The Chronicle

Biden ‘child porn’ shock

Hunter becomes the hunted amid claims of underage pics on his laptop

- JAMES MORROW

THE ongoing story of alleged corruption and foreign influence trading by the Biden family took a more sinister turn on Wednesday (AEST).

Speaking to the conservati­ve American news outlet Newsmax, President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani said he had turned the hard drive reportedly left abandoned by Hunter Biden, son of Democrat

presidenti­al candidate Joe Biden, at a Delaware repair shop over to state police due to contents which he said included inappropri­ate text messages and pictures of underage girls.

Mr Giuliani said there were “numerous” pictures which he described as being of underage girls.

He also said there were text messages from Hunter to Joe saying that he had been accused of speaking naked to a 14-year-old girl on Facetime. The shocking news comes as Bevan Cooney, a former

Hunter Biden business partner who is serving time for fraud charges, was moved from his federal cell after releasing 26,000 emails to the press.

Cooney says he was set up as the fall guy for the younger Biden’s alleged misdealing­s.

The laptop has rocked the presidenti­al race as it appears to provide direct evidence of cash-for-influence schemes involving Hunter and countries such as Ukraine and

China. Social media giants including Twitter and Facebook have attempted to censor reporting and sharing of stories about the hard drive on the grounds its contents cannot be substantia­ted and might be a “fake” set up by foreign actors, but the FBI and numerous government intelligen­ce agencies have been unable to disprove its authentici­ty.

According to numerous reports out of the US, the FBI had been in possession of a copy of Hunter Biden’s hard drive since 2019 but neglected to act on it.

Meanwhile, one of the only polls to call 2016’s shock result correctly shows Mr Trump is rapidly gaining ground on his rival as he picks up last-minute independen­t voters — much as he did four years ago.

The gap between the two has closed to just 2.3 points, from 8.6 points a week ago.

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Hunter and Joe Biden.

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