Former first son Hunter Biden is planning to flee to South Africa in a move that could see him avoiding having to testify in a lawsuit regarding his infamous “Laptop from Hell.”
Hunter Biden remains in the public eye as his legal troubles seem to mount, even after his former president father steps away.
He has been accused of a plethora of crimes due to his laptop being abandoned at a repair shop.
The younger Biden is still being investigated actively by those who consider it the responsibility of the Justice Department to mete out punishments equally, regardless of an offender’s family ties, as the New York Post reported.
Biden, however, seems to be attempting to dodge a deposition in the lawsuit involving his now infamous laptop.
The court documents in question, reported on by the New York Times, show that Biden wants to decamp in South Africa for several months.
Biden is using the LA wildfires as his justification for going overseas, according to the court papers.
A former aide for President Donald Trump, Garrett Ziegler, is fighting Biden’s request to drop the lawsuit against the former first son.
The history between Ziegler and Hunter Biden is a tempestuous one.
Biden accuses Ziegler of illegally hacking his laptop and spreading its embarrassing contents.
Biden claimed last week that he would be unable to pursue the suit, however.
He told the judge that he is now low on funds because his “art” suddenly stopped selling.
Hunter also blamed the financial strains of the wildfire, despite the house he was renting in the Palisades being undamaged in the fires.
The “artist,” whose “artwork” was selling for insane amounts while his father was in office, seems to be having difficulty moving product and was forced to move out of a Malibu mansion.
However, Ziegler is pushing back against Biden’s claims, saying that the financial situation couldn’t really be that bad, considering that Biden is about to leave for a three-month vacation.
The former White House aide says Biden has planned a three-month trip to South Africa that will start this week and is attempting to “avoid his deposition.”
In addition, the lawsuit claimed that Hunter’s side may have “ignored” Ziegler’s attempts to initiate settlement talks or mediation because of the trip—to Melissa Cohen’s native country.
“Working to confirm facts published in the New York Post,” Ziegler added in his petition.
The Post broke the exclusive last week that Hunter’s house looked unaffected by the wildfires.
“We note that Mr. Biden did not expressly claim to have lost his home or belongings,” Ziegler’s lawyers wrote in papers Friday.
And while the fires were devastating for many, “It does not, however, serve as an excuse to avoid litigation responsibilities,” Holliday wrote.
During the first Trump administration, Ziegler was an aide to trade adviser Peter Navarro.
He believes that the 2023 litigation should go on so that he may sue Hunter for the almost $200,000 in legal bills that he has incurred due to the case.
At the same time, the attorneys for Ziegler were accused by Hunter’s side of submitting “gaslighting” and “emotionally charged” court papers.
