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Joe Biden has always insisted that he never benefited from his son's international business dealings while he was vice president – but text messages show that Hunter did pay his father's bills while he was earning money from overseas.
The money included thousands in repairs to Joe's Wilmington, Delaware home, which is where at least six classified documents were recently found by the president's lawyers.
Hunter Biden complained in text messages to his daughter in 2019 that he paid for 'everything' for the family for three decades and said he had to give Joe 'half' of his salary.
Emails from 2010 show that Hunter and Eric Schwerin, his business partner at Rosemont Seneca, discussed how much they needed to spend paying the then-vice president's bills.
The subject was 'JRB bills', which match President Biden's initials, and detailed thousands in repairs that needed to be done on Joe's lakeside home in Wilmington, Delaware.
Hunter Biden complained about having to pay his father's bills - even though President Joe Biden insists he never benefited from his son's international business
Texts from Hunter to his daughter Naomi in 2019 show the president's son complaining about having to give Joe half of his salary. He also threatened to never give her a 'dime' again
Many of the bills were for repairs to the Biden family home in Wilmington, Delaware. There were bills for paint and new walls that Hunter and his business partner paid. The home is now where Joe Biden's lawyers found at least six classified documents he took from the White House when he was vice president
The email noted that $2,600 needed to be paid to a contractor for a 'stone retaining wall', another $1,475 to the painter for the 'back wall and columns' of the property and an additional $1,239 to a builder who'd fixed the AC at Joe's late mother's home.
He rented that house to the Secret Service for $2,200 a month.
President Biden's Wilmington home has become the subject of discussion this month after it was revealed he took classified documents – some labeled as 'top secret' – from his time as vice president and relocated them from the White House to his Delaware residence.
Other bills from the email included a $190 per month AT&T phone bill.
Biden has repeatedly denied claims that he helped facilitate or thereafter benefited from his son Hunter's international business.
In a 2019 text to his daughter Naomi, Hunter, who buy then had been battling a drug addiction for years, wrote: 'I hope you all can do what I did and pay for everything for this entire family for 30 years.'
'It's really hard,' he complained. 'But don't worry, unlike Pop [Joe], I won't make you give me half your salary.'
Hunter started working for Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma Holdings LLC in 2014.
He earned from Burisma $83,333 monthly up until two months after Joe Biden left office.
The payments from Hunter to his father were described in a 2010 email, which is the time period where Biden was earning $225,000-a-year as Vice President under Barack Obama.
He had already made well over $100,000-a-year for decades prior as a senator and author.
Hunter, according to emails, had to foot the phone and home repair bills for his father while working as the interim CEO of Paradigm Global Advisors and he'd also founded the investment firm Rosemont Seneca Partners.
He joined Ukrainian gas company Burisma Holdings on its board in 2014.
In an email to Hunter from Eric Shwerin, his partner at Rosemont Seneca, Shwerin talks about the bills they needed to pay for Joe
Shwerin to Hunter in other emails titled JRB Future and JRB bills
In other texts to his personal assistant, he said his father had been using lines of credit on his account
The texts about AT&T were from 2018 - when Joe Biden had earned more than $11million
Joe and Hunter Biden in 2010, when the former was Vice President and Hunter was being asked to pay family bills through his roles at an investment firm
Before Joe left office, he was referred to as 'the big guy' and described in an email from a Ukrainian executive at Burisma which suggested he'd gotten access to him through Hunter.
It raised serious questions because the executive was also being investigated by a Ukrainian prosecutor who was ousted after Joe leveraged $1billion in American aide money to get him out.
The White House did not respond to requests for comment on Monday morning.
Joe has in the past denied ever offering access to him or the White House to any of Hunter's business associates.
Scherwin, in one of the emails, wrote to Hunter: 'FYI, there are a few outstanding bills that need to be paid and I am not sure which ones are a priority and which should get paid out of 'my' account and which should be put on hold or paid out of the 'Wilmington Trust Social Security Check Account.'
'There is about $2,000 extra in 'my' account beyond what is used for monthly expenses.'
It's unclear why he put the word my in quotation marks.
In another, he said: 'Mike Christopher [builder] is hassling me so I am paying a couple of the smaller things since I haven't heard from your Dad. Know he's busy — so it's OK.
'But if you think he has a moment or two to review the
