--- title: Hunter Biden's Controversies Explained description: TIME Senior Correspondent Brian Bennett explains the long-running investigations into President Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden. canonical: https://time.com/6316738/hunter-biden-controversies-explained/ author: Jeannie Kopstein article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2023-09-22T18:05:49.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-31T12:45:05.006Z article:section: Politics og:title: Hunter Biden's Controversies Explained og:description: TIME Senior Correspondent Brian Bennett explains the long-running investigations into President Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden. og:url: https://time.com/6316738/hunter-biden-controversies-explained/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt59dd38c032fcf381/698a40a4b21a9c8ff25079b5/GettyImages-1259078899-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 6817 og:image:height: 3835 og:image:alt: President Biden Arrives To Washington After Camp David Travel og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Hunter Biden's Controversies Explained twitter:description: TIME Senior Correspondent Brian Bennett explains the long-running investigations into President Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt59dd38c032fcf381/698a40a4b21a9c8ff25079b5/GettyImages-1259078899-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Hunter Biden's Controversies Explained > Sponsored content. 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President Joe Biden led Republican front-runner Donald Trump in a hypothetical 2024 election rematch in an NBC News poll, though his edge is within the survey's margin of error. Photographer: Julia Nikhinson/Sipa/Bloomberg via Getty Images Hunter Biden, son of US President Joe Biden, arrives at Fort Lesley J. McNair in Washington, DC, US, on Sunday, June 25, 2023\. President Joe Biden led Republican front-runner Donald Trump in a hypothetical 2024 election rematch in an NBC News poll, though his edge is within the survey's margin of error. Photographer: Julia Nikhinson/Sipa/Bloomberg via Getty Images Bloomberg via Getty Images—© 2023 Bloomberg Finance LP by [Jeannie Kopstein](https://time.com/author/jeannie-kopstein/) and [Brian Bennett](https://time.com/author/brian-bennett/) Sep 22, 2023 6:05 PM UTC ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/6316738/hunter-biden-controversies-explained/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/6316738/hunter-biden-controversies-explained/"},"headline":"Hunter Biden's Controversies Explained","datePublished":"2023-09-22T18:05:49.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-31T12:45:05.006Z","description":"TIME Senior Correspondent Brian Bennett explains the long-running investigations into President Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden.","url":"https://time.com/6316738/hunter-biden-controversies-explained/","keywords":["Joe Biden","Congress","News","video"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt59dd38c032fcf381/698a40a4b21a9c8ff25079b5/GettyImages-1259078899-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jeannie Kopstein","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/jeannie-kopstein/"},{"@type":"Person","name":"Brian Bennett","jobTitle":"Bennett is the senior White House correspondent at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/brian-bennett/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt59dd38c032fcf381/698a40a4b21a9c8ff25079b5/GettyImages-1259078899-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"President Biden Arrives To Washington After Camp David Travel","caption":"President Biden Arrives To Washington After Camp David Travel","creditText":"Bloomberg via Getty Images—© 2023 Bloomberg Finance LP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/joe-biden/","name":"Joe Biden"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/6316738/hunter-biden-controversies-explained/","name":"Hunter Biden's Controversies Explained"}}]}] ```