THE LAPTOP FROM HELL: HOW IT GOT OUT ↗
Hunter drops his data suit against Giuliani, without prejudice.
17 Jun 2024
FILE: THE DEBATE THAT ENDED A CAMPAIGN ↗
Karine Jean-Pierre calls viral clips of Biden “cheapfake” videos.
25 Jun 2024
FILE: THE 51 SPIES WHO SIGNED THE LETTER ↗
House Intelligence Republicans say some signers were active CIA contractors.
27 Jun 2024
FILE: THE DEBATE THAT ENDED A CAMPAIGN ↗
Biden’s halting performance against Trump sets off a party revolt.
Jul 2024
FILE: THE DEBATE THAT ENDED A CAMPAIGN ↗
AP reports family members, Jill and Hunter among them, are urging him to stay in.
5 Jul 2024
FILE: THE DEBATE THAT ENDED A CAMPAIGN ↗
Biden tells George Stephanopoulos he is staying in.
21 Jul 2024
THE STORY
Biden quits the race.
21 Jul 2024
FILE: THE DEBATE THAT ENDED A CAMPAIGN ↗
Biden withdraws and endorses Kamala Harris.
Aug 2024
FILE: MOSCOW’S MAYOR’S WIDOW, A KAZAKH OLIGARCH AND A ROMANIAN TYCOON ↗
A filing in Hunter’s tax case says the Romanian client sought to influence U.S. policy.
19 Aug 2024
FILE: THE BANK RECORDS: $20 MILLION AND WHERE IT WENT ↗
Republicans conclude Joe joined a conspiracy to monetize his office; Democrats say the records show nothing paid to him.
19 Aug 2024
FILE: THE IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY THAT NEVER IMPEACHED ↗
Republicans say Biden engaged in impeachable conduct; Democrats issue a rebuttal.
26 Aug 2024
FILE: TWITTER, FACEBOOK AND THE FBI: WAS THE STORY SUPPRESSED? ↗
Zuckerberg says Facebook should not have demoted the story.
5 Sep 2024
FILE: HUNTER IN THE DOCK: THE GUN, THE TAXES AND THE DEAL THAT BLEW UP ↗
Hunter pleads guilty to all nine tax counts as jury selection begins.
7 Nov 2024
FILE: “I WILL NOT PARDON HIM”: THE PARDON ↗
The White House again says there will be no pardon.
1 Dec 2024
THE STORY
Biden pardons Hunter.
3 Dec 2024
FILE: “I WILL NOT PARDON HIM”: THE PARDON ↗
The judges close the cases before sentencing.
16 Dec 2024
FILE: “$5 MILLION EACH”: THE FBI INFORMANT’S BRIBERY STORY ↗
Smirnov pleads guilty to the false-statement charge and to a separate tax-evasion count.
30 Dec 2024
FILE: THE IRS WHISTLEBLOWERS AND THE SPECIAL COUNSEL ↗
The Office of Special Counsel finds unlawful IRS communications about Shapley.
2025
FILE: ROBERT L. PETERS AND ROBIN WARE ↗
NARA notifies the White House it will open 89 emails in full and 49 in part from one batch.
8 Jan 2025
FILE: “$5 MILLION EACH”: THE FBI INFORMANT’S BRIBERY STORY ↗
A federal judge in Los Angeles sentences him.
13 Jan 2025
FILE: “I WILL NOT PARDON HIM”: THE PARDON ↗
The special counsel’s final report is released.
19 Jan 2025
FILE: THE LAST-HOUR PARDONS FOR JAMES, VALERIE AND FRANK ↗
The warrant naming five relatives is dated 19 January.
19 Jan 2025
An aide emails on Jeff Zients’s behalf approving autopen use for the final pardons.
20 Jan 2025
THE STORY
Biden pardons his siblings and their spouses.
20 Jan 2025
FILE: THE FAMILY AND THE PUBLIC CAREER ↗
Biden leaves the White House at 82.
20 Jan 2025
FILE: THE 51 SPIES WHO SIGNED THE LETTER ↗
Executive Order 14152 strips the signers of clearances.
20 Jan 2025
FILE: THE LAST-HOUR PARDONS FOR JAMES, VALERIE AND FRANK ↗
Biden announces the pardons shortly before leaving office.
