Uncovering Biden Family Secrets
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
The New Yorker
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🗓️ 18 August 2022
⏱️ 40 minutes
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President Joe Biden’s political talents are inseparable from his folksy persona. In speeches, he emphasizes his modest upbringing and quotes aphorisms from his car-salesman father about dignity and honest labor. But this rendition of Biden’s upbringing, as Adam Entous puts it in this week’s magazine, is “woefully incomplete.” Entous has done a deep and groundbreaking investigation into the President’s family history, uncovering a previously untold rags-to-riches-to-rags story of how the Bidens landed in Scranton. It’s a very different story from the one that Biden usually shares with the public, complete with mansions, yachts, and war profiteering. Entous joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss the Biden family’s finances, its history with addiction and scandal, and its influence on the President.
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| 0:48.7 | Welcome to the political scene. I'm Tyler Foggett, a senior editor at The New Yorker. |
| 0:56.1 | President Joe Biden's political talents are inseparable from his folksy persona. In speeches, he constantly emphasizes his |
| 1:01.8 | modest upbringing, and he quotes aphorisms from his car salesman father about dignity and honest labor. |
| 1:07.9 | But this rendition of Biden's childhood, as Adam Entice puts it in this week's |
| 1:11.7 | magazine, is woefully incomplete. Entice has done a deep and groundbreaking investigation into the |
| 1:17.8 | president's family history, uncovering the rags to riches to rags story of how the Biden's landed in |
| 1:23.6 | Scranton with the president's father struggling to find work. It's a very different story |
| 1:28.1 | from the one that Biden usually shares with the public, complete with polo matches, war profiteering, |
| 1:33.1 | and burning yachts. Adam Entest joins me today to discuss the Biden family's boom and bust finances, |
| 1:39.2 | its history with addiction and scandal, and how all of this has influenced the president. |
| 1:43.8 | Hi, Adam. |
| 1:45.2 | Hey, it's great to be here. |
| 1:46.7 | Yeah, thank you for coming on. |
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