Hunter Biden Resurfaces

It's mid-August, everyone's on vacation or wishes he was, nothing's new, so we get a Hunter Biden rerun, even in the Wall Street Journal. The piece is over 1000 words, has three bylines, and manages to convey absolutely no new information:

Those who have spent time with him say the public is now meeting the Hunter Biden they have known for a long time: a sharp observer of politics and media who has had his own life dragged through the mud.

. . . Former Biden White House aides said that Hunter was kept quiet in the White House because he was under federal investigation for much of his father’s time in the presidency. Former aides are now abuzz about what they considered to be a strong showing, and there is some regret they didn’t unleash him earlier, some said.

. . . After Hunter Biden’s laptop was found and its contents leaked, his online history was made public, including nude photos of himself doing illicit drugs. The scandal prompted years of investigations and conspiracies, often spread by some of the podcasters Biden is now choosing to sit with.

“In that total exposure, there was nowhere to hide,” Biden told Carlson.

Hunter's problem is we've already had too much information about the guy, and whatever scraps remain are just more of the same:

Not only is Hunter Biden talking, he is writing. His Substack has more than 65,000 subscribers for essays on sobriety and other topics. He offers paid subscriptions to his Substack that range from $10 a month to $750 a year. It couldn’t be learned how many of his subscribers have opted to upgrade from the free option.

Biden still paints and sells his abstract kaleidoscope-esque paintings using alcohol ink and metal straws, but has said that financial difficulties loom. He testified under oath that the focus on him during his father’s presidency left him in a deep monetary hole.

. . . As investigations into Biden mounted, he made a consequential decision in late 2022 to stop using a lawyer closely aligned with the Biden White House and hire Abbe Lowell, a defense attorney known for taking on high-profile clients and who, according to documents later filed in court, charged Biden $1,510 an hour.

. . . Lowell’s firm later sued Biden for fees in a continuing case, at one point indicating he owed close to $5 million.

For now, in addition to painting and Substack posts, Biden has taken a role as an adviser at a luxury addiction center, Peak Path Health. And his audience is expanding, including to everyday users on social-media platform X, where he has said he is speaking “finally on my terms, not yours.”

I looked into Peak Path Health. As of this past June,

Peak Path Health is proud to announce a new affiliation with Hunter Biden, who will join the organization as the chairperson of the newly established Peak Path Health Foundation, a nonprofit organization created in partnership with Peak Path Health to expand recovery support, advocacy, education, and community outreach efforts.

The announcement comes during a meaningful milestone in Hunter Biden's personal journey, as he celebrates seven years of sobriety this month. His recovery experience, combined with his ongoing work in community service and nonprofit leadership, brings a unique perspective to Peak Path Health's mission of helping individuals and families navigate substance use, mental health challenges, and long-term wellness.

Located in the Hollywood Hills and Woodland Hills areas of Los Angeles, California, Peak Path Health provides private, individualized care through medical detox, psychiatric services, and holistic wellness programs. The new relationship reflects a shared belief that recovery is possible and that access to compassionate, evidence-based care can change lives.

According to Radar Online,

Scandal-scarred Hunter Biden is trying to refurbish his tainted image, RadarOnline.com can reveal, by becoming – of all things – the executive director of an ultra-swanky drug and alcohol rehab center in L.A.'s Hollywood Hills.

. . . Hunter, who reportedly owes roughly $17million in legal bills, has also shockingly hinted he's willing to serve as California Governor Gavin Newsom's vice-presidential running mate in the 2028 election, telling the governor during a podcast: "Here's the deal. I'll run, but only as your VP, because the truth of the matter is that the vice president's residence is a lot cooler. It's a lot easier job, too."

Presidential historian Leon Wagener told RadarOnline.com: "I don't think he was joking, and neither did Newsom. I think Hunter thinks it's a good idea."

But there's a whole 'nother narrative, which Hunter pitched with Tucker Carlson:

The degenerate former first son shapeshifts to suit the proclivities of each interviewer, so he played to Carlson’s newfound paranoia about Israel, insinuating “Netanyahu” or “Mossad” were involved in hacking/stealing/fabricating his laptop/cloud, even though he previously blamed Russia.

. . . Hunter’s central lie is that he never took three waterlogged laptops for repair at John Paul Mac Isaac’s computer repair store in Wilmington, Del.

“I have literally zero recollection or memory of ever dropping off a laptop at John Paul Mac Isaac’s,” Hunter told Carlson.

Then he embarked on a meandering mélange of half-expressed falsehoods, throwing up Ukrainian, Russian and Chinese names, and, for Carlson’s benefit, the name of an Israeli-American “[Yaacov] Apelbaum.” More on him later.

“There is no such thing as a laptop. The laptop that [Mac Isaac] eventually turns over . . . to the FBI, the thing that [he] claims that he got off of a device was a hard drive . . . What he finds through this guy Apelbaum is Rudy Giuliani’s lawyer, Bob Costello . . .

“There’s no possible way all of the information that was eventually labeled as my laptop came from one laptop. It’s way too large . . . They hacked my cloud . . . There’s the Netanyahu side, the Israeli side. There is a Russian Ukrainian side of it. And then there are the US actors that include Steve Bannon, Rudy Giuliani, Miles Guo and a whole bunch of — Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman and all of these guys.”

Carlson’s response to this incomprehensible nonsense is: “I agree.”

Hunter's basic problem is there's no there there, and there never was. For a 30-year period, he was able to run a grift as part of the Biden family, but that's over. As of last year,

Amid lagging sales of his art and his memoir, the younger Biden remains "several million dollars" in debt after fighting multiple federal criminal cases, claiming in an affidavit that he only sold one painting for $36,000 since late 2023, after selling 27 paintings in the previous couple of years at an average price of nearly $55,000.

"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," Hunter Biden wrote Wednesday.

He said that his "lack of financial resources has been exacerbated by the fires in the Pacific Palisades in early January, which has rendered my rental house unlivable for an extended period of time and, like many others in that situation, I am having difficulty in finding a new permanent place to live."

. . . Hunter Biden has acknowledged taking out millions of dollars in loans from Kevin Morris, a Hollywood attorney who largely bankrolled Hunter Biden's legal defense over the past five years. In congressional testimony last year, Morris said he expected Hunter Biden to repay those loans beginning in 2025, though it was not clear from the affidavit whether those loan repayments have begun.