Why It Matters
Major media outlets are ignoring the legal action in Arkansas concerning the president’s son Hunter. The case has to do with Hunter Biden trying to have his child support payments lowered. The child at issue is a daughter he fathered out of wedlock; the details of that tryst and the fact that the family—including the President—refuse to acknowledge the child publicly is not relevant to the point today.
In any court, if a person says they need to have their support payments lowered, they have to show why…typically because of a change of circumstances leading to lower income earned by the parent. That means showing sources of income. Again, this is true in any case where child support is an issue.
Earlier this week, Hunter Biden was in court because his side had refused to answer written questions, called interrogatories, on the sources of his income, the amount received, etc. Again—standard minimum requirements in a case. The judge ordered that the questions be answered.
And that’s why the case could ultimately be newsworthy beyond the cover of a tabloid.
Much of the assertion that the Biden presidency is tainted by money comes from Hunter being the conduit through which money flowed…some of which came off the top for “the big guy”. Having to disclose under oath who “the big guy” is, what family members got what money from him, where he gets his money these days—all that could be central to the claims of undue influence surrounding the White House. And since it is a civil, not a criminal, proceeding…Hunter Biden cannot claim the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination and refuse to disclose the information.
So that’s why it matters politically. Supporting a four-year-old girl is why it matters morally, but again…that’s a different conversation.
I guess in hindsight, he might have been better off just paying the child support.
