Two Opposites

Trump in Manhattan, Hunter Biden in Delaware

As Ben Shapiro pointed out, the Hunter Biden trial going on right now in Delaware is the opposite of the recently completed Donald Trump trial in New York. Hunter Biden has been indicted and is being charged for an actual and clear-cut crime, namely stating on the paperwork needed to buy a gun in Delaware that he was not a drug user. At the time—and by his own admission in his book Beautiful Things—Hunter was using crack heavily exactly in that time period. Hunter chronicled his drug abuse in that book, but even if he had not, there are witnesses, laptop images, his getting booted out of military service, his stints in rehab, and ex-wives and girlfriends who can all attest to it. He also had text messages around this time period to his dealer. There is an actual law against lying on such forms and Hunter clearly lied, ergo, he committed the crime. Hunter is on trial in Delaware, the most Biden-friendly place on earth. It is doubtful that anyone seated on his jury is not an ardent Biden voter.

Meanwhile, Trump was charged with a series of misdemeanors which got magically elevated into a felony because these otherwise expired bookkeeping errors were committed in furtherance of some predicate crime, which the prosecution did not prove and, in fact, did not even bother to name. The case will no doubt be overturned on that and other reasons. The point is that Trump had a Rube Goldberg case in a district that was extremely hostile to him. It is doubtful anyone seated on that Manhattan jury was not an ardent Trump hater.

At the bottom of both cases is something a bit bigger and more sinister than just paperwork crimes. Trump was openly being charged with election interference (which is weird since a New York court has no federal jurisdiction plus the ramifications of the bookkeeping mistake did not take hold till 2017 which is after the election). Hunter wasn’t directly charged with election interference, but it still bubbled to the surface.

It’s the laptop.

In April 2019, Hunter Biden, high out of his mind on crack, dropped three laptops off at a repair shop in Delaware. The shop was The Mac Shop, owned by John Paul Mac Isaac. Isaac accepted the laptops from Hunter himself. As is standard procedure, Hunter had to sign off that he was authorizing repairs and that if the repairs were not paid for with a certain time, the laptops would become property of The Mac Shop. Two of the laptops were dead on arrival, but the shop agreed it could fix the third. In order to do this, Isaac had to transfer the contents of the laptop to another hard drive for protection. Because the laptop battery was cranky and weak, this work went slowly and in stages, and Isaac had to babysit it. During these fits and starts, Isaac started to notice what was on the laptop.

The best book on the subject is Miranda Devine’s The Laptop from Hell. There was a lot of homemade porn on the laptop. Lots of nude images of Hunter. And plenty of photographs of Hunter doing drugs—by himself, with others, in bed, in the bathtub, and in what looks like a multitude of different hotel rooms. There were also emails that seemed sort of nefarious, talking about money and payments and Chinese big shots.

Still, Isaac fixed the computer and contacted Hunter Biden. Isaac said he made numerous attempts to reach Hunter but to no avail. This took months. Hunter never returned to collect the computer, so eventually Isaac turned the laptop in to the authorities. There was obvious criminal activity depicted on the laptop (crack use), sketchy stuff (porn with lots of different women), and emails about payments and money and stuff like that.

The New York Post reported on the laptop but its account on Twitter was shut down. Media blackout. In fact, anyone who commented about it on social media ran the risk of being banned or banished. The laptop just disappeared thanks to a controlled media ecosystem.

Then 51 high-ranking political figures, including former and current directors of intelligence agencies and other important offices, signed a letter that stopped short of calling the laptop a fraud. The letter said the laptop had all of the “earmarks of Russian disinformation.” In other words, the Russians had phonied up this laptop (where did they get all those nude pictures of Hunter?) and then hired a Hunter look-alike to drop it off at a shop and not pay for it, forcing the store owner to turn the laptop in to authorities. This happened only a few weeks before the Presidential election in 2020. Republicans called the signatories “spies who lie.”

Then the debacle of the 2020 election occurred. Most voters never got to find out about the laptop, which among other things, reported on money exchanges and payments to the Biden family. Some voters didn’t know about the laptop at all, others just knew there was some phony Russian laptop out there.

The New York Post ran a poll after the election and reported that 79% of those surveyed said that “truthful coverage of Hunter Biden’s laptop would have changed the 2020 election.” Even Newsweek, hardly a bastion of pro-Trump support, said that burying the Hunter Biden laptop story was “journalistic malpractice.” A mere 43,000 votes in three key states could have given the victory to Trump, so the idea that the laptop didn’t matter is hogwash.

And while Trump is often criticized by lefties for having had an affair with a sex worker (which she denies, by the way, but then later confirmed, and then denied, so she’s not really a stable liar), Hunter’s laptop documents dozens of such liaisons but no one seems to think it’s sleazy that Hunter ran around Europe ordering prostitutes like they were on a Deal Dash menu. Well, maybe some people think it’s sleazy, but Democrats are quick to excuse him while criticizing Trump. Hey, at least Trump didn’t inflict pictures on us.

From the second half of 2020 till the Hunter Biden trial in June 2024, the Democrats have maintained that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation. That changed at Hunter’s trial when the laptop was entered into the record as evidence and the defense authenticated it.

So it was real.

Nobody has said what changed their mind. Our officials who clung to Russian disinformation story like a life raft, just for no apparent reason changed their mind.

To date, none of the 51 people who signed an incendiary letter and swore up and down it looked like Russian disinformation has issued an apology. Since a lot of these signatories have high-paying power jobs in Washington, D.C., in intelligence, you would think they’d know a crack addicts’ laptop from Russian disinformation. But they would rather go down looking stupid than going against the party.

The social media outlets and media outlets who branded the laptop Russian disinformation are acting like nothing has happened. No apologies, no recognition that they were not only wrong but that they hounded and punished people who said it deserved investigation.

And liberals still mock The New York Post, even though they scooped everyone with this story. It’s like that old joke: “What’s the difference between a conspiracy theory and a fact?” In this case: four years.

The FBI sat on the laptop until just recently. I’m surprised that Liz Cheney didn’t destroy it like she did the J6 evidence. Where is Hillary with her hammer when you need her?

Both trials exposed narratives that the 2020 election might have been unfairly tilted. The only difference is that in Trump’s case, it is being talked about openly with no evidence, and in Hunter’s case, it’s being swept under the rug with plenty of smoking-gun evidence.

So the question is: did Donald Trump’s bookkeeping error which affected his campaign fund reporting in 2017 affect the 2016 election? (Answer: impossible.) Or did a total media blackout of the authenticity of Hunter Biden’s laptop in the 2020 election affect the election? (Survey says… yes!)

Did either man mean to rig the election? The Democrats and mainstream media seem to attribute such motivation to Trump, who miraculously changed the election outcome after it had occurred. (They are running out of credible lies, so they are now resorting to crazy lies.)

But did Hunter Biden mean to affect the election by not authenticating that the laptop was his? He had plenty of good reasons to want to deny ownership of the laptop since it has proof of about a hundred felonies on it. But did he just not speak out and claim the laptop to save his own reputation or did he let his dads’ lackeys claim the laptop was Russian disinformation to make sure his dad won the election?

Now that Joe Biden is no longer anyone’s pick for 2024 (including the Democrats who are scouring the country to find someone, anyone, who could fill Joe Biden’s shoes), the laptop is conveniently real.