Hunter Biden asked a federal judge to drop his lawsuit against a former Trump aide that is related to the release of information from a laptop thought to belong to the son of former President Joe Biden. Hunter Biden said that his limited funds make it difficult to continue with the case.

In papers sent to a federal court in California, Biden’s lawyers asked U.S. District Judge Hernan D. Vera to throw out the 2023 lawsuit against Garrett Ziegler. They said that Biden’s income “has dropped significantly” and that he owed a lot of money (millions of dollars).

Biden’s lawyers said that the wildfires in the Pacific Palisades made his money problems even worse because they made his rental home “unlivable for an extended period of time.”

They wrote that Biden “has had difficulty in finding a new permanent place to live as well as finding it difficult to earn a living.” They also said that Biden should use his time and resources to deal with his move, the damage to his rental house, and his family’s living costs, “rather than this litigation.”

Ziegler and the company he started, Marco Polo, were sued by Biden in September 2023. Biden said they broke state and federal laws by trying to make a searchable online database with 128,000 emails that were thought to be from Biden.