Hunter Biden admits to $15M debt, says he has 'no idea' how he’ll ever pay it back

NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE: Hunter Biden painted a bleak picture of his financial reality, revealing in a sprawling new interview that he is drowning in up to $15 million of debt with "no idea" how to dig himself out.

The 55-year-old attorney-turned-artist made the stunning admission during a five-hour sit-down on 'The Shawn Ryan Show', released on Monday, December 22.

In the candid conversation, Hunter dispelled the notion that his family’s political prominence equated to a financial safety net, insisting that he was effectively on his own.

Hunter Biden claims 'nobody's riding to the rescue'

"Nobody’s riding to the rescue for Hunter Biden," he told host Shawn Ryan, addressing the speculation surrounding his family's finances.

Hunter pushed back against conspiracy theories suggesting the Bidens are hiding a secret fortune.

"My dad, you know, entered the presidency as the poorest man to ever take the office. And he left the presidency [as] the, you know, not poorest, I mean, he’s fine, but he has no, we have no generational wealth," Hunter explained.

"I don’t have any, you know, despite what these guys say, like there’s no billions of dollars buried underneath my dad’s house," he added, expressing frustration over the narrative that he has access to unlimited funds.

Art and book sales plummet 

The financial strain appears to be compounded by a collapse in his income streams. Once commanding high prices for his abstract paintings - raking in nearly $1.5 million shortly after his father took office - Hunter's art career has also hit a wall.

In court filings from March 2024, it was revealed that he had sold just one piece of art for $36,000 since December 2023. His memoir, 'Beautiful Things', has seen a similar decline, with sales dropping from 3,200 copies in mid-2023 to just 1,100 in the subsequent six-month period.

Hunter attributed much of his financial "ruin" to the exorbitant costs of "various litigation," specifically his battles against those who publicized the contents of his infamous laptop.

Hunter Biden criticizes Afghanistan withdrawal

While the interview focused heavily on his personal struggles, Hunter also addressed his father's presidency, offering a surprisingly blunt assessment of the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Hunter agreed with Ryan’s anger over the operation, admitting the "botched bugout" that resulted in the deaths of 13 US service members was "an obvious f***ing failure."

"I think that there was a better way to do it, and… I can blame it on his generals, I can blame it on [other] people [for] the way in which we did it, but - and my dad always knew this also, is that the buck stops with him," Hunter said.

Though he maintained that leaving the country was ultimately "the right thing to do," he acknowledged the execution was flawed.

"I hear your anger about that," he told Ryan. "And I don’t have any response to it other than the fact that I know that my dad came from a position that 20 years was enough."