Hunter Biden in court over paternity case

Hunter Biden has been ordered to appear in court after a stripper sued him over child support for the daughter she says is his.

Hunter and his wife Melissa Biden with Joe and Jill Biden. Picture: AFP.

Hunter Biden has been ordered to appear in court in a child support case.

Lunden Roberts, a former stripper, sued the president’s son after her lawyers said that DNA tests proved his relationship with her four-year-old daughter, named Navy. Hunter Biden, 53, is also under investigation by Republicans in the House of Representatives, who allege that he traded on the family name to make millions of dollars abroad.

His laptop emerged as a crucial issue during his father’s 2020 presidential campaign, when former intelligence officials said the computer, which contained lurid pictures as well as information detailing his business dealings, was a Russian disinformation attempt.

However, the laptop was later proven to be authentic and Republicans as well as Donald Trump accused sections of the media, with the help of social media companies, of trying to suppress the story to protect Joe Biden’s campaign.

Hunter continues to be a liability for the president as he officially launches his 2024 re-election run and will undoubtedly be targeted by whoever wins the Republican nomination.

A recovering drug addict, he left a laptop at a computer repair shop in Delaware. It was seized by the FBI but only after the repairman had made a copy of the hard drive and given it to Trump’s ally Rudy Giuliani, who then handed it over to the New York Post.

The laptop contained pictures of Hunter with drugs and prostitutes but, more damaging to Joe Biden, details of his business dealings.

In May 2014, when his father was vice-president, Hunter Biden joined the board of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma, for which he earned $1 million a year. The laptop contained an email from a Burisma executive thanking Hunter for introducing him to his father, the New York Post reported.

A 2017 email from a business partner of Hunter detailed a “provisional agreement” with an energy firm in Shanghai that is reported to have ties to Chinese military intelligence.

Joe Biden has denied any involvement in his son’s business dealings.

In Arkansas, the judge in the paternity case has ordered Hunter to attend all future hearings into child support for Navy, saying that his absence was “interfering” with the case, “which is taking way too long to get over simple points”.

Last week it was reported in the US media that federal prosecutors were considering charging the president’s son with tax crimes and a charge relating to the purchase of a gun.

The Times