On Monday, Hunter Biden will finally make it to Arkansas. The Natural State is not a Biden family favorite but there is one thing that would ordinarily be an attraction: Biden’s daughter Navy Joan. In the Biden family, the four-year-old girl remains “she who must not be named” literally. Not only has President Biden refused to refer to her as a grandchild or even include a Christmas stocking with the other children, her father Hunter is fighting to prevent her from using the Biden name. Indeed, the only reason that Hunter is coming to the same state with his daughter is to seek to limit his child support.
The viciousness of the Biden family in dealing with this little girl is only matched by that of the media. Reporters who profess to support women and denounce deadbeat dads have either ignored this story or belittled her mother, Lunden Roberts.
Roberts is widely dismissed as a “former stripper.” That appears how she met Hunter, but it is often used to paint her in the same way that the media gleefully reported Hillary Clinton denouncing women involved with her husband as mere “bimbo eruptions.”
The media ignores Roberts because it wants to ignore what the Bidens have done collectively. This is one single mother’s story that is not considered fit to print.
Yes, Roberts was an exotic dancer. She used that job to go to one of the most expensive colleges in the country, George Washington University where I teach. When she became pregnant, she decided to have her child and raise her on her own. She has raised this child without a father and fought one of the most powerful families in the world.
When Navy Joan is older, there is every reason for her to be proud of the struggle that her mother went through in seeking a college education and raising her against all odds.
Despite Joe Biden long campaigning against deadbeat dads, his son refused to acknowledge that he was the father of Navy Joan and, after a court forced him to confirm his paternity through DNA testing, he continued to fight support for his child. Hunter’s delay and evasion of filings and depositions led a court to repeatedly threaten sanctions.
However, the effort to bar this child from using the Biden name has moved this scandal from the realm of hypocrisy to monstrosity. It is hard to imagine the pain that this child will experience upon learning of how the Bidens erased any reference to her and fought even her ability to claim to be a member of their family. (Even the Biden’s dogs and cats got stockings at Christmas but not their granddaughter who they have never asked to even see, let alone support).
After opposing efforts to even establish that he is her father and his continued efforts to limit child support, Hunter is telling the court that he would not want the child to bear his name for her own good and to guarantee her a “peaceful existence.”
If one were to combine all of Hunter’s influence peddling, drug abuse, orgies and prostitution controversies, they would not hold a candle to the utter depravity shown toward this little girl.
Despite assembling a new Legion of Doom of high-priced lawyers and advisers, Hunter is claiming that he simply cannot meet demands for child support. Given his opposition to such support for years and reported millions in foreign dealings, it would seem transparently absurd. It is even more difficult to accept as he jets between his luxurious mansion in Malibu to digs at the White House. The public reportedly pays more for his security in his mansion than he does in monthly support for his daughter.
There is, however, a crushing Karmic aspect to Hunter being forced to appear in Arkansas. His efforts to limit his child support may have backfired and could prove costly. Hunter has struggled to conceal his finances, including money that he received from alleged influence peddling. Now the court is considering the laptop as possible evidence in millions of past assets. While a U.S. Attorney in Delaware is exploring criminal charges and House committees are looking into the influence peddling, his fight against this toddler could force a decision on the authenticity of the laptop.
In the last hearing, Hunter’s counsel tried again to maintain deniability.
Here is the exchange after Judge Meyer referenced Garrett Ziegle as a potential expert witness on the contents of the laptop:
Langdon: “There has never been, to my knowledge, an acknowledgment that this so-called laptop — he continuously calls it Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop …”
Meyer: “Well, let’s clear that issue up right now. Is it your client’s laptop or not?”
Langdon: “Your honor, I’m not involved in all of that stuff. It’s not my client’s laptop as far as I know.”
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Meyer: “Is it your client’s position, you’re representing to this court, that it is not his laptop?”
Langdon: “Your honor, I am not in a position to even begin to answer that question.”
It is bizarre to continue to this obfuscation years after the release of the laptop. Hunter is facing the use of the laptop as evidence in this case as well as the federal prosecution and House investigations. Yet, his counsel is still claiming ignorance as to whether it is authentic.
It is the continuation of a long campaign of disinformation. Before the 2020 election, the media repeated the false claim that the Hunter Biden laptop was likely “Russian Disinformation.” Despite the denial of American intelligence and self-verifying emails on the laptop, the media accepted without question the dubious claims of former intelligence figures organized by longtime Democratic operatives.
It worked beautifully. It was not until two years later that NPR, The New York Times, and other media outlets got around to telling the public the truth.
