“Mr. Biden lives abroad.” Those four words in a filing from Barry Coburn confirmed what had long been rumored about his client: Hunter Biden has left the country as his former lawyers and creditors seek millions in unpaid debts. He added, “He cannot pay his current lawyers.”
As I wrote about years ago, Biden’s art grift would dry up as soon as he could no longer deliver influence and access to power. Reportedly unable to move art, Hunter has moved out of the reach of many creditors. He is rumored to be in South Africa, where his wife, Melissa Cohen, was born and raised.
Hunter is the Blanche DuBois of American politics. He has always relied on the kindness (and greed) of strangers when he could allegedly offer influence or access to his father, Joe Biden.
Hunter told a South African podcast in November that “We’re trying to be between Cape Town and the States, go back and forth.” He added, “I’ve fallen madly in love with Cape Town. You guys do not know how good you have it here. It’s the most beautiful city in the world.”
According to his former counsel at Winston & Strawn LLP, Hunter has not paid a “substantial portion” of the fees owed to his legal team. Hunter told the podcast that he is facing “$17 million in debt … as it relates to my legal fees.”
His criminal defense did not ultimately protect him. He was found guilty of a variety of crimes, and his father then broke his repeated promise to the public and pardoned his own son in December 2024.
I have been a long-time critic of the Bidens, going back to when Joe Biden was still a senator. The family was long accused of influence peddling and corruption. Hunter Biden was hardly subtle in marketing his access and influence. He is now without a law license and any known means of support despite an enabling media that pushed his past books and art.
For those of us who have written about the Bidens for decades, the relocation to South Africa is about as surprising as having his father pop into dinners at Cafe Milano with foreign clients. Hunter Biden is the Enfant terrible created by his father and released upon the world.
I recently wrote that the Swalwell scandal reveals an ironic analogy to Hunter’s signature lifestyle. Swalwell supported Hunter and was by his side as he defied a congressional subpoena. Like Hunter, he has controversial dealings, including using tens of thousands of campaign contributions for child care. He even had the campaign support of Hunter’s “sugar brother” Kevin Morris, who appears to have a proclivity for narcissistic, self-destructive personalities.
Swalwell could also face the same financial crunch as Hunter, as his campaign and congressional money run out. If so, there is always South Africa.
But but but Trump. signed X(George), ANON!
‘I recently wrote that the Swalwell scandal reveals an ironic analogy to Hunter’s signature lifestyle.’
That’s because it is, and they represent a lifestyle that is both common and something they are acculturated to in such circles. Though likely virtually no one is squeaky clean in Washington families, the modern left seems to be populated by reprobates, and I wouldn’t be surprised if Biden and Swalwell are small potatoes in that regard in comparison to some.
It’s maddening, and their pathological dishonesty (and that of their partners and associations) only makes it more so.
I hope Joe is next!!
Hunter Biden: a despicable, dissipated chump who welshes on his debts. Let me know when we uncover a character attribute that is surprising…
It’s important that we all are reminded of the failures of two of the highest flyers within the Democratic ranks. They were celebrated, revered, and protected all along. Both perished by their own “appetites” which were always available when needed. Now the Dems need a new Trump hit man. Raskin, Schiff, van Hollen, Schumer are tired old horses. Who listens to them any more? So, who are they grooming to be their next lucky loser?
Hard to sympathize with the lawyers that supported and lied for the first son for so long. He should have had better lawyers? Wait he IS a lawyer!
Kevin Morris must be a glutton for punishment. Either that or a moth that just can’t keep away from the light.
I would not want to be a white person living in South Africa. Nice beaches, as seen in Endless Summer, but high murder rate too. That’s why South Africans migrate to the US.
One can wonder how Hunter ever got into Yale Law School, when Sleepy Joe was near the bottom of his class at Syracuse Law. Using influence seems to have started early.
Actually, many of the South Africans who came here under Trump’s special visa program have returned to South Africa.
They cite the crime and violence in the US, as well as the political turmoil here. They also say the cost of living in South Africa is more affordable, health insurance is more affordable and the schools are better.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-white-south-africans-are-persecuted-some-are-returning-better-life-2026-03-11/
Looks more like an opinion.
