# Hunter Biden Laptop Question **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [October 22, 2020, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587 "2020-10-22T11:17:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 15
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/284 "2020-10-28T21:30:57Z")
> [@Hands](#): > > The reason you can’t find anything is, for example, the NY Post has been censured by Facebook and Twitter. No, the NYPost has not been “censured” nor censored. It published the story, the story has spread. Those two have decided that this story is “Fake news”- which it is- and they dont allow fake news. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/285 "2020-10-28T21:40:32Z")
> [@Hands](#): > > The story should be covered, true or false What about a compromise-The so-called “MSM” can cover the true stories, and Fox And Fiends can cover the false stories. I see no reason to change the status quo. ---
**Author:** ![Hands](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/838e76/32.png) [@Hands](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hands)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/286 "2020-10-28T21:51:33Z")
Read the article in the NYP. If you can find it. I did. But you might want to look at this: [Post's Hunter Biden exposé soars despite social media censorship](https://nypost.com/2020/10/20/posts-hunter-biden-expose-soars-despite-social-media-censorship/) **Gaylen R. Hansen | Retired CPA** ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/287 "2020-10-28T21:56:33Z")
Yeah and the WSJ won’t cover it because they are a left wing rag, right? Get your facts straight. And for the record, the impeachment was not over the Steele document and you are lying if you say it was. Please refrain from such claims. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/288 "2020-10-28T21:57:28Z")
> [@agzem](#): > > I don’t understand why they can’t just come out and deny all this. I’ve heard people say that you robbed banks in the past. And yet I have not heard you deny this. Suspicious. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/289 "2020-10-28T22:01:01Z")
The entire story leans on the following assertion made in the article you linked to?: > The messages came from a laptop that Hunter Biden dropped off at a computer repair shop in Wilmington, Del., in April 2019 but never returned to pick up. Has this been corroborated by any reliable authoritative source? The FBI, for example. Is there a chain of custody established? ---
**Author:** ![Hands](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/838e76/32.png) [@Hands](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hands)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/290 "2020-10-28T22:07:42Z")
You may not want to think it was censured but it has been. The story has spread despite FB: [https://nypost.com/2020/10/20/posts-hunter-biden-expose-soars-despite-social-media-censorship/](https://nypost.com/2020/10/20/posts-hunter-biden-expose-soars-despite-social-media-censorship/) And the NYT has not seriously touched this. Oh lets see they have attacked the Posts legitimacy – attack the messenger when your boy is in trouble. But that’s it. Or some other excuse. You can count on it. Say it is fake news all you want. They have the laptop. They can prove it came from Hunter and was his. They have a credible witness that has corroborated what is on the laptop – a former Navy officer. The FBI has the laptop. There is documentation in the article. What is fake is the MSM reaction. They are in the bag for Biden and everyone knows it. If you want to see emails, court subpoena, etc. see link below. Ignore if you wish, but there are questions that need to be answered, whether the story is true or false. There is evidence and there is a responsibility to find the underlying cause of it. Calling it is fake news is just a little too convenient for those in the tank for Biden. Like you. > **[Smoking-gun email reveals how Hunter Biden introduced Ukrainian businessman...](https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/email-reveals-how-hunter-biden-introduced-ukrainian-biz-man-to-dad/)** > > Hunter Biden introduced his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, to a top executive at a Ukrainian energy firm less than a year before the elder Biden pressured government officials in Ukraine in… ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/291 "2020-10-28T22:09:13Z")
So Hunter Biden’s partner, who is a primary participant in those emails, says they are true, and who has turned over copies to the FBI that match those on the hard drive, doesn’t count? I wonder what the left would have said if one of Trump’s ex-business partners came out saying that Trump was a crook, that he had documentation to that effect, was willjng to be interviewed by the FBI, and who turned over phones with voice conversations corroborating his story? I’m sure everyone would just say there was nothing to see there, because the guy probably had an axe to grind or something. Wouldn’t want to accuse Trump without rock-solid evidence, right? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/292 "2020-10-28T22:10:32Z")
