In his memoir Beautiful Things, Hunter Biden’s sole mention of one particularly messy detail — without acknowledging error or even that a familiar story was reported correctly — is this one: “I would later challenge in court the woman from Arkansas who had a baby in 2018 and claimed the child was mine — I had no recollection of our encounter.” That’s it? No acknowledgment of the woman’s name (Lunden Roberts) nor of his fourth daughter’s name (Navy Joan Roberts, now 2), nor of the fact that he settled the paternity suit in 2019 and agreed to pay child support because he is in fact the proven father of the child in question?
That Biden didn’t remember his encounter with Roberts is, of course, a lie. She was one of only a handful of employees on the payroll of Biden’s “consulting firm,” Rosemont Seneca, and to justify her appearance there in 2017, he told the general manager of his office building that she was a “basketball mentor” to Biden’s daughter Maisy and to Barack Obama’s daughter Sasha. Apparently, Hunter dug around to try to find some possible justification for why he’d have a stripper on his payroll (the office manager warned Hunter about allowing unsavory characters into the building using the side entrance) and came up with this detail: Lunden, a stripper at a Dupont Circle club where Biden was seen many times, had played a little basketball at Arkansas State. Voilà. She was an essential basketball coach to two children. But if he had forgotten about his hookup with Lunden Roberts, he wouldn’t have put her on his payroll while she was pregnant.
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