Hunter Biden says he doesn't know if Delaware laptop was his

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill


BY JORDAN WILLIAMS - 04/02/21 10:26 AM EDT

Hunter Biden, the son of President Biden, in a new interview says that he doesn’t know if a laptop found in Delaware that was the center of an election-year controversy was really his.

In an interview on "CBS Sunday Morning" that will air on Sunday, Biden says he doesn't have any idea whether the laptop at the center of a controversial New York Post story about his business dealings published weeks before the 2020 election was his.

“For real, I don’t know,” Biden tells CBS in the interview

“I don’t have any idea— I have no idea whether or not” the laptop was his.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/546148-hunter-biden-doesnt-know-if-delaware-laptop-was-his

[PSPS]

1. Aw, geez...

[PortTack]

2. QAnon heads are going to explode..

[snowybirdie]

3. Anyone else think

Hunter should have held back publishing his book for awhile? His dad is just getting started and trying to bring folks back to the Democratic party. Bringing up old repub gossip just gives them ammunition to harass Joe again. Selfish in my opinion.

[underpants]

6. No. The review I read said it was pretty brutal and open

He details how out of control he’s been. Nothing to hide at this point and his Dad never gave up on him.

[ShazamIam]

23. I agree, I think now at the beginning, and yes Hunter is brutal about his addiction problems.

I don't think it is an exaggeration to state that if we have an ordinary sized family and extend family, we know someone who has been or has had to cope with an addict/alcoholic. It places the craziness on himself, not his father.
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It also changes the focus from the Giuliani created whopper to Hunter's own story.I

[COL Mustard]

26. And IMHO, That Shows Joe's Character

Never giving up on Hunter. That's what a Dad should do!

[LiberalLovinLug]

16. I think publishing now is a good idea

By doing so, it defanged Fox News and others of putting out their own "exclusive shocking new revelations on Hunter Biden!" every couple of weeks of Joe's presidency. Then the news media running back to Hunter, and even asking Joe at press conferences "Is it true what they are saying about Hunter doing this..... Hunter doing that.......?"

This way its all out there at once. Anything they want to know, voluntarily offered. And like a smorgasbord, Fox and friends on the right, will gorge themselves when the book comes out on the most salacious details. But a month later, at the most, other stories will take up their concerns...Joe might wear the wrong colour suit or something. The consuming public will demand other stories, and with no other secrets to shockingly reveal, and create new content to furrow Tucker's brow, they will move on.

[snowybirdie]

17. Good point

Just hating the repubs and their hate campaigns against every Democratic.

[ScratchCat]

4. Two things

How would he not know if he dropped off a laptop at that shop?

Why is he doing this interview? It does no good.

[underpants]

5. The interview is about his book

Apparently a brutally frank disclosure of his addiction problems.

[bluedigger]

7. How would he?

[bucolic_frolic]

8. I think the point is

he may have had more than one laptop, he doesn't actually say his is missing, it may have been altered, used, or poisoned after it was stolen, and it's not surfaced, or if any has surfaced it's not been proven to be undoctored and his.

Each of which is entirely logical proof to cast doubt on the whole ownership issue.

[bottomofthehill]

9. His dad and mom have stood by him in all of his dipshit antics

He has led a difficult life, lost his mother and sister in a car accident his brother to cancer and almost lost his father to stroke. Has battled alcohol and drug addiction, left his wife for his brothers wife ( making both of them fuck ups) can he just stand by and shut the fuck up for the next 3+ years and support his father as his dad has supported him through his bullshit. Seriously Hunter, shut the fuck up.

[ripcord]

12. So I'm not the only one who see a similarity to Billy Carter?

[Captain Zero]

15. Billy Carter owned a gas station and drank beer. Licensed his own brand of beer. Billy Beer.

Hunter has worked in finance and now written a book. He's a president's son.
Billy was a president's sibling.

Maybe those are similarities and maybe not.
I guess every admin has its children and siblings.

[eissa]

19. Yes, to all of this

Do I believe the nonsensical laptop story? No. Does him saying shit like this help? No. His book and all interviews can wait until his father is out of office. Until then he just needs to lay low and STFU.

