Hunter Biden said he would take part in a cage match with Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. if Andrew Callaghan can pull it off, a trash-talking side note to a legal and financial scramble that still shadows him. In a post on X on Monday, he said Callaghan asked him to come out on the Channel 5 Carnival Tour at the end of the month and that he would still show up even if the fight never happens.
“I think he’s trying to organize a cage match, me versus Eric and Don Jr.,” Biden wrote. “I told him I’d do it — 100% in — if he can pull it off. And if he can’t, I’m still coming.” Callaghan was also the name Biden used when he said he had been invited to the “Channel 5” Carnival Tour, which is set to include Phoenix, San Diego and Albuquerque.
The post lands while Biden is still fighting over money. Winston and Strawn LLP sued him in Washington, D.C., civil court in June 2025 for breach of contract over unpaid legal fees, and Barry Coburn said in court papers filed Monday in D.C. Superior Court that Biden is impecunious. Coburn wrote that his client lives abroad and is unable to pay his current lawyers, adding that neither side knows the final amount owed and that the firm could not afford to bring in a billing consultant, forensic accountant or e-discovery vendor.
Biden has not exactly presented as flush before. In December 2023, he said his legal bills from Abbe Lowell could reach as much as $15 million for his recent legal woes, and in March 2025 he said in court papers that he had sold just one abstract artwork for $36,000 since December 2023. He also said sales of his 2021 memoir, Beautiful Things, fell from 3,200 copies to 1,100 copies over two six-month stretches that year.
The money questions are not new to him. Biden was previously delinquent on up to $6.5 million he owed Kevin Morris, who testified in January 2024 that Biden could have paid him back by washing his car for the rest of their life. Morris also described the repayment possibilities in broad terms as “any number of things,” a reminder that Biden’s finances have long been tangled up with private legal help and public scrutiny.
That scrutiny extends beyond the courtroom. A Republican-led inquiry found evidence that nearly $30 million had been funneled into Biden family accounts from Hunter Biden’s foreign business ventures during and after Joe Biden’s vice presidency. Separately, Hunter Biden, Melissa Cohen Biden and their son Beau were spotted in Cape Town in March 2025 and again in May 2025 with a Secret Service detail, a sign that the family’s movements remain under close watch even as the legal bills keep coming.
The cage-match talk may never move beyond internet theater, but the timing is unmistakable: Biden is trying to turn attention toward a public spectacle on April 9 while discovery documents are due in the fee dispute case. The answer to whether he can afford the fight is already in the record. He cannot, and he is still looking for a way to keep showing up anyway.
