[FoxNews]Hunter Biden's financial woes revealed in new motion to drop lawsuit: 'Significant debt'. Legal document says Hunter has experienced 'a significant downturn.’
Hunter Biden's legal team recently filed a motion to drop his lawsuit against the ex-White House aide who published the contents of his infamous laptop, citing financial issues.
The motion, filed in Los Angeles Wednesday, pertains to the former first son's lawsuit against Garrett Ziegler. The court documents, obtained by Fox News, illustrate the financial and personal issues Biden has experienced in the new year, including being a victim of the wildfires in the Pacific Palisades in Los Angeles.
Biden first filed the lawsuit in September 2023 but "does not have the resources to continue to litigate this matter," according to the filing.
"Plaintiff has suffered a significant downturn in his income and has significant debt in the millions of dollars range," the document states.
The house Biden rented in Los Angeles is now "unlivable" according to the filing, which says Biden has "had difficulty" finding both a new home and a new job.
"Moreover, this lack of resources has been exacerbated after the fires in the Pacific Palisades in early January upended Plaintiff’s life by rendering his rental house unlivable for an extended period of time and, like many others in that situation, Plaintiff has had difficulty in finding a new permanent place to live as well as finding it difficult to earn a living," the document states.
"So, Plaintiff must focus his time and resources dealing with his relocation, the damage he has incurred due to the fires, and paying for his family’s living expenses as opposed to this litigation."
In another document filed Wednesday, Biden penned a letter explaining that his income "has decreased significantly" and revealed what he earned for his artwork.
"In the 2 to 3 years prior to December 2023, I sold 27 pieces of art at an average price of $54,481.48, but since then I have only sold 1 piece of art for $36,000," Biden wrote. "Similarly, for my book sales, in the six month period before the statements (April 1, 2023 through September 30, 2023), based on the September 30, 2023 statement, 3,161 copies of my book were sold, but in the six months after the statements, only approximately 1,100 books were sold."
Selling 27 pieces of art for an average price of $54,481.48 means he could have earned nearly $1.5 million on the artwork. The Yale Law School grad also wrote that he expected to land paid speaking engagements and appearances after the success of his book, "but that has not happened," Biden wrote.
Does anyone wonder why? …No, I didn’t either.
"This significant decrease in revenue has also impacted my ability to pay off my significant debt, which as has been reported in the press as being several million dollars. As a result of this, I am not in a position where I can borrow money."
[NYPOST] ABC News staffers began packing up their desks Wednesday amid layoffs as the embattled network restructured its programming that include merging ''20/20'' and ''Nightline,'' and consolidating its ''Good Morning America'' productions, The Post has learned. And the collective IQ rises 3 points...
Parent company Disney reportedly planned to lay off around 200 people from its ABC News Group division as well as its Disney Entertainment Networks unit — a move that constitutes cutting some 6% of the combined staff of the two units.
Almin Karamehmedovic, president of ABC News, circulated a memo to employees on Wednesday morning confirming the changes.
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Grab My Ass 3? That like the disney live action of GTA 3?
As the EUnics prove they are going more insane then the Democrats
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Macron just delivered his speech to the nation:
“I’ve decided to begin strategic discussions on protecting our allies on the European continent with our French nuclear weapons” pic.twitter.com/SUXNOOVo6r
French President Emmanuel Macron addressed the nation earlier today, as countries in Europe prepare to shift towards a “wartime economy” amidst uncertainty over security guarantees and continued support from the United States. During his speech, Macron called for European… pic.twitter.com/fI4pqZfAAV
… for European counties to increase their defense spending and posture, stating that Europe must be prepared to go alone in the defense of Ukraine and the rest of the continent against Russia,
“I want to believe that the U.S. will stand by our side, but we have to be ready for that not to be the case.”
Macron also announced the start of discussions on France extending the protection of its nuclear arsenal to other countries, stating, “Our nuclear deterrent protects us: it's complete, sovereign, French through and through — I have decided to open the strategic debate on the protection of our allies on the European continent through our deterrence,” with this following calls from soon-to-be German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, for both France and Britain to begin expanding their nuclear arsenals for the defense of Europe.