Trump’s best buddy Vlad Putin says there is no “there” there. > **[Putin rejects Donald Trump's criticism of Biden family business](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-putin/putin-rejects-donald-trumps-criticism-of-biden-family-business-idUSKBN27A0TA)** > > Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday that he saw nothing criminal in Hunter Biden's past business ties with Ukraine or Russia, marking out his disagreement with one of Donald Trump's attack lines in the U.S. presidential election. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/293 "2020-10-28T22:14:01Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > I wonder what the left would have said if one of Trump’s ex-business partners came out saying that Trump was a crook, that he had documentation to that effect, was willjng to be interviewed by the FBI, and who turned over phones with voice conversations corroborating his story? 1. Hunter Biden is not Joe Biden. Your analogy fails here. 2. Bobulinski has not, to my knowledge, come out and said that either Biden is a crook. Your analogy fails here. 3. You neglect to mention the totally unbelievable story of how a laptop came into the possession of a (blind? not blind?) dude in an obscure store. Your analogy fails here. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/294 "2020-10-28T22:19:46Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > So Hunter Biden’s partner, who is a primary participant in those emails, says they are true, and who has turned over copies to the FBI that match those on the hard drive, doesn’t count? Which reliable authority has corroborated that the material turned over to the FBI has been matched to what is on the laptop which is alleged to belong to Hunter Biden? ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/295 "2020-10-28T22:23:39Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > Trump’s best buddy Vlad Putin says there is no “there” there. Why would he do that if he was Trump’s best buddy? ---
**Author:** ![Hands](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/838e76/32.png) [@Hands](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hands)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/296 "2020-10-28T22:25:57Z")
I believe they have since found a receipt of Hunter when he dropped off the laptop and verified his signature. Did the Steele “document” have any support to justify it being covered and the Hunter mess being ignored? G **Gaylen R. Hansen | Retired CPA** ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/297 "2020-10-28T22:26:11Z")
All your link says is that people are reading the story despite the “censorship.” It give _no creedence whatsoever_ to the allegations of Hunter (or Joseph) Biden engaging in any wrongdoing. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/298 "2020-10-28T22:27:10Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > Why would he do that if he was Trump’s best buddy? He knows bullshit when he sees it and has more integrity than Trump. Hell, a granola bar has more integrity than Trump. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/299 "2020-10-28T22:29:27Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > So Hunter Biden’s partner, who is a primary participant in those emails, says they are true, and who has turned over copies to the FBI that match those on the hard drive, doesn’t count? Cite? Most of these assertions are evidence free. All we know is that some guy who might have had some sort of connection to Hunter says some emails are real, and says he’s given stuff to the FBI. Come back with evidence-backed facts. We don’t know the source of this laptop, we don’t know its chain of custody, we don’t know of the emails are real, etc. There’s zero actual evidence of any wrongdoing. ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/300 "2020-10-28T22:29:32Z")
[Here is a link comparing “Hunter Biden’s” signature on the repair shop receipt to a VERIFIED signature of Hunter Biden’s.](https://twitter.com/ScottMStedman/status/1318384991525502977/photo/1) Like I said in another thread, I’m no expert, but… (BTW…$85 for laptop repair? A MacBook, no less? On what planet?) ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/301 "2020-10-28T22:30:14Z")
What you believe, without solid evidence, is irrelevant. ---
**Author:** ![Latimera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/latimera/32/497_2.png) [@Latimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Latimera)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/302 "2020-10-28T22:30:30Z")
> [@Hands](#): > > I believe they have since found a receipt of Hunter when he dropped off the laptop and verified his signature. You “believe” eh? Well…I’m convinced!!! That was sarcasm by the way… ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/303 "2020-10-28T22:30:46Z")
> [@Hands](#): > > I believe they have since found a receipt of Hunter when he dropped off the laptop and verified his signature. > [@CaptMurdock](#): > > Here is a link comparing “Hunter Biden’s” signature on the repair shop receipt to a VERIFIED signature of Hunter Biden’s. I’ll go one better: here’s the image by itself. [![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EkxW_NVWkAARsxx.jpg) ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EkxW_NVWkAARsxx.jpg) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587.md?page=14) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587.md?page=16)