Mar 2025
FILE: HUNTER’S PAINTINGS: WHO BOUGHT THEM? ↗
Hunter says he has sold one painting since late 2023.
17 Mar 2025
Trump declares Biden’s autopen pardons void.
18 Mar 2025
FILE: THE IRS WHISTLEBLOWERS AND THE SPECIAL COUNSEL ↗
Both men are named senior advisers at the Treasury.
1 Apr 2025
FILE: TWITTER, FACEBOOK AND THE FBI: WAS THE STORY SUPPRESSED? ↗
Released messages show FBI officials shutting down discussion of the laptop’s credibility before the election.
May 2025
FILE: “A WELL-MEANING, ELDERLY MAN WITH A POOR MEMORY” ↗
Audio of the October 2023 Hur interview is released.
18 May 2025
THE STORY
Biden’s office announces a prostate cancer diagnosis.
18 May 2025
Gleason score 9, metastatic to bone, hormone-sensitive.
20 May 2025
FILE: WAS BIDEN’S DECLINE COVERED UP? ↗
Tapper and Thompson’s book on the inner circle is published.
20 May 2025
His office says he was last screened in 2014.
31 May 2025
FILE: “BIDEN WAS EXECUTED IN 2020” ↗
Trump re-shares a Truth Social post saying Biden was executed in 2020 and replaced.
4 Jun 2025
FILE: WAS BIDEN’S DECLINE COVERED UP? ↗
A presidential memorandum orders an investigation of Biden aides.
9 Jul 2025
FILE: WAS BIDEN’S DECLINE COVERED UP? ↗
Dr. Kevin O’Connor declines to answer the committee’s questions.
13 Jul 2025
Biden tells the New York Times he approved them orally.
16 Jul 2025
FILE: JILL BIDEN: THE DOCTORATE, THE BABYSITTER STORY AND THE POWER BEHIND HIM ↗
Anthony Bernal declines to answer the House Oversight Committee.
18 Jul 2025
FILE: WAS BIDEN’S DECLINE COVERED UP? ↗
Annie Tomasini is the third aide to invoke the Fifth, after Anthony Bernal.
25 Aug 2025
FILE: THE LAPTOP FROM HELL: HOW IT GOT OUT ↗
The court affirms dismissal of Mac Isaac’s defamation suit and Hunter’s counterclaims.
Sep 2025
FILE: CHINA: WHAT HUNTER’S DEALS ACTUALLY PAID ↗
A DOJ inspector general report describes James Biden asking about a warrant for Ho in 2017.
Sep 2025
He has Mohs surgery to remove cancerous skin.
23 Sep 2025
FILE: ASHLEY’S DIARY AND TARA READE ↗
Putin grants Reade citizenship; she works for RT.
16 Oct 2025
FILE: THE IRS WHISTLEBLOWERS AND THE SPECIAL COUNSEL ↗
Their lawyers announce settlements of their retaliation claims with the IRS and DOJ.
20 Oct 2025
Biden finishes radiation at Penn Medicine.
28 Oct 2025
FILE: WAS BIDEN’S DECLINE COVERED UP? ↗
Republicans call it a cover-up; Democrats dissent.
28 Oct 2025
House Republicans “deem void” actions without written approval.
Nov 2025
FILE: “$5 MILLION EACH”: THE FBI INFORMANT’S BRIBERY STORY ↗
His lawyer confirms he is out on medical furlough.
19 Nov 2025
FILE: HUNTER BIDEN: ADDICTION, THE NAVY AND LIFE AFTER THE PARDON ↗
He tells a South African podcast he and his wife are living between Cape Town and the United States.
2 Dec 2025
FILE: THE LAST-HOUR PARDONS FOR JAMES, VALERIE AND FRANK ↗
Trump says autopen pardons are terminated; scholars say he cannot do that.
2 Dec 2025
Trump says the pardons are terminated.
Jan 2026
Roberts moves to reopen support and asks for contempt.
14 Feb 2026
FILE: ARE THE BIDENS IN THE EPSTEIN FILES? ↗
DOJ sends Congress a list of about 280 politically exposed persons named or referenced in released files.
4 Mar 2026
NBC reports DOJ shelved its autopen probe; CNN says the inquiry into aides continues.