Hunter has long refused to acknowledge ownership of the laptop. When asked years ago by CBS News, he shrugged “There could be a laptop out there that was stolen from me. It could be that I was hacked. It could be that it was the — that it was Russian intelligence.”
In some ways, it is a continuation of Hunter’s long denial of his child. Yet, the DNA did not lie.
Hunter could now be forced to accept this laptop as his own. That could prove far more costly than the child support that he is seeking to avoid in Arkansas.
None of this, of course, will get Navy Joan a stocking on next year’s Biden family fireplace. According to Joe Biden, she is not one of his grandchildren despite being sired by his own son. Nor will this make Hunter Biden a better person. However, if she succeeds in using the Biden name, she will certainly prove the best of the lot.
This column first appeared otn Fox.com.
Human behavior is determined by natural selection. This positively selects genes that result in their own transmission. These genes will end up in many male humans some who are capable of having progeny or not depending on whether they can buck religious sexual morality. Depravity Morality and hypocrisy are Siamese triplets.
@Carlyle
No, not especially. Genes determine certain biological markers, certainly, but that’s about it, and even that isn’t absolute – human beings are not walking, talking genetic smoothies. All of us choose to either engage or not engage in behaviors (we all have free will and a prefrontal cortex) were either taught accordingly about honoring or not honoring others, and actions have consequences, legal or otherwise. Beyond childhood, that is weak sauce. Grown ups (different from biologically older) take responsibility for and try to amend the damage they have caused through their actions. It is why hopefully consciousness accompanies freewill. It doesn’t, always.
human beings are not walking, talking genetic smoothies
What a great turn of a phrase, James! On the question of nature versus nurture, my experience tells me it’s about half and half.
Hunter could now be forced to accept this laptop as his own. That could prove far more costly than the child support that he is seeking to avoid in Arkansas.
Common sense says: once Hunter’s high-priced lawyers make that calculation, Hunter will withdraw his opposition and start paying child support.
OTOH, when dealing with people as immoral as the Bidens, common sense is not always an accurate guide. Such people eventually make unforced errors which, in the long run, cause the whole edifice to come crashing down.
Never be surprised when a high politician or a member of one’s family or one of his friends turns out to be a total scum bag.
The Democrats would be wise to very soon axe Biden as their 2024 candidate because the stench of the two Hunter scandals will be nice and ripe before the 2024 election.
One thing I can say for Trump, unlike the Clinton-Obama-Biden Democrats he was not trying to start a nuclear war with Russia.
Professor, please see my comments only to five referenced quotes and not as a reply to the purpose of your column!
1. President Biden refused to refer [Navy Joan Roberts] as a grandchild
As Brandon has no ideas about his son Hunter’s business dealings, I doubt that he is aware of Navy Joan’s presence.
2. Hunter is fighting to prevent her from using the Biden name
As every coin has a flip side, I am not sure if Lunden Roberts move “the child can benefit from the family’s presidential lineage” comes without an essential drawback: As Trump won AR by a healthy 28p margin in ’20, it’s possible that Navy Joan will meet classmates from MAGA grassroot families who might not speak that nice at home from # 46. Kids can be very merciless sometimes. For example: After teacher will ask: What’s your name, she proudly will reply: Navy Joan Biden, a cheeky devil will query: Is this senil old Brandon your grandpa?
3. Hunter is claiming that he simply cannot meet demands for child support
Just for the sake of the argument: Let’s assume 1st sun is dead broke (you know: Hillary was also needy after leaving WH in ’01 [1]). Why don’t those wealthy pals who lend him a hand also take good care of Navy Joan? It will certainly not be due to the lack of resources! Maybe they only support Brandon to “finish his job” & Hunter is a means to the end?
4. Court is considering the laptop as possible evidence in millions of past assets
As “Laptop from Hell” was used last four years ago (shop drop: 4/12/19), this is like beating a dead horse over and over again!
5. Decision on the authenticity of the laptop:
Garrett Ziegler’s non-profit research institute (https://marcopolousa.org/) published an extensive analysis of it’s content. I don’t see any proof for Hunter’s wealthiness neither from a testimony nor evaluation of the material to measure child support.
[1] https://dandygoat.com/dead-broke-hillary-clinton-describes-being-homeless-in-2001
Have we not seen this story before?
The son of a rich, elitists family gets some commoner pregnant, and they do everything to bury the story, pay her off, and in some cases she has an accidental overdose, or something like that.
