After 50 years of Hunter Biden profiting off of his father’s power in public office, the younger Biden‘s consistent revenue stream has run dry. In his request to dismiss his lawsuit against a former White House staffer to President Donald Trump over the now-infamous laptop leak, the former first son has confessed that nobody wants to buy access to Joe Biden — er, I mean, the younger Biden’s “artwork” — now that the former president has been exiled from public life.
“Given the positive feedback and reviews of my artwork and memoir, I was expecting to obtain paid speaking engagements and paid appearances, but that has not happened,” a bitter Hunter Biden, who noted that sales of his paintings and 2021 tell-all Beautiful Things dropped off a cliff after his father’s political fortunes disintegrated, laments in his latest filing. In the final months of 2023, as panicked Democrats saw Joe Biden’s sliding polling against an ascendant Trump, Hunter Biden’s book sales collapsed by two-thirds. Whereas Hunter Biden sold 27 pieces of artwork for an average price of $54,481.48 in the first three years of his father’s presidency, he admits he has only sold one piece since the end of 2023 for a mere $36,000.
Hunter Biden’s confession isn’t so hilarious because it’s a revelation but rather because it’s an admission of how the entire Biden universe has traded on the family name for the entirety of its patriarch’s career. Hunter Biden earning $85,000 for an elementary watercolor isn’t different from his shell company receiving $3.5 million from a Russian oligarch. Nor is it any different from the former president’s brother Jim Biden scoring $65,000 per month from a Chinese energy conglomerate, which, in turn, isn’t any different from the former president’s brother-in-law John Owens securing a high-dollar unsecured loan from a politically connected Delaware banker.
HUNTER BIDEN RAN OUT OF MONEY AS ART SALES DRIED UP, COURT FILINGS SAY
In all of these cases, the buyers weren’t really paying for paintings or “consulting” but rather for access to a politician who controlled the commanding heights of Congress and then the entire federal government. The only difference between Hunter Biden’s first paydays, whether at Delaware’s MBNA bank or the board of Amtrak, and his final checks is the level of shame he felt in collecting them. Whereas the Biden family once felt the need at least to present a facade of propriety by pretending to offer serious business or services, Hunter Biden clearly felt no such compunction by the time his father became the leader of the free world.
Alas, the former president spent his final act in office offering categorical pardons to protect his kin from the consequences of cashing in on the family name. But doing so was also an admission of guilt and a concession that the entire Biden clan was cashing out. With old Joe mentally withering, physically feeble, politically irrelevant, and socially ostracized from the town he called home for his entire adult life, nobody will ever feel the need to buy access through the Biden family name. At last, Hunter Biden can earn an honest living on his own merit, unburdened by what has been.
