Democrats would have us believe that Hunter “Fortunate Son” Biden was hired by Burisma for his skills, that his artworks’ lofty sales had nothing to do with the fact that his father Joe was the sitting president, and all the breaks and favors afforded him were due to coincidence, not connections.

Why then, has the bubble protecting Hunter burst after Joe Biden checked out of the White House?

And burst it has.

Hunter claimed he’s millions of dollars in debt, nobody’s buying his art and he lost his house to the Los Angeles wildfires. This all in a legal filing in which he asked a federal judge to drop the laptop hacking lawsuit he slapped on a former Trump White House aide, the New York Post reported.

Hunter, 55, said he has managed to sell just one piece of art — his colorful abstract paintings have been compared to “hotel art” — since December 2023. He raked in nearly $1.5 million during dad Joe Biden’s campaign and the early years of his administration.

“In the 2 to 3 years prior to December 2023, I sold 27 pieces for art at an average price of $54,481.48, but since then I have only sold 1 piece of art for $36,000,” Hunter Biden’s attorneys said.

The video player is currently playing an ad. Lawyers also noted that sales of his 2021 memoir “Beautiful Things” also plunged — from 3,200 copies over six months in mid-2023, to just 1,100 copies in the following six months.

Biden said he’s shocked that interest in his work has evaporated when his dad’s political fortunes turned.

“Given the positive feedback and reviews of my artwork and memoir, I was expecting to obtain paid speaking engagements and paid appearances, but that has not happened,” he said.

That all would have likely happened had Papa Joe stayed on the campaign trail and won. A rising tide lifts all relatives.

Joe Biden signed with the high-powered talent agency CAA after he left office in January, but Hunter wasn’t part of a package deal.

Hunter’s fiscal drought is preventing him from litigating the case against Garrett Ziegler, according to a motion filed in federal court in California Wednesday.

Biden’s money woes were only “exacerbated” by the Pacific Palisades wildfires in January that left the Malibu mansion that he is renting “unlivable,” the filing states.

“Like many others in that situation, I am having difficulty in finding a new permanent place to live,” he claimed in the motion.

He rented that home for $15,800 a month, so considering his empty-ish pockets, he’s going to have to downgrade. After all, he doesn’t have Kevin Morris’s wallet anymore.

Morris was the entertainment lawyer who fronted Hunter some $6.5 million in loans. He turned off the spigot last year, telling associates that he ran out of resources to help fund Biden’s legal defense, Politico reported.

Hunter has to live like someone whose dad isn’t the president of the United States, whose art is judged on its merits, and whose ability to land a job will depend on his experience and skills.

That’s how it works for ordinary people, the ones who don’t get blanket pardons and whose self-taught artistic prowess results in pieces unsold at yard sales.

Hunter’s is a cautionary tale. The absurdity of politics allows public office to be turned into a family business, but it takes just one election for the business to close.

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