HUNTER MEMOIR A FLOP
Quick debut dud
Hunter Biden’s newly released autobiography has tanked in its first week of sales despite heavy media promotion of its sex-and-drugs content — and glowing praise from his father.
“Beautiful Things,” released last week, debuted at No. 12 on the Publishers
Weekly hardcover-nonfiction chart, selling just 10,638 copies.
The younger Biden (right) made the rounds to promote the tome published by Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster.
If it’s true, as was rumored, that Hunter’s advance was $2 million, that means Gallery has lost at least $1.8 million on the deal.
Biden, 51, appeared on CNN, an extended run of his taped interview over two major programs for CBS News, ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” and other podcasts, television and radio programs.
He covered a host of topics during the appearances, including taking jabs at Donald Trump Jr., his own drug use and trying to minimize the importance of a laptop of his uncovered by The Post last year.
In the final months of the heated 2020 presidential race, The Post revealed a trove of e-mails from Hunter Biden’s laptop that raised questions about his president-dad’s ties to his son’s foreign business ventures, including Burisma, a Ukrainian natural-gas company on whose board Hunter served.
In December, Hunter announced via the Biden transition team that he was under federal investigation, which is believed to be focused on possible tax fraud.
Last September, Senate Republicans revealed through the findings of their investigation into the younger Biden’s overseas business dealings that at the time, the Obama administration ignored “glaring warning signs” about his appointment to the board.
Other e-mails on the computer showed Hunter discussing potential business deals with China’s largest private energy company, including a 10 percent share the “big guy,” who was later confirmed by Hunter’s former business partner Tony Bobulinski to be Joe Biden.
The younger Biden has denied any wrongdoing and says he is not working on a plea deal.