President Biden’s embattled son Hunter was notably  absent from Wednesday evening’s exclusive State Dinner honoring Prime Minister Kishida of Japan. Two of the younger Mr. Biden’s daughters, Naomi and Finnegan, did however make the guest list, along with his half-sister, Ashley.  

Mr. Biden fils did make it, just days ago, to the White House Easter Egg Roll, where he received, according to the New York Post, “celebrity treatment.” Wearing a lavender tie, Mr. Biden stood alongside his father for the festivities, and shook hands with starstruck fans. It was on the same day that a federal judge in California refused to throw out his felony tax case.

The president was widely criticized as tone deaf for inviting his son to last June’s State Dinner honoring the prime minister of India. The first son showed up, beaming and shaking hands, just days after he agreed to plead guilty to misdemeanor tax and gun offenses. The agreement, criticized by Republicans as “a sweetheart deal” would collapse later in the summer, and Hunter was then indicted on multiple felony counts.  

Ashley Biden — the only child of the president and the first lady — was, unlike her half-brother, invited to the State Dinner, where she was listed on the official invite list as attending with her husband, Howard Krein, with whom she is rarely seen. However, Dr. Krein was not spotted at the arrivals, where Ms. Biden walked before the cameras with her niece, Finnegan, Hunter’s daughter. At her previous State Dinner appearance, the India gala, her guest was not Dr. Krein, but Seema Sadanandan, a lawyer who focuses on criminal justice reform and racial equity.

Only yesterday, Ms. Biden provided a statement to a court as a Florida mother, Aimee Harris, was sentenced to a month in prison for stealing her diary. Ms. Biden called the theft “one of the most heinous forms of bullying.” The diary had been abandoned in 2020 at a sober living house in Florida where Ms. Biden had been living. Ms. Harris found it when she moved into the house, and illegally sold the diary to Project Veritas, a conservative journalism outfit.

The first son’s eldest daughter, Naomi, 30, attended Wednesday night’s State Dinner with her husband, Peter Neal. Her sister Finnegan, 23, attended alone, although as previously noted, she walked before the cameras with her aunt Ashley. Naomi, who at the time of her November 2022 wedding to Mr. Neal was living with him at the White House, has recently moved to Washington’s exclusive Georgetown neighborhood, where a Secret Service vehicle that was part of her security detail was recently robbed by miscreants who made off with night vision goggles.

The secretary of homeland security, Alejandro Mayorkas, was also at the Wednesday night’s State Dinner, on the same day as articles of impeachment levied against him — which the House approved after a failed vote thanks to a wheelchair-bound congressman — were due to be delivered to the Senate for a trial.

Senator Schumer forced a delay of that delivery, however, because he has told his Democratic colleagues that he would move to dismiss the articles outright, killing a trial before it even begins. 

Mr. Biden’s daughters got to rub shoulders at the State Dinner with celebrities such as the actor Robert DeNiro and the skating champion Kristi Yamaguchi, as well as Jeff Bezos and his fiancee, Lauren Sanchez.