President Macron has called for a meeting of European Defense Ministers and Chiefs next week in Paris, where the topics of nuclear deterrence and European rearmament can be discussed, as well as the possibility of deploying a peacekeeping force to Ukraine to enforce a ceasefire with Russia.
Finally, Macron ended the speech by calling for unity amongst the French people, stating, “The French nation needs you. Political decisions, military equipment, that is just one part of the puzzle. But it will never come without solidarity. Our generation will not be able to just live off the dividends of peace. It is up to us to sow the seeds for the future.” Continued on Page 47
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Insane? Whatever. Donald Trump is making me rich. The value of my investments in Thyssen Krupp and Rheinmetall has DOUBLED within one month. The value of my own company is up 60%. Carry on, Donald.
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Congratulations, European Conservative. Germany needs more employers who can expand employment. Germany also needs more power plants, but that’s a separate issue.
#8
"Trump is a loud-mouthed jerk, but I like what he is doing." - I've heard that more than once already and we are only a couple months in. Let me step out on a stout limb and predict that will become a common attitude as time goes on.
As for Macron's speech, I've seen this movie: The Euros form a series of interlocking mutual defense pacts, some nutter shoots an archduke, and we're off to the races.
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I’m not sure I want to be protected by nukes as it implies getting nuked myself.
The alternatives have to be considered.
The only _absolutely certain_ way to avoid a confrontation with a potential adversary is to give in to _all_ of his demands.
Europe should take Macron, by his word. We should invest in lots and lots of nukes.
They're crude, but they deter. And this deterrence will give us time to sort things out.
And Japan should turn the screwdriver. Even if Trump personally is a friend of Japan his successors might sell out Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Australia, NZ to China.
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For years I've heard on Rantburg that Europe should defend itself. Now that it decides to do just that, you call that "insane"?
What do you want?
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Go ahead. Give us time to withdraw US troops
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During the 1970's NATO thought nukes were needed for defense. Maybe so, but it was still dangerous. Today, there is no reason that Europe can not mount a credible conventional defense.
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And what about you?
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America has and does pay for full spectrum defense including limited missile defense. That said, if mr.Putin is the first to start tossing nukes around, well he understands what would happen next.
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Whatever Europe wants to do is of no interest to me. As in literally no interest. A continent of idiots who have foisted marxism and open borders on their citizens while robbing them of voting rights and the weapons they would need to overthrow their betters.
[FoxNews] Marocco has been tasked by Trump with dismantling the agency responsible for administering foreign aid
The acting head of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) told congressional lawmakers Wednesday his staff was preparing potential criminal referrals against those who misused taxpayer dollars intended for foreign development programs.
The New York Times said Peter Marocco made his remarks while speaking with members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee during a closed-door meeting.
An internal review is in its early stages, but members of Marocco's team believe they've uncovered a pattern of illegal activity at the agency, which serves as the main component used by the United States to deliver foreign aid.
Marocco has been tasked by President Donald Trump with dismantling USAID and told lawmakers he was looking at contracts and grants awarded by the agency.
Much of the money given by USAID is supposed to promote stability and economic growth and supply humanitarian assistance in fragile regions.
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court denied the Trump administration's request to block a lower court's order for the administration to make nearly $2 billion in USAID payments, delivering a near-term reprieve to international aid groups and contractors seeking payment for previously completed projects.
U.S. Rep. Brian Mast, R-Fla., the chairman of the foreign affairs panel, told the Times USAID is structured in such a way that makes accountability difficult.
"Mr. Marocco was very clear in exposing the waste that goes on out there and in pointing out the way that many of these programs in state and USAID were designed to not be accountable," he said.
USAID was one of the first targets by the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which is charged with rooting out wasteful spending.
WATCH: Lawrence Jones calls out "reporter" Pablo Manriquez, a former staffer for the Democrat National Committee, for leaking ICE raids in Northern Virginia this week: "When you start to aid & abet... he's clearly trying to help those people."
