Leaked Footage Reportedly Shows Hunter Biden Frustrated After 2023 Plea Deal
Newly reviewed documentary footage reportedly shows Hunter Biden appearing agitated just days after his attorneys reached a 2023 plea agreement with federal prosecutors over unpaid taxes and a felony gun charge.
According to The New York Post, the footage comes from an unfinished documentary project by Hollywood attorney and writer Kevin Morris, a close Biden ally who loaned Hunter more than $6.5 million for taxes and personal expenses.
The clip, reportedly filmed on June 29, 2023, shows Hunter Biden speaking on a cellphone inside what appears to be his Malibu art studio.
“What are you talking about ‘I’m protected’?” a wild-eyed Biden says excitedly into a cellphone in the video footage that’s part of a new documentary-in-progress that’s being made by Hollywood lawyer and writer Kevin Morris, who loaned the first son more than $6.5 million to pay the taxes and for personal expenses.
Moments later, Biden continues pressing the person on the other end of the call.
“Who am I protected by, Georges? Who am I protected by?” Hunter shouts into his cellphone, seemingly from his art studio in Malibu.
The person on the call was reportedly Georges Berges, Hunter Biden’s former New York-based art dealer.
Morris, known in entertainment circles for his work on deals involving “South Park” and “The Book of Mormon,” reportedly followed Hunter Biden with a camera crew from 2021 through 2024, during Joe Biden’s presidency. The documentary project captured scenes from Hunter’s personal life, his legal troubles, and his controversial move into the art world.
The footage reportedly includes Hunter Biden’s gallery events in Los Angeles and New York, as well as courthouse scenes tied to his tax and firearms cases.
The Post also reported that Morris took cameras to Serbia, where his crew was accused of disrupting the set of filmmaker Phelim McAleer’s “My Son Hunter,” a satirical film about the Biden family distributed by Breitbart in September 2022.
In one portion of the footage, Berges is seen studying one of Hunter Biden’s paintings while Biden holds his young son Beau on his hip with a paintbrush between his lips.
After looking over the artwork, Berges asks, “You’re still working on this?” The Post reported the exchange took place in a courtyard area where canvases were leaning against walls and spread across the floor.
“I think it’s missing something,” Berges said.
The documentary then reportedly shifts to press coverage surrounding the political controversy over Hunter Biden’s art sales while his father occupied the White House. One clip features Republican lawmakers calling on then-Attorney General Merrick Garland to appoint a special counsel to investigate the sales.
“There’s something special about his art,” Berges says in the documentary. “I think it’s my job to tell that story.”
For conservatives, the footage is likely to renew long-running questions about influence, access, and whether the Biden family benefited from a two-tiered system of justice while ordinary Americans would have faced far harsher treatment under similar circumstances.
The controversy resurfaced after Joe Biden issued a sweeping pardon for his son in December 2024, shortly after President Donald J. Trump defeated then-Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election.
That pardon drew criticism from both sides of the political aisle because it went far beyond the tax and gun charges Hunter Biden faced. Rather than narrowly addressing those convictions, the pardon covered an 11-year window dating back to 2014.
That timeline matters. In 2014, Joe Biden was serving as vice president under Barack Obama and had been tasked with handling U.S.-Ukraine policy. Around that same period, Hunter Biden joined the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma, earning large sums despite having no meaningful background in the energy sector.
During a Fox News segment on “The Five,” Jeanine Pirro argued that the scope of the pardon revealed far more than the White House wanted to admit.
“And some of those years encompasses the years that David Weiss, is the so-called special counsel, I think he is, allowed the statute of limitations to run in the highest earning years that Hunter Biden had, and the years it certainly involved his father and his ‘business’ dealings,” Pirro said.
The reported footage adds yet another layer to a political scandal that Republicans have long argued was never only about Hunter Biden. To many on the right, the deeper issue has always been whether powerful families in Washington receive protections, access, and legal advantages unavailable to the rest of the country.