This is a chapter from RealClearInvestigations' Hunter Biden Reader, a collection of news reports on Joe Biden's errant son and other family members.
Selected Articles on Hunter Biden’s Laptop
(In Reverse Chronological Order)
Inside the PR Spin of the Hunter Biden Laptop Story
Miranda Devine, New York Post, May 29, 2022
Kevin Morris, the generous Los Angeles entertainment lawyer who loaned Hunter more than $2 million to pay off his tax debts, has launched a sensational public-relations campaign to discredit the laptop and divert attention from its damning revelations of the Biden family’s international influence-peddling scheme.
Forensic Exam: Hunter's Laptop 100% Authentic
Andrew Kerr, Jerry Dunleavy, Washington Examiner, May 24
A copy of Hunter Biden's hard drive obtained by the Washington Examiner is indisputably authentic, and there is no evidence of any hacking or file manipulation, according to an examination conducted by a former Secret Service agent who has testified as a cyberforensics expert in over 100 classified, criminal, and civil matters at the state, federal, and international levels.
Investigative Issues: Is Hunter Biden Preparing a Laptop Defense?
Byron York, Washington Examiner, May 10
New details percolating about the bailout of Hunter Biden to the tune of $2 million in back taxes from Hollywood lawyer Kevin Morris suggest further intrigue regarding the activities of the president's son as he remains under federal investigation.
Biden Laptop Repairman Sues Schiff, Media Over Smears
Miranda Devine, New York Post, May 3
The Delaware computer repairman who blew the whistle on Hunter Biden’s laptop filed a multimillion-dollar defamation suit against Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff, CNN, the Daily Beast and Politico, saying they falsely accused him of peddling Russian disinformation.
GOP Rep. Twitter Preserve Biden Laptop Records
Michael Ginsburg, Daily Caller, April 20
The top Republican on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is demanding that Twitter preserve all communications related to its October 2020 decision to ban a New York Post story based on materials from Hunter Biden’s laptop.
Congress Bars Hunter Laptop From Record
Michael Ginsberg, Henry Rodgers, Daily Caller, April 17
Democrats are blocking Republican efforts to upload the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop in a searchable digital format into the congressional record, the Daily Caller has confirmed. House Judiciary Committee Democratic staff, which is responsible for entering documents into the record, is refusing to upload the laptop by citing technological limitations. Instead, they’re forcing Republican Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz’s office to print hard copies and PDF-form documents of pages. Democrats maintained the stonewall even after Gaetz’s office offered to provide the proper equipment to enable the digital file transfer, the Daily Caller has learned.
Hunter Biden Whistleblower Says He Has More Material
Josh Boswell, Daily Mail, April 6
Hunter Biden laptop whistleblower Jack Maxey has been in hiding in Zurich, working with IT experts to dig out more data from the 'laptop from hell'.
Worried Spy Agency Sought Biden Laptop in 2020
John Solomon, Just the News, April 4
A retired intelligence officer says a U.S. spy agency asked for his help in fall 2020 to try to acquire a copy of the Hunter Biden laptop contents ahead of the presidential election. Sources corroborating his account said the agency's interest was to analyze the hard drive contents for any evidence or patterns of how foreign adversaries were seeking to compromise prominent Americans or their families.
How the Washington Post Authenticated Hunter Biden's Laptop
Timberg et al., Washington Post, March 31
At The Post’s request, Matt Green, a Johns Hopkins University security researcher who specializes in cryptography, and Jake Williams, a forensics expert and former National Security Agency operative who once hacked the computers of foreign adversaries, separately examined two copies The Post made of the portable drive conservative activist Jack Maxey provided. The portable drive provided to The Post contains 286,000 individual user files, including documents, photos, videos and chat logs. Of those, Green and Williams concluded that nearly 22,000 emails among those files carried cryptographic signatures that could be verified using technology that would be difficult for even the most sophisticated hackers to fake.
