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   In the spring of 2019, in between bouts of crack smoking and trysts   
   with prostitutes, living out of hotels and stinking of smoke and   
   booze, Hunter Biden made a strangely lucid decision. He got in a   
   car, drove to a computer service shop, and dropped off his laptop   
   for repair. The next day, he returned to give the clerk an external   
   hard drive so that the contents could be extracted. Then he never   
   came back.   
      
      
   Devine's gripping account of the Biden family's sleazy business   
   dealings, gleaned from the contents of Hunter's hard drive, picks up   
   where the New York Post‘s stellar pre-election reporting left off.   
      
   Many of the details have been reported before in bits and pieces.   
   Devine weaves them together with new direct reporting on   
   correspondence and documents pulled from the laptop and puts them in   
   context with what was happening at the time with Joe Biden's vice   
   presidency and presidential run.   
      
   The book is a devastating chronicle of political corruption. From   
   Ukraine to Mexico to China, Hunter Biden's private correspondence   
   shows how he and his family leveraged his father's position to win   
   high-paying, low-work gigs with shady foreign actors—and how Joe's   
   official actions at times directly benefited his family's financial   
   backers.   
      
   At best, Joe Biden comes off as a hapless father who facilitates his   
   son's clearly unethical moneymaking schemes. At worst, and as some   
   of Hunter's texts and emails suggest, Joe was a knowing participant   
   and beneficiary of the family business.   
      
   The fact that Hunter's market value was derived from his father's   
   position seemed to be a source of resentment for the younger Biden,   
   even as he continued to cash in on the name. Hunter complained in   
   texts to his daughter that he had financially supported the Biden   
   clan for three decades and that "pop" takes a cut of "half [my]   
   salary." Financial records and correspondence reported on by Devine   
   indicate that money from Hunter's business accounts was used to   
   cover Joe's AT&T bill and home maintenance expenses and that a   
   portion of at least one major China deal was earmarked for the elder   
   Biden.   
      
      
   He sent long, passive-aggressive missives to his father.   
      
   "Your vision of me being a hapless degenerate drunken crackhead is   
   so unbelievably hurtful," Hunter lashed out at Joe in a series of   
   texts in July 2019. "For twenty years [it] has felt like you just   
   needed me to go to my bedroom and be quiet while the grownups talk."   
      
   "I love you all. But I don't receive any respect," Hunter complained   
   in an email to his daughter.   
      
   Unlike Fredo, Hunter would be shielded from the consequences of his   
   destructive acts. So would the Biden family. After the computer   
   repairman turned over the abandoned hard drive to the FBI (and then   
   to Rudy Giuliani, who passed it to the New York Post), the legacy   
   press and social media companies mounted an all-out suppression   
   campaign against the Post‘s reporting, ensuring that the story was   
   snuffed out before the election.   
      
   The lack of consequences was interestingly predicted by Hunter's   
   lawyer, George Mesires, in a 2018 text message found on the laptop.   
   Mesires sought to reassure the younger Biden that news of his   
   Chinese deals would be brushed away by most of the press.   
      
   "At the end of the day," Mesires told Hunter, "I think people will   
   jadedly say ‘this is how the world works.'"   
      
   by Miranda Devine   
   Post Hill Press, 224 pp., $28.00   
      
      
   https://freebeacon.com/culture/review-laptop-from-hell-hunter-   
   biden-big-tech-and-the-dirty-secrets-the-president-tried-to-hide/   
      
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