Hunter Biden may be surrounded by laptops very soon.
The 51-year-old is scheduled to serve as a guest speaker for Tulane University’s 10-week course on “media polarization,” according to a Fox News report.
The course, called “Media Polarization and Public Policy Impacts,” intends to focus on “the current state of the media landscape in the United States and how media polarization, fake news and the economics of the new business impact public policymaking in Washington D.C.” Other planned guest speakers include Dr. Deborah Birx and several media personalities.
The controversial son of President Joe Biden has attracted scrutiny for years by Republicans and conservative media for his foreign business ventures and in recent weeks for his ambivalence about whether a laptop and hard drive, which were left at a Delaware repair shop and later seized by the FBI, belonged to him as he faces a federal investigation into his tax affairs.
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“For real, I don’t know. I really don’t know what the answer is,” Hunter Biden said of the laptop in an appearance on CBS Sunday Morning. “That’s the truthful answer.”
In a separate interview, when Anthony Mason of CBS This Morning asked him about the laptop, Biden referred to his recent memoir, Beautiful Things, saying, “Well, it’s — you don’t need a laptop. You’ve got a book. The book — it’s all in the book. And I don’t know.”
The younger Biden participated in a slew of interviews as part of a media blitz for his new book, Beautiful Things: A Memoir, which details his battle with drug addiction.
Last month, Biden claimed the U.S. intelligence community concluded the story about the laptop was “Russian disinformation.”
But Biden’s characterization was disputed by John Ratcliffe, who served as former President Donald Trump’s director of national intelligence.
“The intelligence community knew that this was not Russian disinformation, and law enforcement knew that it was Hunter Biden’s laptop — there was an open investigation into that, and yet those officials, supported by a corporate media, ran a false narrative and misinformed the American people,” he said.
A recent report on 2020 foreign election influence released in March by Joe Biden’s Office of the Director of National Intelligence concluded that Kremlin-linked operatives “sought to use prominent US persons and media conduits to launder their narratives to US officials and audiences” and that “Russian state media, trolls, and online proxies, including those directed by Russian intelligence, published disparaging content about President Biden, his family, and the Democratic Party, and heavily amplified related content circulating in US media, including stories centered on his son.” But it did not reference the Hunter Biden laptop story and reached no public conclusions related to it.
The president’s son has pursued creative outlets prior to the memoir and guest speaking gig. Last December, he announced preparations for a solo art show even while under federal investigation.
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“I want to protect this place,” Biden said about his studio. “The one thing I have left is my art. It’s the one thing they can’t take away from me or conflate with anything else.”
Representatives for Tulane did not immediately respond to the Washington Examiner’s request for comment.
