Hunter Biden, suddenly struggling for money, is forced to drop lawsuits. How tragic | Opinion
There’s tragic news out of the Biden family this week. Hunter, who has been driven from his multimillion-dollar rental house in Pacific Palisades by the California fires, and who has lost millions of dollars of artwork to the Los Angeles conflagration, no longer has the money to continue lawsuits against the miscreants who have made his life so miserable.
This week, he filed papers in federal court seeking to drop a lawsuit against a Donald Trump aide who he claimed hacked a cloud service in an effort to uncover more of his questionable dealings while his father, Joe, was vice president.
“Since late 2023 and through today, my income has decreased significantly. Prior to that time, my income primarily came from sales of my artwork and sales of my memoir.” Sales of his paintings went from 27 before to just one most recently. Sales of his books went down 75%, according to an affidavit filed with a federal district court in California.
If you can imagine the shock the poor young man of 50-something received when demand for his artwork and words plummeted as his father was ushered from office by an ungrateful Democratic Party.
You see, his works weren’t selling before because people were buying the art to curry favor with his father. He was selling his paintings on their own merits because during his father’s presidency he got “positive feedback and reviews of my artwork and memoir,” he wrote to the court, which will be no doubt sympathetic. It would be shocking, of course, to find out that positive reviews and feedback actually reflected Hunter’s proximity to power and not his similarity to Rembrandt.
To make matters worse, the prices he can sell his works for have plummeted as well from $54,000 a piece when Dad was firmly ensconced in the Oval to a mere $36,000 since.
Other income for the pardoned but convicted gun felon, six-figure tax delinquent and formerly highly-paid international businessman has failed to come through as well. “I was expecting to obtain paid speaking engagements and paid appearances, but that has not happened,” he wrote.
Oh, my. When you’re millions in debt, as he alludes to in his filing, it is rough when the opportunities to be paid for blathering, or merely existing, turn out to be a mirage. The unemployment rolls are filled with people for whom these opportunities did not materialize.
Defendant Garrett Ziegler, who does not have such a powerful dad, should be grateful that he can stop paying legal fees to tangle with the boodle-fueled scion of a formerly powerful family, but Hunter’s lawyer wants the judge to make sure that the case is dropped in such a way that the lawsuit can be refiled should the younger Biden ever find himself flush with cash again, perhaps (coincidentally) after his mom gets elected to office or something completely unrelated like that.
In a footnote, the lawyer revealed that this may not be the last Hunter-filed lawsuit to be dropped during this, no doubt, temporary dry spell in the Biden-related art market. Says the footnote: “Plaintiff acknowledges that he has other civil actions pending and is assessing each one on a case-by-case basis to allocate his limited resources. Plaintiff cannot describe the details of those analyses as it involves attorney-client communications and the attorney work doctrine.”
This is not the first time Hunter has dropped lawsuits. There’s the one he dropped against Fox News for publishing unflattering pictures from his laptop that became such an issue during the 2020 presidential campaign when questions about Hunter were dismissed by many as “bearing all the hallmarks of Russian disinformation.”
And there’s the one he dropped against IRS agents who blew the whistle on his entrepreneurial tax avoidance schemes for tax years 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019, the debts for which have now been paid by his millionaire lawyer who testified to Congress that he did not expect any forthcoming favors from grateful Democrats.
Even as Hunter drops this case, his troubles are not over, he tells the court. He’s having a dickens of a time finding a new place for his family to rent. With a monthly budget of a mere $15,800, I can sure relate.
Let’s all keep Hunter in our thoughts and prayers as he suffers through this difficult time. If you have a place he can rent, give him a call.
This story was originally published March 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM with the headline "Hunter Biden, suddenly struggling for money, is forced to drop lawsuits. How tragic | Opinion."
