# 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:** 17
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/324 "2020-10-28T23:20:07Z")
How great a job would that be? “We’re finding some really interesting stuff, Mr. Trump. Just another two weeks. You’ll be able to drop it with your new healthcare plan.” [sips margarita] ---
**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, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/325 "2020-10-28T23:26:01Z")
Yes – I knew that and as you might recall, try as they did, the lefties were able to charge him with a single crime like influence peddling. And the Durham report is still pending right? Yeah, you are really impressive too. G **Gaylen R. Hansen | Retired CPA** ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/326 "2020-10-28T23:28:49Z")
‘I think you can go directly to the NY Post,’ You think? Does the internet work differently for you than us? How does it work for you because I just open up my Chrome browser, type in either [www.nypost.com](http://www.nypost.com) or ‘Hunter Biden laptop’ and get all the news I need on this very topic. Bizarre that you are unable to do the same. Would you like for me to call tech support? ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/327 "2020-10-28T23:29:04Z")
> [@Hands](#): > > Durham report Yeah, that’ll be the one that does it. 🙄 ---
**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, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/328 "2020-10-28T23:41:23Z")
As I recall, the Steele dossier suffered from a similar lack of corroborated and incriminating evidence. That is why nobody was charged as a result of the Steele dossier. That said, the Steele dossier was connected to the newly elected president. The laptop, is alleged to be the property of someone not even running for public office. Furthermore, I’m not sure how you can make a straight faced claim that the story is being ignored. It is not being believed. That’s not the same as being ignored. ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/329 "2020-10-28T23:53:50Z")
I’ve avoided this thread because so much of the “news” in it is speculative and unproven. I also don’t want to slog through hundreds of posts offering little actual facts. Sam Stone or Hands can you sum up, briefly, what we’re supposed to take away from this story? The intelligence community, numerous news organizations, and Congressional investigations have all investigated the Biden/Ukraine dealings and found Joe Biden did nothing illegal or compromised US policy with Ukraine. So what is the meat of this story that should sway me into thinking Joe Biden is unfit to be President? Is there any actual corroboration to these allegations? What has been actually proven, and what does it mean for Joe (not Hunter) Biden? ---
**Author:** ![lum\_s\_husband](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lum_s_husband/32/3698_2.png) [@lum\_s\_husband](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lum_s_husband)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/330 "2020-10-29T00:09:32Z")
“Sloppy Joe is an agent for the ChiComms.” ---
**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 29, 2020, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/331 "2020-10-29T00:10:27Z")
> [@Hamlet](#): > > **Sam Stone** or **Hands** can you sum up, briefly, what we’re supposed to take away from this story? Seems to me that the article linked in Post #310 covers this better than either of them can. ---
**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 29, 2020, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/332 "2020-10-29T00:14:29Z")
> [@Hamlet](#): > > what we’re supposed to take away from this story? “There is something going on. The FBI needs to announce an investigation into Joe Biden RIGHT NOW!!! Questions are being asked. People are talking. INVESTIGATION” ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/333 "2020-10-29T00:31:28Z")
> [@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_? Did he say that Trump dropped these phones off at a repair shop at the other end of the country and never got around to picking them up despite their incriminating contents? If so, I’d probably point and laugh, since that’s more polite than directly expressing irritation at the blatant insult to my intelligence. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/334 "2020-10-29T00:34:35Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > > [@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? Even a best buddy will only come bail you out at 4 AM so many times… ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/335 "2020-10-29T00:37:30Z")
> [@CaptMurdock](#): > > Here is a link comparing “Hunter Biden’s” signature on the repair shop receipt to a VERIFIED signature of Hunter Biden’s. I am trying, and failing, to visualize the conniptions a Republican election judge would throw if a Biden vote had one of those signatures on file and the other on the mail-in ballot envelope. ---
**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 29, 2020, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/336 "2020-10-29T00:43:23Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > Did he say that Trump dropped these phones off at a repair shop at the other end of the country and never got around to picking them up despite their incriminating contents? If so, I’d probably point and laugh, since that’s more polite than directly expressing irritation at the blatant insult to my intelligence. The phones in question were Bobulinski’s, which he says never left his posession, and which he claims contain incriminating audio. He turned them over to the FBI. They had nothing at all to do with the laptop. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/337 "2020-10-29T00:43:43Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > When the only people who will publish a story are a tabloid that cannot get its own author to put his name on the piece, and the only one who will interview him is someone who has argued that he cannot be believed, I have some issues with the credibility of his story. It occurs to me that a likely reason we haven’t seen the usual full-court press attempt to push this story onto the teevee is that Rudy Giuliani was supposed to be the point man. However, after Rudy found it prudent to stay out of public view after that embarrassing shirt-tucking incident, not even Team Orange has been able to find someone shameless enough to take over for him. ---
**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 29, 2020, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/338 "2020-10-29T00:44:08Z")
Oh no! Tucker Carlson is saying his secret special Hunter Biden documents were stolen while in the mail! Whatever will we do? > ---
**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 29, 2020, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/339 "2020-10-29T00:45:33Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > > [@Steve\_MB](#): > > > > Did he say that Trump dropped these phones off at a repair shop at the other end of the country and never got around to picking them up despite their incriminating contents? If so, I’d probably point and laugh, since that’s more polite than directly expressing irritation at the blatant insult to my intelligence. > > The phones in question were Bobulinski’s, which he says never left his posession, and which he claims contain incriminating audio. He turned them over to the FBI. They had nothing at all to do with the laptop. Who cares what he says? Produce some evidence, and maybe it will be interesting. But some guy says he has incriminating audio, but somehow we can’t listen to that audio? Who cares? ---
**Author:** ![Hands](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/838e76/32.png) [@Hands](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hands)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/340 "2020-10-29T00:46:08Z")
the point is: Biden says that he never discussed any of Hunters business with him. Some people say that he is lying because it just isn’t plausible given what we know. So ownership of the laptop is just a detail in getting to the bottom of the allegations. The important thing is the info on the laptop. The media is doing their best to ignore that info because it is in their interest to do so. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/341 "2020-10-29T00:46:29Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > Oh no! Tucker Carlson is saying his secret special Hunter Biden documents were stolen while in the mail! Maybe he should complain to the Postmaster General about his crap security… [https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-postal-service-benches-its-police-officers-before-election-11602862096](https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-postal-service-benches-its-police-officers-before-election-11602862096) ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/342 "2020-10-29T01:14:53Z")
> [@Hands](#): > > the point is: Biden says that he never discussed any of Hunters business with him. Some people say that he is lying because it just isn’t plausible given what we know. So ownership of the laptop is just a detail in getting to the bottom of the allegations. The important thing is the info on the laptop. The media is doing their best to ignore that info because it is in their interest to do so. I guess I’ll ask again. What info? What does anything on the laptop have to do with Joe Biden? We’ve already investigated Hunter Biden, Burisima, and any possible activity that involves Joe, and there was nothing found. What evidence is there? Is there any corroboration? And what kind of illegal activity does it purport to show Joe Biden engaged in? ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/343 "2020-10-29T01:15:03Z")
> [@Hands](#): > > the point is: Biden says that he never discussed any of Hunters business with him. Some people say that he is lying because it just isn’t plausible given what we know. So ownership of the laptop is just a detail in getting to the bottom of the allegations. The important thing is the info on the laptop. The media is doing their best to ignore that info because it is in their interest to do so. The point is, your belief in these allegations is super-embarrassing, bud. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587.md?page=16) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587.md?page=18)