Hunter Biden Fled to South Africa While Owing Lawyers $17 Million

Hunter Biden has left the country. Not for a vacation, not for some diplomatic mission, but apparently to set up shop somewhere far from the mess he’s created here. According to a court filing dropped earlier this month by his attorney Barry Coburn, the president’s son now “lives abroad” and claims he’s too broke to pay his legal bills. The same legal bills he racked up defending himself against federal gun charges and tax evasion. The same bills he told podcast host Dave Rubin totaled around $17 million.

Let that sink in for a second. Seventeen million dollars in legal debt. That’s not a typo. That’s what happens when you spend decades making catastrophically bad decisions and then need an army of high-priced lawyers to clean up after you.

Winston & Strawn, the powerhouse firm that deployed celebrity attorney Abbe Lowell to fight Hunter’s battles in Delaware and California courtrooms, says he owes them “substantially in excess of $50,000.” They’re not asking for charity. They did the work. They showed up. They billed him. Now they want to get paid like any other business would expect. But Hunter, according to his lawyer, is what they call “impecunious.” That’s lawyer speak for flat broke.

Here’s where it gets rich, and I mean that ironically. Coburn’s filing claims Hunter doesn’t have the money to hire experts to comb through his emails and electronic devices for the lawsuit’s discovery process. Can’t afford a billing consultant. Can’t afford a forensic accountant. Can’t afford an e-discovery vendor. The guy is supposedly living hand to mouth.

Except he’s not. Because in that same interview with Rubin last November, Hunter was gushing about the food scene in Cape Town, South Africa. “The food here is incredible,” he said. “It is across the board the most consistently good food from the corner burger place to the super fine dining.” Super fine dining. Those were his exact words. You know what people who are genuinely broke don’t do? They don’t wax poetic about the super fine dining options in their new city. They eat ramen. They skip meals. They certainly don’t jet set to South Africa.

And speaking of jet setting, despite this alleged poverty and his claimed foreign residency, Hunter somehow managed to fly roughly 10,000 miles from Cape Town to Santa Ynez, California for an Easter gathering with Joe Biden and the rest of the family. That’s not a cheap flight. Who’s footing that bill? Because if he can’t pay Winston & Strawn the money he legitimately owes them, someone else is clearly keeping him afloat.

This is the entitled Democrat playbook in action. Make terrible choices for years. Blame everyone else when the consequences arrive. Claim victimhood while living better than most Americans ever will. Hunter told Rubin, “You want accountability? Look at the past six years of my life.” As if facing legal consequences for actual crimes is somehow persecution instead of justice.

The whole situation reeks of someone who’s never had to live with real consequences. Most Americans can’t just skip town when their bills pile up. They can’t declare themselves broke while maintaining an international lifestyle. They certainly can’t stiff their lawyers and then complain about accountability with a straight face. But Hunter Biden isn’t most Americans. He’s the son of a president, and apparently that comes with a different set of rules.

What’s truly galling is the audacity of it all. These law firms did their jobs. They kept him out of prison, at least initially. They worked the system, filed the motions, stood beside him in court. And now he’s essentially saying thanks for nothing, I’m out of here, good luck collecting. It’s the kind of behavior that would land a regular person in contempt of court or worse.

The Biden family has spent years lecturing the rest of us about paying our fair share, about responsibility, about duty to country. Meanwhile, the president’s son is living abroad, dodging creditors, and apparently enjoying the finer things in life while claiming poverty. You can’t make this stuff up.