PF1 Monday Mini: Hunter Biden's New Addiction - Publicity

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Who is the host and what is the focus of this Monday Mini episode?

Hello,
Miranda Devine 0:01
it's Miranda. I'm back with a new mini-episode of Podforce One. This feature is a little more topical and relevant to my job as a columnist for the New York Post. Today the topic is Hunter Biden. Every time the former first son waxes lyrical to another gullible podcaster, he simply confirms the New York Post's coverage of his laptop from
hell.
Miranda Devine 0:26
Every time Hunter Biden opens his mouth to indulge his newfound addiction to publicity, he confirms the New York Post's reporting on his, quote, laptop from hell. For instance, he used to pretend that the corrupt Ukrainian energy company Burisma was paying him $1 million to sit on its board while his father was vice president because of his expertise as a seasoned board member and learned lawyer. Now he admits all he had to do was show up to a few meetings high on crack to collect the money. Quote, the requirement of the board would be that I would show up for four meetings a year, end quote. He told the addiction podcast Dopey, quote, even when I was a crack addict and out of my mind, I would show up for four meetings a year, end quote.
Miranda Devine 1:14
You don't say. That worked out to around $250,000 per board meeting, all expenses paid, in glamorous locales like Monaco or Paris or Dubai. He told Dopey there was no corruption and yet, even though he didn't have a real job and spent two years on a crack bender staying at expensive hotels like the Chateau Marmont, money would always materialise.

How did Hunter Biden allegedly profit from his Burisma board seat while his father was vice president?

Miranda Devine 1:37
Quote, a cheque would come in from somewhere, you know, and by the way, this is all during the time that, you know, the New York Post would have you believe or MAGA would have you believe that I was running some kind of international crime syndicate and, you know, blah, blah, blah. I mean, it's bullshit. End quote. It was an international influence peddling scheme, to be accurate, and he ran it while Joe Biden was vice president, with his father's knowledge and involvement. The checks kept coming from Burisma even after his father's vice presidency ended, although they were cut in half. The millions kept coming from the Chinese Energy CEFC, whose chairman was arrested in China and sued and died in jail, not that Hunter cared.
Miranda Devine 2:22
Now he wants to make money with the only thing he has left, his notoriety. He really should be thanking us. Hunter can't keep the post out of his mouth these days. So aggrieved is he that we spilled the beans on his dad's corruption, as documented on his son's laptop. He still pretends the laptop that he abandoned at John Paul MacIsaac's Delaware repair shop is not real, despite the fact the FBI took it into their possession in December 2019 and secretly verified that it belonged to him and had not been tampered with. Quote, there really isn't a laptop, he tells gullible podcasters. Quote, they held a laptop, which was not my laptop, he says. The laptop is bullshit. And perhaps the most farcical, quote, not one single person has ever accused me of a crime based upon anything that was in or discovered as it relates to my laptop.

What does Hunter Biden say about the controversial laptop and how does he dismiss it?

Miranda Devine 3:13
Not one. In fact, prosecutors used material from his laptop in his 2024 Delaware gun trial when a jury convicted him on three felonies. It was the same in his tax fraud case in California when he pleaded guilty on the first day of jury selection. The only reason Hunter is not in jail is because his father gave him a pardon that extended back to 2014, the start of the Burisma grift, and covered the millions of dollars that flowed into Biden family coffers from Ukraine, China, Russia and elsewhere. But now he's trying to make money from a meme coin named Laptop. Someone made almost a million dollars in a few minutes after it launched earlier this month, but Hunter said in a post on X, I personally have not made a single dollar.
Miranda Devine 3:58
Of course, he would never tell a lie. Four out of five crypto wallets which bought into Hunter's meme coin lost money, according to a Data Vault AI analysis that described the cryptocurrency launch as, quote, the classic rug pull in which insiders extract the value at launch and leave the chumps out of pocket.

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