What we come to find is how messed up, corrupt, and down right ugly the whole family is.
Thing is, rather than some bad crime novel or a Hallmark made for TV movie this is playing out in real life. With the president’s son.
Ugly indeed.
@Upstate
Exactly. To extend that even further, it has occurred to tin foil hat me that the UN’s recent recommendations on prostitution and pedophilia (important to read the recommendations as there has been *some* sensationalism, but still . . .) might be to protect people like Hunter and Epstein and his buddies, as well as cultural abusers in now UN nations, now that the truth has been trickling out. We are dealing with some very twisted people in all of this, all across the globe. Not one iota of it is acceptable. It was your laptop, dude, and we are not that stupid.
There was no internet to push back against Mao or Capone. We actually have an advantage. It’s why they try to seize control of the web, web-based media, and our first two amendments as a religion. They also know they can’t outspend or outsmart Elon Musk.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/un-backed-report-suggests-normalizing-pedophilia-decriminalizing-all-sexual-activity
Upstate– Well said. In my lifetime, I do not recall ever seeing or even reading about a President or his family who was so corrupt to the core. Children and grandchildren live (or can live) in a magical world. The picture on the web of Navy Joan with her plastic purse and “dress-up” mismatched clothing that only a little girl would think is beautiful would make most humans want to reach out and help make her path a little smoother. But that is not the way the Biden syndicate operates. If you don’t bring something to their table, you don’t exist. I think many people would be proud to have Lunden Roberts and Navy Joan as part of their family. Rather than sit around and wait for someone to give her a handout, Roberts took a very rough job to pay for her college and raise her child alone. Reportedly, she now is pursuing a career in law enforcement. I wonder if Joe and Jill Biden ever compared her resume to that of their son. Probably not.
The Professor is on a roll. This is truly despicable activity by this family. My father always taught me you take responsibility for your actions. If you are a leader then share the accolades with your team but gather the failures to yourself. The lack of taking responsibility by the younger Biden just mimics the actions of his father .
We all have those relatives that we really wish were not in the family but you still have to deal with them, and say yes they are part of our family, but sometimes they surprise you and tun around their lives.
Of course, sometimes those undesirables may be thinking the same thing about you.
Had an aunt who passed away years ago. She and my uncle seemed to be the worst parents of all my relatives, made no money, kids never seemed to have clothes, cinder block house with no screens, and broken exterior doors in the Deep South. And multiple other things that seemed bad. But the uncle eventually built a heavy machinery business, and the aunt, with no legal training, won a justice of the peace election and gradually worked her way up the ladder to the highest court in the county. Very respected. Won democrats and republicans, black and white, and attended every continuing legal conference available. All the kids turned out great and always nice to be around. Left us all scratching our heads. Many with more did less.
Who knows? This toddler may rise above her somewhat abysmal genetic material and become a credit to society. I already have more respect for her mother than the other side of the family.
Well….. Mr. Sniffer Whiffer pimped out his crack addicted son to the Chinese in 2014 to score $1.5 billion so I guess deadbeat Hunter’s child support strategy should come as no surprise. I did notice that he seems to have plenty of money for lawyers to fight this though.
And the mainstream media’s silence is deafening being the good little obedient schills they are. Thank you, Jonathan, for an excellent article.
The man is a bum, period.
I would keep the child away from the Bidens and would be fearful especially as the child got older. The Biden’s are capable of anything.
Just waiting for the first s@@tlib to call Navy Joan and her mother white trash. I’m sure they’ll have some justification for doing so.
Hey, it’s for a progressive, leftist purpose and that should be sufficient, right?
I thought lefties were all for protecting women and children. What happened to believe all women?
antonio
She dared to go against the delusional ones, crackhead son.
What a deadbeat.
The apple does not fall far from the tree.
Dear Hunter – pay your damn child support.
Where all the feminists on this issue?
They’re all transitioning to men.
@whig98
“Where all the feminists on this issue?”
Good question. Where were the feminists when that great protector of women Edward Moore Kennedy (i.e. “Ted”) was engaged in his shenanigans involving women or when he drove off the bridge with Mary Jo Kopechne?
Where were the feminists when it became known that Muslim men were sexually grooming young working class English girls in Rottingham? This went on for years, it was known and nary a word because of who the victims and perpetrators were. The response would have been different if the perpetrators had been English or Irish.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4302003/rotherham-sex-abuse-scandal-child-grooming-exploitation-sarah-champion-mp/
More reasons I truly and fully despise s@@tlibs and their hypocrisy.
