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Hindustan Times
2 days ago
- Politics
- Hindustan Times
Hunter Biden turned to DNC for legal fees, ultimately his ‘sugar brother' footed millions
New book reveals that as legal trouble mounted for Hunter Biden last year, the then-first son reportedly begged the Democratic National Committee to cover his ballooning legal fees. A political tell-all states Hunter Biden pleaded for DNC assistance with his legal fees, which were declined. (AP Photo/Eric Thayer, File)(AP) The upcoming political tell-all, 2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America claims the DNC declined, even though it had already been footing the legal bill for President Joe Biden's separate classified documents investigation. ALSO READ| Trump makes bombshell cocaine claim against Joe and Hunter Biden, says 'bad stuff happened' in White House Kevin Morris bankrolled Hunter's legal woes The book, written by journalists Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager, and Isaac Arnsdorf, cites that by mid-2024, Hunter's legal situation had become increasingly dire. The former son's longtime backer and friend, Hollywood lawyer Kevin Morris, nicknamed his 'sugar brother', had already paid off over $2 million in back taxes and was reportedly covering many of Hunter's legal expenses. These included not only defence attorneys but also court-mandated payments like alimony to ex-wife Kathleen Buhle and child support to Lunden Roberts, the mother of Hunter's daughter, Navy Joan, as the New York Post cited. Morris, who testified before House Republicans earlier this year, estimated that Hunter's legal tab had hit $5 million by the time the 2024 presidential race began heating up. However, Morris' own daughter criticised Hunter, accusing him of 'taking advantage' of her father's support. How Hunter Biden's trials undid a Presidency Last June, a law firm that once represented Hunter sued him for allegedly failing to pay over $50,000 in outstanding fees. On 11 June 2024, Hunter was convicted on three felony gun charges. Just months later, in September, he pleaded guilty to several tax felonies for evading $1.4 million in IRS payments. 'The only thing I care about is that my son is not convicted,' Then President Joe Biden told one of his close friends, per The Wall Street Journal. Notably, Joe even considered creating a legal defence fund to help Hunter battle both federal charges and the ongoing congressional inquiry into his overseas business dealings. ALSO READ| Hunter Biden To Go To Jail Now? Trump's Shocking Announcement On Pardons By Joe Biden | Autopen Ultimately, Biden issued a pardon for Hunter, covering all charges and any potential related offences committed between January 1, 2014, and December 1, 2024. 2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America by Penguin Press will hit the shelves on July 8.
New York Post
2 days ago
- Politics
- New York Post
Hunter Biden begged DNC to pay his legal fees for tax, gun cases: new tome
WASHINGTON — Then-first son Hunter Biden begged the Democratic National Committee to foot his mounting legal bills for the federal tax and gun charges he faced last year, according to an explosive new tell-all. The DNC was paying the legal fees for dad Joe Biden, who was still president at the time, over a separate federal probe into whether the commander in chief hoarded classified documents — but scoffed at also covering Hunter's extra legal costs, says the book '2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America.' By June 2024, Hunter's 'sugar brother' Kevin Morris had already paid off more than $2 million in tax delinquency related to one of then-first son's criminal cases and had been shelling out even more for his related legal bills. Advertisement 3 Then-first son Hunter Biden begged the Democratic National Committee to foot his mounting legal bills for federal tax and gun charges he faced last year. CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images Those bills included ongoing alimony payments to Hunter's ex-wife, Kathleen Buhle, and child-support checks to Lunden Roberts, the mother of his love-child Navy Joan, as set out in a June 2023 settlement. Hunter's legal tab as the presidential contest ramped up in January 2024 stood at around $5 million, Morris testified to House Republican investigators. Advertisement Morris' daughter later accused the troubled first son of 'taking advantage' of her father's largesse. 3 The seamy first son was convicted of three felony gun charges June 11, 2024. Last month, the law firm that represented Hunter also sued him for reneging on more than $50,000 in legal fees. Hunter was convicted of three felony gun charges June 11, 2024, and pleaded guilty to multiple tax felonies for evading $1.4 million in payments to the IRS in September. Advertisement His father months later pardoned him of all those charges as well as any related to potential crimes he may have committed between Jan. 1, 2014, and Dec. 1, 2024. 3 Former President Joe Biden handed his son a controversial sweeping pardon before leaving office. WireImage 'The only thing I care about is that my son is not convicted,' Biden told a close friend before Hunter's first conviction, according to journalists Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager and Isaac Arnsdorf in their forthcoming book, which was excerpted Thursday in the Wall Street Journal. The president at one point considered forming a legal defense fund for his son to push back on the federal probe as well as the parallel congressional investigation into Hunter's foreign influence peddling that could potentially implicate him. Advertisement '2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America,' is being published by Penguin Press on July 8. Reps for the DNC and Hunter's former lawyer, Abbe Lowell, did not respond to Post requests for comment.
