Hunter Biden, the disgraced heir of President Joe Biden, bragged to a friend in 2018 about the influence he has over his father, saying the now-president would take any public position that his son wanted.
Biden appears to have recorded a conversation on his phone and uploaded it to his laptop that he later abandoned in a Delaware computer repair shop. The Washington Examiner located the recording in a password-protected backup of his iPhone on a copy of the laptop’s hard drive.
“He’ll talk about anything that I want him to, that he believes in,” Hunter Biden says in the recording. “If I say it’s important to me, then he will work a way in which to make it a part of his platform. My dad respects me more than he respects anyone in the world, and I know that to be certain, so it’s not going to be about whether it affects his politics.”
“All those fears you think that I have of people not liking me or that I don’t love myself … I don’t fear that. You know why I don’t fear that? Because the man I most admire in the world, that god to me, thinks I’m a god,” Biden continued. “And my brother did, too. And the three of us, it was literally — I had the support to know I can do anything.”
The recording is of a conversation between Biden and British artist Phillipa Horan that took place on December 3, 2018, at a house in Plum Island, Massachusetts. At the time, Biden was regularly using crack cocaine. Five months after the conversation took place, Biden’s father announced a run for President of the United States.
Biden addressed his addiction to crack cocaine.
“Have you ever thought about this: Maybe this is the greatest thing that f***ing ever happened to me,” Biden told Horan. “Maybe this is literally the continuation and the continuum of what is going to be the thing that makes me the person that my father believes I am.”
Biden’s laptop contained a substantial cache of emails and messages between Biden and his business partners related to overseas business deals in China, Ukraine, and elsewhere. The laptop also contained photos and videos of Biden, some of them pornographic.
Biden reportedly dropped the laptop off at a Delaware computer store for repairs in April 2019. The store’s owner, John Paul Mac Isaac, serviced the laptop but considered it abandoned after Biden never came back to retrieve it. Isaac later turned it over to the FBI, but not before making a backup of the hard drive, which he later gave to Rudy Giuliani, at the time working as former President Donald Trump’s private attorney. Giuliani distributed the hard drive data to the press.
Biden has reportedly put together a legal team working on proving the contents of the Delaware repair shop laptop are fake. The legal team reportedly has a laptop that was owned by Biden and confiscated by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration after it was left at Biden’s psychiatrist’s office.