Hunter Biden’s baby mama sent him message begging him to see their love child – before being removed from his payroll
HUNTER Biden’s baby mama sent him a heartbreaking text message begging for him to meet their daughter - a month before he angrily had her taken off his company’s payroll.
Hunter’s former lover and employee Lunden Roberts, 31, wrote the pleading text to President Joe Biden’s son in October 2018, less than two months after their baby Navy Joan Roberts was born.
In the message, exclusively obtained by The Sun, ex-stripper Ms. Roberts told Hunter, 52, that she understood he wanted “nothing to do with the decision I’ve made”.
But she added: “The door is always open for you in the baby’s life.”
Just a month later Hunter instructed his personal assistant to get Ms. Roberts off the payroll and health insurance plan at his now-defunct law firm Owasco PC.
Ms. Roberts’ attorney claimed in March this year that Hunter has never met nor expressed any interest in meeting the now three-year-old Navy.
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Hunter only admitted he was her father after Ms. Roberts sued him in an Arkansas circuit court and he was ordered to take a paternity test.
He claimed last year in his memoir “Beautiful Things” that he fought the paternity suit because he had no recollection of the encounter which led to his daughter’s birth.
Ms. Roberts’ desperate text message to Hunter was found on a bombshell iPhone backup on Hunter’s infamous “laptop from hell”.
It was handed to The Sun by Marco Polo, an organization led by a former Trump White House staffer which is investigating the laptop.
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In the text sent on October 16, 2018, Ms. Roberts wrote: “Last we spoke you were upset because I hadn't kept you ‘updated’.
"That was in February. I've called numerous times and sent a few messages as well.
“I understand you despise me and want nothing to do with the decision I’ve made.
“However, I still felt you deserved to hear about it from me.
“Since it is merely impossible to reach you, a text will have to suffice…in hopes that you even read this - Baby was born Aug 28. Beautiful & Healthy.
“If you ever become curious and want to know more I can send pictures, details, or whatever you may request.
“I know that's a long shot and you'd much rather avoid the whole situation, but just wanted you to know the door is always open for you in the baby's life.”
Hunter does not appear to have responded to Ms. Roberts text.
Hunter and Ms. Roberts met while she was in graduate school at George Washington University in Washington D.C.
The pair reportedly first crossed paths while she was moonlighting as a stripper going by the alias “Dallas” at the Mpire Gentlemen’s Club in the capital’s Dupont Circle neighborhood.
In her text, Ms. Roberts also gave Hunter an update about her life after leaving Washington D.C. to return to her home state of Arkansas.
She wrote: “I have left my ‘DC lifestyle’ in the past as I decided to come home and jump back into who I was before DC, bettering myself for a child.
“I can only hope you will respect my privacy upon details about my life as I have been and will be respecting yours as well.”
In another earlier text sent weeks before their daughter was born, Ms. Roberts had written: “Reached out a few times, it’s clear you don’t want to be reached.
“Need to talk to you. If you feel the need to reach out, my line is always open. Hope all is well.”
Hunter does not appear to have responded to that message either.
Documents found on Hunter’s laptop show that Owasco PC was paying Ms. Roberts $1,500 bi-weekly for 40 hours of work a week.
On November 16, 2018, less than three months after Ms. Roberts had given birth to his daughter, Hunter realized she was still on his payroll.
'GET MY S*** STRAIGHTENED OUT'
Text messages between him and his assistant Katie Dodge show that he reacted furiously.
After he raised the issue, Ms. Dodge asked Hunter: “Do I remove Lunden from payroll & health insurance? They go hand in hand.”
Hunter replied that she should “take Lunden off payroll”, adding: “I thought you said she decidedly dint (sic) want to work and didn’t need health insurance anyway. Remember that conversation?”
Ms. Dodge replied: “No. I do not remember that conversation.
“Maybe she told you that but I wasn’t involved.”
Hunter fired back: “regardless Katie thats (sic) was if she was working a 40 hour week full time for me. I haven’t talked to Lunden in 7 months???????”
Hunter then told Ms. Dodge to “take whatever I pay Lunden and get my s*** straightened out”.
In a further exchange of messages on December 20, 2018, Ms. Dodge appeared to confirm that Ms. Roberts had been removed from the payroll.
The revelations come after the Secret Service said on Monday that it was aware of reports that Hunter's iCloud had been hacked and leaked to message board site 4Chan.
That alleged leak is not related to Hunter's misplaced laptop or the iPhone backup that was found on it.
Addressing in his memoir the paternity suit successfully brought by Ms. Roberts in May 2019, Hunter claimed that other than a romantic involvement with his late brother Beau’s widow Hallie, “the other women I'd been with during rampages since my divorce were hardly the dating type".
He added: “We would satisfy our immediate needs and little else. I’m not proud of it.
"It's why I would later challenge in court the woman from Arkansas who had a baby in 2018 and claimed the child was mine - I had no recollection of our encounter.
“That's how little connection I had with anyone. I was a mess, but a mess I've taken responsibility for.”
'CLASSY'
The Sun exclusively reported in October 2020 that Hunter had agreed to pay Ms. Roberts $2.5m to settle her paternity case, despite previous claims that he had no income and significant debts.
After Ms. Roberts gave evidence to a federal grand jury in Delaware investigating Hunter as part of a criminal tax probe, her lawyer Clint Lancaster was asked in March this year if Hunter has ever seen or expressed an interest in meeting his daughter.
Mr Lancaster replied: “No, he has not. It’s sad, because the baby looks like him, with blond hair.”
President Joe Biden reacted sharply when his illegitimate granddaughter Navy was brought up in November 2019.
: “I’m wondering if you have a comment on this report, and court filing, out of Arkansas that your son Hunter just made you a grandfather again.”
Joe replied: “No, that’s a private matter and I have no comment.
“Only you would ask that. You’re a good man. You’re a good man. Classy.”
The Sun last week exclusively revealed that Hunter had smoked drugs in a float tank while on a detox and with two hookers in a hotel shower, and called his step-mom First Lady Jill Biden an "entitled c***".
Experts have warned that the information found on Hunter’s laptop and iPhone backup created a serious risk of blackmail against the president's son.
Campbell Murray, a former global head of cybersecurity for smartphone brand BlackBerry, told The Sun: "If a backup is decrypted and contains compromising, unsavory or even illegal material, the implication is that as the son of a sitting president, that is a huge amount of leverage over that individual.
"Anyone who obtained that material could say to them 'I will show the world what you've been doing or what you've been storing on your phone.'
"If that material gets into the hands of any nation state actor, foreign intelligence service or anybody with a desire to create leverage against a political party or movement, that would be a huge card for them to play.
When The Sun called the number Ms. Roberts used to text Hunter, the female mobile user who answered declined to comment.
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Asked if she wanted to clarify what she meant when she wrote to Hunter about him not wanting anything to do with “the decision I’ve made”, she said “No” and hung up the phone.
The Sun also reached out to Ms. Roberts' lawyer Clint Lancaster and Hunter’s representative for comment but did not hear back.
