In his first public interview, President Joe Biden’s son Hunter admitted that the laptop containing a wealth of secret information that previously triggered “pen-gate” may have been his, but he also said it may have been hacked by Russia.
Hunter said in a CBS interview on Friday (April 2) that he may have had a laptop left outside, but it was stolen. It could be that he was hacked. It’s also possible that Russian intelligence did it.
The laptop was dropped off in 2019 at a computer store in Delaware owned by John Paul Mac Isaac, who said Hunter Biden asked him to recover the contents from the damaged machine but has not come back to pick it up or pay for it since.
The computer contained explosive messages and emails between Hunter Biden about drug use, drunkenness, sex scandals and foreign transactions, some involving his various business deals that took place in countries such as Ukraine and China. A cybersecurity expert authenticated one of the emails, which showed that Vadym Pozharskyi, an executive at the Ukrainian gas company Brisma, had met with Joe Biden when he was in Washington in 2015. Joe Biden was vice president at the time, while Hunter Biden was a member of the board of directors of Brisma.
This has raised serious questions about Joe Biden’s abuse of power, questioning Joe Biden’s use of his vice presidential title to help his son.
Hunter Biden’s foreign dealings are currently under investigation by members of Congress, and his tax returns are being investigated by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Delaware.
President Biden has called the release of the information on the laptop allegedly belonging to his son part of a “smear campaign. The contents were first released last October, when Biden launched a campaign challenge to then-President Donald Trump.
After the interview, NPR issued a correction to a report in its review of Hunter Biden’s book that previously said the laptop belonged to him “was disproved by independent investigations by U.S. intelligence and news organizations.”
The correction reads, “A previous version of this story said that U.S. intelligence had debunked the laptop story. There has been no statement from U.S. intelligence officials in response.”
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