1 May 2026
Roberts argues his spending shows he can pay more.
2 Jun 2026
FILE: JILL BIDEN: THE DOCTORATE, THE BABYSITTER STORY AND THE POWER BEHIND HIM ↗
Her book says doctors checked Biden right after the debate, while she feared he had had a stroke.
Jul 2026
FILE: “A WELL-MEANING, ELDERLY MAN WITH A POOR MEMORY” ↗
After a legal battle, recordings of the Zwonitzer sessions are released.
15 Jul 2026
FILE: HUNTER BIDEN: ADDICTION, THE NAVY AND LIFE AFTER THE PARDON ↗
A federal judge awards him $1.7 million against Patrick Byrne.
18 Aug 2026
FILE: TWITTER, FACEBOOK AND THE FBI: WAS THE STORY SUPPRESSED? ↗
Grassley says the FBI misclassified Biden-related records.
Sep 2026
FILE: THE LAPTOP FROM HELL: HOW IT GOT OUT ↗
A memecoin named for the laptop launches and briefly booms.
8 Sep 2026
Biden says the radiation worked and the disease is under control.
9 Sep 2026
FILE: HUNTER BIDEN: ADDICTION, THE NAVY AND LIFE AFTER THE PARDON ↗
A memecoin named after the laptop launches; its price spikes and collapses.
22 Sep 2026
FILE: “$5 MILLION EACH”: THE FBI INFORMANT’S BRIBERY STORY ↗
The Ninth Circuit dismisses part of his appeal and affirms the rest.
6 Oct 2026
FILE: HUNTER BIDEN: ADDICTION, THE NAVY AND LIFE AFTER THE PARDON ↗
He describes his father’s cancer treatment on a podcast.
NEST GATEWAYS / CONVERTING TO FULL GUIDES
Choose the question you came for. Each case has a chronology, an assessment and the record behind it.
37 CASE FILES / EACH WITH ITS OWN PAGE
CASE 011942 – 2026
Joe Biden went from a Scranton childhood to fifty years in national politics. His family went with him through a car crash that killed his wife and daughter, two brain aneurysms, Beau’s death and Hunter’s addiction. Most of the controversies in these files involve particular relatives, so it helps to know who is who.
1965 – 2024
Biden ended his first run for president in 1987 over borrowed speeches and an inflated academic record, and he kept telling stories that did not survive a check: an arrest in South Africa, an uncle eaten by cannibals, a son who “lost his life in Iraq.” Here is each story against the record.
CASE 031975 – 2026
Jill Biden has been accused of faking her title, of being Joe’s teenage babysitter and, after the 2024 debate, of running the show. The degree is real, the babysitter story is false, and her influence in 2024 is well documented, including in her own 2026 memoir.
CASE 042013 – 2026
Long before the laptop, Hunter Biden’s story was one of addiction. He was thrown out of the Navy Reserve in 2014 after a positive cocaine test, spent years in and out of rehab, and wrote about it in a 2021 memoir. Since his pardon he has sued his critics, moved between Malibu and Cape Town, launched a joke cryptocurrency and talked openly about his father’s cancer.
1993 – 2025
Two of the most explosive personal stories about Joe Biden come from a diary stolen from his daughter and sold to Project Veritas, and from a former Senate aide who says he assaulted her in 1993. The diary theft is a criminal conviction. The Reade allegation has some corroboration, a firm denial and no finding either way, and Reade herself now lives in Russia.
2018 – 2026
Hunter Biden denied fathering a child with Lunden Roberts in Arkansas until a DNA test proved it in 2019. He has been in court with Roberts ever since, over support, the girl’s surname and his finances, including a 2023 deal that gave the child some of his paintings.
CASE 072014 – 2019
In 2014, weeks after Russia seized Crimea and while his father ran the Obama administration’s Ukraine policy, Hunter Biden joined the board of Burisma, a gas company owned by a former Ukrainian minister under investigation in three countries. He was paid more than most American directors make in a year, every few months. Even the people who hired him say the name was part of what they bought.
