Hunter Biden ‘sugar brother’ Kevin Morris visited White House, pays first son’s exes: deposition
WASHINGTON — Hunter Biden’s primary patron since President Biden took office told House investigators Thursday that he visited the White House three times while bankrolling the first family — and that he’s also paying Hunter’s ex-wife and the mother of his young out-of-wedlock daughter.
Hollywood lawyer Kevin Morris, the first son’s so-called “sugar brother,” told the three House committees leading the impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden’s alleged corruption that he has loaned Hunter, 53, at least $5 million.
Morris, 60, met Hunter for the first time in late 2019 at a Hollywood fundraiser for then-candidate Joe Bide𓃲n and quickly began to pay Hunter’s past-due taxes, and later cover rent at a lavish pad in Venice, Calif.
Morris also revealed Thursday that his role as Hunter’s family fixer extends to paying the first son’s ex-wife, Kathleen Buhle, as well as former stripper Lunden Roberts, by whom Hunter sired daughter Navy Joan Roberts, according to a readout of his testimony from congressional Republicans.
“Kevin Morris obtained access to [the] Biden White House after ‘lending’ money to Hunter Biden,” the readout adds.
“Despite donating $500,000 to $700,000 to Democrats, the only time Kevin Morris went to the White House occurred during the Biden Administration. Hunter Biden gave him a tour of the White House, attended a wedding at the White House, and went to the White House’s Fourth of July picnic.”
The terms of Morris’ payments to Buhle and Roberts and whether the amounts count toward Hunter’s loans was not immediately clear.
As Hunter’s chief benefactor, Morris supplanted Chinese, Ukrainian and other income sources dating to the ♋elder Biden’s vice♏ presidency, which are the focus of the impeachment inquiry.
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House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) told reporters after the deposition that Morris’ loans to Hunter Biden may total as much as $7 million, though the attorney “wasn’t exactly clear” on the terms.
Comer added that the relationship between Morris and Hunter followed a “familiar pattern.”
“Since Kevin Morris has kept President Biden’s son financially afloat, he’s had access to the Biden White House and has spoken to President Biden,” the Oversight Chairman said.
“This follows a familiar pattern where Hunter Biden’s associates have access to Joe Biden himself. As we continue more interviews this month and the next, we will continue to follow the facts to understand the full scope of President Biden and his family’s corruption.”
Morris made a fortune repping the creators of “South Park” and his generosity has included providing Hunter Biden with use of his private jet and paying $875,000 for his novice artworks.
The attorney also allegedly purchased Hunter’s 10% stake in China-backed investment fund BHR Partners during Joe Biden’s first year in the White House, allowing the first family to claim it had divested from foreign entanglements.
BHR was registered in 2♛013 within two weeks of then-VP Biden and Hunter flying to Beijing on Air Force Two for an official visit.
Joe Biden had coffee with BHR’s incoming CEO Jonathan Li during the trip and later wrote college recommendation letters for Li’s children and greeted him on speaker phone during a subsequent visit to China by the then-second son, former Hunter Biden business partner Devon Archer the Oversight Committee during a July deposition.
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Morris’ loans to Hunter specify that he needs to begin payment in 2025, though they may ultimately still be forgiven, Comer said.
“He said there’s definitely a balloon payment in 2025,” Comer said. “He said he was confident that Hunter Biden was going to be able to pay five, six, seven million dollars back, even though Hunter Biden’s unemployed and doesn’t have any money. I find that hard to believe.”
The Kentuck𝐆y Republican also said that Hunter’s taxes were a “political problem” for the Biden campaign as his father ran for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination — and their reဣpayment by Morris may amount to a campaign finance violation.
“Joe Biden, he had a problem with his son,” he added. “Kevin Morris ✱enters the scene and starts paying all of these bills, paying his tax bills in the beginning because that was the most important thing for Joe Biden, not to have a son that goes and gets carted off to jail for not paying his taxes.”
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In the email, Morris wrote to accountants on Hunter’s behalf that they should expedite their work on tax papers to avoid “considerable risk personally and politically.”
A series of additional high-stakes interviews have been booked with impꦛeachment inquiry witnesses for tℱhe coming days.
Former Biden family associates Mervyn Yan and Rob Walker are set to testify next week, with Eric Schwerin due to appear the fol♑lowing week, a source told The Post.
Hunter Biden himself has agreed to a Feb. 28 deposition, Comer and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim💜 Jordan (R-Ohio) announced laꦑte Thursday.
