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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Andrew Feinberg

Trumpworld figures admit campaign expected Hunter Biden laptop story to help them in 2020 election

REUTERS

Former president Donald Trump and the manager of his failed 2020 re-election bid appear to have admitted that his doomed campaign had pinned its hopes for victory on negative media coverage of the contents of a laptop purportedly owned by President Joe Biden’s youngest and sole living son, Hunter Biden.

In October 2020, the New York Post published emails purportedly from the younger Mr Biden to an executive at Burisma, the Ukrainian energy company he’d once represented as an attorney at the law firm of Boise, Schiller, Flexner before serving as a member of the company’s board of directors.

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