2014 – 2021
In 2018 Joe Biden boasted that he had told Ukraine’s leaders they would not get a $1 billion U.S. loan guarantee unless they fired their chief prosecutor, Viktor Shokin. “Well, son of a bitch. He got fired.” Shokin says he was fired because he was going after Burisma. The record shows the pressure was real and that it was the declared policy of the U.S., the EU, the IMF and a bipartisan group of senators. It also shows the Burisma case had stalled under Shokin.
April 2015 – 2023
The first New York Post laptop story, on 14 October 2020, was built on one email: a Burisma executive thanking Hunter for “an opportunity to meet your father.” The Biden campaign said no such meeting was on Joe’s schedule. Three years later Hunter’s partner Devon Archer told Congress the Burisma executive was at a dinner in Washington that Joe attended.
CASE 102020 – 2026
In July 2023 Senator Chuck Grassley released an FBI form in which a trusted informant said Burisma’s owner had paid Joe and Hunter Biden $5 million each. It became the centerpiece of the impeachment push. In February 2024 the informant, Alexander Smirnov, was charged with making it up. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to six years.
2019 – 2020
In July 2019 President Trump asked Ukraine’s new president to look into Joe Biden and the fired prosecutor, while nearly $400 million in military aid was frozen. Rudy Giuliani had spent months collecting dirt on the Bidens in Kyiv, some of it from a man the U.S. Treasury later called a Russian agent. The House impeached Trump; the Senate acquitted him. The Burisma concern Trump raised was real; the bribery story behind it was not.
CASE 122013 – 2025
Hunter Biden’s China business ran from a 2013 investment fund to a 2017 partnership with CEFC China Energy, a Shanghai conglomerate with ties to the Chinese state, whose chairman later disappeared in Chinese custody. Bank records show millions moving from Chinese companies to Biden family accounts after Joe left the vice presidency. The famous $1.5 billion figure was never Hunter’s money, and no record shows Joe received any of the Chinese payments.
May – Aug 2017
In May 2017 a business partner of Hunter’s proposed splitting a new China venture so that 10% would be “held by H for the big guy?” Tony Bobulinski, the venture’s would-be CEO, says the big guy was Joe Biden and that he met Joe to talk about it. Two months later Hunter sent a CEFC contact a furious message claiming to be “sitting here with my father.” This is the strongest evidence that Joe’s name was being traded on. Whether Joe ever knew or took a share is the part that remains unproven.
2014 – 2024
House Republicans subpoenaed bank records and traced over $20 million from foreign sources to the Biden family and their associates, much of it routed through intermediary companies. It is the most concrete financial record of the whole affair. It also shows where the money went: to Hunter, James, Hallie and the partners. No transfer to Joe was found.
2014 – 2024
Beyond Ukraine and China, the bank records show $3.5 million from the wife of Moscow’s former mayor, a $142,300 wire from a Kazakh oligarch that paid for Hunter’s sports car, and three years of payments from a Romanian property developer fighting a corruption conviction. Two of those people dined with Joe Biden at Café Milano.
2014 – 2024
Joe Biden said repeatedly that he had never discussed Hunter’s overseas business. Witnesses describe him dropping in on dinners with Hunter’s clients, taking calls on speakerphone, and shaking hands with the CEO of the China venture. Separately, the Bidens earned more than $15 million in two years after he left office, legally, from books and speeches routed through their own companies.
2017 – 2025
Joe’s younger brother James took money from a struggling rural-hospital company that its bankruptcy trustee says was promised Middle East investment through the Biden name. Two of his checks to Joe, for $200,000 and $40,000, became Republicans’ evidence that Joe profited. The bank records show both were repayments of loans Joe had made weeks earlier.
CASE 182021 – 2026
When Hunter Biden began selling paintings in 2021, the White House said buyers would stay anonymous, even to him. Under oath his gallerist said Hunter knew who bought most of them, by value, and that the biggest buyer was his friend and lender, the lawyer Kevin Morris.
CASE 192019 – 2026
In April 2019 a man the shop owner says was Hunter Biden left a water-damaged MacBook Pro at a computer repair shop in Wilmington, Delaware, and never came back. Eighteen months later its contents were on the front page of the New York Post, three weeks before the election. The device was real, the FBI had had it since December 2019, and Hunter spent years in court with the people who spread it.
