Most people are missing two key points about the story regarding Hunter Biden’s alleged hard drive. First, the relevant parts of the story are not about Hunter but about his father, Joe. Second, there is a high likelihood that the bulk of the materials from the supposed Biden computer are real.
If these materials are a fraud, they amount to one even more extensive, more diabolical, and far more difficult to pull off successfully than what was heretofore the greatest hoax of the last 100 years, namely the Hitler diaries scam of 1983.
Remember that what the Biden laptop reportedly contained involves a cache of 40,000 emails, text messages by the thousands, and other documents, most of them replete with shorthand references, dates, times, nicknames, and financial details. Most of them are almost assuredly quotidian and unnewsworthy but almost impossible to fake with any degree of success. (Faking a single document in a way that can fool somebody such as Dan Rather is one thing; faking tens of thousands is exponentially harder.)
The reality is that much of what has been reported can be independently assessed for veracity. There are notes supposedly in Hunter Biden’s handwriting; does the handwriting match with other samples? There are emails to his daughter; do they use terms and expressions unique to the Bidens? There are financial details that can be checked against already known information, schedules that can be checked, e-addresses and messages that can be cross-referenced, and a plethora of other material that would be difficult for even the best collection of fraudsters to portray believably.
Then, of course, there are the photos and purported videos, many of them clearly private (and sometimes compromising) ones of Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, and their family, all on the same hard drive. They are real. They were mixed in with this huge cache of other materials.
There’s almost no way to put all this together in a way that isn’t readily falsifiable, if it is indeed false. For that matter, it might be instructive that the Biden campaign has not denied categorically that Joe Biden met with the Ukrainian executive at issue in the first emails reported this week by the New York Post, nor has Hunter Biden’s attorney denied the laptop was his.
None of this should matter to voters unless parts of it implicate not just Hunter Biden but also his father, who is leading the polls to be president of the United States for an election 18 days hence. Alas, it does indeed implicate Joe Biden, sometimes directly, sometimes by only half a degree of separation.
One report involved a Washington public relations firm participating in a White House conference call about Joe Biden’s pending trip to Ukraine two days later, very much in line with a purported email from the Ukrainian executive to Hunter Biden begging for U.S. officials to provide public support for the controversial energy company on the board of which Hunter Biden sat. Other reports elaborate on Hunter Biden’s dealings with Chinese government-controlled entities, the business dealings of which the Biden son were materially aided by the Biden father, a subject into which the media has willfully avoided delving.
It boggles the mind that so many people fail to appreciate the dangers to U.S. diplomacy and security that could accrue, whether subconsciously or fully consciously, when a loving father with a radically compromised son, a son doing business with hostile nations, is vice president or president of the U.S. It’s even worse when the father abets the son’s highly unethical dealings and worse still if, as some of the alleged emails hint, the father also materially benefited.
This is serious stuff, and every single voter should be concerned. Everyone should be demanding answers.
