Hunter Biden little one help lawsuit shines highlight on president’s unacknowledged granddaughter

Hunter Biden pays $20,000 monthly in little one help for a daughter neither he nor his father, President Biden, contains of their lives and even acknowledges, his legal professional revealed at a listening to ordered by an Arkansas choose contemplating his bid to decrease the funds.

The president’s son appeared in court docket Monday in Batesville, Arkansas, on the orders of Independence County Circuit Court Judge Holly L. Meyer, who needs to unravel precisely how a lot cash Hunter Biden earns and whether or not a discarded laptop computer pc, which contained details about his funds, belongs to him.

The little one help case is forcing a better examination of Hunter Biden’s funds as he faces a federal investigation involving tax crimes and a congressional probe into profitable overseas enterprise offers that offered hefty funds to him and different relations who allegedly cashed in on the president’s title.

Congressional investigators stated Monday that they plan to mine the court docket revelations for long-sought particulars of Hunter Biden’s monetary information that Judge Meyer is ordering him to reveal.

House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer, a Kentucky Republican who’s investigating the Biden household’s overseas enterprise offers, stated he needs to search out out whether or not consumers of Hunter Biden’s paintings had been the identical Chinese nationals who, in keeping with financial institution information, paid Hunter Biden thousands and thousands of {dollars} for his work for an vitality firm linked to the Chinese Communist Party.

“That’s the most important part: who the buyers of this artwork are,” Mr. Comer advised Fox News. “We fear they’re the same ones that were laundering the money into [Biden family companies], particularly the Chinese Communist Party.”

Mr. Comer additionally needs to be taught whether or not Hunter Biden has any offshore financial institution accounts, which he can be compelled to reveal in authorized proceedings.

The little one help case has revived questions on Hunter Biden’s discarded laptop computer, which contained revenue info pertinent to the case and disturbing pictures and emails detailing a Biden household moneymaking scheme.

Hunter Biden has dodged instantly admitting possession, however he has sued the pc repairman in Delaware who copied and distributed the laborious drive, citing invasion of privateness.

In a listening to final week, Hunter Biden’s legal professional advised Judge Meyer that the laptop computer doesn’t belong to the president’s son.

“It’s not my client’s laptop, as far as I know,” Brent Langdon stated.

The case additionally highlights the Biden household’s refusal to publicly acknowledge the 4-year-old woman on the middle of the kid help lawsuit, Navy Joan Roberts. She is Hunter Biden’s fourth daughter and considered one of his 5 youngsters. She was born after his transient relationship with Lunden Roberts, 32, whom he met whereas she was performing in a Washington strip membership.

The Biden household has by no means publicly acknowledged the little woman. The Bidens have excluded her title from a lineup of Christmas stockings on a White House hearth mantle and left her off the invitation checklist for the normal Easter Egg Roll on the White House garden.

President Biden final week proudly named six of his grandchildren at a “Take Your Child to Work Day” occasion on the White House grounds. He not noted Navy Joan.

“They’re crazy about me,” Mr. Biden advised the gang after itemizing six grandchildren. “Because I pay so much attention to them.”

He has by no means talked about Navy Joan, and Hunter Biden is now in search of to slash the quantity he pays every month in little one help, citing a lower in his revenue.

Wearing a darkish go well with, the president’s son was ushered into the courthouse protected by regulation enforcement officers who surrounded the road and Secret Service brokers who adopted him into the constructing.

No cameras had been allowed within the courtroom, and the proceedings had been relayed from information retailers, together with the month-to-month little one help quantity reported by CNN.

Lunden Roberts now lives in Arkansas. In a separate court docket submitting, she seeks to alter Navy Joan’s final title to Biden, which Hunter Biden is contesting.

According to court docket paperwork, Ms. Roberts stated her daughter would profit from having the Biden title, which “is now synonymous with being well educated, successful, financially acute and politically powerful.” Hunter Biden’s legal professional has demanded “strict proof thereof that such request is in the best interest of the child,” in keeping with court docket paperwork reported by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

Ms. Roberts stated he isn’t concerned in Navy’s life. Hunter Biden initially denied fathering the kid, however a court-ordered DNA check proved his paternity.

At the listening to, Hunter Biden revealed that he has paid $750,000 to this point for the care of Navy Joan.

Ms. Roberts’ attorneys, who didn’t reply to an inquiry from The Washington Times, argued in a latest court docket submitting that Hunter Biden “has not fully disclosed his income sources” and is “refusing to provide the full details of his finances” required within the case.

A bench trial on Hunter Biden’s request to decrease Navy Joan’s month-to-month funds is slated for mid-July.