2020 – 2025
For two years one camp called the laptop Russian disinformation and the other called every file on it gospel. Forensic examinations by the Washington Post and CBS, Secret Service travel records, and finally the Justice Department’s own use of it as evidence settled the main question: it was Hunter’s, and the core data is real.
Oct 2020 – 2025
Five days after the Post story, 51 former intelligence officials signed a public letter saying the laptop emails had “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.” Biden quoted it at the final debate. The data turned out to be real, the letter’s organizer later testified that a Biden campaign adviser set it in motion, and in January 2025 Trump revoked the signers’ security clearances.
Oct 2020 – 2026
In October 2020 Twitter blocked users from sharing the Post’s laptop story and locked the paper’s account; Facebook slowed its spread while fact-checkers looked at it. Both companies later said they were wrong. The FBI had warned platforms all year about Russian “hack-and-leak” operations while it held the laptop itself, and messages released in 2025 show agents being told not to discuss its credibility.
CASE 232018 – 2024
For five years a Trump-appointed U.S. attorney investigated the president’s son. In June 2023 it looked as if it would end with two tax misdemeanors and no gun conviction. A federal judge balked, the deal fell apart in open court, and a year later Hunter Biden was a convicted felon who had also pleaded guilty to every count of a nine-count tax indictment.
CASE 24Jun 2024 – Jan 2025
Joe Biden said repeatedly that he would not pardon his son. Then, on 1 December 2024, three weeks after the election and two weeks before Hunter’s sentencing, he did, for any federal offense from 1 January 2014 onward. It covered the gun and tax cases and everything else from the Burisma years.
CASE 25Jan 2025 – 2026
In the final hours of his presidency on 20 January 2025, Biden announced preemptive pardons for five relatives: his brothers James and Francis, his sister Valerie, and their spouses Sara Biden and John Owens. None had been charged with anything. The pardons reached back to 2014, the same start date as Hunter’s.
2018 – 2026
Two IRS criminal investigators who worked the Hunter case for years went to Congress in 2023 to say the Justice Department had slow-walked it and given the president’s son special treatment. Democrats called them disgruntled. Within two years both were advising the Treasury secretary, the federal whistleblower agency had found the IRS acted unlawfully toward one of them, and the government had settled their claims.
CASE 272023 – 2024
House Republicans spent most of 2023 and 2024 trying to prove that Joe Biden was in on his family’s foreign business. They subpoenaed bank records, deposed Hunter and James, and heard from Hunter’s former partners. Their final report accused the president of impeachable conduct. The House never voted on articles of impeachment.
CASE 28Dec 2023 – Jun 2024
Hunter Biden defied a subpoena for closed-door testimony in December 2023 and instead gave a speech outside the Capitol. Facing contempt, he sat for a deposition two months later and denied, under oath, that his father had ever been involved in his business. Republicans then accused him of lying.
CASE 292017 – 2026
Biden’s lawyers found classified papers from his vice presidency in a Washington office in November 2022, and the FBI found more in his Wilmington garage, basement and offices. Special counsel Robert Hur found evidence that Biden willfully kept and shared classified material, and declined to charge him, partly because a jury would see “a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.” That one line did more political damage than the documents.
CASE 302023 – 2024
For two years the White House called concerns about Biden’s age bad-faith attacks and the viral clips “cheapfakes.” Then, on 27 June 2024, a national audience watched him lose his train of thought against Trump. Jill and Hunter urged him to stay in. Twenty-four days later he quit the race.
2023 – 2026
After he left office the question changed from “is he too old?” to “who knew?” A bestselling book by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson said aides had hidden his decline for years. His doctor and two of his closest aides refused to answer House questions, citing the Fifth Amendment. Republicans called it a conspiracy. Biden says he was fully in charge.
2025 – 2026
Biden signed many pardons and commutations by autopen, including those for his family. Trump has said those pardons are “void” and “terminated.” House Republicans said the president may not have approved some of them. Biden told the New York Times he made every decision himself.
2025 – 2026
On 18 May 2025 Biden’s office announced he had an aggressive prostate cancer that had spread to his bones. People asked at once how a president under constant medical care could have missed it. His office said his last PSA test was in 2014.
2020 – 2025
A long-running internet theory says the real Joe Biden was executed or died and was replaced by a double, a clone or a robot, pointing to photos where his face, ears or height seem to change. It would have stayed on the fringe if the sitting president had not reposted it.