[George II]

10. Sorry this got brought up again (not by you) but since it has, the whole story is questionable....

1. The shop where it was dropped off specialized in "MacBooks" (in fact Mac was in the name)
2. The receipt Giuliani has was for data recovery for THREE "MacBooks", price was $85.00 ($28 each)!? Data recovery software costs more than that.
3. Giuliani held up the so-called "MacBook" - it was a LG LAPTOP! Laptops are entirely different from MacBooks.

The whole story was fake.

[cstanleytech]

11. The document clearly does mention MacBooks

as part of the transaction and not a PC which is entirely different so yes I agree it’s probably fraudulent as shit.

[George II]

14. Yes. There is a clear distinction between PC Laptops and and MacBooks. The blurred out name....

....of the store had "Mac" in it.

You couldn't get a repair shop to even look at one laptop for $85, much less recover the data on THREE.

[Redleg]

13. Not to mention the chain of custody issues

If they did belong to Hunter Biden, how many other people, outside of the authorities, had access to the laptops after Hunter Biden last had custody? Like you, I think the whole thing was a clumsy set up by Rudy, who must be technologically ignorant. Lucky for him, the Trumpers were ready to believe whatever he said.

[COL Mustard]

27. Oh, I Wouldn't Doubt Rudy For One Second

In fact, the LG laptop I'm using right now is their "MacBook Air" model.

[brush]

32. MacBooks are laptops, but you're right about the cost of date recovery.

I've had to do it and it's much more expensive than $28.00.

[cinematicdiversions]

18. Something Something... Chet Hanks... Billy Carter... NT

[karynnj]

20. In fairness, think of all the old, out dated laptops you have

I know we have old computers, laptops etc and some old hard disks taken out before we got rid of old computers. It has been pretty common for people to have laptops for decades. It is entirely possible that before a move, Hunter or someone living with him could have junked them.

At this point, he likely could not be 100% sure that every laptop he ever owned is in his possession. As we learned from various past stories, simply erasing files does not mean they can not be retrieved.

However, what this does not say is that Hunter took these 3 laptops to this shop which supposedly agreed to retrieve the data on each of them for an absurdly low price and then did not retrieve them. That part of the story never made sense and is likely not true. As others said, even if this were a Hunter computer, it is impossible to know when he had it and when others possibly could have been in procession.

[stopdiggin]

22. finally. someone addresses the OP! (nt)

[marie999]

28. We wipe are computers before junking.

[moose65]

33. You're right about that

No one in his right mind would take a laptop all the way across the country to some no-name repair shop, agree to leave it there for an absurdly low price, and then forget about coming back to pick it up. IF Biden had done this as some way to "secretly" wipe the laptop or recover data, there's no way that HE, personally, would have dropped it off. The whole story has a Keystone Kops/Benny Hill quality about it

[stopdiggin]

21. not sure if this is serving anyone

Hunter, Joe -- or DU. Most of the comments on the string would tend to bear that out. If there isn't something to debate or discuss ...

Note: If you don't think it's possible that things 'go missing' while careening through a drug and alcohol fueled existence -- you're pretty far removed from the realities. I.e. - is the " I don't know" plausible? Ask anyone with a problem.

[karynnj]

24. Even for those of us who have the good fortune to never have had such problems,

It is entirely possible that a long ago laptop, replaced with a better newer faster model, could have been put aside with similar junk. It would be possible that they could be thrown away at some point. Think how many laptops, tablets and phones you have had for the last two decades.

[stopdiggin]

25. and those people that are in a constant shuffle

between home, work, travel -- with the likely addition of assistants, collaboration, and quite possibly more than one vocational pursuit? Yeah -- there's literally hundreds of keyboards (and USB plug-ins) that cross paths with a mobile multi-tasking individual over the course of a few years. Do I have all of them on a leash? Hell, I'm not even sure what city they're in!

Add in a couple drinks -- couple hotel room parties .... Whoosh.
But your point is absolutely right -- you don't have to be any kind of high flier ...
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[COL Mustard]

29. I Had A Mac Laptop Back In The 90s

It was expensive, noisy and couldn't connect to the Internet. Then again, most computers then couldn't connect to the Internet.

I used it in an abortive grad school session before I got serious about it. I finally sold it for about $500 if I remember correctly.

[pnwmom]

30. Yes. We've had computers since the 90's and I have no idea how many,

and the old ones are in the basement or garage somewhere -- and I'm not a substance abuser.

[SYFROYH]

31. Some correlational evidence that gaffes are genetic?