Why Is Hunter Living At The White House?

I've noted here several times that Hunter has been seen frequently at the White House since the middle of last year, and in fact he went with Joe and his Aunt Valerie on a very private trip to Ireland earlier this month. The latest theory is from Miranda Devine at the New York Post, who has been following Hunter closely:

Hunter Biden is believed to be hiding out at the White House while his baby mama goes on the warpath.

. . . Roberts’ legal maneuvers in Arkansas lend weight to the rumor in Washington, DC, that Hunter has been living at the White House with his second wife, Melissa Cohen, and their 3-year-old son, Beau, allegedly to avoid being served with legal papers.

Numerous sightings over the past six months lend credence to the idea, with Hunter and his family spotted trailing his father and the first lady onto Marine One for weekends away to Delaware or Camp David, or for longer vacations at the borrowed homes of billionaires.

. . . Surrounded by his father’s Secret Service detail and protected by his own agents, it is difficult for a process server to get to him.

From early last year, an elaborate swing set suitable for a toddler was spotted on the White House grounds when the president ambled back to his office from Marine One.

However, just yesterday,

An Arkansas judge ordered Hunter Biden on Monday to personally show up in court in May to address questions about his laptop, including whether financial records on it belong to him.

. . . Hunter Biden's presence at the Arkansas court could create a political headache for the White House and the Biden family. He has reportedly gone to great lengths to avoid getting served with legal papers from Roberts.

But I think if anyone is following Joe's political headaches even desultorily, Hunter's baby mama is hardly the biggest. And even leaving the baby mama aside, Hunter himself is somewhat bigger, but it's clear that the current Hunter investigations are important only insofar as they lead to Joe. Joe is his own biggest headache.

If I were able to do that kind of check, the first question I'd ask is whether Hunter is still renting the Malibu house with the associated one next door for the Secret Service detail. When I last looked at Hunter's finances a month ago, I estimated,

But adding line items like alimony, wild partying, rehab, payments to Hallie and her sister, Elizabeth Secundy, with whom he was having an affair at the same time, plus child support for his natural daughter with the stripper Lunden Roberts, it seems as though Hunter's expenses even during his peak years pretty much canceled out his earnings. But now, with his income much reduced and living under effective house arrest in his Malibu compound, he's got that rent, another child, an expensive new wife, and maybe a million dollars a month in lawyer fees. I can only think Joe is picking up all these bills[.]

As best I could determine in January,

Hunter has been living in a Malibu, CA compound in a $20,000-a-month rental. . . . Access to Hunter's residence is closely controlled by the Secret Service, so that his conditions amount to house arrest. The $20,000 monthly rent on Hunter's house is reportedly paid by Hollywood lawyer Keven Morris, who reportedly underwrites other of Hunter's living expenses. According to that link, Morris also advises Hunter on his "art" sales.

However, the art sales, while controversial, seem to be in the half-million-dollar range, which can hardly pay for Hunter's lifestyle, his alimony and child support, his wife's jet-setting, and all the attorneys. Even someone like Kevin Morris has got to have his limits. Joe also had to have been on the hook for some part of this, and the increase in legal expenses since bringing Abbe Lowell on board has got to be a strain on anyone, whomever it may be and however rich, who's paying them.

So now we hear Hunter and his family have been living in the White House since last summer. My guess is that even if Kevin Morris was paying the rent on the Malibu compound, there had to be belt tightening somewhere, and the rental is done. Not only that, but if Hunter and his family are at the White House, there's less strain on the Secret Service for the separate Hunter detail in Malibu, but beyond that, Hunter is under even closer control -- a lot harder for crack dealers and Russian pimps to do business there than even in Malibu. And a lot harder for the wife to jet-set off as well, which also saves the family budget.

So evading the baby mama's process servers is the least of the reasons for Hunter to be in the White House. But there's another question. Hunter's daughter Naomi and her husband have been living in the White House simce their wedding last year as well. This all says to me there are limits to what Joe can subsidize out of his own pocket. At least he can keep Hunter, Naomi, and their useless spouses on the public dime for a while longer.

UPDATE: Naomi and her husband had apparently noved out as of this past month.

Of course he announced for reelection. It delays his own financial reckoning, which he's doing everything he can to avoid until his executors have to handle it.