Jul 2023
In July 2023 Secret Service officers found a small bag of cocaine in the White House. Given Hunter’s history, much of the internet assumed it was his. The investigation closed in 11 days without identifying anyone.
2026
When the Justice Department released its Epstein files in 2025 and 2026, Congress required a list of every politician and public figure named or mentioned anywhere in them. Ashley, Hunter, Jill and Joe Biden are on it, alongside Beyoncé, Jeff Bezos and Steve Bannon.
2009 – 2025
As vice president, Joe Biden used email accounts under other names, including Robert L. Peters, Robin Ware and JRB Ware. Republicans say he used them to send government information to Hunter. The National Archives has been releasing them slowly in response to lawsuits.
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CASE SUMMARIES / FROM NEST GATEWAYS
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The losses and the career are documented history. One detail of the family story, that the truck driver in the 1972 crash had been drinking, is not supported by the record, and Biden stopped repeating it.
The 1987 plagiarism and academic exaggerations were real and ended that campaign. The South Africa “arrest” did not happen, the cannibals story is not in the military record, and Beau died of cancer at home in the United States.
She holds an earned Doctor of Education from the University of Delaware, not a medical degree. She was 23, not 15, when they started dating. She was among the strongest voices for him staying in the 2024 race, and her chief of staff took the Fifth before Congress in 2025.
The addiction and the Navy discharge are documented, and Hunter has described them himself. His 2026 defamation win over Patrick Byrne is a court judgment. His post-pardon business and media ventures are real and mostly self-reported.
The diary was real and stolen: two people pleaded guilty and Ashley Biden confirmed it was hers. The darkest readings of its passages remain unproven. Tara Reade’s allegation has partial corroboration from people she told years later, Biden denied it, and no court or official body has made a finding.
Paternity was established by DNA in 2019 and settled in 2020. A new agreement in 2023 included paintings. In 2026 Roberts asked the court to reopen support and hold him in contempt; the court record on those motions is still developing.
The job, the pay and the conflict of interest are documented, and the State Department flagged the conflict at the time. Devon Archer testified that “the brand” was part of the value. No record shows that Joe Biden took money from Burisma or changed policy for it.
The pressure was real and Biden bragged about it. The claim that he did it to protect Burisma is not supported: Western governments and Ukrainian reformers wanted Shokin out for failing to prosecute corruption, including the Burisma case, and Ukrainian police later closed a case Shokin brought for lack of a crime.
The email is real, and Archer’s testimony puts Pozharskyi at the April 2015 Café Milano dinner Joe Biden joined. Nothing shows Burisma business was discussed or that the encounter changed anything.
The bribery story was fabricated. Smirnov admitted it and was sentenced to six years; the Ninth Circuit left the judgment standing in September 2026.
The call and the hold on aid are documented; the GAO found the hold broke the law. Trump was impeached and acquitted. Hunter’s Burisma job was a real conflict of interest, but the claim that Joe fired Shokin to protect it was false.
Hunter and James Biden were paid millions by Chinese-linked companies, mostly in 2017, when Joe was out of office. The $1.5 billion was a fund’s fundraising target, not a payment. No record shows that Joe was paid.
The email, the meeting and the WhatsApp message are real. Bobulinski’s reading that “the big guy” meant Joe is plausible and has not been rebutted by another explanation, but the deal it described was never signed in that form, and no record shows Joe held or received a share.
The payments are documented by subpoenaed bank records. The totals mix family members, partners and companies, and the Republican majority’s own report found no payment to Joe.
The payments are documented. In the Romanian case, prosecutors said in 2024 that the client wanted to influence U.S. policy. No record ties an act of Joe’s to any of the money.
The “never spoke about it” line is contradicted by witness accounts of Joe meeting Hunter’s partners and taking their calls. No witness says Joe discussed specific deals, and no record shows him being paid by them.
The checks are documented and so are the loans that preceded them. The Americore claims were settled for $350,000. James was referred for prosecution for false statements in 2024 and was pardoned in January 2025, so no court decided it.
The promised firewall did not work as described: most sales by value went to buyers Hunter knew. No evidence shows a buyer got anything from the government.
