Detailing flagging profits from
his art sales, Biden said that while he had sold 27 artworks for an average price of roughly $54,500 in the two or three years leading up to the lawsuit, he had only sold one piece of art for $36,000 since then.
Biden also described a slump in book sales, saying he went from selling more than 3,100 copies of his book from April through September 2023, when the lawsuit was filed, to about 1,100 over the six-month period that followed.
NBC News has reported extensively on Biden’s financial troubles and efforts to secure additional income,
including a legal defense fund that ultimately did not get off the ground.
Biden was
found guilty on federal gun charges last year, and he
pleaded guilty in a federal tax case. President Joe Biden
pardoned him shortly before he was scheduled to be sentenced in the gun case in December.