The group that published Hunter Biden’s laptop contents demanded on Friday nearly $93,000 in legal fees after a federal lawsuit filed by the former president’s son was dismissed earlier this month.
Marco Polo, a nonprofit organization run by former Trump White House aide Garrett Ziegler, filed a motion for attorneys fees this week to the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, calling Biden’s now-dropped lawsuit “ridiculous” in a post on X.
“Good morning,” Marco Polo posted to X following the motion. “We just filed our motion for attorneys fees in response to the ridiculous federal lawsuit brought against us by [Hunter Biden].”
The suit was dismissed with prejudice in March after Hunter Biden said he could no longer afford the litigation. In a separate California court filing on March 6, the younger Biden disclosed he had fallen millions of dollars into debt, citing a collapse in artwork sales and low royalties from his memoir Beautiful Things.
“It was clear that Mr. Biden had not reasonably investigated the basic claims prior to filing this action as he had not even consulted an expert witness on a highly technical case,” the Marco Polo group said in its 27-page motion. The lawsuit had alleged that Ziegler and Marco Polo gained access to Hunter Biden’s digital files through “illegal hacking,” despite the well-known origins of the material stemming from a laptop he allegedly abandoned at a Delaware computer repair shop.
