Hunter Biden told podcaster Shawn Ryan in an interview that aired Monday that former Republican Mayor Rudy Giuliani of New York City “concocted” the laptop that was the subject of an October 2020 New York Post report.
Twitter locked multiple accounts, including the New York Post’s and the personal account of then-White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany for sharing the bombshell report about emails from the laptop reportedly abandoned by Biden at a Delaware computer repair shop. During Monday’s episode of “The Shawn Ryan Show,” Biden gave the host an elaborate explanation as to why the laptop was “fabricated.”
“What I can tell you about the laptop is that there is no laptop. That’s bullshit. What was provided out there, what the-” Biden said, with Ryan asking, “There was no fucking laptop?”
“There is an actual physical laptop that somebody had, but the guy that had, that said he had the laptop, the existence of the search for the laptop came before he was even a twinkle in Rudy Giuliani’s eye,” Biden said.
“There were people, talk to Lev Parnas. Lev Parnas literally went to Ukraine to get a laptop from Dmytro Firtash, to get a hard drive, Hunter Biden’s hard drive from Dmytro Firtash and Andrii Derkach, in Ukraine, in Austria, four months before John Paul Mac Isaac ever even… existed. And so, what they did is they cobbled together [a] stolen, concocted, fabricated mishmash of digital information, largely, which is, you know, thousands and thousands and thousands of emails… from 25 years. I mean, no laptop could have held all of that.”
The Daily Caller News Foundation confirmed the authenticity of some of the contents of the laptop in October 2020. The Washington Post and New York Times confirmed the authenticity of the data in March 2022 in articles about investigations into Biden by the Department of Justice.
“There’s nothing in the laptop other than a record of me being a degenerate, a degenerate drug addict in my, in at the worst moment in my life,” Biden said later in the interview.
A jury in Delaware convicted Biden in June 2024 on three felony gun charges in connection with the 2018 purchase of a Colt .38-caliber revolver. Biden entered a guilty plea on federal tax charges in September 2024 shortly before his trial was scheduled to start, but his father, then-President Joe Biden, pardoned him on Dec. 1, 2024.