I do not want to understand, dialogue or reconcile with these people. I WANT A DIVORCE.
antonio
Joe Biden is one of the scummiest scum bag politicians of all time.
He calls himself a “devout Catholic.”
His wife is scum, too.
The whole family is scum
Can we get a Websters definition of “Scum”!
The Biden Family is the definition of scum.
Of all the things that can destroy one’s image it’s trying to escape child support and responsibility for an out of wedlock child. This beautiful little toddler, a true gift from God, should not have to endure the unfairness of her rogue father. The world would not condemn Hunter Biden for giving Navy Joan at least the amount of money he gave “The Big Guy.” The millions taken in by the corrupt Biden cartel for selling out their nation and souls should not all go into the coffers of the criminals and I’m sure the public would approve of at least 10 percent of it going to this child and her mom. By the inane games Hunter and his demented dad are playing over the presence of Navy Joan, they have lost whatever small amount of respect they had, assuming, that is, that they ever had any respect to begin with. I hope the judge in Arkansas gives Hunter his due.
It would have been far better that the mother never revealed the identity of the father. Imagine the daughter’s grief when she comes to the knowledge that half of the genetic material that makes her who she is comes from such vile and sordid stock.
@james Robinson: She was the beneficiary of good fortune and choice as was Liv Rundgren Tyler.
Correction…unfortunately she was not the beneficiary of…
Congrats, Turley.
Your post has tweaked the interest of Althouse.
Bidens are criminal scum…. DC covers for the criminals. Hence DC is a criminal enterprise!
You forgot that Hunter’s lawyers have written two strongly worded letters. One Congress telling them they must censor MTG, and to the DoJ telling them must investigate the people that have copied and disseminated information from a laptop Hunter claims is his.
So Hunter is clearly in the superior position. (and as demonstrated by his separation from reality, still under the influence of a host mind altering drugs)
Granddaughters are the best thing in the world. Who want to hurt or even ignore them?
When she grows up, she may prefer to ignore her grandfather when she finds out what a piece of caca he is. Of course he’ll be long gone, but she still will be swimming in the Joe B. gene pool. God help her.
A narcissistic, sociopathic Machiavellian.
Thanks to Turley for laying out the moral poverty of this family of grifters.
Lefties profess to support women until women become inconvenient – conservative, unaccepting of men in women’s sports, or granddaughter to their president.
I have nothing but contempt for the lefty media which combines sanctimonious piety with cynical mendacity.
“Poverty” properly defined is a lack of something that you cannot afford but want. Not applicable here. The correct word is “depravity.” It is moral sense you need and should have but are metaphycially incapable of possessing.
Moral poverty. They have no morals.
Progressives HATE women. Why do you think they are trying to replace them with Men??
True that. And I’m sure you can’t miss the irony (nay, hypocrisy) of the continued “who were Epstein’s party mates” saga at the same time the UN is pushing nations to decriminalize sex with minors. What a bizarre, screwed-up world we live in. It has happened before, but never in an age like this one.
U r the best sir..
We know u r a democrat but that never deters u from the truth.
Please keep up your work
Against all injustice
JT is BOTH an old-fashioned liberal and an old-fashioned conservative. It puzzles me how few of these are to be found commenting on his posts.
@Carlyle
Sorry to presume, and I don’t intend to offend, but if that binary view is actually how you look at the world and its inhabitants – you still have some learning to do. Are you under 40? Sure sounds like it.
ALL of life is a spectrum, and human beings are ALL individuals. Yes, there are Conservatives that post, Independents that post, Libertarians that post, ‘classical’ liberals that post – and we all discuss together, even if there are disagreements. The only posters causing trouble here are 100% from the Progressive Left, or those who pay people to act on the behalf if the Progressive Left.
Things that do not make one ‘right wing’:
*knowing the Constitution
*knowing how law actually works
*knowing how economics actually work
*being something other than a pagan or atheist
*not being vegan
*wanting secure borders
*wanting secure elections
*wanting term limits on abortion
*wanting power to be decentralized
*protecting children from what is acceptable behavior for adults but that children have neither the faculties nor experience to understand until they are adults
*Wanting police
*Wanting a competent military
*Disagreeing with identity politics and victim culture
And the list goes on. The Professor is what Liberal looked like, by and large, up until pretty dang recently.
How many comments of mine have you read since 1998 or soon after when I discovered JT’s blog? You cannot draw conclusions on all someone’s opinions on all subjects from a post at one time on one issue but that is something most of JT’s current commentors are quick to do. He says this therefore he must be under 40 or a Democrat or he must believe this, that and the other.
