It’s always a tough call when it comes to covering Hunter Biden. Of course, there’s the old rule of leaving the kids out of it, except Biden is a 49-year-old kid who held a really questionable (and profitable) gig in Ukraine. And Joe Biden might not want to talk about that DNA test confirming he’s a grandfather again, and it’s easy to see why if the court proceedings over child support are any indication.

According to the Daily Mail, Biden blew off a child support hearing, his lawyer quit on him, and a judge has demanded to see three years’ worth of tax returns.

The Daily Mail reports:

The lawyer representing Hunter Biden in his paternity case abruptly withdrew on Monday while his client blew off the hearing, DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal.

Biden, 49, was not in the second-floor courtroom in Batesville, Arkansas, when his attorney former Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel quit.

But Lunden Roberts, 28, the woman who claims the son of former Vice-President Joe Biden fathered her child, was seen for the first time since filing her paternity suit, sitting in the front row of the spectators’ gallery wearing three-inch black heels.

Biden is said to have met Roberts when she was working as a stripper in a ‘gentlemen’s club’ in Washington D.C.

In the hearing, Judge Don McSpadden said he would need at least three years of Biden’s tax returns before he could reach a decision on monetary support for the child, whose sex has not been revealed.

Earlier this week, DailyMail.com revealed Biden filed a request to seal all financial records to spare himself public ’embarrassment’ amid claims of ‘significant debts’.

It’s way too late for Biden to spare himself any more public embarrassment. And the “gentlemen’s club” angle fits right in with a recent story from the New York Post that reported Biden was ‘suspected’ of smoking crack in the VIP room of a D.C. strip club.

For those old enough, Hunter Biden is like Billy Carter times a thousand when it comes to embarrassing family members.

And what’s this about “significant debts”? The dude had a no-show job where he made $83,000 a month. Where’d that go? The guy’s fighting over child support in court?

And Joe Biden thought it was “classy” of a reporter to ask about his new grandchild. Hunter doesn’t sound too classy himself.

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