Joe Biden isn’t the first president to have had to deal with embarrassing headlines about one of his children. George W. Bush’s daughter Jenna, for example, was arrested during his first year in office. She was nineteen, and she’d tried to buy a margarita with a fake ID.

Hunter Biden is considerably older, though, and his legal troubles are more serious. Last week the president’s son was indicted for a “four-year scheme” to avoid paying $1.4 million in taxes. This comes less than two months after he was indicted for unrelated gun charges. In that case, he’s accused of lying on a government form when he purchased a .38 handgun in 2018. On the form, Hunter said he didn’t use illegal drugs — but he’s widely known to have been struggling with crack cocaine addiction at the time. If the information he provided was false, it would make his acquisition of the gun illegal.

The back-to-back indictments make it distinctly possible that Hunter will be on trial while his father is running for reelection next year — and Democrats would prefer that everyone focus on the legal troubles of likely Republican nominee Donald Trump. The president has reportedly expressed guilt to “close associates” about his belief that “if he hadn’t run in 2020, Hunter wouldn’t be facing criminal prosecutions or be the target of daily stories by conservative media — all while trying to stay sober and rebuild his life.”