I am one of the evil baby boomers, I was born in 1949.
I do not believe any ideology has the whole truth but even some of the mad extremes may have between 20% and 40% of it. However it is possible to take a good idea and extends it until it becomes a bad idea or a very bad idea or an extremely bad idea. That is the case with both WOKE and ANTIWOKE. Irreversible surgery on children because of what may have been the result of peer pressure or a fad is crazy but adults should be allowed to do so after convincing a panel of psychologists that they have not been brainwashed. A great deal of beliefs current in the world are the result of brainwashing. I myself absorbed the most toxic beliefs of Christian puritanism. It wasn’t directly by religious people and I had access to my father who was a Presbyterian minister. The taboo about children knowing anything about reproduction convinced me that I couldn’t discuss anything with any adult, parents and teachers included. So I used other messages with which the walls of society are pasted and tried to induce other principles involved. I eventually came to the conclusion that our society and Christianity were totally opposed to the mammalian internal fertilization procedure and that the marriage celebrant (mostly my father) was lying through his teeth when he mouth the bit about marriage being ordained by god blah blah blah…. My parents died in in 2007 and I had never got around to telling them this. I am a devout atheist but my attitudes to reproduction have not changed as my memory is PROM not EEPROM. I normally avoided girls to whom I was attracted unless they were already taken until I met a nice Chinese girl who arrive in Australia for 6 months to study English at one of the exploitive private colleges that had sprung to rip off foreign students. Because she was only here for six months I thought I would experiment with developing social graces. It was a mistake because in a few week I had fallen in love with her, within in a month we were living together and by April we were married. I was astonished to find she enjoyed sex because I believed women found it distasteful but lay back and did it for the Empire. But I found that was more worried about the guilt of appearing too interested in sex. I believe is not something one does in complete privacy i.e. masturbation.
Even Hitler’s idea of killing the seriously disabled I support, the problem with it as with eugenics is the inevitable contamination with racism, and other otherisms such as misogyny.
PR China has a serious sex imbalance because of the one child policy and the resulting femicide. I believe in abortion being mandatory in some circumstances and in gene analysis of all foetuses and new born babies looking for genes that cause disabling, hereditary & terminal diseases. I believe it is cruel to allow birth of a seriously defective body. True some like Stephen Hawking manage to have worthwhile lives but for each Hawking there are many who die early in unpleasant circumstances. I don’t believe in forcing euthanasia on humans who become disabled after they become aware of the reality of death which is both age and intellect dependent but they should have the option.
My maternal grandmother was one of the 3 survivors of 13 children. Who knows whether there was any genetic weaknesses involved in the deaths of the other 10 or whether they were just unlucky to get the wrong disease at the wrong time or they may have been contributing to maintenance of the collective genome. If it were not for modern surgery I would have died of appendicitis at the age of 4. Many people saved by modern medicine would have died in the 19th century. By keeping them alive have we increased the prevalence of bad genes to the extent that when civilization collapses from war or climate change species homo sapiens may go extinct. I would advise sterilization of any human whose life was saved by medicine not common in the 19th century. If you don’t believe climate change can bring civilizations down look back about 1400 BC. All the empires of the fertile crescent collapsed because a 100 long drought stopped the flooding of the 3 rivers Euphrates, Nile and the Tigris.
No political party wants secure elections if that means that they are going to loose. If given the chance any political party will rig elections and that is why I distrust electronic voting machines. Computers are black boxes we have to take it on faith that they do not have trojan back doors to allow vote manipulation. Voting machines are only used infrequently so they do not get the scrutiny that computers used by banks and insurance companies use but I would not be surprised if elements of the deep state might already have them inserted. The distrust of computers and Telecom equipment produced in PR China is rational but I suspect China might be right to suspect machinery or software produced by US companies.
Nations are psychopaths sometimes they are led by such but even non-psychopathic leaders will do unscrupulous things since the weight they give to their nations interests is so enormous. When a CPU is being developed manufacturers often include undocumented features useful in debugging the hardware that are still there in the production machines. On the same principle one could put trojan horse trapdoors in the hardware that only an infinity of testing could detect. If I were ASIO, ASIS, the CIA, MI5, MI6 or the NSA I would be trying to get such produced so I could disappear or alter records for inconvenient people. Somewhere and some-when such are going to exist especially in electronic voting machines. Brad Friedman’s bradblog.com used to express such concerns. His archives are worth a look.
That is enough for the moment I have other things to do.