Hunter Biden’s daughter, Naomi, allegedly vandalized the U.S. Capitol in 2011 when she was working as a Senate page — prompting her father to issue a baffling apology to the head of the page program, The Post has learned.
Naomi Biden, who was 17 years old and a student at Washington DC’s elite Sidwell Friends high school, got a plum performance as a page for Nevada Senator Harry Reid — then the house’s powerful majority leader.
His grandfather, Joe Biden, was vice president at the time.
In June 2011, he and a travel companion were given a tour of the Capitol dome, a privilege normally reserved only for members of Congress and their guests.
Naomi and her courtiers are accused of damaging the walls around the historic dome.
“It was vandalism,” said a former Reid staffer. “I remember perfectly. In the rotunda tour when you go up to the top of the dome, they carve their names into the stone.”
“It’s at the very top so you can only have a few people in there at a time. It should be on the tour. There’s no way they can get up there at any other time,” the insider said.
“They had to bring in an architect and everything to complete it.”
Naomi Biden is accused of damaging the capitol dome while the Senate Yard. Getty Images Naomi Biden allegedly vandalized the Capitol Dome while she was a Senate Page in the Summer of 2011 REUTERS The US Capitol Dome is a rarely accessed area of the building that Senate Pages are allowed to visit during the tour.AFP via Getty Images
A second former Reid staffer said Joe Biden was informed of the misconduct.
Hunter Biden — who spent much of 2011 leveraging his name and connections in the service of foreign business partners — tried to contain the imbroglio in a desperate email to Elizabeth Roach, the longtime boss of the Senate page program.
“I am Naomi Biden’s Dad. I can’t express how sorry I am for Naomi’s behavior. I have been in meetings all day and just listened. . . what happen. As soon as Naomi finishes work today, I’ll talk to her. I am deeply disappointed by their behavior, but understand that the intent was not malicious,” he wrote on June 30, 2011, in an email contained on his abandoned laptop.
Hunter Biden tried to defuse the situation in an email to Elizabeth Roach, the longtime boss of the Senate page program. Marco Polo “It was vandalism,” said a former Reid staffer. “I remember perfectly. In the tour of the rotunda when you go up to the top of the dome, they carve their names into the stone.”AP Naomi Biden is the eldest daughter of Hunter Biden.REUTERS
Roach responded less than an hour later.
“Thank you for the email and for reinforcing to Naomi how dire the situation is. I ordered pages to write letters of apology to the sergeant at arms and the deputy sergeant at arms. Naomi wrote a very appropriate note for each of them,” he said.
Roach declined to comment. Terrance W. Gainer — the former sergeant at arms who received Naomi’s apology letter — recalled the vandalism.
“The fact that it happened is not surprising. These young teenagers, for the first time, are outside the house doing various things. Our goal is to correct them and guide them as best we can so that they succeed there.”
A person with direct knowledge of the situation asserted that the engraving had become a “tradition” and that “countless other Senate pages” had performed similar acts.
Naomi Biden appears to have suffered little after-effects and visited China with her grandfather a month after the incident. AFP via Getty Images
There seems to be little formal effect. Just a few weeks later, in August 2011, Naomi Biden accompanied the vice president on a trip to China.
After serving in the Senate, Naomi Biden went on to study at the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia Law School. Like his father, he developed a taste for representing foreign countries and went into international arbitration law at Arnold & Porter, a white-shoe DC law firm.
A representative for Naomi Biden declined to comment.
Additional reporting by Joshua Rhett Miller
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