Miranda Devine: Hunter Biden’s newest debacle reveals that he can’t keep out of the ‘lamelight’
Showing that he will always be the butt of the joke, Hunter Biden made a cameo appearance last week in a White House list of the Trump administration’s Year One accomplishments.
“Stripped notorious crackhead and grifter Hunter Biden of his taxpayer-funded Secret Service detail,” reads number 243 on the list of “365 WINS IN 365 DAYS!”
So began Hunter’s latest annus horribilis (bum year).
Instead of slithering away into obscurity once his father’s power was extinguished, the ex-first son has hardly been out of the news.
The 55-year-old former convicted felon is currently under threat of jail in Arkansas for failure to pay child support to his long-suffering baby mama Lunden Roberts.
He has been crying poor as he tries to extricate himself from various frivolous lawsuits he filed to silence his critics, and he has lied his head off to amiable podcasters.
Soon after his bête noire, Donald Trump, took over the White House last year, Hunter pocketed the 11-year retrospective pardon Daddy had bequeathed him and jetted off on a luxury vacation to South Africa, the homeland of his second wife, Melissa Cohen.
The scruffy pair enjoyed round-the-clock Secret Service protection, including the full VIP package of being chauffeured everywhere and having doors opened for them, shopping bags carried and paparazzi shooed off.
Papa Joe, always generous with other people’s money, had indefinitely extended his son’s 18-strong Secret Service detail before he left office.
Secret Service gone
Trump took great delight in cutting off the detail, two months in, leaving Hunter to the indignity of life without an entourage of taxpayer-funded bodyguards.
He claims in court that he’s too broke to meet his obligations, but it’s always been a mystery how he managed to pay for luxury vacations and a comfortable lifestyle in various houses with ocean views in salubrious parts of LA despite having no job, nobody buying his “art” and his “sugar brother” Kevin Morris, the Hollywood attorney, having firmly closed his wallet.
Lunden Roberts had to take him to court again in Arkansas earlier this month to demand he be jailed for failing to provide for their daughter, 7-year-old Navy Joan, the grandchild Joe and Jill Biden have never bothered to meet.
“Incarcerate him in the Independence County Detention Centre as a civil penalty until he purges his contempt by complying with this court’s orders,” Roberts’ lawyer wrote in a Jan. 13 court filing.
Hunter, having been embroiled in an affair with his dead brother’s widow during his brief romance with Roberts, denied paternity but a court-ordered DNA test proved otherwise.
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Roberts had to sue for child support and only when the scandal threatened to derail his father’s 2020 campaign did the “sugar brother” save the day by paying Hunter’s multimillion-dollar tax debt, his Porsche, his rent and funding Roberts’ $20,000-a-month court-ordered stipend.
But once Joe was ensconced in the White House, Hunter cried poor to the court so Roberts agreed to cut the amount to $5,000 a month in return for Hunter playing a role in their daughter’s life, by having regular Zoom calls and allowing Navy to pick out a painting every year from her father’s collection.
Navy, said her mother, “desperately longed for . . . a relationship with her father.”
But Roberts alleges that Hunter reneged on every aspect of the deal. After a few Zooms, Hunter stopped calling and broke the little girl’s heart.
“Suddenly and without warning or explanation, Mr. Biden ghosted sweet, little [Navy] — who was then only 5 years old,” the filing says.
“This has caused issues for [Navy], who recently experienced emotional trauma at a family member’s wedding when she realized that her dad would not walk her down the aisle.
“Ms. Roberts has reached out to Mr. Biden numerous times about [Navy] asking to speak with him, but the defendant, in classic, classless form, refuses to respond.”
Ouch.
Roberts points out that the Biden family is “prosperous,” and Hunter (mysteriously) “has access to a lavish lifestyle.”
All of Hunter’s other children “live at a means above that of the average American. For Thanksgiving 2025, the Biden family (minus [Navy], who is not allowed to participate in family activities) gathered at an exclusive Nantucket locale. Additionally, all of Mr. Biden’s children except [Navy] were seen at renowned Nantucket restaurants.”
Roberts wraps up with one deadly line: “No one can force Mr. Biden into being a good dad for [Navy], but this court can make it so that she has at least the same level of support as [her] younger half-brother . . . whose last known address was a house on top of a mountain in the Los Angeles area overlooking the Pacific Ocean.”
It’s a blistering indictment from a woman who has been almost farcically loyal to Hunter in the hope that her daughter might be accepted as a Biden.
One day, she may thank her lucky stars she’s not.
But it’s no wonder Hunter tried to salvage his reputation with an appearance on former Navy SEAL Shawn Ryan’s podcast in December.
Laptop-denial follies
Ryan asked not a single question about Navy, which tells you how probing the interview was not.
In fact, almost every word out of Hunter’s mouth was an unchallenged lie.
His father taught him well.
Hunter is even still trying to claim that his infamous “laptop from hell,” as Trump dubbed it, wasn’t his.
“It’s not even a laptop,” he told Ryan.
“It’s an amalgam of concocted digital material that has been stolen from me over the course of 22 years.”
Well, no.
The laptop was authenticated by the FBI as belonging to Hunter back in 2019.
The bureau’s forensic experts concluded the MacBook showed no signs of “tampering, alteration or fabrication.”
Once investigators waded through the degenerate filth of Hunter’s crack and hooker preoccupations, they found a gold mine of evidence about Biden family influence-peddling schemes that raked in tens of millions from such high-integrity nations as China, Ukraine and Russia.
A corrupt coverup by the FBI and DOJ ensured that the former president got off scot-free.
But thanks to the perseverance of IRS whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joe Ziegler, his son was not so lucky.
The laptop finally was admitted as evidence against Hunter in two criminal trials.
The jury delivered a guilty verdict in one and he pleaded guilty on the first day of the second trial.
Despite the sketchy pardon, those verdicts stand as a bulwark against Hunter’s shameless efforts to rewrite history.
He does say one true thing in the 3½-hour podcast, however:
“The people that are benefiting are the people that seem to always in some way avoid the consequences and win.”
That’s him.
That’s his father.
The Bidens pride themselves on fooling “chumps.”
Luckily, most Americans have wised up.