[NYPOST] ''In America, we uphold the rule of law,'' whined Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) at Mayor Eric Adams ...Hizonner da Mare of Noo Yawk. As a Manchurian candidate, Hizonner was all in favor of law and order and that kind of stuff. Once in office, a bunch of his friends found cushy jobs with the city, the windows kept getting broken, and Soros-funded DA Alvin Bragg remained right where he was. Most people comfort themselves with the thought that he's not Bill di Blasio but that's pretty small comfort with kids who actually go to school getting bumped off while standing in front of them. But he's a Dem, so the rubes will vote for him next election too, so he's what they deserve... amid Wednesday's House hearing on sanctuary cities — except he was assailing the mayor for upholding the rule of law.
And suggesting that Adams only came to favor deporting violent mostly peaceful criminal illegal migrants colonists to dodge federal corruption charges.
For the record, Eric Adams (unlike too many other New York Democrats ...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy,white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects... ) has never been pro-violent mostly peaceful criminal, whatever the immigration status.
He's an ex-cop who got elected on a law-and-order platform, for Pete's sake.
It's Connolly & Co. who've spent years nakedly and flagrantly defending the Biden team's disregard for border enforcement, a stance so committed that it extended to waving in obvious gangbangers.
And the folks who obviously tried to muscle the mayor were the Biden officials who launched the feds' investigation and prosecution of Adams after he broke with the Democratic ''nothing to see anywhere'' line on the migrant crisis.
Shame her into doing her job. A big piece of mayoring is making sure the streets are safe and drivable.
[NYPOST] President Trump demanded Wednesday that Washington, DC, Mayor Muriel Bowser clear out the ''unsightly'' homeless encampments throughout the nation's capital — including near the Executive Residence — or his administration would be ''forced to do it for her.''
''We have notified the Mayor of Washington, D.C., that she must clean up all of the unsightly homeless encampments in the City, specifically including the ones outside of the State Department, and near the White House,'' Trump wrote on Truth Social.
''If she is not capable of doing so, we will be forced to do it for her! Washington, D.C. must become CLEAN and SAFE!''
''We want to be proud of our Great Capital again,'' he continued.
''Thank you Mayor Bowser for your efforts on behalf of the Citizens of our Country. Hopefully you will be successful!''
[NYPOST] The North Carolina volleyball star who suffered life-changing injuries at the hands of a trans opponent called it an ''incredible honor'' to be recognized by President Trump Tuesday night — as she ripped hypocritical Democrats for ''failing women.''
Trump talked tough about biological males competing in women's sports during his barn-burning joint session of Congress, singling out Payton McNabb, who suffered a concussion and neck injury during a game in 2022, when a trans player spiked the ball to her head.
''When her girls' volleyball match was invaded by a male, he smashed the ball so hard in Peyton's face, causing a traumatic brain injury, partially paralyzing her right side and ending her athletic career,'' Trump said after introducing McNabb in the audience, whom he personally invited to attend.
McNabb told The Post she was ''overwhelmed with emotions'' to have the president highlight her story in such a public way.
''What an incredible honor. I was just so honored to even be there as a guest of the president and first lady, that's just unreal — such a surreal moment I'll never forget,'' said McNabb, 19, she still suffers cognitive issues and persistent headaches even two years after her injury.
The Democrats — who used the joint session as an opportunity to grandstand, including one rep who was escorted out — gave an icy reception to McNabb, sitting stoically in their seats while Republicans and those in the galley cheered.
[Epoch Times] A federal judge on March 5 rejected a bid by New York City to force the Trump administration to immediately return its $80.5 million in grants, which were intended to fund portions of the city’s expenses for housing illegal immigrants. In her ruling, U.S. District Judge Jennifer Rearden said the city failed to prove irreparable harm and could still recover the money if it succeeds in the lawsuit.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced on Feb. 12 that she had pulled the FEMA funds, which had gone towards housing illegal immigrants in New York City hotels. "FEMA was funding the Roosevelt Hotel that serves as a Tren de Aragua base of operations and was used to house Laken Riley’s killer," she wrote in a post on the social platform X.
