A Washington Post report published Wednesday shed new light on Hunter Biden ‘s dealings with a Chinese energy firm and confirmed several details found on the hard drive of a laptop he allegedly abandoned in a Delaware repair shop.
CEFC China Energy, which has close ties to the Chinese Communist Party and People’s Liberation Army, paid entities controlled by the then-cash-strapped Hunter Biden or his uncle James Biden $4.8 million over the course of 14 months beginning in 2017, according to The Washington Post.
The New York Post began publishing stories based on information found on the laptop hard drive in September 2020. Due to concerns about the laptop’s provenance and warnings from current and former intelligence officials that the laptop might be a Russian disinformation operation, social media sites suppressed the story until after the election.
Now, The New York Post is arguing that social media users’ inability to share the Hunter Biden laptop story “helped swing the election to Biden.”
Earlier this month, The New York Times reported that emails recovered from the laptop had been “authenticated.” Wednesday’s Washington Post report adds further weight to that authentication.
The Hunter Biden story may not have propelled former President Donald Trump to victory in 2020, but he’s hoping it might help him win in 2024. In an interview broadcast Tuesday, Trump said Russian President Vladimir Putin “should release” any dirt he has on Hunter Biden and that Putin would probably “be willing” to provide it, since he’s currently “not exactly a fan of our country.”
Hunter Biden remains under federal investigation by a grand jury. According to The Washington Post, the investigation seeks to determine whether “he failed to account for income from China-related deals.”
Meanwhile, the White House have criticized Donald Trump on Wednesday over an interview in which the former president said that Vladimir Putin should release potentially damaging information about Hunter Biden.
“What kind of American, let alone an ex-president, thinks that this is the right time to enter into a scheme with Vladimir Putin and brag about his connections to Vladimir Putin?” said Kate Bedingfield, a White House spokesperson, when asked by reporters. “There is only one, and it’s Donald Trump.”
Speaking in an interview on Just the News TV program that raised unsubstantiated questions about Hunter Biden’s former business dealings in Russia, Trump said, “I think Putin would know the answer to that. I think he should release it.”
Trump’s long-running search for information on Hunter Biden that could be politically damaging to Joe Biden led to the first of his two impeachments, over claims that he withheld millions in aid to pressure Ukrainian officials into announcing investigations into Biden’s son.
