Hunter Biden Kept Afloat with Millions from Father’s Democratic Donors After Foreign

by John Solomon and Steven Richards

When Hunter Biden’s foreign business deals began drying up amid his recovery from addiction and his father’s 2020 presidential campaign, he tapped a rich new source of money that has kept him afloat: Democratic supporters of Joe Biden’s presidential campaign, according to hundreds of pages of documents reviewed by Just the News.

Evidence gathered by federal and congressional investigators show Hunter Biden collected over $6 million since his father began running for the presidency in 2020. The assistance flowed predominantly from prominent Democratic donor and respected Hollywood lawyer Kevin Morris, whom the first son reportedly befriended at one of his father’s fundraising events, according to The New York Times.

In response to Just The News’ fact-checking queries and seeking comment from Morris, his lawyer, Bryan Sullivan, responded that “we believe we know the identity of the source and that it is an individual who has been engaged in a campaign of harassment against Mr. Morris that includes doxing that has resulted in threats on Mr. Morris’ life. We further believe that this individual has only disclosed certain information to cause Mr. Morris public embarrassment and may have outright misrepresented facts and statements about Mr. Morris as part of this campaign of harassment. In short, we do not believe that this source is credible, and certainly cannot be relied upon for any accurate information.”

Sullivan did not disclose any details about the “credibility” of any particular source, did not detail any incidents of “doxxing” or threats to Kevin Morris’ safety. He also failed to contradict any of the factual assertions made in this story and brought to his attention.

Hunter Biden’s lead lawyer, Abbe Lowell, did not respond to messages sent via text and email seeking comment.

In addition to Morris’ help, Hunter Biden grossed over $1 million in the sale of his paintings under a deal with an art gallery that was first brokered by one of his father’s fundraisers in California, according to interviews and documents reviewed by Just the News.

The records show the financial assistance from Morris to Hunter Biden began during the height of his father’s presidential campaign in early 2020 and mushroomed over the years to include many aspects of Hunter Biden’s lifestyle, including five-figure monthly rents at California homes, child support payments, some travel, legal bills, and federal and local tax debts totaling over $2 million.

Twenty months after the funds began flowing, Morris and Hunter Biden October 2021 committed to paper the transactions as loans. Federal and congressional investigators have identified promissory notes between them exceeding $5 million, many covering payments that Morris sent directly to vendors and debtors of Hunter Biden totaling at least $4.4 million, documents show.

The flow of money from Morris, one of Hollywood’s most respected talent lawyers whose projects range from the South Park TV franchise to the “Book of Mormon“ musical, raised questions among federal agents, inside an Arkansas courtroom and within the Biden family, numerous government documents show.

Presidential brother James Biden, Hunter’s uncle, told IRS agents and federal prosecutors in a Sept. 29, 2022, interview he did not know why Morris had been so helpful to his nephew, the president’s son, who was identified in the IRS interview report by his initials “RHB.”

“Morris was helping RHB a lot, but James B didn’t know why,” the IRS summary of the James Biden interview stated. “James B thought that this might have been because of his ego. RHB asked James B to thank Morris because Morris requested a thank you” according to the IRS summary.

“James B had no understanding of what the team of people means and has no knowledge of what Morris had done for RHB,” the interview summary stated. “James B was not sure if there was a loan between Morris and RHB. James B thought that the money was significant enough that RHB asked his uncle to say something to Morris and thank him. James B didn’t recall a specific discussion, only to say thank you on behalf of the family.”

Details of that interview were made public by the House Ways and Means Committee, and you can read that interview here.

“Public reporting and evidence reviewed by the Committees suggest that you have personally lent money to, or otherwise satisfied debts on behalf of, Hunter Biden,” Comer wrote.

In addition, the House Ways and Means Committee may question IRS whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joe Ziegler at a public hearing next month about what they knew about Morris – after the committee this fall made public documents showing FBI and IRS agents investigated the transactions for a while.

In addition to Morris’ support, Hunter Biden scored sales of at least a dozen of his paintings from the Georges Berges gallery in New York City and Berlin, ranging in prices from $13,000 to $85,000, the documents show.

The artwork sales generated over $1 million in gross income for Hunter Biden since 2020 before revenue splits, the records show. One bundle of 11 paintings delivered an $875,000 windfall from a single buyer, documents also disclose.

Morris purchased one painting in 2020 for $47,500, the records show. Another painting, the documents show, was purchased by Liz Naftali, a Los Angeles real estate investor and Democratic donor who has visited the White House since Joe Biden took office and was also appointed by the president to the federal Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad.

Morris and Naftali donated significant sums to Joe Biden’s presidential campaign efforts. Morris gave $2,800 directly to Biden for President, according to Federal Elections Commission (FEC) records. He also gave $45,000 to a pro-Biden political action committee and $10,000 to the anti-Trump Lincoln Project, according to those same FEC records.

Naftali gave $5,600 directly to Biden’s campaign and thousands in contributions to Democratic campaigns, party organizations, and PACs during the 2019-2020 campaign cycle, including a $50,000 contribution to a pro-Biden PAC.

An art sales agreement in October 2020 first secured the partnership between Berges, and Hunter Biden, and listed Hollywood agent and longtime Democratic fundraiser Lanette Phillips as the talent agent who was entitled to a 10% commission on sales of Biden’s artwork. Phillips donated approximately $6,000 total between Joe Biden’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee in the 2019-2020 cycle, according to FEC filings.

A later agreement from October 2021 revised that arrangement and shows Phillips dropped out of any revenue share of the sales, leaving a larger share for Hunter Biden.

Phillips has been a visitor to the White House for events such as Christmas and Independence Day since Joe Biden took office, according to social media photos she posted and Secret Service entry logs reviewed by Just the News.

Phillips did not respond to emails seeking comment from Just the News.

Just the News pieced together the millions in financial assistance from Morris and art buyers to Hunter Biden through federal government records, interviews with vendors, court records from Hunter Biden’s high-profile child custody case, FBI and IRS interviews with witnesses such as Hunter Biden’s tax accountant as well as evidence released publicly by Congress in Joe Biden’s ongoing impeachment inquiry.

The payments included several months of rent payments – each between $17,500 and $20,000 – for two California homes Hunter Biden rented between 2020 and 2022, monthly child support payments and attorney’s fees, according to documents reviewed by Just the News.

Even mundane expenses like insurance payments were sometimes covered, the memos show.

Documents reviewed by Just the News state that Morris and Hunter Biden agreed to treat the financial assistance as loans when the assistance started flowing in early 2020 and began committing them to writing with promissory notes starting in fall 2021.

The first note was executed on Oct. 13, 2021, in the amount of $1.4 million and included the assistance that Morris had given the first son in calendar year 2020. The note called for an annual interest rate of 5% but did not require repayments to begin until October 2025, well after Joe Biden would face his final reelection bid.

Two days later, Hunter Biden and Morris executed a second promissory note totaling $2.6 million that covered Morris’ assistance to the first son in 2021, the lion’s share of which went to pay off tax debts and penalties to the IRS as well as state and local authorities dating to 2016, the memos show.

That agreement carried the same interest rate as the first but stretched out re-payments to begin in October 2025 and end by October 2029.

Biden and Morris executed at least two…