Miranda Devine - Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide

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Laptop from Hell:

Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide

2021 by Miranda Devine

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Cover photo taken August 3, 2018, at Palms Casino Resort, Las Vegas.

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Contents

Corruption is a cancer, a cancer that eats away at a citizens faith in democracy. It saps the collective strength and resolve of a nation. Corruption is just another form of tyranny.

Joe Biden, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2014

In the spring of 2019, four years after the death of his brother Beau, Hunter Biden was falling apart.

His crack addiction was raging, his wife of twenty-four years had divorced him, his steamy affair with Beaus widow, Hallie, was on the rocks.

A stripper from Arkansas had launched a paternity suit. His business partners were in jail or had vanished, presumed dead. The fortune he had made from foreign oligarchs and Delaware donors was squandered or inaccessible.

He had spent the past year in and out of rehab, flitting between Airbnbs and the Chateau Marmont, unappreciated and disrespected, raging at his family and the world.

In April, his father, former vice president Joe Biden, announced he was running for president.

Two weeks later, Hunter left his laptop at a Mac repair shop in Delaware and never came back.

At its heart, this is the story of a son of political privilege tormented by the defining tragedy of his childhood.

In 1972, when Hunter was two, his mother, Neilia Hunter Biden, took the children on a Christmas shopping expedition near the familys home outside Wilmington, Delaware, when their car was struck by a truck. Neilia and Hunters baby sister, Ashley, were killed. Hunter and his three-year-old brother, Beau, were injured and spent more than a month in hospital.

Their father, Joe, who always had aspired to lead the sort of sprawling Catholic dynasty embodied by the Kennedy clan, now was living through a Kennedy kind of tragedy.

Only a month earlier, he had won a coveted US Senate race in Delaware, becoming, at thirty, one of the youngest senators in American history.

He couldnt give that up, could he? So, he dried his tears and took the oath of office in the hospital room where his two motherless boys lay, Hunter with head injuries and Beau with a broken leg. Then he left his sons in the care of their aunt Val and went to work in Washington. Most nights he made the three-hour Amtrak commute home to kiss his sleeping children.

The first memory I have is of lying in a hospital bed next to my brother, said Hunter, in a eulogy at Beaus funeral in 2015.

I was almost three years old. I remember my brotherone year and one day older than meholding my hand, staring into my eyes, saying, I love you. I love you. I love you.

The black and white images of two small, bandaged boys lying in a hospital bed, as their father was sworn in as a US senator in the background, captured a nations heart. The photos have paid off politically for Biden ever since.

As he rose in politics, the story would be the lead anecdote of every profile, endearing him to voters and defining him as a heroic father figure.

Time and again, the sympathy it elicited helped shield Quid Pro Joe from criticism. Ultimately, the terrible blow only made him stronger.

His younger son, however, never would fully recover.

After the funeral mass for the brother he idolized, Hunter would recall in a note to himself: I went to kneel in the back pew with my Dadand I said my prayer, and for the first time in my life I prayed to, not just my dead mother and my dead sister, but also to my dead brother, and for the first time in my life I prayed for me.

I asked, please let me be with you, please let me know you love me, please never let me forget, please let me come.

Character is on the ballot.

Joe Biden, February 2020

Less than a month before the 2020 election, I was at home in midtown Manhattan, a few blocks from the New York Post newsroom, where I worked as a columnist, when my cell phone pinged at 11:35 p.m.

Rudy Giulianis lawyer, Bob Costello, had sent a text message from his Long Island home: I have been asked to send you a small taste of evidence that I have quite legally, that you might have an interest in, he wrote.

I have approximately 40,000 emails, at least a thousand text messages and hundreds of photographs and videos involving the subject.

The story is more about the emails, but the photos set the tone.

What followed were three startling images.

The first showed Hunter Biden, then aged forty-seven, still handsome but haggard, in bed, lighting what appeared to be a crack pipe.

Another showed Hunter asleep with the unlit pipe in his mouth.

The last photo was a half-naked selfie of Hunter in a bathroom mirror, showing a fresh tattoo across his tanned upper back, still covered in plastic wrap, long angry markings as if a tiger had clawed his flesh.

In fact, Hunter had just had the entire map of the Finger Lakes in upstate New York etched into his back. This was the place where his late mother, Neilia, had grown up, where he had forged some of his happiest childhood memories, during long summers with his maternal grandparents, the Scotch Presbyterian Hunters, at their cottage on Owasco Lake.

Hunter felt such a connection to the area that he named his various ill-fated companies after local landmarks, such as Owasco, Seneca, and Skaneateles.

The photographs were prima facie evidence that Costello and Giuliani had in their possession an extraordinary trove of material that already may have exposed the son of the man who would become president to blackmail and extortion by Americas enemies.

Giuliani was a valuable source of information if you were a journalist in New York. The irrepressible seventy-six-year-old former mayor had the inside story on everything from the citys criminal history to the current mood in the Oval Office.

Once a crusading young DA for the Southern District of New York who took down the Mob in the 1980s, then the crime-busting mayor who cleaned up New York in the 1990s, he had mellowed into the eccentric, scotch-swilling consigliere for President Donald Trump.

Giuliani had been sent a copy of the contents of Hunter Bidens laptop by the owner of the Mac repair shop in Delaware where it had been abandoned.

The material will blow your mind, said the former mayor.

Photographs of Hunters rampant drug use and explicit homemade pornography were all over the laptop. But the real news value lay in the corporate documents, bank transfers, and emails detailing a vast international influence-peddling scheme, sanctioned by the worlds most despotic regimesand implicating Honest Joe Biden himself.