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Alex Thompson

@AlexThomp

Jun 1, 2024 • 6 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X

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Exclusive: Hunter Biden has quietly been in a messy civil case for unpaid alimony to his ex-wife Kathleen Buhle, per court docs.

In 2021, the court determined he owed Buhle $1.7+ million
By April 2023, her team said he owed her $2.9 million
axios.com/2024/06/01/hun…

Buhle is likely to testify in Hunter Biden's two trials about his addiction and finances

Hunter's myriad legal problems and debts have led his allies to reconsider starting a legal fund for him, despite concerns by Biden aides about the political optics of it.

The divorce agreement called for Hunter to pay Buhle $37k/mo plus 50% of anything he made over $875k annually, per docs filed in D.C. Superior Court and retrieved by Axios.

Hunter didn't pay the additional spousal support he owed in 2017 & 2018, when he earned $2.4m and $2.1m

Hunter's lawyers said he wanted to pay Buhle but no longer had the money after his spiral

In April 2023, Buhle's lawyer argued Hunter had borrowed "millions of dollars to pay federal back taxes and accumulated child support (and attorney fees) in Arkansas"

In the summer of 2020, Hunter's lawyers insinuated that Buhle was blackmailing Hunter with the threat to embarrass Biden's campaign.

"It is likely hoped that there will be some financial intervention, funded by some third-party, to help Mr. Biden with these obligations, in an effort to avoid the anticipated embarrassment to his father's presidential campaign," Hunter's lawyer wrote in July 2020.

"There will be no intervention satisfying Mr. Biden's obligations," she added.

Hunter is facing a cash crunch on other fronts too.
His former lawyer Chris Clark has been paid "virtually nothing" of what's thought to be a multi-million dollar tab, per @GlennThrush @Schwartzesque good story last night
nytimes.com/2024/05/31/us/…

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wsj.com/politics/elect…

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axios.com/2025/09/22/har…

Harris also writes of Biden:

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Scoop: High-ranking Biden admin officials repeatedly questioned and criticized how the president's team decided on controversial pardons and allowed the frequent use of an autopen to sign measures late in his term, internal emails obtained by Axios show.

axios.com/2025/09/06/bid…

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Biden granted clemency to more people than any president in history — 4,245 ppl.

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pewresearch.org/short-reads/20…

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Exclusive: Axios obtained the audio of Robert Hur's 2023 interviews of Biden which show repeated mental lapses as he struggles to remember words & dates amid long, uncomfortable pauses.
Biden WH didn't release it last year. Listen below.
w/ @MarcACaputo
axios.com/2025/05/16/bid…

The audio shows what the transcript lacks — Biden's dry-whisper voice and the long silences as he struggles to speak and remember details.
Those often were supplied by his attorneys, who acted as caretakers of his memory.
There is also a clock in the background as a metronome.

Though amiable, the interview became somewhat tense when Biden attorney Bob Bauer chastised prosecutor Krickbaum in this exchange over why Biden had kept a memo about Afghanistan.

"Your answer is that you don't know," Bauer instructed the president.
Listen here.