Citing financial problems, Hunter Biden asked a federal judge this week to delete the laptop hacking trial he brought against a former Trump administrative assistant in 2023.
The trial accused Garrett Ziegler, a former assistant to the White House trade advisor, Peter Navarro, of “consulting, accessing, falsification, manipulation, modification, copy and computer damage that they do not have” in violation of the laws on the computer fraud of the state.
“Although I believe in the bottom of this case and that, in fact, notes that the defendant Garrett Ziegler admitted having hacked my iCloud in several public statements, I ask to reject this action because I do not have the financial resources to continue to plead this case,” Biden wrote in a statement to the Federal Court of California on Wednesday.
His income has decreased considerably since the submission of the trial, he wrote. His rental house was also damaged in the fire of the Palisades in January, which still exacerbated his money challenges, he wrote.
A lawyer representing Ziegler did not immediately answer a telephone call asking for comments on Thursday. Biden’s lawyer did not immediately return a time call.
According to his declaration. In the few years before December 2023, Biden said that he had sold 27 works of art “at an average price of $ 54,481.48”, but since then he only sold a room for $ 36,000. His sales of books have also decreased, the document said.
“Given the positive comments and criticisms of my works of art and my memories, I expected to obtain paid speeches and paid appearances, but that did not happen,” wrote Biden. He added that he was struggling with “an important debt, which was reported in the press as being several million dollars”.
The legal saga had focused on the infamous Biden’s laptop, which the former president’s son would have left in a Delaware repair workshop. The laptop was discovered by republican agents from weeks before the 2020 elections and caused a litany of allegations against the Biden family.
The non-profit organization Ziegler has founded, Marco Polo, published thousands of Biden emails, intimate photos, text messages and other documents allegedly from the backup of Biden’s iPhone and Cloud storage, according to the trial.
“In the Western world, I am convinced that no one has dug the first American family anymore,” said Ziegler in an interview on Youtube in 2023.
Biden has also encountered personal legal problems in the past year. In June he was sentenced to three federal crimes related to the purchase of a firearm and, in September, pleaded guilty to nine federal tax accusations.
However, he was pardoned by his father shortly before the former president left his duties. Former President Joe Biden at the time said Hunter was the victim of unfair political attacks.
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