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Hunter Biden, Beset by Legal Woes, Flees to... South Africa?
https://redstate.com ^ | 3/15/2025 | WARD CLARK

Posted on 03/16/2025 7:15:45 AM PDT by bitt

Poor Hunter Biden. First, his meal ticket father leaves office and disappears from public view (for which blessing many of us are breathing a sigh of relief), then his California house burns up, along with a bunch of his "priceless" art. The guy just can't catch a break.

On Saturday, we learned that Hunter's woes are worsening. He was facing an uncomfortable deposition in California, but a kindly judge allowed that case to be dismissed as Hunter's too broke to continue. So now the poverty-stricken former First Son has jetted off to Cape Town, South Africa, accompanied by his Secret Service retinue, to suffer from his poverty in a $500/night beachfront villa.

" Hunter Biden fled last week to South Africa for a luxury vacation — with round-the-clock Secret Service protection — avoiding a grueling deposition scheduled for this week in a California lawsuit.

California District Court Judge Herman Vera granted Hunter’s motion to dismiss the case Thursday after the former first son claimed he was too broke to continue suing former Trump staffer Garrett Ziegler and his nonprofit Marco Polo.

But photographs show Hunter was already in Cape Town the day the case was dismissed, staying in a $500-a-night beachfront villa described on its website as an “ultra-luxurious designer home with spectacular 180 degrees unobstructed views of the sea.”"

Well, that doesn't sound so bad. After all, it looks like Hunter's Ukrainian options are out, so a luxury beachfront hotel in South Africa may be the next best thing. As it turns out, Hunter has been gifted some unusual legal foresight, as he headed out to South Africa before his case was even dismissed.

“He was in South Africa before the judge even decided the case,” Ziegler said Friday. “That means he is assuming his daddy’s

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hunterbiden; secretservice
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1 posted on 03/16/2025 7:15:45 AM PDT by bitt
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SNIP...

“Shopping, too? What’s next? And why does the ne’er-do-well son of a former president have Secret Service protection?

The scandal-prone 55-year-old son of Joe Biden does not qualify for statutory Secret Service protection, which only applies to former presidents’ children aged under 16, per the Former Presidents Protection Act (codified in 18 USC, Section 3056).

But Biden issued an executive memorandum before he left the presidency indefinitely extending Secret Service protection for his son, according to Trump administration sources.

This is something that, honestly, should be undone. Anything put in place by an executive memorandum, we presume, can be undone by an executive memorandum. If Hunter Biden, for all his grinding poverty, chooses to travel outside the country, especially to an unsettled place like South Africa, let him work out his own security.”.....


2 posted on 03/16/2025 7:16:35 AM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...

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3 posted on 03/16/2025 7:16:53 AM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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To: bitt

I hope he tries farming.


4 posted on 03/16/2025 7:18:31 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: bitt

Who pays for this?


5 posted on 03/16/2025 7:19:05 AM PDT by Saintgermain ( )
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To: bitt

Surprised he didn’t go to Thailand.


6 posted on 03/16/2025 7:20:41 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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rescind protection IMMEDIATELY! let the locals “protect” him. he can well afford it. please Mr. President...STOP THE BS AND TAKE DOWN THESE WHITE PUNKS ON DOPE! once and for all.


7 posted on 03/16/2025 7:24:57 AM PDT by Qwapisking ("The left will rue the day they cheated Trump out of the 2020 election forever" L.Star )
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To: A_perfect_lady

Trump should order his SS protection be removed.


8 posted on 03/16/2025 7:25:09 AM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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That’s what I want to know! Is he still freeloading off of us?

I hope Trump puts a stop to it.

9 posted on 03/16/2025 7:26:06 AM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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Hunter’s wife is the adopted daughter of a wealthy Johannesburg Jewish family. Wouldn’t be odd for someone like Hunter to be going through his wife’s money in addition to his other grifting.


10 posted on 03/16/2025 7:27:35 AM PDT by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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$500 a night? That’s slumming for Hunter.


11 posted on 03/16/2025 7:28:54 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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Who knew? Hunter is gifted w/ unusual “legal foresight.”

Seems he headed out to South Africa before his case was even dismissed.

He was lolling in his South Africa $500 a night digs before the judge even decided the case.

Sniffle-—Hunter knew daddy would make “the phone call” to the judge.....sob.


12 posted on 03/16/2025 7:28:58 AM PDT by Liz
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Well, he’s in South Africa. Don’t all Americans in South Africa get Secret Service protection?

They need it.


13 posted on 03/16/2025 7:34:08 AM PDT by sphinx
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Do they still practice the art of "necklacing" in South Africa?  Asking for a friend.
14 posted on 03/16/2025 7:37:56 AM PDT by mellow velo
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So, is South Africa one of the no-extradition countries?

And if it is, can the SS bring him back?


15 posted on 03/16/2025 7:38:07 AM PDT by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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Why does this POS have SS protection? PDJT should pull it and make them pay for their own. STAT!


16 posted on 03/16/2025 7:39:33 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within ? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: A_perfect_lady

Or at least to someplace that doesn’t have a current extradition treaty with the US.


17 posted on 03/16/2025 7:47:09 AM PDT by normbal (normbal. somewhere in socialist occupied America ‘tween MD and TN)
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To: bitt

IF THAT DOCUMENT WAS ALSO SIGNED WITH AN AUTO PEN——

IT IS NOT VALID.


18 posted on 03/16/2025 7:47:15 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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“Why does this POS have SS protection? PDJT should pull it and make them pay for their own. STAT!”

South Africa is an extradition country. File a bogus charge, extradite him back to the US and then hand him off to give his deposition. I know this is nearly impossible to do, but it would be very entertaining to watch.


19 posted on 03/16/2025 7:47:54 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Privatize the administrative state!)
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To: bitt

How does that move help him? You can be extradited from South Africa.


20 posted on 03/16/2025 7:49:49 AM PDT by joesbucks
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