Investigative Issues: Intel Officials Show No Remorse Over Hunter Biden Laptop Dismissal
Editorial Board, New York Post, March 21
Many of the more than 50 intelligence community signers of the letter in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election claiming the Hunter Biden laptop story was likely Russian disinformation would not answer the question as to whether they felt regret for their actions. A few doubled-down when asked by the Post, including former DNI James Clapper. No remorse. No shame. And no apologies.
New York Times Acknowledges Authenticity of Hunter Biden Laptop Content
Benner et al., New York Times, March 16
People familiar with the federal investigation into Hunter Biden said prosecutors had examined emails between Mr. Biden, former business partner Devon Archer and others about Burisma and other foreign business activity. Those emails were obtained by The New York Times from a cache of files that appears to have come from a laptop abandoned by Mr. Biden in a Delaware repair shop. The email and others in the cache were authenticated by people familiar with them and with the investigation.
Jen Psaki Sticks to ‘Russian Disinformation’ Story After Hunter Biden’s Laptop Data Confirmed
Jeff Mordock, Washington Examiner, Sept. 24, 2021
White House press secretary Jen Psaki insisted that emails recovered from Hunter Biden’s discarded laptop computer were Russian disinformation, despite new confirmation of the authenticity of the emails.
The BidensNew Proof Emerges of the Biden Family Emails:
A Definitive Account of the CIA/Media/BigTech Fraud
Glenn Greenwald, Substack, Sept. 22
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There was ample proof from the start that the documents reported on in October 2020 by The New York Post were genuine and that the only ones engaged in "disinformation" and lies was this axis of the CIA, corporate media, and Big Tech. Yet the most dispositive proof yet emerged on Tuesday [Sept. 21] — not from a right-wing news outlet that liberals have been trained to ignore and disbelieve but from one of the most mainstream news institutions in the country. A young reporter for Politico, Ben Schreckinger, has published a new book entitled "The Bidens: Inside the First Family’s Fifty-Year Rise to Power.” To his great credit, he spent months investigating the key documents published by the New York Post and found definitive proof that these emails and related documents are indisputably authentic. His own outlet, Politico, was the first to publish the CIA lie that this was "Russian disinformation,” but on Tuesday — without acknowledging their role in spreading that lie — they summarized Schreckinger's findings.
Politico Playbook: Double Trouble for Biden
Lizza et al., Politico, Sept. 21
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Ben Schreckinger’s “The Bidens: Inside the First Family’s Fifty-Year Rise to Power,” out today, finds evidence that some of the purported HUNTER BIDEN laptop material is genuine, including two emails at the center of last October’s controversy. A person who had independent access to Hunter Biden’s emails confirmed he did receive a 2015 email from a Ukrainian businessman thanking him for the chance to meet Joe Biden. The same goes for a 2017 email in which a proposed equity breakdown of a venture with Chinese energy executives includes the line, “10 held by H for the big guy?” (This person recalled seeing both emails, but was not in a position to compare the leaked emails word-for-word to the originals.)
FEC: Twitter Didn't Violate Election Laws Throttling Hunter Biden Article
Jessica Guynn, USA Today, Sept. 13
Twitter did not violate election laws when it limited the spread of a New York Post article about then Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s son Hunter shortly before the election, the Federal Election Commission determined.
Hunter Biden Dodges Laptop Questions
Marshall Cohen & Evan Perez, CNN, April 2
Hunter Biden told CBS News in an interview that he has "no idea whether or not" the laptop belongs to him, but acknowledged that it was "certainly" a possibility, before raising several other theories.
Intel Report Doesn't Prove Biden Laptop 'Disinfo'
Becket Adams, Washington Examiner, March 17
Certain members of the press want very much for the Hunter Biden laptop story to be the work of the Russians, despite assessments from the intelligence community that say otherwise.
