Remember Hunter Biden? Remember how sought-after he was as an “executive”/Board Of Directors member of companies he seemed not to have very many qualifications for? Remember how successful he was as an artist, with his paintings selling for tens of thousands of dollars each?
Remember that all this happened when he had his father’s power and influence to sell?
Well, now that he doesn’t have Papa Joe anymore, how are things going for him?
From an editorial in today’s New York Post titled “Broke Hunter Biden is a grifter who’s run out of grifts”:
In a court filing, Hunter claims he’s “millions of dollars” in debt — so broke he can’t afford to keep pursuing his lawsuit against Garrett Ziegler for putting much of the content of his infamous laptop on the Internet.
Part of Hunter’s woes came from the LA fires torching his rental home, but the far bigger issue is that his income has slowed to a trickle.
Wow: Now that the “big guy” is no longer in the White House, suddenly no one wants to buy Hunter’s art.
Buyers used to line up to shell out tens of thousands on Hunter Biden originals; Democratic donor Elizabeth Hirsh Naftali reportedly bought $42,000 worth in 2021 before Joe appointed her to a spot on the Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad in July 2022.
…according to Hunter’s court filings, he sold 27 pieces at an average cost of about $54,000 (so reasonably priced!) in “the 2 to 3 years prior to December 2023” but only one piece since.
Odd: What changed in 2024 that might have tanked the sales of these glorious examples of artistic genius?
Oh, right: Joe Biden’s out of power, forever.
IHunter can no longer peddle his father’s influence to leverage deals or land lucrative make-work positions he’s not qualified for.
Look, there is no shortage of relatives of powerful people trading on that power. But Hunter Biden made it his life’s work (if the word “work” has any relevance here).
But now? All that money he made over all those years? Gone. And he says he’s millions of dollars in debt.
Where did the money go (based on history, up his nose would be a pretty good guess)?
And how will he get more, now that the reason he made all the money he went through is now lazing ion a couch in Delaware wondering why no one is trotting him out in front of microphones to say what they tell him to say?
The Post’s editorial ends this way:
Don’t feel too bad for the guy: While the wealth he gained while his father held power may have been fleeting (hookers and blow are expensive), he still has the umbrella pardon Dad gave him on the way out the door. (The whole family got them!)
Heck, that means Hunter will do no time if he actually spills the beans on the whole Biden clan’s shady dealings — which, when we think about it, could be a best-seller.
Wouldn’t it be something if Hunter Biden’s final moneymaker was coming clean?
I wouldn’t bet on that happening.
But, come to think of it, I wouldn’t bet against it happening either.