“People are being shot in broad daylight. American citizens are being shot and killed,” said the 53-year-old, who moved to California in 2003. “I don’t want to live in a place like this.”
Like father, like son: Hunter Biden’s a bum, a criminal and a traitor.
and living in the shadow of beau, the ‘good’ son.
Hunter needs intensive therapy.
All of this financial and political pressure on Hunter is taking its toll. His artistic output has dropped of precipitously, a tragic loss for the art world. Just think about all of the masterpieces that might have been.
It surprises me that you don’t work on more current topics for your columns, for example about Michael Atkinson:
https://huckabeepost.substack.com/p/more-hearsay-evidence-was-used-against
Within this piece, you will find a link to a Fox News segment more than five years ago (outside of statute of limitations): “Jonathan Turley Explains How Adam Schiff Likely Committed a Felony With Leaks”
Maybe not hang around here then unless you just like being disagreeable?
WHY do you defend hunter biden? insanity? are you insane?
It surprises me that you don’t work on more current topics for your columns, for example about Michael Atkinson:
https://huckabeepost.substack.com/p/more-hearsay-evidence-was-used-against
https://rumble.com/v78g4nw-jonathan-turley-explains-how-adam-schiff-likely-committed-a-felony-with-lea.html?mref=8g74p&mrefc=2
haha secure connection failed anonbaby
Sad you are offering another HB episode submitting water under the bridge. On 4/9/26, NYP told readers that the Biden family reunited in Santa Ynez, CA (pictures included) and that Hunter “would embark on a multi-city tour in the American southwest with Andrew Callaghan, who hosts YouTube series Channel 5, challenging Trump’s sons to fight him in a cage match.”
https://nypost.com/2026/04/09/us-news/hunter-biden-is-too-broke-to-pay-lawyer-challenges-trumps-sons-to-a-cage-match/
Oh, right. Well, maybe he can make a little money on said tour. I wonder if he will still have to pay the Big Guy 10%.
There is reportedly a letter signed by over 50 former intelligence officials claiming that this move out of the country is total Russian disinformation. So the media won’t be reporting on it. . .
I’m having trouble feeling sorry for the lawyers that lent him their skills knowing that he hadn’t the means to pay them. I know someone who was just turned away from a legal aid service because she made a few bucks more than the extremely low maximum on Social Security. Yet all these lawyers completed to buy the influence and notoriety for sale at Biden Inc.
Hunter should declare them whole. The influence and notoriety and “free” advertising were supplied. If they did their due diligence they had to know Hunter didn’t have real money or assets or the skills to acquire such. Maybe they can write off the bad investment and write books. Perhaps they should have had old Joe co-sign the contract. The lawyers seem to be killing their reputation from multiple angles by pursuing payment for this foolish and risky investment.They’ll have to overcharge a bunch of old ladies to make up for it.
Those lawyers were waiting for a big payoff, i.e. a Democrat president in 2024 with access to liberal NPO’s and corrupt foreign govs. It was all just a bet with 50% odds. Payment can be extracted via extraction.
Oh geez, professor Turley once again tryin to fool his MAGA readers with some salacious rumor mongering. Wow.
Hunter Biden’s relocation to South Africa—his wife Melissa Cohen’s home country—is a logical family move following the end of his father’s presidency in January 2025.
His attorney, Barry Coburn, disclosed that Biden “lives abroad” in a formal court filing on April 6, 2026. A person truly “fleeing” does not have their attorney officially notify a Washington, D.C. civil court of their overseas status. Furthermore, Hunter Biden has remained visible, agreeing to a “Carnival Tour” in California, Arizona, and New Mexico later in April 2026.
Turley cites the $17 million in debt as proof of a failed “influence grift.” Man, he sure loves to talk about grift while ignoring the massive grifting Trump and his family engage in every day. Turley doesn’t care about grifting as long as he gets to talk about it for per his Fox News contract.
Hunter Biden himself publicly acknowledged this debt during a podcast in November 2025, attributing it almost entirely to massive legal fees incurred over six years of criminal and civil litigation.
