Hunter Biden now claims he didn’t introduce dad to Burisma exec despite admitting they dined together — as ‘sugar brother’ runs out of cash

NY Post ^ | 05.20.2024 | Steven Nelson

[Steely Tom]

I wonder how much tax Hunter paid on his $4.9 million gift.

How 'bout "nothing."

[jonascord]

Be interesting to see the repayment schedule for those "loans," and the monthly canceled checks from Hunter.

I know my bank would get snippy if I missed a payment.

[torqemada]

Beg to differ. I was taxed $10K on a $47K student loan “forgiven” due to permanent disability. I had to pay every damn dime of that because the IRS called it a “gift.” Are you telling me that SallieMae should have paid that tax? Where do I sign up for a refund?

[Bernard]

You don’t introduce Joe Biden because he needs no introduction.

[Night Hides Not]

There's a big difference between "forgiveness of income" and gift tax.

What you "received" was forgiveness of debt.

[Texas resident]

Drinking a quart of vodka a day by yourself...

Wow that is 32 ounces per day. Standard amount per drink is 1.5 ounces. If this is true, that is over 21 drinks per day.

[BlueLancer]

Wow that is 32 ounces per day. Standard amount per drink is 1.5 ounces. If this is true, that is over 21 drinks per day.

"I got to cut down on my drinking ... I'm putting away a quart a day ..."

[Liz]

Laugh Break: Hunter Biden Punching Back at Fox News
Says They “Dehumanized Him” as a Drug Addict
By Roger Sollenberger, uknews.com/yahoo news
Sun, 19 May 2024

Over the last few days, Hunter Biden has lost his bid to delay his federal gun trial, tried to get his tax trial postponed, and learned that the benefactor funding his legal defense is out of cash.

But President Joe Biden’s scandal-scarred son is ready for another fight.

Three weeks ago, his attorney sent a legal letter to Fox News threatening to sue the media empire for allegedly conspiring with Trumpland operatives and pro-Russia foreign nationals to defame him, and for exploiting his image for profit.

And in an exclusive interview with The Daily Beast, the 54-year-old blasted Rupert Murdoch’s flagship for using his infamous drug addiction to “dehumanize” him in order to take down his father.

“I’m not saying my addiction is an excuse for my bad behavior. What I’m saying is that my addiction is not an excuse for them to dehumanize me—and in doing so dehumanize everybody from the addict that you pass it on the street, to the one that you live with,” he said.

“That is the principal motivating factor,” Biden said, mocking near-nightly attacks spouted by Fox News personalities, “Addict, addict, addict, addict, you know. Crack addict, he’s a crack addict, smoking crack, addict.”

The demand letter that Biden’s attorneys sent Fox asked the network to issue written retractions and on-air apologies and corrections for hundreds of online articles and broadcasts. His lawyers told The Daily Beast they plan to file a lawsuit “shortly.”

The Yale Law graduate said he’s not under any delusion about the challenges that lie ahead if he does sue—nor is he deterred.

“Everybody that has ever thought about bringing a defamation suit is always told they’re just going to spend any legal proceeding defaming you all over again,” he said, going on to explain why that did not discourage him. “It’s not like I’m going to reignite some controversy over whether or not I ever smoked crack.”

If the lawsuit moves forward to the discovery phase, Biden claimed, it will make the months of embarrassing revelations from Dominion Voting Systems’ successful defamation suit against Fox News—over the promotion of lies about the 2020 election—look like “pattycakes.”

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