Who is Ashley Biden? How does she compare with Hunter Biden?

President Biden and his children are no strangers to controversy when it comes to their father’s political life. While Hunter Biden has often been painted as the Black Sheep of the family, Ashley is not letting her brother steal the spotlight. She was recently slapped with thousands of dollars in unpaid taxes that are bound to be used by her father’s political opponents as he hopes for a second term in office. In this article, we \ and compare how well she bodes with her half-brother in comparison.

Ashley Biden and her early life

Born to Joe Biden and his 2nd wife Jill Biden, Ashley Biden is the President’s youngest daughter. She is Hunter Biden’s half-sister and is her parent’s only child. Hunter Biden meanwhile is the only surviving child of the President and his now-deceased wife, Neilia Hunter Biden. Ashley was born on the 8th of June 1981 and is 42. She attended a private religious school during her teens. She later graduated from Tulane University with a Bachelor’s in Cultural Anthropology. Unlike her half-brother, Ashley has pursued a career in politics, following in her father’s footsteps. She has even helped him in his election campaigns during both the Obama administration and in 2020.

Ashley has a declared total net worth of around $2 million, according to her undertakings. She has been married to Howard Krein, a 57-year-old Jewish Plastic Surgeon since the couple tied the knot in 2012. Ashley is a philanthropist as well and currently manages her own clothing line up called ‘Livelihood’.

The Diary Scandal

It seems like President Biden’s children have been slapped with bad luck that often results in them losing their belongings, often containing compromising information on their father. In 2020, during the height of Biden’s Presidential campaign, Ashley lost her diary, which contained sensitive information on her father. Though the full contents of the diary never made it into the public domain, slivers of information continued to leak. The leaks were primarily about Ashley’s troubled sex life, which also mentioned her father showering with her once.

This theft of the diary later led to the Project Veritas case, which led to the arrest of the owners of the right-wing website. Project Veritas reportedly bought the diary for a whopping $40,000. The case is still ongoing in court. The group claimed that it was exercising the right to free speech according to the First Amendment, but the court later struck down the claim. Later, 900 documents relating to the case were made available to prosecutors after several FBI raids on the group’s personnel.

The Drug Scandal

In 2009, according to an article in the New York Post, Ashley, like her elder brother, who is famed for substance abuse, was filmed snorting cocaine at a friend’s party. At that time, Ashley Biden was already famous as a party girl. The 43-minute video was a source of major embarrassment to her father that showed Ashley snorting lines of alleged cocaine. Her brother Hunter Biden has been known to have suffered from addiction and was even in Rehab for his problems. According to the Telegraph, she has been previously arrested for possession of Marijuana, but the charges were later dropped. It is suffice to say that the Biden family seems to have an endemic drug problem at home.

Income Tax problem

Ashley Biden recently had another addition to her Hall of Fame of controversies. Like her brother Hunter, who failed to pay a whopping $1.4 million in taxes that he owed in 2016 and 2019, Ashley recently paid $5,079 in tax lien to the Pennsylvania Department of Tax revenues she owed since 2015. A tax lien is when a government files for a legal proceeding after previous attempts at securing payment of due taxes fail. This tax was owed on Ashley’s properties, which she failed to pay in 2015 and 2021, when her father was in power as Vice President and President. The taxes included two tax liens totalling $4985, which also included a $94.44 filing fee.

Conclusion

Ashley’s list of controversies pales in comparison to her brother, Hunter Biden, who is in a league of his own. However, it won’t be a bit of an understatement to say that in the case of President Joe Biden, he has been bestowed with children who have taken it upon themselves to discredit their father to the best of their abilities.