First son Hunter Biden tagged along with his dad Tuesday on a multi-day trip to Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland — even as the first son is battling both congressional and criminal investigations into his overseas business dealings.
The 53-year-old will join President Biden in Belfast Wednesday to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement that largely ended the decades-long violent conflict between Catholics and Protestant known as the “Troubles.”
A White House spokesperson told The Post that Hunter and the president’s sister, Valerie Biden Owens, who is also on the trip, will “cover all additional personal expenses” they incur.
“Historically, family members of Presidents and First Ladies have frequently joined them during international travel,” the spokesperson said. “Current practices are consistent with those used by prior Administrations.”
Before departing the White House, Biden told reporters that he was bringing along “two of my family members who hadn’t been there [Ireland] before,” referring to his son and sister.
After stopping in Northern Ireland, the 80-year-old president will travel on to Dublin, County Louth and County Mayo.
The Bidens will remain in Ireland through Friday.
Hunter was also seen Monday with his dad on the South Lawn during the White House’s annual Easter Egg Roll after spending the holiday weekend with his dad at the presidential retreat at Camp David in Maryland.
The scandal-plagued first son announced shortly after the 2020 election that the US Attorney’s Office in Delaware was investigating his finances for potential tax fraud — a probe that could uncover further offenses such as money laundering, lying about his drug use on a federal form to purchase a handgun and illegal foreign lobbying.
The Republican-led House Oversight Committee is also investigating Hunter and his uncle, James Biden, for their overseas consulting work during Joe Biden’s days as vice president in the Obama administration.
Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) suggested last week that local prosecutors may also file criminal charges against both Biden and his son over the matter.
Until at least early 2021, Hunter held a 10% stake in BHR Partners, a Chinese state-backed investment fund, which was launched in 2013 — within weeks of a trip to Beijing he took with his father, then the vice president.
Two years after the China trip, Joe Biden met with an adviser to the board of the Ukrainian gas firm Burisma, which at the time was paying Hunter up to $1 million per year to serve on its board.
The infamous dinner at Cafe Milano in Washington, DC, also included ex-Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov and his wife, Yelena Baturina, who sought property investments from Hunter, as well as three Kazakhstani business associates.
In an email sent the next day, Pozharskyi thanked Hunter for “giving an opportunity to meet your father,” one of the first emails in a bombshell October 2020 report from The Post on the contents of the first son’s laptop.
Another report on the laptop’s emails showed someone referred to as the “big guy” getting a 10% kickback for a business partnership Hunter and James negotiated with CEFC China Energy in 2017 and 2018 — which netted the pair at least $4.8 million.
Hunter’s former associates have previously said Joe Biden was the “big guy.”
During his 2020 campaign, Biden said he had “never spoken” with his son about “his overseas business dealings” — despite having met with many of Hunter’s associates from China, Mexico, Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine.
The president is scheduled to meet Irish President Michael Higgins and Prime Minister Leo Varadkar on Thursday in Dublin, only weeks after Biden joked on St. Patrick’s Day about his Irish ancestry — saying he was “really not Irish” because he doesn’t drink alcohol and that he was shocked his relatives weren’t all “in jail.”