THE LONG CON
After cries of ‘Russian disinformation,’ a media blackout and a Twitter ban, Hunter admits THAT laptop ‘certainly’ could be his
In an interview with CBS “Sunday Morning,” Hunter Biden finally admitted the laptop obtained by The New York Post “certainly . . . could be” his, despite attempts by the Joe Biden campaign, the media and tech platforms to claim that it was Russian disinformation.
Hunter Biden has finally ’fessed up that the laptop at the center of The Post’s explosive exposé last year “certainly” could belong to him.
In an interview with “CBS Sunday Morning,” President Biden’s embattled son was pointedly asked, “yes or no,” whether the MacBook Pro that was dropped off at a Delaware computer-repair shop in April 2019 was, in fact, his.
“I really don’t know what the answer is. That’s the truthful answer,” Hunter said in an excerpt of the interview released Friday. “I have no idea.”
Asked whether the computer could have belonged to him, he replied: “Certainly, there could be a laptop out there that was stolen from me. It could be that I was hacked. It could be that it was Russian intelligence. It could be that it was stolen from me.”
Hunter Biden made the rare media appearance while promoting his new memoir, “Beautiful Things,” due out on Tuesday from Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster.
In the final months of the 2020 presidential race, The Post revealed a trove of e-mails from Hunter’s laptop that raised questions about his then-candidate father’s ties to Hunter’s foreign business ventures, including with Burisma, a Ukrainian natural-gas company linked to corruption.
Though a former Hunter Biden business partner came forward to verify the laptop’s contents, most the media backed Joe Biden’s campaign when it suggested the Hunter laptop was “Russian disinformation.”
Twitter banned The Post’s account over the story — a move CEO Jack Dorsey later said was “a total mistake.”
The laptop e-mails revealed that Hunter introduced a top Burisma
executive to his father, then the vice president, less than a year before the elder Biden admittedly pressured Ukrainian officials into firing a prosecutor who was investigating the company.
The never-before-revealed meeting is mentioned in a note of appreciation that Vadym Pozharskyi, a Burisma board adviser, sent Hunter on April 17, 2015.
The water-damaged MacBook Pro — which bore a sticker from the Beau Biden Foundation — was dropped off for repair at the Delaware computer shop in April 2019, but the person who dropped it off never returned to pick it up.
It was seized by the FBI in December of that year.
Other e-mails on the computer showed Hunter discussing potential business deals with China’s largest private energy company.
One deal seemed to attract the attention of the younger Biden, who called it “interesting for me and my family.”
The laptop also contained highly personal photos and recordings, including a 12-minute video that appears to show the first son — who has struggled with addiction — smoking crack and engaged in sex acts with an unidentified woman.
Additionally, Senate Republicans revealed in September the findings of their investigation into Hunter’s overseas business dealings. They said the Obama administration had ignored “glaring warning signs” when the then-vice president’s son joined the board of Burisma when he had no energy experience.
Hunter’s position with the reportedly corrupt energy company — which paid him “as much as $50,000 per month” — “created an immediate potential conflict of interest” because his father was involved in US policy toward Ukraine, the report stated.
Both President Biden and his son have continued to deny any wrongdoing.
The president has frequently defended his troubled younger son, including during his first debate with President Donald Trump, who repeatedly referenced Hunter’s overseas dealings and brought up his discharge from the Naval Reserve for testing positive for cocaine.
“My son, like a lot of people, like a lot of people you know at home, had a drug problem. He’s overtaken it. He’s fixed it. He’s worked on it, and I’m proud of him. I’m proud of my son,” the then-Democratic nominee said.
In his interview with CBS, Hunter recalled an intervention his family had staged for him during the 2020 presidential race over his substance abuse.
Hunter said he stormed out of the house after the confrontation and tried to get in his car, but was chased down the driveway by his daughters and the Democratic presidential hopeful himself.
“I tried to go to my car, and my girls literally blocked the door to my car, and said, ‘Dad, Dad, please. You can’t. No, no.’ This was the hardest part of the book to write,” Hunter said with visible emotion.
“He grabbed me, in a hug,” he recalled, referring to his father. “He grabbed me, gave a bear hug, and he said, and just cried and said, ‘I don’t know what to do. I don’t know what to do. Please.’ ”
Asked what he thought when he heard his father’s pleas for him to get help, Hunter said the words didn’t make a dent in taking down his addiction.
“I thought, ‘I need to figure out a way to tell him that I’m gonna do something, so that I can go take another hit,’ ” the first son said. “It’s the only thing I could think, literally.”
“That’s how powerful” addiction is, Hunter said, “I don’t know of a force more powerful than my family’s love, except addiction.”