President Joe Biden’s son Hunter has acknowledged a laptop computer with a slew of previously secret messages could be his but also suggested he was hacked by Russians.
“There could be a laptop out there that was stolen from me. It could be that I was hacked. It could be that it was the—that it was Russian intelligence,” Hunter Biden told CBS in an interview clip released Friday.
Hunter Biden said his father chased him down the driveway at his father’s home in Wilmington, Delaware. He said his daughters blocked the door to his car and his father “grabbed me—gave a bear hug, and he said—and just cried, and said—‘I don’t know what to do. I don’t know what to do. Please.’”
“I thought: ‘I need to figure out a way to tell him that I’m gonna do something, so that I can go take another hit.’ It’s the only thing I could think. Literally,” Hunter Biden added. “That’s how powerful. I don’t know of a force more powerful than my family’s love. Except addiction.”
The interview came after National Public Radio (NPR) issued a correction to a review of Hunter Biden’s book that claimed the idea that the laptop belonged to him was “discredited by U.S. intelligence and independent investigations by news organizations.”
That line now says, “Numerous news organizations cast doubt on the credibility of the laptop story.”
The correction states: “A previous version of this story said U.S. intelligence had discredited the laptop story. U.S. intelligence officials have not made a statement to that effect.”
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