‘Deeply Corrupt And A Congenital Liar’: An Exclusive Interview With The Woman Who Reviewed Hunter Biden’s Laptop Firsthand

Last month, Daily Wire media reporter Ben Johnson held an exclusive interview with New York Post columnist Miranda Devine about her book, Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide, which is out now. They discuss the evidence she saw while reviewing Hunter Biden’s laptop appearing to tie the Biden family to a vast, international influence-peddling scheme that reaches from the board rooms of obscure Delaware corporations to the highest levels of the Russian and Chinese governments. This transcript has been lightly edited for grammar and clarity. — BJ.

BJ: The first thing that emerges to me upon reading your new book Laptop From Hell is that at one point Hunter Biden referred to himself as “community property.” That seems to be the way he was treated his entire life. You write about how his father arranged corrupt business deals through his political connections, and then Hunter was expected to finance the lavish lifestyles of everyone in the entire Biden family. In a sense, Joe Biden used his youngest son as a cash cow for himself, stepmother Jill, brother Beau, and others. Does that set the template for some of the tragedy that comes about in Hunter’s later life?

MD: I think that’s a really strong perception of Hunter, and I do think that that feeds into his addiction problems. You don’t have to be Sigmund Freud to see that any father who puts someone with addiction problems in front of a gushing torrent of cash is not a good father. Hunter, in fact, even mentions this in his memoir. The Burisma money alone — $83,000-plus a month was just pouring into his bank account for doing nothing — was a real temptation for him. So, I think that that gives you an inkling that, as you said, Hunter was not ever allowed to be his own person. He wanted to be an artist or a writer — which, ironically enough, he’s now doing, one way or another. But he had to be his father’s tool, and so I think it tells you a lot about who Joe Biden is. And that’s really what I’m trying to do in the book. The laptop’s really not about Hunter Biden, even though it’s his laptop. Its value is in what it tells us about Joe Biden, Joe Biden’s corruption, and the history of it dating right back to his early days in Delaware. And also the fact that now that he is president, he’s — at least — compromised with Russia and China, and that has to affect America’s national security, particularly when you understand that Hunter Biden has not divested himself from BHR [Bohai Harvest Rosemont]; he’s still a 10% shareholder, a partner with the Chinese Communist Party.

BJ: Let’s talk about those deals a little bit. One of the most consequential deals, obviously, is the $6 million dollars that, as you write, Hunter Biden “managed to extract” from China Energy Fund Committee (CEFC). No business takes place with any Chinese industry unless it furthers the geopolitical interests of the People’s Republic of China. In this case, as you point out, CEFC inked a deal, signed by Vladimir Putin personally, to benefit Russia’s oil industry — and Hunter’s foreign deals ended up benefiting Joe Biden. Biden had been somewhat involved in Hunter’s previous deal by winging his son over to China on Air Force Two, correct?

MD: The Air Force Two visit in 2013 was about the BHR deal. Hunter had two Chinese deals. BHR had $2.5 billion under management, according to documents on the laptop, but he was dissatisfied with that deal. It was something that John Kerry’s stepson [and BHR business partner] Chris Heinz had warned him and [fellow partner] Devon Archer about; he was trying to tell them he thought they were naïve, that you do make a lot of money out of these equity funds straight up. You have to put a lot of money up and then then you have to wait — and, particularly when you are a partner of the Chinese, they’re calling the shots. Hunter and his U.S. partners were getting quite dissatisfied, because they weren’t getting the cash that they wanted. I think Hunter’s alimony was $36,000 a month, plus he had his drug habit, plus a very expensive lifestyle, plus he had to fund Joe’s lifestyle and the rest of the family. [Hunter’s uncle] Jim Biden and his wife were big spenders, as well. All the Bidens have very champagne tastes. So, he needed money. He needed cash. And this was the problem with BHR; it wasn’t producing cash fast enough,.

That was why this second Chinese deal came about with CEFC, which would be far more lucrative. That’s why he and his partners brought in Tony Bobulinksi,