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[RedState] The DC Circuit Court of Appeals has allowed President Trump to re-fire Special Counsel Hampton Dellinger pending the disposition of Dellinger's lawsuit for reinstatement. This is a very important decision as it overturns the order by District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson forcing the Trump administration to reinstate Dellinger.
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Scanning the horizon Dellinger drops his case against the administration:BY ALANNA DURKIN RICHER
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The fired head of a federal watchdog agency said Thursday that he’s abandoning his legal battle against the Trump administration to get his job back, acknowledging he was likely facing a tough road before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Hampton Dellinger said he was dropping his case a day after the federal appeals court in Washington sided with the Trump administration in removing him as the head of the Office of Special Counsel, an independent agency dedicated to guarding the federal workforce from illegal personnel actions.
Dellinger’s removal could threaten efforts his office has made in recent days to challenge the Trump administration’s firing of thousands of probationary workers. It was not immediately clear who would replace Dellinger as special counsel.
“My fight to stay on the job was not for me, but rather for the ideal that OSC should be as Congress intended: an independent watchdog and a safe, trustworthy place for whistleblowers to report wrongdoing and be protected from retaliation,” Dellinger said in a statement.
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CLASSLESS Texas Democrat Rep. Al Green just got REMOVED from the House by the Sergeant at Arms, at the direction of Speaker Mike Johnson for being continuously disruptive during @realDonaldTrump speech and refusing to sit down.
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Kicking off his presidential exploratory committee.
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Wish he'd quit and start a band or something. Never been able to read or hear his name without that chicken pluckin' guitar and organ at the beginning of Love and Happiness kicking in. And I'm not even a fan, just a graveyard shifter who heard the tune on 'OZ about a thousand times.
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So why are lame theatrics the Donks' signature move?
Follows my theory and pontification:
The kids of the '60s and '70s used loud-mouth antics to be heard because (1) it got them noticed and (2) it PO'd "the Man".
Those that developed a taste for politics and other forms of coprophagia naturally gravitated to the Democratic Party as the GOP didn't want anything to do with them. Now 50 years later, it's all they know.
— COL Conrad Reynolds (@ColonelReynolds) March 5, 2025
BREAKING: Congressman Pete Sessions is introducing a bill banning universal mail-in voting and electronic voting machines and shortening the early vote period from months to THREE DAYS. This is a GAME CHANGER!
The legislation is called the Make Elections Secure Again Act (MESA)
"MESA mandates the exclusive use of hand-marked paper ballots for all federal elections and primaries receiving public funds. This eliminates reliance on vulnerable electronic systems, ensuring a tamper-proof, human-verifiable process that reflects voters' true intent."
"The bill requires every voter to present a government-issued photo such as a driver's license, passport, or military and sign an affidavit in the paper poll book affirming U.S. citizenship and single-voting intent under penalty of felony charges."
"Early in-person voting is limited to three days prior to Election Day- the final Tuesday of voting -streamlining administration and concentrating resources for secure, manageable hand counts, while maintaining voter access."
"Mailed ballots are restricted to active-duty military personnel stationed away from their jurisdiction and voters with physician-certified medical conditions preventing in-person voting."
"MESA mandates paper poll books as the primary voter check-in method and caps precinct sizes at 1,500 registered voters, returning elections to community-based, transparent operations that facilitate efficient hand counting and local oversight." -
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This will seriously go down as one of the greatest pieces of legislation in history. This is the only way to stop the election fraud industrial complex forever.
it will not be secure without additional controls on absentee voting, for example, in long term care facilities, there needs to be monitors to make sure the votes are not 'coached'
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Other countries have no problems using this
100% trackable and auditable process.
But I just would add special, highly controlled water marked/RFID controlled ballot paper. Too the level that the US Treasury controls its paper.
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Yes the States carry out the election and their rules prevail unless there is a Federal statute or a constitutional provision, e.g., poll taxes were made illegal by the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
The law proposed by Sessions probably passes constitutional barriers at least for banning universal mail-in and electronic voting but I'm not sure about the other provisions.
