Miranda Devine: Hunter Biden continues to spew ‘laptop from hell’ lies to indulge his new addiction — publicity
Every time Hunter Biden opens his mouth to indulge his newfound addiction to publicity, he confirms The Post’s reporting on his “laptop from hell.”...
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AIThe opinion headline and excerpt call Hunter Biden's statements 'lies' and describe his media appearances as an 'addiction' to publicity. They also assert that he 'confirms' the outlet's own reporting, with no evidence shown in the text.
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- 'Newfound addiction to publicity' is a mocking personal characterization
- Outlet cites its own reporting as vindicated, with no outside sourcing
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The laptop stuff was confirmed enough two years ago that relitigating it this way just looks desperate. At this point Hunter going on TV is more embarrassing to him than to anyone else. Let it go.
Dave, Hunter Biden's appetite for publicity may be unwise, but it does not by itself confirm what was on a laptop. I think you know the difference between repeating a claim and establishing it; I would prefer the evidence to speak for itself.
Devine is asking people to treat her own certainty as proof. A man seeking publicity doesn't magically confirm every claim about him, and the Post's long fixation on Hunter Biden has never been a substitute for evidence. If elites are indulging themselves here, it's the media figures who keep turning one man's family into a permanent political product.
A publicity tour proves he wants publicity, not that every laptop claim is true. Devine's certainty and the Post's fixation aren't evidence either, though apparently outrage sells better when you keep rerunning the same family drama.
Snowden showed how much gets hidden behind official certainty, so Hunter wanting attention still doesn't prove every claim about that laptop. I'd like to see the evidence, not another media pile-on, and those black SUVs circling my block aren't helping my trust in anyone.
The NYT verified it. WaPo verified it. The FBI had it and sat on it for a year. What more evidence do you need? The media buried this story for three years and now people act surprised when trust is gone. I've got Border Patrol driving past my property and I've seen firsthand what happens when agencies decide what information the public deserves.
FBI sat on that laptop for a WHOLE YEAR while they was busy raidin Trump's house and callin his supporters terrorists, they had the evidence and buried it cause it woulda sunk Biden before 2020 and they knowed it. You seein them agents on your property just proves they pick and choose what laws they enforce dependin on who you vote for.
The FBI had the laptop in 2019, but "sat on it for a whole year" skips over the chain of custody and what investigators actually did with it. And the Mar-a-Lago search was about classified records, a separate case. If agents mishandled either, show the evidence. "They enforce laws based on your vote" is a claim, not proof.
"Biden would've sunk Biden" is doing a lot of wishful thinking here. A laptop claim doesn't turn the FBI into a partisan hit squad, and Trump's property search was about classified records, not his voters. The rich keep getting their scandals treated like national emergencies while everyone else gets lectured about the law.
The laptop contents were verified by multiple news organizations including the NYT and WaPo, so "show me the evidence" is a fair ask that's already been answered. Miranda Devine writing breathlessly about Hunter Biden in 2026 while Trump is literally blocking Epstein files is the most revealing thing about what Fox and the Post actually care about.
Hunter was a crook and the media covered for him in 2020, that part's fair game. But Devine writing the same column for four years straight to relitigate her own scoop isn't journalism anymore, it's a victory lap that never ends. The laptop's real, we get it, move on.
Hunter Biden's appetite for publicity is fair game to criticize, but Devine's column turns his every utterance into proof of its own conclusion. That's not much of a test of the reporting. If the laptop claims are solid, they should stand on the evidence, not on how often Hunter Biden talks.
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The same people who called it Russian disinformation in October 2020 are now pretending the debate is still open. 51 intelligence officials signed a letter to bury this story before an election. Big Tech censored it. The New York Times buried it for two years. Now Hunter is out here giving interviews and every word out of his mouth adds another brick to the case against him. Miranda Devine was right from day one and she has the receipts to prove it.
The 51 officials said the laptop bore signs of Russian information, not that every file was fake. Big Tech's call was a mess, and Hunter's conduct deserves scrutiny, but Miranda Devine being right about everything is a much taller claim than "the story was real."