Miranda Devine: Hunter Bidens latest debacle shows that he cant stay out of the lamelight

Showing that he will always be the butt of the joke, Hunter Biden made a cameo appearance last week in a White House list of the Trump administration’s Year One accomplishments.“Stripped notorious crackhead and grifter Hunter Biden of his taxpayer-funded Secret Service detail,” reads number 243 on the list of “365 WINS IN 365 DAYS!”So began Hunter’s latest annus horribilis (bum year).Instead of slithering away into obscurity once his father’s power was extinguished, the ex-first son has hardly been out of the news.The 55-year-old former convicted felon is currently under threat of jail in Arkansas for failure to pay child support to his long-suffering baby mama Lunden Roberts.He has been crying poor as he tries to extricate himself from various frivolous lawsuits he filed to silence his critics, and he has lied his head off to amiable podcasters.Soon after his bête noire, Don­ald Trump, took over the White House last year, Hunter pocketed the 11-year retrospective pardon Daddy had bequeathed him and jetted off on a luxury vacation to South Africa, the homeland of his second wife, Melissa Cohen.The scruffy pair enjoyed round-the-clock Secret Service protection, including the full VIP package of being chauffeured everywhere and having doors opened for them, shopping bags carried and paparazzi shooed off.Papa Joe, always generous with other people’s money, had indefinitely extended his son’s 18-strong Secret Service detail before he left office.Trump took great delight in cutting off the detail, two months in, leaving Hunter to the indignity of life without an entourage of taxpayer-funded bodyguards.He claims in court that he’s too broke to meet his obligations, but it’s always been a mystery how he managed to pay for luxury vacations and a comfortable lifestyle in various houses with ocean views in salubrious parts of LA despite having no job, nobody buying his “art” and his “sugar brother” Kevin Morris, the Hollywood attorney, having f...