Hunter Biden has joked in a Jimmy Kimmel interview that 'pants were the problem' while he was on crack and also doubled down on his claim that he doesn't know if the infamous abandoned laptop belongs to him .
The President's son, who appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live Thursday night to promote his new memoir Beautiful Things, insisted that he does not know if the laptop was his because he was so detached from reality while on drugs - and went on to say that the scandal around the computer is a 'red herring'.
Kimmel asked the 51-year-old about his laptop - which became a source of intense interest in the run up to the election, amid claims that Joe Biden had been in business with China and was compromised.
'I saw you talking about the laptop in interviews and it became a big thing and when you are asked if it's your laptop, you say, you don't know,' Kimmel said. 'And that is hard to believe unless you read the book and then I'm surprised you have shoes on.'
Biden, who writes in graphic detail about his crack addiction, replied: 'Yeah, I made it today. Pants were the problem.'
His flippant remark was all the more ironic because one of the photos found on the abandoned laptop shows Hunter standing in his underwear.
Social media users immediately lashed out over the light-hearted interview and slammed both Biden and Kimmel as 'Dumb and Dumber' for joking about his drug addiction.
Hunter Biden on Thursday night said he still had no idea whether the laptop which sparked so much controversy was his
Biden appeared on Kimmel's show to promote his new memoir, Beautiful Things
He returned to the subject of the laptop, which was handed in to a repair shop in Wilmington, Delaware, and never collected.
Donald Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani then shopped it around to different newspapers.
Biden, seen in a photo which was found on his laptop, joked on Thursday night that 'pants were a problem' when he was on crack
'I really don't know,' he said.
'And the fact of the matter is, it's a red herring. It is absolutely a red herring.
'I absolutely think within my rights to question anything that comes from the, from the desk of Rudy Giuliani. And so, I don't know. Is the answer.'
Kimmel asked: 'Do you ever wish you had Apple Care?'
Biden conceded: 'That would have been a good idea.'
Biden also spoke about his controversial appointment to the board of Ukrainian energy firm Burisma Holdings, which critics have claimed he was unqualified for and was only given because his father was Vice President at the time.
He said: 'Go to the beginning. I went to Yale law school. I served on a dozen boards before Burisma, I was a vice chairman of the board in Amtrak, and chairman of the board at the World Food Program U.S., supporting the largest humanitarian organization in the world.
'I had an expertise in corporate governance and I was a lawyer. Which was how I was first approached. However, what I didn't take in to account was the way in which they would use the perception against my dad.
'I would not do it again for that reason.'
The California-based father of five spoke after DailyMail.com confirmed that the laptop was indeed his.
DailyMail.com commissioned top cyber forensics experts Maryman & Associates to analyze its data and determine whether the laptop's contents were real.
Hunter on Thursday night thanked his father Joe for loving him and wanting him to get well
The firm's founder, Brad Maryman, is a 29-year FBI veteran Supervisory Special Agent who served as an Information Security Officer and founded its first computer forensics lab.
Maryman and his business partner Dr. Joseph Greenfield used the same forensic tools to pick apart the drive as federal and state law enforcement use in criminal investigations, and prepared a report for DailyMail.com.
The report said the data on the drive 'appear to be authentic', and that after an extensive search of its contents for any tell-tale signs of tampering, Maryman and Greenfield found 'no evidence' of fabrication – by Russians or anyone else.
Hunter's new memoir, Beautiful Things, came out Tuesday and promised to give a candid account of the president's son's addiction
'The data on the system before April 2019 appears to be related to Mr. Biden, with timestamps appearing to be between 2016 and 2019,' the Maryman and Associates report said.
'The operating system timestamps appear to be authentic, and no evidence was found to suggest that the timestamps or data were altered or manufactured. No indications were found that would indicate the data was manufactured.'
In a presidential debate in October, Joe Biden referred to the leaks of Hunter's emails as 'a bunch of garbage.'
But in an interview with CBS on Sunday to promote his new book, Beautiful Things, Hunter said the laptop 'could be' his.
'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. It could be that it was stolen from me or that there was a laptop stolen from me,' he said.
On Thursday DailyMail.com exposed the secrets of Hunter's abandoned laptop.
Among the 103,199 text messages on the hard drive dating from 2016 to March 2019 are fraught conversations between President Joe Biden and his son.
The bombshell cache of 103,000 text messages, 154,000 emails, more than 2,000 photos and dozens of videos are packed with revelations conveniently missing from the memoir, including:
- How he begged his father to run for president in 2019 to salvage Hunter's own reputation
- How he repeatedly dodged police action against him, despite constantly dealing with drug pushers and prostitutes and having multiple run-ins with law enforcement
- Hunter was guarded by a Secret Service agent while on a 2018 drug and prostitute binge in Hollywood, despite not being entitled to protection at the time and amid denials from the federal agency
- Joe Biden was afraid his text conversations with Hunter were being hacked even as they discussed his White House bid
- How Hunter's laptop is brimming with evidence of apparent criminal activity by Hunter and his associates including drug trafficking and prostitution
Hunter left his MacBook Pro laptop at a Wilmington, Delaware computer repair shop in April 2019 and never returned for it. The report said the data on the drive 'appear to be authentic', and that after an extensive search of its contents for any tell-tale signs of tampering, Maryman and Greenfield found 'no evidence' of fabrication – by Russians or anyone else
The texts reveal how Joe was sucked into his son's torrid love life, became a punching bag for Hunter's drug-fueled rants, and paid his grandchildren's bills when Hunter had drained his bank accounts from his spending on prostitutes and crack cocaine.
When the former Delaware senator was elected Vice President in 2008, it put an end to Hunter's lucrative career as a lobbyist to avoid the appearance of conflicts of interest.
Hunter then embarked on a series of controversial business ventures and fell into a cycle of crack and prostitute binges, scandal and rehab.
By 2019 his texts appeared to be seething with resentment.
When Joe texted him a typically doting message 'Good morning my beautiful son. I miss you and love you. Dad' on February 24 that year, Hunter raged at his father for 'having made clear to the world that the only reason for not [running for president is your] family problems im glad to be the f***ing bullseye you painted on my back.'
Hunter complained that his father's advice to not defend himself in the media over stories about his expensive divorce from his ex-wife Kathleen Biden or his affair with his brother's widow Hallie had backfired, and added sarcastically: 'Oh …good morning …from f***ing rehab.'
'Your team just made me the uncontrollable troubled tax cheat philanderer sex and drug addict that you tried so hard to fix but couldn't yt. They just totally wrote my life away,' he wrote.
'If you dont run ill never have a chance at redemption.'
Joe replied, promising his son he would run for President but adding that he was worried his texts were 'a target' for hacking.
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