The debt is not a lack of income from “grifting,” but rather the astronomical cost of defending himself against multiple federal trials in Delaware and California—trials that only concluded after a presidential pardon in December 2024. His inability to pay lawyers now is a result of being impecunious following years of scorched-earth legal battles.
Trump will likely face the same issue when he leaves office. He still has to pay the financial penalty for his felonies and sexual harassment/abuse cases. As Trump is always liable to do is not pay his lawyers at all even when he does have the means to do so. He’s famous for that.
The only clown rumor mongering here is you george. Folks, his comment is 100% delusion.
Your obsession with me is amusing. You seem to look forward to my posts every morning.
Your obsession with me is amusing George.
Nothing like George’s maniacal obsession with Turley.
You seem to look forward to my posts every morning. The ones you post 24/7/365?
Smells like obsession enhanced by late stage dementia.
No George, Turley is not the devil.
Everyone knows X comes here to be disagreeable and hope someone might possibly could be somewhat drawn to his sad viewpoints so that huge ego of his won’t wither.
X, you are the only really consistent dope replying here and you wonder why you get replies? Oh, insincerity disguised as a superiority complex is nothing new from ‘over there’.
However I do appreciate the insane framing of your insincere arguments so keep it up, don’t let me calling you out penetrate that ego. obsession? > your distorted magical thinking.
Dope? What a wonderful word to describe X. Also, in my professional opinion, his obsession with Turley is sexual in nature i.e., old men his age experiencing inadequacy redirect that energy into a psycho-sexual manifestation of attacking prominent persons concluding with an spasmatic relief. My opinion.
It’s fascinating how quickly you retreat into name-calling the moment a conversation requires critical thinking. I realize that thinking outside of a Turley prompt is a big ask, but your whining and annoyance isn’t a rebuttal—it’s just a noise you make when you don’t have anything to offer.
You aren’t ‘calling me out’; you’re just loudly announcing your inability to handle a view that wasn’t pre-packaged for you.
Otherwise, your frustration and thinly vailed annoyance is the most honest thing you seem to be able to post.
So your fascinating now? I think “they” just called you a perv. Sounds serious. You should sue “you” for defamation; your credibility has been harmed.
BTW, veiled is not spelt: “vailed”. You’re slurring your words. Sorry you’re upset. Let me know if I can help.
ROFL! Anonymous I know it’s you. It’s hilarious how you get goaded.
Please tell us about the laptop george.
Cape Town is a shrinking island for white people with a shrinking economy. Unless his wife’s parents are wealthy, one must wonder how he will support the family. As for the newfangled, one of a kind, first of a kind, Frankensteined legal cases brought against Trump long after statutes of limitation had run in some cases, nothing will ever hold up on appeal, not even the insane civil case brought by a woman who couldn’t even remember the year and was funded by Reid Hoffman to “get Trump.” Like most TDS patients, you’ve obviously never been to Bergdorf. It isn’t a zoo like Macy’s on 34th. You can hear a pin drop. It never happened. A biased judge made terrible rulings. It wasn’t law. Just like all of the other cases. As for Hunter, I feel badly for him as an addict. Instead of being used as Joey’s bagman (the younger, less feeble Joe was abusive to his son), Hunter should have been in rehab. Hunter is intelligent and was able to pull off meetings under the influence and/or working off hangovers with drinks at lunch. I know the sort. Joe never should have flown him around the world using him as a bagman. Period.
Looks like the crazies are out in force this morning.
For American expats, Cape Town is approximately 67% cheaper than New York. Recent reports from April 2026 highlight that many Americans find the quality of life higher for a significantly lower monthly expenditure, with some living comfortably on around $1,000 to $1,500 per month.
While Hunter Biden owes $17 million in legal fees. Trump is on the hook for $671 million in total. Yikes!
He still owes law firms $6.2 million. Which is very likely he will end up stiffing them as it’s customary for him.
Didn’t Hunter tell the story of the family sending him off to yet another stay in rehab and he didn’t show up?
