Hunter Biden has asked a judge to delay his child support deposition until after key voting contests for his father, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, are over.
The deposition was scheduled for next week, but Biden is seeking to push it back to April 1, according to a court motion filed by his attorney on Tuesday, which was obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
Biden agreed to take a paternity test in October after Lunden Alexis Roberts, an Arkansas woman, claimed he fathered her 18-month-old child. The child, whose name has not been disclosed, was born Aug. 28, 2018.
Biden denied publicly he had fathered the child, but Roberts said he had admitted otherwise to her in private. A DNA test later indicated that Biden was the father.
Biden’s attorney Brent Langdon said his client is not able to appear in Little Rock, Arkansas, next week for the deposition, calling it “unduly burdensome and oppressive.” Roberts had offered two dates for Biden to complete the court-ordered deposition — March 3, which is Super Tuesday, or March 5.
“Let me know what day works best for your client. If your client hasn’t picked a day by tomorrow at 5 p.m., I will pick the day,” Roberts’s lawyer Jennifer Lancaster wrote to Langdon in a Feb. 17 email.
“My client can be available April 1, 2020,” Langdon replied. “My client cannot be available prior to that date.”
Joe Biden’s campaign has been fading after he failed to win in the first three nominating contests in Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nevada. He has been confident, however, that he can pull off a win in South Carolina, which holds its primary on Saturday.