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[TOWNHALL] It was a partisan speech. It was an optimistic speech. It was a speech that laid the blame for inflation and the massive number of migrants colonists and illegal drugs that entered the country during the previous administration at the feet of Democrats ...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy,white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects... . It was an uplifting speech about the future. It was a deliberately divisive ...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled... speech when it came to policies pushed by the Democrats as opposed to policies endorsed by Republicans. And it was at times a funny speech as President Donald Trump ...Never got invited to a P.Diddy party... pointed to Democrats and the silly signs raised by some, blasting them for all sorts of things when they had the power. It was a long speech. One commentator said it eclipsed the long-winded speeches of Bill Clinton ...former Democratic president of the U.S. Bill was the second U.S. president to be impeached, the first to deny that oral sex was sex, the first to have difficulty with the definition of the word is... It was also full of empathy for victims of migrant crime. Trump brought some of the widows and daughters whose husbands and fathers were taken from them by gang members who had repeatedly committed crimes but were let go after being arrested in Democrat states with "sanctuary cities."
As if to rile Senate Democrats, none of whom would vote for a bill protecting women's sports from men who claim to be transgender, Trump invited a woman who suffered traumatic brain injury after being hit with a volleyball by a biological man playing with women on the opposite team.
Perhaps the sweetest moment of the night was when Trump authorized the Secret Service to bestow the title of "agent" on a young boy who was given five years to live after being diagnosed with brain cancer. He always wanted to be a police officer. The boy hugged the agent who gave him an official identification card. His proud father lifted him up for all to see.
Incredibly, all the Democrats remained seated, stoic and would not applaud anything, not the boy with brain cancer, not families of murder victims, not even the first lady when she entered the chamber. So deep is their hatred for Trump who is running circles around them with the speed of his policy initiatives. Some held up signs, reminiscent of that TV ad for a pharmaceutical company that treats depression. The woman in the ad carries a round sign with an upside-down smiley face. That appears to be the face of today's Democrat Party. They are being beaten by Trump at every turn. Polls show the public are mostly with him, especially in his quest to downsize bloated government
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“I voted for Democrats my whole life. They never did anything they promised.... “I vote for a Republican once in my life, and this dude does everything he promised on steroids! Everything I voted for I’m getting!”
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] NASA's stranded astronauts have put on a brave face throughout their uncertain nine-month stay on the International Space Station - but that appeared to slip in a recent interview.
Barry Wilmore seemed to suggest he and his crewmate Sunita Williams had been caught up in political games in Washington.
SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk, whose spaceflight company was tasked with bringing Williams and Wilmore home later this month, has repeatedly said the Biden administration 'abandoned' them for 'political reasons.'
Musk has also said that former president Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. The very model of probity.... rejected his offer to bring the astronauts home early because it would've made Donald Trump ...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat The Smartest Woman in the World in the general election. Then he beat Kamala while dodging bullets... and his supporters 'look good.'
During a Tuesday presser, Williams and Wilmore were asked if the Biden administration did in fact decline Musk's offer to bring them home early, to which Wilmore replied that Musk's claim 'is absolutely factual.'
'I can only say that Mr Musk, what he says, is absolutely factual,' Wilmore said, noting he and Williams were not briefed on what happened behind closed doors. So I believe him. I don't know all those details, and I don't think any of us really can give you the answer that maybe that you would be hoping for,' he added.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[NYPOST] ABC News staffers began packing up their desks Wednesday amid layoffs as the embattled network restructured its programming that include merging ''20/20'' and ''Nightline,'' and consolidating its ''Good Morning America'' productions, The Post has learned.
...Hizonner da Mare of Noo Yawk. As a Manchurian candidate, Hizonner was all in favor of law and order and that kind of stuff. Once in office, a bunch of his friends found cushy jobs with the city, the windows kept getting broken, and Soros-funded DA Alvin Bragg remained right where he was. Most people comfort themselves with the thought that he's not Bill di Blasio but that's pretty small comfort with kids who actually go to school getting bumped off while standing in front of them. But he's a Dem, so the rubes will vote for him next election too, so he's what they deserve...
...every time you hear the phrase 
...46th president of the U.S. The very model of probity....
