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That's a tabloid owned by Rupert Murdoch, a political ally of Donald Trump. The laptop was provided, it's worth remembering, by President Trump's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, to The New York Post. Yet, its scoops were based on emails that could not at the time be independently authenticated, on a laptop that had not been positively identified as belonging to Hunter Biden, which was said to be abandoned at a repair shop. Remind us of what ensued then.įOLKENFLIK: So The New York Post presented this story as a bombshell, and it said the emails were a smoking gun showing effectively Hunter Biden's corruption and suggesting much the same about candidate Joe Biden. SIMON: The New York Post broke this story just weeks before the 2020 election. And there are a lot of witnesses and a lot of lawyers who have been asked about some of those Hunter Biden emails and correspondence and documents between him and some of his associates. Much of these reports appear to center on materials related to the federal investigation of Hunter Biden. You got to start with revelations in a book last fall by Politico's Ben Schreckinger and more recently in articles in The New York Times and The Washington Post. He's said in the past that he's done stupid things but nothing illegal.įOLKENFLIK: Mostly through new reporting. To be clear, Hunter Biden has not been charged with any wrongdoing on this. We also learned about a Chinese energy company presumably with links to the Chinese communist government that made Hunter Biden seven figures in a short amount of time. ![]() and some other ramifications here although he didn't register as a lobbyist. ![]() ![]() David, thanks so much for being with us.įOLKENFLIK: We've learned a bunch more detail about Hunter Biden's vision to help a Ukrainian natural gas company called Burisma handle bad press in the U.S. Many of these emails have now been authenticated. Part of that investigation appears to center on emails that showed up on a notorious laptop that was publicized before the 2020 election and then dismissed by much of the news media. There's fresh scrutiny on Hunter Biden, the president's son, as he is under investigation.
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