Well, Hunter Biden is going to have to come out of hiding at the White House, it seems. That is, unless his lawyers are smarter than they seemed to be during yesterday’s hearing.

In case you missed it – which if you’re a regular reader of this blog, you didn’t – Hunter Biden is trying to get his previously-agreed to child support settlement reduced due to his alleged loss of income. However, his legal team has produced little, if any, paperwork to substantiate his claims of poverty. Circumstantial evidence and current behavior by the deadbeat First Son seem to have him living off the taxpayer dime in the White House and taking state visits with Dear Old Dad, all while conveniently avoiding being served by the legal team of Lunden Roberts, the mother of his four year old daughter. You know, the one that he doesn’t want to carry the last name of “Biden.”

However, it seems that Judge Holly Meyer in Arkansas, where Roberts lives and where the legal battle over this little girl’s parentage and support has been fought, has had enough. And the implications for Hunter Biden are going to be a problem for his father’s newly announced presidential re-election campaign. Why? Part of what Roberts’s lawyers are using are financial documents from the infamous not-Russian-planted laptop. However, Hunter’s legal team is tap-dancing around the laptop because if Hunter Biden admits that the laptop is his, then that undermines his entire complaint and threatened lawsuits. Hunter Biden’s lawyer is now trying to block a witness for Roberts’s case, and dodge answering questions about the laptop. But Judge Meyer is having none of it.

(Hunter Biden attorney Brent) Langdon said Garrett Ziegler, a potential expert witness in the case, professes to be an expert on the contents of the laptop, which reportedly contains some income-tax records.”

“There has never been, to my knowledge, an acknowledgment that this so-called laptop — he continuously calls it Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop …” Langdon began.”

“Well, let’s clear that issue up right now,” said Meyer. “Is it your client’s laptop or not?”

“Your honor, I’m not involved in all of that stuff,” said Langdon. “It’s not my client’s laptop as far as I know.”

Meyer said she holds clients to what their attorneys say in court.”

“Is it your client’s position, you’re representing to this court, that it is not his laptop?” the judge asked.”

“Your honor, I am not in a position to even begin to answer that question,” Langdon said.”

Meyer denied to issue a restraining order requested by Langdon.:

And the judge is so fed up with the legal duck and dodge that she’s now said that both clients must show up, in-person, in her courtroom, from now on. No more Zooming in for Hunter!

“From now on … I want both of your clients at every hearing I conduct,” Independence County Circuit Judge Holly Meyer told attorneys representing Hunter Biden and Lunden Roberts, the mom of his 4-year-old unacknowledged daughter, Navy.”

Meyer lashed out at the attorneys on a Zoom call Monday, complaining that litigation was taking too long.”

“I will no longer allow us to excuse clients,” she warned, according to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.”

Hunter, 53, will be required to be present during the next in-person hearing scheduled at 9 a.m. May 1.”

Meanwhile, Joe is running for president again, and the media will kindly cover up all the lies that his campaign spread in order to quash the laptop story the first time. However, if Hunter is forced to admit that the laptop is his during a child support hearing in Arkansas, that becomes a little bit harder to hide. Not that they won’t try, and since the DNC has decided that this is a coronation of Joe Biden, not a primary. With no Democrat debates planned, Joe will get to avoid being called out on his previous laptop lies, and asked how many grandchildren he has.

But remember, the name change is also part of this case, and it’s clear Hunter is trying to avoid that like the plague.

At the May hearing, the judge is expected to rule on outstanding motions, including a name change request from Roberts asking to change their daughter’s last name to “Biden.” Biden has demanded that the court block the name change, claiming the move would be damaging to the child due to the “scorn in the community for the Biden name.”

Family law attorney Peter M. Walzer told the Washington Free Beacon that Biden’s objection to the name change was “very uncommon” and unlikely to succeed in court.”

“I’ve never seen a litigation where a father didn’t want the [child] to take his name,” said Walzer. “This is pretty unique.”

Walzer said Biden’s motion sounded like it was motivated by personal interest rather than concern for the child’s well-being.”

“He doesn’t want the child to have his name because it’s embarrassing to him, [but he] couches his legal briefing in terms of the child’s interest,” said Walzer. “From his papers, it’s ‘all about me.’”

Marshall H. Moore, an Arkansas-based custody attorney with Moore, Giles and Matteson, agreed.”

“Normally it is just the opposite situation where the father is asking that the child be given the father’s last name,” he told the Free Beacon. “Off the top of my head, I can’t remember ever filing such a motion in 40+ years of practice.”

If Navy Joan is given the last name “Biden,” then it becomes much, much harder for Joe and Jill to keep ignoring her – especially when Joe rants about how all your children are belong to us, except Hunter’s love child.

So, in less than a week, Hunter Biden’s sorry ass will be required to be in a chair in an Arkansas courtroom. Will he be asked, under oath, if the laptop is really his? My word, I hope so. If her remarks are any indication, Judge Meyer has reached the end of her patience with this case. Up until this point, Hunter Biden has avoided being in the courtroom for this case at all, taking advantage of Zoom and COVID-19 in order to prevent what will be some undoubtedly embarrassing and potentially damaging revelations about his financial situation. Again, this would all be a moot point if Hunter and the Biden family simply paid up on the child support settlement (and if they really want to avoid the name change, perhaps add in extra). The fact that he can’t or won’t either speaks to the Biden finances being much more perilous than previously thought, or Hunter’s arrogance being even more obnoxious than previously thought. Either or both situations is possible.

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