Did Hunter Biden or other family members ever corroborate claims about Joe Biden showering with children?
Executive summary
Ashley Biden’s leaked diary contains a line saying “showers with my dad (probably not appropriate),” a passage reported and treated as authentic by multiple fact-checkers and news summaries [1] [2]. Major fact-checkers note the diary’s existence is substantiated by court filings about theft of the journal, but those sources do not provide independent forensic proof that Joe Biden committed abuse nor do they record an on-the-record corroboration from Hunter Biden or other family members confirming that allegation [2] [3].
1. What the diary actually says — and how it reached the public
Reporting and fact-checks summarize a diary authored by Ashley Biden that includes a line describing showers with her father as “probably not appropriate,” alongside broader notes about sexual trauma and being “hyper-sexualized @ a young age” [1] [2]. Prosecutors have described a criminal case in which items including a handwritten journal belonging to a family member of a politician were stolen and sold; that filing and subsequent reporting helped establish the diary’s provenance in public reporting [1] [2].
2. Do family members publicly corroborate a claim against Joe Biden?
Available reporting in the provided sources does not show Hunter Biden or other Biden family members publicly corroborating that Joe Biden showered with children or confirming abuse. The cited sources document Ashley Biden’s diary entry and legal filings about the diary’s theft, but they do not include statements from Hunter Biden or other relatives admitting or corroborating the allegation [2] [3].
3. How fact-checkers treat the diary and its contents
Fact-checkers such as Snopes and Yahoo’s fact-check coverage conclude the diary itself is authentic as a document belonging to Ashley Biden and cite court records and written testimony as the basis for that determination [2] [1]. PolitiFact’s analysis cautions that the FBI’s plea announcement concerned theft of property and did not confirm any particular salacious content; PolitiFact rated a claim that the FBI had confirmed the diary’s sexual allegations as false [3].
4. What the sources do and do not claim about criminal conduct
The available sources report the diary’s language and the fact that the journal was stolen and sold; they do not report a criminal finding, prosecution, or legal admission that Joe Biden committed sexual abuse based on that diary alone [1] [2]. PolitiFact explicitly notes the FBI announcement did not verify the diary’s contents or substantiate claims about abuse [3].
5. The role of intermediaries and partisan amplification
The diary’s contents circulated widely via right-leaning outlets and social media, and Project Veritas-related materials figured in some leaks, according to fact-checkers; that amplification has shaped public perception even as independent confirmation of alleged abuse remains absent in the cited reporting [2]. Snopes documents that Project Veritas had audio of an interaction and that conservative outlets published diary pages, indicating a political vector for dissemination [2].
6. Implications for readers and journalists
Readers should distinguish between three questions: whether the diary is a document authored by Ashley Biden (fact-checkers say yes, based on court records) [2]; whether the diary’s text includes a description of showers with her father (it does) [1]; and whether other family members — including Hunter Biden — have corroborated or legally established wrongdoing by Joe Biden (available sources do not mention such corroboration) [3] [2]. Journalists must avoid treating a private journal entry alone as definitive proof of criminal conduct without corroboration or legal findings.
Limitations: The analysis relies only on the provided fact-check and news summaries; court filings beyond what those summaries cite may exist but are not included here. Sources differ on emphasis — Snopes and Yahoo treat the diary as authentic and cite its wording [1] [2], while PolitiFact stresses the FBI did not confirm salacious claims [3].