The laptop was Hunter’s and its core data is authentic: prosecutors used it as evidence in his 2024 trial. The way it reached the public, through Giuliani, was political, and Hunter’s lawsuits over it ended without a ruling that anyone broke the law in distributing it.
Authentic. The FBI matched the laptop to Hunter’s Apple account and prosecutors used its contents in court; independent experts verified thousands of emails by their cryptographic signatures. Copies circulating online have been handled by many people, and not every file in them has been verified.
The letter’s suggestion was wrong: the core data was authentic. The letter itself said the signers had no evidence of Russian involvement. Michael Morell testified that a call from Antony Blinken, then a Biden adviser, set it in motion; Blinken denied asking him to write it.
The suppression happened and the companies admit it was a mistake. The FBI’s general warnings shaped those decisions. No released record shows the FBI or the Biden campaign ordering platforms to block this story.
Hunter was convicted by a jury on three gun felonies and pleaded guilty to three tax felonies and six misdemeanors. The pardon ended both cases before sentencing; it did not undo the verdict or the plea.
Biden broke a public promise. The pardon covers any federal offense Hunter committed or may have committed over nearly eleven years, charged or not. Weiss called Biden’s claim of a selective prosecution “gratuitous and wrong.”
The pardons are real and in force. No court has voided them. The fight over whether Biden personally approved autopen-signed clemency is covered separately.
Their core account of a slow, constrained investigation is detailed, sworn and partly backed by later findings on retaliation. Weiss’s own letters to Congress shifted on his authority. Whether anyone intervened to protect Hunter for political reasons has not been shown; Weiss went on to convict him.
The inquiry documented that the Bidens made millions trading on the family name and that Joe met some of Hunter’s partners. It did not find a payment to Joe for an official act, and its biggest single tip, the Smirnov bribery claim, turned out to be invented.
He testified under oath that his father was never involved. The committees said parts of his testimony were false and referred him to prosecutors; no charge followed before the pardon.
Hur found evidence of willful retention and disclosure but concluded it would not prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, and said he would have declined charges even if Biden were not president. The memory passages were part of that judgment, not a medical finding.
The debate collapse and the family’s push to keep him running are documented. Some clips that circulated before it were misleadingly edited; the debate was not.
Tapper and Thompson’s Original Sin, restricted access, no cognitive test, aides and his doctor taking the Fifth, and years of “he’s fine” media/White House messaging line up with a cover-up of serious decline. Whether unelected staff also exercised the powers of the presidency is a separate question tracked on the Autopen / “running the country” file.
Using an autopen is legal and long-standing; there is no rule that a pardon must be hand-signed. Whether any clemency went out without Biden’s approval is unproven: aides testified to oral approvals, and no court has voided a pardon.
The diagnosis and its stage are documented. No evidence has shown that the cancer was known during his presidency. Not screening men over 70 is standard guidance, though critics say a president deserved more.
No evidence supports it. Trump reposted the claim on 31 May 2025; he did not write it.
The cocaine was real. Who left it was never determined: the FBI found no fingerprints and too little DNA to compare. Nothing connects it to Hunter or any other Biden.
The names appear on the department’s list. The list itself gives no context, and appearing on it is not evidence of any contact with Epstein or any wrongdoing.
The accounts are real, and the Archives has about 5,400 records connected to them. Using an alias account is a common security practice for senior officials. Whether any message gave Hunter improper help has not been shown.
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Each file takes one question people actually ask about the Bidens and sets out the claim in its strongest honest form before the evidence on each side. Asking is not foolish: some of what the family, officials and the press said at the time turned out to be wrong, and so did some of what their critics said.
House committees, two special counsels, federal courts, IRS whistleblowers, inspectors general and reporters answered different questions with different powers. A payment to a relative is not proof of a bribe. A cleared allegation is not proof that nothing improper happened.
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The timelines show how an email, a laptop or a debate became an investigation, a headline or a wider theory. One proved claim does not validate every related claim; one debunked theory does not excuse a real failure.
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Sealed grand-jury material, unreleased Archives records, contested memoirs and the open questions about who knew what inside the White House are flagged where they matter. Each article ends with what its sources cannot tell you, and the collection’s AUDIT.md lists what could not be settled.
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