So Reiters cites two people neither of whom actually returned
And even Reuters admits returns a tiny compared to those fleeing
Your own source undermines your argument
As to preatoria claiming there is no discrimination
ROFL
Descrimination is enshrined in the law
It’s Reuters. And Pretoria not preatoria.
John Say, approximately 12,000 white South Africans currently in the U.S. are reportedly applying to return to South Africa. This surge is driven by disillusionment with life in the U.S., citing high living costs and safety concerns.
While specific totals for just the newest “refugees” are still developing, reports confirm that “some” individuals who arrived via the 2025 program have already moved back to South Africa.
Some of those have realized they are better off in South Africa than living here. It’s cheaper and healthcare is way better.
Oh oh George is back. Sounds like a draft for fiction novel.
X – you say “Hunter Biden’s relocation to South Africa—his wife Melissa Cohen’s home country—is a logical family move following the end of his father’s presidency in January 2025.” What is “logical” about it? Please name another notable person who has moved to South Africa, as it used to be called.
Hunter Biden has simply suffered the same costs as Republicans have suffered in lawfare campaigns against them. How much financial cost has the defendants in the J6 prosecutions suffered for merely taking part in a political protest?
Rumor has it Biden is went to SA for skin dying.
It’s his wife’s home country. It’s pretty self explanatory. If you seem confused by that logic perhaps it’s you who may be the issue.
South Africa is a sought after destination for well off people. Trump likes white South Africans enough to grant them refugee status only to for them to head back after seeing how bad it is here. Crazy stuff.
Is there a point somewhere in that mass of letters? I guess it’s self explanatory?
But splitting time between there and here isn’t cheap. I took a quick look at airfares.
It’s a country that she left, for good reason. It has no future for non-blacks.
TDS Alert!!
Wow, another “But Trump” rant from the left Fringe!
No doubt an ardent supporter of
George the Grifter. Rings true.
Wow, “X”. You gotta get off the crack pipe and be able to see (and admit) what even the most ardent partisan Democrat and Biden apologist sees and admits: Hunter is a pathetic grifter who was enabled by his pathetic grifter, liar, and plagiarizer of a father who will remain a stain on the fabric of the US. It can’t be taken seriously for you to rationalize that this is another problem made by Bad Orange Man. Perhaps you need one of the 12 step programs — all will tell you the first thing in healing is admitting you have a problem.
It certainly was not Trump who got him kicked out of the Navy. A “real” job he got through Dad’s influence.
Grifter? Are you sure about that? Because Trump’s sons are doing the same thing and it’s just fine and dandy. If they can do it so can Hunter. Apparently it’s not a crime. Heck, even Trump himself joins in on the grifting whenever he sees a grifting opportunity. He lives for that stuff.
So in X’s mindless partisan contrarianism the only reason HB is broke is because he spent so much money on lawyers defending actions that were objectively ILLEGAL.
X, tell us what crimes HB had to defend that he did not commit. Now compare that to Trump being forced to defend a rape charge that the accuse said happened 30 years ago in a dressing room in a famous clothing store. THIRTY YEARS AGO and in the dressing room of a busy store. Have you, or your (hypothetical) wife/girlfriend, ever changed in a dressing room of a busy store? Can you imagine an unwanted assault occurring in there…and being committed by one of the most famous men in the city??
Next, Trump’s huge fine levied in the false real estate case, one of the most corrupt “trails” in American jurisprudence, will be overturned eventually and it is only another example of NY corruption that it hasn’t been heard after all this time already.
This is another swing and a miss for you GeoXrge.
Hullbobby, labeling the other side as ‘mindless’ and ‘contrarian’ doesn’t make your legal claims more accurate. For instance, your dismissal of the Carroll case ignores that the jury saw the Access Hollywood tape and heard from two other women who described a similar ‘standard operational procedure’ of sudden groping in semi-public places. The jury didn’t find him liable for rape, but they were unanimous on sexual abuse. If the evidence was as thin as you’re suggesting, it wouldn’t have survived the multiple appeals that have already upheld the verdict
X, George, thanks for helping make my legal point. You say the jury was shown the Access Hollywood tape without understanding the egregious mistake that is for the judge to make. The tape is where Trump states that when you are rich and famous the women LET you grab them. Let connotes consent and yet the judge allowed it to be presented in a trial for rape??? That is prejudicial and appealable. That is just one instance of the corrupt nature of the trail. Mr. Upstate gives another below.