Hunter Biden Laptop Repairman Posts Tell-All Videos
Rowan Scarborough, Washington Times, Jan. 18
The Delaware repair shop owner who distributed Hunter Biden’s laptop contents to the FBI and Trump supporters has emerged on a GoFundMe page to tell his story.
Ex-Intel Officials Stand by Russian Disinfo Claim re: Hunter
Tobias Hoonhout, National Review, Dec. 22, 2020
National Review contacted all 51 of the former officials who signed a letter claiming that Russia was behind the Hunter Biden dirt.
Hunter Biden Laptop: U.S. Security Nightmare
Ian Gallagher, Daily Mail, Oct. 31
Hunter Biden chose to protect his MacBook Pro computer – crammed with what an IT expert last night described as a 'national security nightmare' and 'classic blackmail material' – with a single, simple password: Hunter02.
Some Early Voters Want Do-Over After Biden Exposés
Lee Brown, New York Post, Oct. 27
Google searches for “change my vote” have spiked over the last several days, and Americans interested in adjusting their ballot are also searching for more information on Hunter Biden, one week after the Post’s exposés.
Bobulinski: Joe Biden and Biden Family Are Compromised
"Tucker Carlson Tonight," Fox News, Oct. 27
'Big Guy' in Email Was Joe Biden, Recipient Confirms
Matthew Boyle, Breitbart, Oct. 22
A whistleblower CEO and Biden insider, Tony Bobulinski, released a public statement on Wednesday evening backing up the reporting of the New York Post ... and claiming that he personally witnessed Democrat presidential nominee former Vice President Joe Biden discussing business deals with his son, Hunter Biden.
FBI, DOJ Dispute Idea Hunter Biden Laptop is Russian Disinfo
Jerry Dunleavy & Joseph Simonson, Washington Examiner, Oct. 20
Federal law enforcement agencies do not believe the contents on Hunter Biden's laptop are part of a foreign election interference effort, Fox News producer Sean Langille reported. Separately, Langille tweeted that Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum "is told by a Federal Law Enforcement Official that the emails are 'authentic.' And that the laptop may have not been looked at right away when it was received."
FBI Has Purported Hunter Biden Laptop
Jake Gibson & Brooke Singman, Fox News, Oct. 20
The FBI is in possession of the laptop purportedly belonging to Hunter Biden which contained emails revealing his foreign business dealings, including contacts in Ukraine and China.
Hunter Biden-China Email Mentions Split for 'the Big Guy'
Brooke Singman, Fox News, Oct. 19
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has remained mum on questions about his knowledge of his son Hunter's overseas business dealings, which were discussed in a series of emails purportedly found on a laptop belonging to his son.
Ratcliffe: Hunter Biden Laptop Emails Not Russian Disinfo
Brooke Singman, Fox News, Oct. 19
Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe said Hunter Biden's laptop is not part of some Russian disinformation campaign, amid claims from House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff suggesting otherwise.
Lawmakers Want FBI Answers re: Hunter Biden Laptop
Ryan Saavedra, Daily Wire, Oct. 18
Nineteen House lawmakers sent a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray this week demanding answers about a laptop allegedly belonging to Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, following explosive reports that were published in the New York Post.
Biden Campaign Lashes Out at NY Post
Kyle Cheney & Natasha Bertrand, Politico, Oct. 14
Joe Biden’s campaign is punching back at a New York Post story that alleged a direct link between the Democratic presidential nominee and his son's business dealings. Top Biden advisers who staffed him during his vice presidency, citing their own recollections as well as a review of Biden’s official schedules, sharply rejected the Post’s suggestion that Biden met with a representative of Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings in 2015.
Emails Tie Biden, Son to Burisma Exec
Emma-Jo Morris, New York Post, Oct. 14
Hunter Biden introduced his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, to a top executive at a Ukrainian energy firm less than a year before the elder Biden pressured government officials in Ukraine into firing a prosecutor who was investigating the company, according to emails obtained by The Post.