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Health
- Yahoo
Trump Made Bizarre Request At Hospital After Assassination Attempt: Book
Donald Trump asked the doctor treating him for his gunshot wound last July if he could have a CT scan image because it's 'like an IQ test,' according to a new book. The Washington Post published an excerpt from '2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America' detailing the day of the assassination attempt on him in Butler, Pennsylvania. A portion of it contained the curious item of Trump making his scan request to the physician and walking down the hall with a phalanx of Secret Service agents to get the scan. Here's the rest of the passage: He asked to see the 'film' from the scan. The doctor said that wasn't done anymore, and offered him a written report. 'I want the film,' he repeated. [Co-campaign manager Susie Wiles] left to get a copy of the image, and while she was gone, one of the aides asked him why. 'It's like an IQ test,' Trump said. 'They tell you that your brain is good, so I just want to have that.' Wiles put the images in a manila envelope in her bag. Brain CT scans are used to detect tumors, bleeding, or other abnormalities, but they do not measure intelligence, according to Johns Hopkins Medicine. However, another type of scan, the MRI, is thought to indicate intellectual capacity as brain activity is tracked at rest, Caltech reported. A study showed that infants' IQ could potentially be predicted using the MRI. Trump has been known to obsess over IQ, and the timing of his request might have had to do with his race against then Democratic nominee Joe Biden. While Biden bore the brunt of concerns over cognitive ability at the time, Trump also faced questions. Biden withdrew from the race about a week later and was replaced by Vice President Kamala Harris. Trump, of course, won the election but has not quelled accusations of impairment. HuffPost has reached out to Trump's team for comment. Lawrence O'Donnell's Unfiltered Reaction To Bonkers Trump Presser Moment Says It All Trump's Tax Bill Plans To Decimate Medicaid. For One Group, The Cuts Will Be Unspeakably Cruel. From Name-Calling To Love-Bombing: Trump Mocked For DeSantis Flip-Flop
Yahoo
19-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
We hope you get better, Joe Biden. We'd also like the truth
All of us wish Joe Biden the best upon hearing the news that he is battling an aggressive form of prostate cancer 'with metastasis to the bone'. Few families have been untouched by cancer, which is no respecter of political differences, and which previously claimed Biden's son Beau. Under normal circumstances, that would be the end of things. Common humanity would counsel everyone to take a brief break from political division to extend sympathy to the 82-year-old former president and his family in this difficult time. But on the topic of Biden's health, these are anything but normal times. Arriving as it does squarely in the midst of a barrage of revelations about the cover-up of Biden's mental and physical decline during his presidency, the news of his cancer diagnosis raises fresh questions about how long this has been known about and whether it was concealed from the public before now. Biden's inner circle, including his family and his doctors, have thoroughly exhausted the public's trust given their lack of candour about the former president's broader health. The controversy has been reignited as political reporters roll out books on Biden's abortive 2024 re-election bid, which he was compelled to abandon after he malfunctioned on the debate stage in late June. New titles covering the topic include Original Sin by Jake Tapper of CNN and Alex Thompson of Axios, Fight by Jonathan Allen of NBC and Amie Parnes of The Hill, and 2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America, by Tyler Pager of The New York Times, Josh Dawsey of The Wall Street Journal and Isaac Arnsdorf of The Washington Post. That's a constellation of bylines from a who's who of national political journalism. The common theme in the reporting is that the people around Biden carefully controlled access to him, bent his schedule around his declining faculties, and lied to the press. Even devoted supporters and members of his Cabinet grew alarmed at the then-president's poor memory and constricted schedule. He supposedly didn't recognise old friends, including George Clooney, a major Democratic fundraiser and one of the world's most famous men. Aides reportedly discussed needing to put Biden in a wheelchair. His staff allegedly decided against having him take a cognitive test on the theory that 'if there's no diagnosis, there's nothing to disclose'. When special counsel Robert Hur released his report discussing Biden's memory lapses, leading Democrats fanned out to smear Hur. The just-released audio of Biden's October 2023 deposition by Hur, the disclosure of which was fought by then-attorney general Merrick Garland, wholly vindicates Hur's account of Biden's halting, befuddled demeanour. Indeed, so self-evidently damning are the revelations to the Biden White House that much of the conservative criticism has instead focused on the press for deflecting its own role in incuriously swallowing the lies and propagating them so long as Biden was a candidate. It came out last year that Biden's White House was taking visits from a Parkinson's specialist; the White House refused to say if he was treating the president. Biden frequently went to Delaware for the weekends, holding few public events there; unlike at the White House, his visitors were not logged. We were told again and again that Biden was a man of remarkable health, vigour, and sharpness, even when our eyes and ears told us the contrary. Polls showed for much of his presidency that large majorities of the public didn't buy it. In public remarks in 2022, Biden cited environmental pollution in his home town as a reason why 'I, and so damn many other people I grew up with, have cancer'. The White House 'clarified' at the time that the president had misspoken. Now, we're told that he's only discovered in the four months since leaving office that he has sufficiently advanced prostate cancer that it has spread to his bones. It's standard for men over 50 to receive regular prostate checks – and Biden turned 50 in 1992. As vice-president and as president, he would have received the best medical care the world can offer. It's little wonder that so many are questioning the official timeline. Maybe it's a conspiracy theory to suggest that Biden, his family, and his senior aides have known for some time that he had cancer, and have been hiding his diagnosis and treatment. But the conspiracy's existence is already so extensively-reported that the only question left is what else we weren't told. We hope you get better, Mr Biden. We'd also like the truth. Dan McLaughlin is a senior writer at National Review Broaden your horizons with award-winning British journalism. Try The Telegraph free for 1 month with unlimited access to our award-winning website, exclusive app, money-saving offers and more.
Sky News AU
05-05-2025
- Politics
- Sky News AU
New book exposes Joe Biden's advisors not giving the then-president a cognitive test
A new book has exposed the actions of Joe Biden's advisors who chose not to give the then-president a cognitive test. According to The New York Times, Biden's advisors decided the then-president should not take the test over concerns the results would cast doubt on his age. The book, '2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America' is set to release in July and is penned by reporters Tyler Pager, Josh Dawsey and Isaac Arnsdorf from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. One of the moments covered in the book was about Biden's advisors discussing concerns about the then-president taking a cognitive test. According to the NYT, citing the book, the former president's advisers were confident Biden would pass. The advisers, however, were worried that Biden merely taking the test would raise questions about his mental acuity. The discussion over whether Biden should be tested happened in February 2024, months before his presidential debate against Donald Trump.
