Housing Hunter Biden’s Secret Service protection in Malibu costs $1,000 per day
He’s Malibu Biden.
President Biden’s son, 52-year-old Hunter Biden, is holed up in Malibu, with taxpayers reportedly shelling out about $1,000 a day to accommodate his Secret Service detail.
ABC News reports that officials protecting Hunter have been staying in a $30,000 per month mansion featuring “gorgeous ocean views” in the tony California town for about a year.
The Spanish-style estate housing those agents reportedly sits next to Hunter’s $20,000 per month, four-bedroom, hilltop home, which features a spa and built-in barbecue bar. His protectors share six bedrooms, a gym and a “master retreat with wet bar,” sources told ABC News.
ABC News contributor and former secret service agent Don Mihalek told the network that such niceties are the cost of doing business when keeping bigwigs safe.
“This isn’t new,” he said.
According to Mihalek, past administrations have also had family members who lived in the lap of luxury and blames the current housing market — which is robust — for inflating costs. He said that it’s standard procedure for agents to find a residence near the people under their protection and pay market value for those accommodations.
Hunter’s finances overall have become of increasing interest as a federal probe of his taxes has intensified, ABC News said. A grand jury in Delaware has also reportedly heard testimony about his earnings from a Ukrainian gas company where he served on the board of directors while his father was vice president. That gig reportedly paid up to $50,000 per month.
He started receiving 24/7 Secret Service protection in June 2020 when his father became the Democratic party’s presidential nominee. The elder Biden defeated former present Donald Trump by nearly 7 million votes to become the nation’s 46th president.
The Washington Post reported the 45th president approved a six-month extension on protection for his four adult children and some staffers after he reluctantly left office in 2020. That was said to have cost taxpayers $1.7 million.
