Hunter Biden won $18,000 in legal fees in his lawsuit against a former Trump White House aide for his alleged role in the first son’s infamous laptop scandal.
President Biden’s embattled son is suing Garrett Ziegler for allegedly illegally accessing and circulating the embarrassing contents of Hunter’s infamous laptop on Ziegler’s right-wing nonprofit website Marco Polo.
Ziegler worked as aide to President Donald Trump’s trade adviser, Peter Navarro, from February 2019 through January 2021. He’s been an outspoken critic of the Bidens and has exposed much of Hunter’s laptop data on his site.
Los Angeles federal Judge Hernan Vera ordered Ziegler Monday to fork over $17,929 to Hunter, 54, for what it cost him to fight Ziegler’s unsuccessful motion to toss Hunter’s suit. Vera described Ziegler’s motion to dismiss in his ruling as “totally devoid of merit.”
Hunter’s suit — which is still pending with a hearing date next set for Nov. 12 — accuses Zielger and others of breaching computer fraud and data laws by accessing “tens of thousands of emails, thousands of photos, and dozens of videos and recordings” from Hunter’s laptop.
The modest court win comes just days after the Biden son pleaded guilty to all the charges he faced in a $1.4 million tax evasion case in the same court his lawsuit is being fought in.
Hunter faces up to 17 years behind bars at his December sentencing.
He faces another 25 years imprisonment at his November sentencing after he was separately convicted in June by a Delaware jury of illegally owning a gun while addicted to drugs.
Hunter has also been embroiled in litigation with former Delaware computer repair shop owner John Paul Mac Isaac over his laptop data getting leaked.
Hunter abandoned his laptop at Isaac’s shop after dropping it off for repair. The first son claims Isaac illegally disseminated and “weaponized” the computer’s content while Isaac claims, in his own suit, that Hunter defamed him by blaming the leak on him. That case is still pending.
Biden lawyer Abbe Lowell said in a statement: “This is just the beginning of Mr. Ziegler being held accountable for what he has done.
“As we have demonstrated, from the time he illegally accessed Mr. Biden’s personal data to his court papers trying to defend his conduct, Mr. Ziegler has violated the law.”
Ziegler’s lawyers didn’t immediately return a request for comment Wednesday.
