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US Senator Urges FBI To Come Clean On Hunter Biden Laptop Claims
Washington Examiner
Senator Ron Johnson has urged FBI to clarify whether the agency possesses documents from the laptop of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden, Fox News reported.
In a letter to FBI director Christopher Wray, Johnson asked the agency head to confirm or deny details regarding laptop said to have belonged to Hunter Biden.
The request comes within days of New York Post publishing several emails allegedly written by or sent to Hunter Biden, who from 2014 to 2019 served on the board of Ukrainian natural-gas firm Burisma Holdings. In an email sent in 2015, a senior Burisma adviser thanks the vice president’s son for providing the “opportunity” to meet with Joe Biden.
The Post stated that the documents were found on a computer deposited at a Delaware repair shop. The the store owner turned over the computer to the FBI in December 2019, but made a copy of the documents on a separate hard drive.
The Post also published another set of leaked emails which showed that Hunter Biden had entered into a consulting contract with China’s largest private energy company that initially earned him $10 million a year “for introductions alone”.
In a leaked email thread published by The Post , Hunter Biden discusses in detail a deal with the former chairman of CEFC China Energy, Ye Jianming, saying Ye agreed to change the terms of Biden’s three-year consulting contract with CEFC, which initially promised Biden $10 million per-year “for introductions alone,” to make it “much more lasting and more lucrative,”
Johnson, who heads the Senate Intelligence Committee, stated in his letter that a whistleblower had contacted the committee on September 24, 2020, claiming that he had turned over a computer belonging to Hunter Biden to the FBI.
Johnson stated in his letter that staffers immediately asked the FBI to confirm some details in the whistleblower’s claim, however the FBI responded that they could not confirm or deny the information.
"The FBI has a duty to inform us. If they believe this was maybe Russian disinformation, they should give us a defensive briefing,” Johnson told “Sunday Morning Futures.” “If, for example, they also believe that what information this whistleblower gave us is fraudulent, that would also be a crime, and FBI should tell us that.”
Johnson also asked FBI whether it has determined the records on the computer as genuine or altered and if the records were authored by Hunter Biden, or if there is evidence that the computer had been hacked.
“Why did they sit on it? Are they covering up just because Hunter Biden might be engaged in things that also maybe should have been investigated and possibly prosecuted? Do we have two systems of justice: one for Democrats and one for Republicans? One for the well-connected versus one for the rest of the Americans?” the senator asked.
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