About a decade ago, two dancers in a Midtown strip club met Hunter Biden for a lap dance in a private room, where he proceeded to play Fleet Foxes on his phone and smoke drugs.You may already know this if you’re deep into QAnon. Or if you’re one of the nearly 50,000 followers of a new “hunter bidens is hot” [sic] stan account, which recently resurfaced this piece of lore from court documents—not to humiliate Biden, but to ogle him. In a TikTok slideshow, the folksy “White Winter Hymnal” plays over pictures of Biden that were famously leaked in 2020: topless Hunter in a bathtub, topless Hunter blasting cigs, topless Hunter inexplicably wearing a scarf or sunglasses inside.The man in these grainy images—which are currently re-flooding certain corners of the internet—barely resembles the clear-eyed son of a former president proudly showing me his collection of oil-based paint markers on a balmy evening this May. Biden, now 56 and wearing a button-down, has spent much of the past three years in this modest garage in Malibu, which he’s transformed into a makeshift studio. It’s here, with the door wide open to let in light and a view of the Pacific, that he’s tried to shut out the world, spending 10 hours a day painting maximalist compositions of animals, nature, and symbols. He’s made at least 100 paintings while listening to audiobooks. Today, his 6-year-old son, a bright-blond surfer boy named Beau, after Biden’s late brother, sits on the ground beside him and fashions his own creation out of shells.Biden has spent much of the past three years in this modest garage in Malibu, which he’s transformed into a makeshift painting studio.