Chuck Ross writes for the Washington Free Beacon about the latest woes for a wayward Biden.
Hunter Biden’s victory lap after securing a $1.7 million defamation judgment against former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne was short-lived.
Last week, a federal judge in California ordered Byrne to pay Biden for falsely accusing him of participating in an $800 million Iranian bribery scheme while his father was president. The younger Biden celebrated the decision, and accused Byrne of hiding in Dubai to evade depositions and hearings in the lawsuit.
“On Friday I was awarded $1.7M in punitive damages by a Reagan-appointed federal judge,” wrote Biden—a former crack addict who once cheated on his wife with the widow of his dead brother, Beau—in a 500-word X rant against Byrne.
The judgment would mark a substantial and much-needed windfall for Biden, whose multimillion-dollar lifestyle evaporated after his father left political office. The younger Biden, who claimed in a recent court filing to be “impecunious,” or having little or no money, made tens of millions of dollars as a lobbyist, attorney, and do-nothing board member when his father was vice president, often from foreign clients who sought the elder Biden’s political favor. Biden made hundreds of thousands of dollars selling paintings to Democratic donors when his father was commander in chief.
His world collapsed in late 2023 after the Joe Biden-appointed U.S. attorney in Delaware charged him with multiple felonies on both coasts for lying about his drug use to buy a gun and tax evasion. After he was convicted by a jury on the gun charges and pleaded guilty to the tax offenses, he received a controversial pardon from his father. But Biden, who blew his millions on drugs, prostitutes, a Porsche he drove at 172 mph, gifts for his brother’s widow, and Columbia Law School tuition for his eldest daughter, was left broke and circled by creditors, ex-lawyers, and the former stripper who successfully sued him for child support.
