House Republicans have made no secret of their plans to ride Hunter Biden and his father to death with endless hearings and allegations. I won’t go into all the details here, but one particular aspect of the story deserves some attention.
In 2019 Hunter Biden is supposed to have left a laptop computer at a Delaware computer repair shop for repairs, but never retrieved it. The shop owner copied the contents of a hard drive and somehow information from it has been spreading through the right wing fever swamp, FBI investigations, and the press. Depending on who you talk to, the files ‘prove’ Hunter was involved in various financial schemes directly involving his father, in Ukraine, China, and so on. Or do they?
The provenance of some of the claims, the chain of custody of the information — let’s just say that there are plenty of reasons to doubt some or possibly most of the claims as dubious. Also, we’re dealing with people with a documented record of lying chronically and systematically with strong motives to do so.
What is not in dispute is that Hunter Biden is the son of President Joe Biden, and that his name has gotten him business opportunities. Unlike the family of his father’s predecessor however, he has never held a position in government or traded on official government ties.
There is no evidence Hunter’s father had anything to do with getting business opportunities for his son or benefitted from them, but Republicans are determined to ‘prove’ it — going all the way...
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