After months of trailing Hillary Clinton in the polls, President Trump won the White House in 2016. Many blame James Comey’s decision to announce the FBI had to reopen its investigation into the Democrat after her emails were found on Anthony Weiner’s computer.

Four years later and fraught with the black swan of the coronavirus pandemic, Team Trump looks keen to replicate the eleventh-hour scandal to tar his opponent, this time with a series of scoops obtained from a laptop allegedly belonging to Hunter Biden.