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Even when Hunter Biden wins, he loses… and is Saturday night was just ruined
After Joe Biden left office, Hunter crawled off into the shadows hoping not to get prosecuted.
Democrats are heavily favored to retake Congress in this fall’s midterm elections, and Hunter has gone on a wall-to-wall PR campaign, visiting podcasts and taking interviews in hopes of improving his image as an influence-peddling crackhead—and improve his chances of once again becoming an influence-peddling crackhead.
He even came into a huge sum of money, one of the few since his father, “The Big Guy,” is no longer worth bribing.
But that financial boon holds the potential to bring the Biden family’s deepest, darkest secrets roaring back to life.
Lucky for Hunter, most of the media have ignored it. But then, The Horn isn’t like the Fake News media.
First, the good news (for Hunter, at least): On July 10, a federal judge awarded Hunter Biden a seven-figure settlement in his defamation lawsuit against former Oversight.com CEO Patrick Bryne.
Byrne said that Hunter Biden told Iran his dad, who was then president of the United States, would release $8 billion to Tehran if the mullahs gave the Biden family one-tenth of the take, or $800 million, as a bribe.
Hunter sued Byrne for defamation, a charge that’s usually all-but-impossible to prove against a public figure. But U.S. District Judge Stephen Wilson, a Reagan appointee, sided with Biden and awarded Hunter $1.7 million in damages.
Hunter Biden immediately dunked on Byrne, claiming the CEO “got played by a Russian intelligence asset” and tying him to “the January 6th insurrection.”
But then came the bad news: Hunter won’t be laughing long. In fact, he’ll be broke again.
Three years ago I sued @PatrickByrne for lying about me. He claimed that I took a bribe and committed treason. He implied I was in some part responsible for the Hamas attack of October 7th.
His lies caused real damage and endangered my family.
On Friday I was awarded $1.7M in…
— Hunter Biden (@HunterBiden) July 14, 2026
No sooner had the settlement been announced than Hunter Biden’s lawyers filed a $1.7 million lien against Hunter for refusing to pay his legal fees.
On Tuesday, his former attorneys Shawn R. Obi and Scott M. Ahmad, attorneys Hunter hired at the firm now known as Winston Taylor (formerly known as Winston & Strawn), filed court documents proving they worked for the 46th president’s son from December 23, 2022, until March 12, 2025.
Obi and Ahmad represented Biden during separate investigations carried out by Congress, the Justice Department, and former Special Prosecutor David Weiss. They also represented the former First Son in his case against Byrne.
With their hourly fee, the plaintiffs attest in court documents that Hunter still owes them “substantially in excess” of Judge Wilson’s $1.7 million judgment.
No one seems to know how much Hunter owes his former lawyers—even his current mouthpiece, Barry Coburn, who said in court, “Neither we nor our client know the ultimate amount owed” to the firm.
Even if Hunter ever collects, he won’t see a dime: He’ll still be in hock to his lawyers.
That’s too bad for him, because Hunter has cried poverty in court.
“Our client is impecunious,” said Coburn in April, during a lawsuit brought by Winston Taylor.
“Impecunious is another word for broke as a joke,” wrote Vivek Saxena at BizPacReview.com.
Coburn said he had not hired anyone to assess the full legal bills his client owes, because “We cannot afford it.”
He can’t afford it, he claimed, because Hunter can’t even afford to “pay his current lawyers.”
If Hunter is broke, someone should have told his travel schedule. He vacationed in Cape Town, South Africa, last fall.
It wouldn’t be the first time Hunter Biden has cried poverty under doubtful circumstances.
Hunter Biden is vacationing in Cape Town.
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— AF Post (@AFpost) March 16, 2025
The Horn told you that Hunter Biden convinced a court to reduce his child support payments to Navy Roberts—the illegitimate child he fathered with Arkansas stripper Lunden Roberts—by claiming he’s too poor to pay it.
Hunter gave her one of his paintings, claiming they have substantial value…but Hunter’s paintings only sold so well, because the purchasers wanted to buy influence with his father through Hunter.
Lunden Roberts said in June 2024 that neither Hunter nor anyone in his family had ever met Navy, who was five years old at the time.
Has Biden burned through the millions he made from foreign governments during his father’s decades of “public service”? Or did he ever see most of the money in the first place?
Hunter appears to have some cash on hand since, although his current attorney says Hunter is “living abroad,” the pride of the Biden clan has appeared in person on multiple podcasts in recent days.
He also made hundreds of thousands of dollars selling paintings to Democratic donors.
But he blew his millions on drugs, prostitutes, a $140,000 Porsche he drove at 172 mph, gifts for his brother’s widow, and Columbia Law School tuition for his eldest daughter, leaving him… pic.twitter.com/HCCgYEahqu
— Washington Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) July 16, 2026
Hunter made an unusual appearance on Candace Owens’ show, where he swore the cocaine found at the White House during his father’s presidency did not belong to him, because he’s been “clean and sober since June 1st of 2019.”
He appeared alongside race-obsessed podcaster Nick Fuentes.
On another show on Wednesday, Hunter Biden said if President Trump were nearby, “I would tell him to go f**k his f**king self. That’s what I would tell him. … This man has tried to torture me for f**king 10 years. The s**t that he says about my dad, his obsession with torturing my dad.”
Hunter Biden said he got especially upset by President Trump hanging a picture of an autopen in place of his father.
“What f**king kind of man would I be if I didn’t tell him to go f**k himself?” asked Biden.
What kind of man would he be if he didn’t visit his daughter or even pay for her needs?
Hunter Biden on Trump: “I would tell him to go fuck his fucking self. And please leave. This man has tried to torture me for fucking ten years. The shit that he says about my dad. His obsession with tormenting my dad. Hanging a picture of an autopen on the colonnade. Demeaning… pic.twitter.com/XA7NqdMr3X
— It's politics (@uspolitics1111) July 15, 2026
Hunter Biden is the latest member of the Biden clan to make the media rounds. Both his father, former President Joe Biden, and his stepmother, “Dr.” Jill Biden, have hit the talk show and lecture circuit to sell “their” memoirs.
Democratic political operatives have repeatedly said they wish the Biden family would just go away, especially before the midterm elections, instead of reminding voters of four years when they got steadily poorer as the Biden family made big bucks, on- and off-the-record.
If Hunter Biden’s lawyers succeed in collecting the $1.7 million, they will be responsible for a historic accomplishment. They would be the first people enriched by the Biden family outside the Biden family itself.