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Trump Launches Confusing, Baseless ‘Laptop From Hell’ Attacks Against Biden At Debate
President Donald Trump repeatedly accused rival Joe Biden and his son Hunter of corruption during the final presidential debate on Thursday night, after more than a week of making false and unsubstantiated smears against the Biden family.
“All of the emails, the emails, horrible emails of the kind of money that you were raking in, you and your family,” Trump said to his Democratic opponent on the debate stage. “I think you owe an explanation to the American people.”
The vague reference to “emails” may not make sense to people who do not consume large amounts of conservative media: Trump was elevating to the national stage a storyline that is full of holes and may be the product of a foreign disinformation campaign that targeted Rudy Giuliani, a top campaign adviser and the president’s lawyer.
Last week, the New York Post published the first in a series of stories based on documents allegedly obtained from the hard drive Hunter Biden’s personal laptop, which Trump described during the debate as the “laptop from hell.” At the center of the tabloid’s supposed bombshell is what it describes as a “smoking-gun email” from an executive at Burisma, a Ukrainian energy firm, thanking Hunter Biden in 2015 for “inviting me to DC and giving an opportunity to meet your father and [spend] some time together.”
The story portrays this as evidence supporting the long-debunked claim that Joe Biden leveraged his position as vice president to benefit his son. The Post says Hunter Biden “introduced his father” to the Burisma executive “less than a year before the elder Biden pressured government officials in Ukraine into firing a prosecutor who was investigating the company.” In fact, Viktor Shokin, the prosecutor in question, was not investigating Burisma, and Joe Biden and other Western officials had pushed for Shokin’s ouster precisely because of his refusal to do so.
The Post also published an apparent email chain from Hunter...
