The alleged emails of Hunter Biden, a surprise with dubious origins

Hunter Biden, son of Democratic candidate Joe Biden, in 2012. -

From our correspondent in the United States,

In 2016, we had the hacked emails of the Hillary Clinton campaign published in dribbles by WikiLeaks.

This Wednesday, three weeks before the American presidential election, it is the

which releases what it presents as a bomb capable of upending the ballot.

The daily said it had access to emails which were allegedly exchanged between Hunter Biden and an adviser to the Ukrainian gas company Burisma.

And who would show that Joe Biden's son tried to exploit access to his father, then vice president, for his personal benefit.

Joe Biden's campaign has categorically denied that a meeting took place with this Ukrainian adviser.

And the very dubious origin of these documents calls for the greatest caution.

Emails that came from a laptop abandoned at a repairer

According to the

, a tabloid owned by Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch, a Macbook Pro was dropped off at a repairer in April 2019. The computer had a sticker from the Beau Biden Foundation (Joe's other son Biden, who died of a brain tumor) and contained personal photos of Hunter Biden, published by the

, as well as a sextape.

The repairman assumes it is Hunter Biden's PC but has no proof.

Because no one would have come to claim it, he then handed it over to the FBI at the time of the impeachment against Donald Trump.

Rudy Giuliani and Steve Bannon involved

According to the American daily, it was Donald Trump's former adviser, Steve Bannon, who revealed the existence of this laptop to him in September 2019. And it is the personal lawyer of the American president, Rudy Giuliani, who provided him with a copy of the hard drive this week.

It is recalled that Steve Bannon was indicted by the American courts for having embezzled money intended for the construction of the wall with Mexico.

And Rudy Giuliani is behind many discredited conspiracies on Joe Biden and the Ukraine.

Two of his associates, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, have been charged in another case of illegal campaign financing.

Giuliani also appeared with two nationals associated with Russian intelligence, who had their US visas revoked.

Any honest discussion of Giuliani's 2020 role must include the fact that he has openly colluded with controversial Ukrainian officials to smear Biden.

He collaborated with people the US says are active Russian agents, were sanctioned by Treasury, visas revoked by State, etc.

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Emails talk about possible meeting, which did not take place, says Joe Biden

This is an important point.

Even assuming these emails are genuine - and the New York Post doesn't appear to have hired a computer expert to analyze the message header, they just prove Hunter Biden offered. advising Burisma to meet her father in Washington.

On Wednesday, Joe Biden's campaign categorically denied that this meeting had taken place.

“Dear Hunter, thank you for your invitation to Washington and for the opportunity to meet your father,” writes Vadym Pozharskyi.

Hunter Biden was then employed as a consultant by the gas company Burisma.

Rudy Giuliani and Donald Trump claim, without proof, that Joe Biden obtained the head of a Ukrainian prosecutor, Victor Shokin, to protect Burisma.

But the entire international community had called for the dismissal of Shokin, accused of not doing enough to fight corruption.

An investigation by Republican senators concluded in late September that Hunter Biden had "enriched himself" by exploiting his last name, but that there was no evidence of wrongdoing on the part of Joe Biden or that politics Barack Obama's foreign policy on Ukraine has been influenced.

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