Hunter Biden Claims Financial Strain, Seeks to Dismiss Laptop Lawsuit​

Hunter Biden has asked a federal judge to dismiss his lawsuit against former Trump White House aide Garrett Ziegler, citing severe financial difficulties, according to court filings submitted Wednesday in California.

JUST IN: Hunter Biden asks judge to drop his laptop lawsuit, claiming he’s “millions in debt”—worsened by LA wildfires.

In court filings, he blames dwindling art and book sales for his financial woes, saying his rented home became “unlivable.”

The lawsuit targeted Trump aide… pic.twitter.com/vUCQJlhdIB

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The request comes as Biden claims to be “millions of dollars” in debt, a situation he says was worsened by the loss of his Los Angeles rental home in the Pacific Palisades wildfires earlier this year.

The 55-year-old son of Joe Biden initially sued Ziegler in 2023, accusing him of illegally accessing and distributing data from his abandoned laptop.

However, in the recent court motion, his legal team argued that ongoing financial troubles make it impossible for him to continue pursuing the case.

“[Hunter] has suffered a significant downturn in his income and has significant debt in the millions of dollars range,” the filing states.

His attorneys added that the damage to his rental home from the January wildfires has only “exacerbated” his financial problems, leaving him struggling to secure permanent housing.

“Like many others in that situation, I am having difficulty in finding a new permanent place to live,” Hunter said in the motion.

“While I was aware that my financial position had significantly deteriorated over time, it was not until the past month that I realized I had to take drastic actions to alleviate this situation.”

Biden also pointed to declining revenue from his artwork and book sales as additional sources of financial strain.

In the court filing, he detailed a sharp drop in sales of his paintings and memoir, Beautiful Things.

“In the 2 to 3 years prior to December 2023, I sold 27 pieces for art at an average price of $54,481.48, but since then I have only sold 1 piece of art for $36,000,” he stated.

Hunter Biden painting sales, according to his lawyers in a new court filing:

2021-2024: 27

2024-2025: 1

What does that tell you? pic.twitter.com/LxXYrthXZ0

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His book sales have also seen a decline. “In the six-month period before the statements (April 1, 2023, through September 30, 2023), based on the September 30, 2023 statement, 3,161 copies of my book were sold, but in the six months after the statements, only approximately 1,100 books were sold.”

Biden further noted that he had anticipated earning money through public appearances but has struggled to secure paid speaking engagements.

“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,” he said.

Hunter Biden is broke and no one is buying his artwork, his books or paying for him to come speak at events. Of course they aren’t, this was always a Biden family grift — pay Hunter for his BS “talents” and get access to his dad. Everyone knows this. pic.twitter.com/ut4L84gnAL

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Biden originally sued Ziegler, a former aide to Trump’s trade adviser Peter Navarro, for allegedly violating computer fraud and data privacy laws by accessing and publishing data from his laptop.

Ziegler’s nonprofit, Marco Polo, has published a vast amount of material from the device since the laptop first made headlines in 2020.

The lawsuit accused Ziegler and others of improperly accessing “tens of thousands of emails, thousands of photos, and dozens of videos and recordings” from the laptop.

In addition to his legal battle with Ziegler, Biden has also been involved in a separate lawsuit against former Delaware computer repair shop owner John Paul Mac Isaac, who initially took possession of the laptop.

In the latest filing, Biden indicated that he is reassessing his various lawsuits to determine how best to allocate his “limited resources.”

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