I say that you are mindless and contrarian because you argue against EVERYTHING that Turley writes and that makes you both mindless and contrarian.
HullBobby,
Dont forget, Carrol could not recall the date of the alleged rape, changing it several times before deciding on one. And, she posed for a cover of a magazine wearing a outfit she claimed she was wearing when the alleged rape happened. It was quickly found, IIRC by the NYT, that outfit was not made till several years later.
Otherwise, just scroll past the slow and dumb one. Hear the village idiot once, no need to hear him again.
Great points Upstate!
X-ray: You missed the main point of this article which was that Hunter essentially put himself out of reach of his creditors. You also are a bit too quick to toss out wild unsupported accusations like “ignoring massive grifting by Trump and his family everyday.” You might be more persuasive if you drop the silly hyperbole.
I appreciate the tip on being persuasive, but I’m not sure I should take notes from someone who views documented financial fraud as ‘silly hyperbole.’ Hunter Biden’s debt is a drop in the bucket compared to the massive scale of the Trump family’s legal liabilities and foreign business entanglements. If acknowledging that reality feels ‘wild’ to you, it’s probably because you’ve spent too much time in an echo chamber where only one side is held to a standard.
Logical family move??? I guess when you owe $17 million! It’s called fleeing!! Take your meds George
I guess you missed the part where he is still returning to the states for some sort of tour promoting something. Choosing to live in South Africa is not avoiding your debts. All Turley said was he owes money to his lawyers. So does Trump, but we don’t hear Turley boasting about it do we?
Turley never misses an opportunity to attack the Biden family whenever Trump is in trouble. It’s a worn out distraction at this point.
Hunter and his father as VP were active CIA agents working several projects and providing political cover… The real question is should our leaders and their families be intelligence assets?
CIA agents huh? That is not a real question? And what is that supposed to mean .. real question as opposed to an unreal question, or an imaginary question?
its just nonsense coming from your butt.
I have to say his comment is all Bupkis.
The CIA gave Bidens coloring books on a tour of facilities. That does not count as ‘working for the CIA’.
But for hunter, this is art, and we need to respect it’s sincerity even if he can’t stay within the lines.
Imagine the hue and cry throughout all of media if this was a Trump son. Mr. Turley is the only one mentioning this.
No, I can’t imagine that. And why would I? Stupid childish comment.
Stupid childish Anon!
Please! use your imagination! it’s somewhere inside your tiny brain!
I heard you like childish comments? pls respond.
He/her makes childish comments daily!!
Democrats love to throw around the term “convicted felon” except when it comes to Hunter Biden. Hunter is also the consummate nepo baby with no useful experience in anything except influence peddling. The left told us how great Hunter’s art was, and that its sales record was in no way related to his father’s position, so it must really be surprising that nobody wants to buy his finger paintings anymore.
Trump is a convicted felon. And I’m a republican.
Trump is a victim of coordinated LAWFARE led by Obama on down and 17 intelligence agencies. I know you’ll never take a look at what Tulsi Gabbard released this week to show that it all was a FRAUD from the start. There will be no convincing you, but there it is.
But your fiction still does not discount the fact that he is a convicted felon. There will be no convincing you, but there it is.
labels mean a lot to the left. it’s the only control over others thoughts they have.
A misdemeanor turned into felonies falsely. How much time did Trump spend in prison?? Fines? Anything??? DF ANON!!
Joe Biden and Barack Obama were great Presidents and I’m a space alien from Alpha Centauri’s second planet.
a RINO you mean? Trump is in your head? get help and you will see all the republican winning.
they’re doing wonderful things with medications these days.
Lawfare doesn’t count because it’s an illegal sale of our (now illegitimate, thanks dems!) justice system.
Now there is poetic justice. Hitch your wagon to a lowlife crook and you get stuck holding the bag!
Crook? Implying what exactly?
Too dumb to figure it out Anon?? ha ha ha