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It appears that Democrats are preparing the skids to slide Joe Biden out of the White House. A Politico reporter has written a book, (The Bidens: Inside the First Family's Fifty-Year Rise to Power) in which the author says that he has confirmed that some of the most politically damaging memos written by Hunter Biden on his former laptop are authentic. In other words, Politico now says that Hunter Biden abandoned his laptop at a computer repair shop in Wilmington, Delaware. That was the same laptop that Politico reported was Russian disinformation just before the 2020 election, based on former federal intelligence officials.

The efforts to "debunk" this issue have failed miserably. The release of the book means that Democrats may be ready to pressure Biden into stepping aside, to minimize his drag on the party's 2022 election prospects.

POLITICO Playbook: Double trouble for Biden

The relevant part of the article:

[b]FIRST IN PLAYBOOK — Ben Schreckinger’s[/b] “The Bidens: Inside the First Family’s Fifty-Year Rise to Power,” out today, finds evidence that some of the purported [b]HUNTER BIDEN[/b] laptop material is genuine, including two emails at the center of last October’s controversy.

[b]A person who had independent access to Hunter Biden’s emails [/b]confirmed he did receive a 2015 email from a Ukrainian businessman thanking him for the chance to meet Joe Biden. The same goes for a 2017 email in which a proposed equity breakdown of a venture with Chinese energy executives includes the line, “10 held by H for the big guy?” (This person recalled seeing both emails, but was not in a position to compare the leaked emails word-for-word to the originals.)

[b]MORE:[/b] Emails released by a Swedish government agency also match emails in the leaked cache, and two people who corresponded with Hunter Biden confirmed emails from the cache were genuine.
[b]While the leak contains genuine files,[/b] it remains possible that fake material has been slipped in.

[b]BACKGROUND:[/b] A former Hunter Biden business partner, [b]TONY BOBULINSKI,[/b] said last year the “10 Held by H” email was genuine and referred to plans for Hunter to hold equity in the venture — which did not get off the ground — on behalf of his father. Biden’s campaign said he never considered going into business with his family.

[b]WHAT DOES THE WHITE HOUSE HAVE TO SAY? [/b]Asked for the book whether Joe Biden had an April 2015 encounter with Burisma adviser [b]VADYM POZHARSKYI[/b] at a dinner at Cafe Milano, a White House spokesman did not respond directly. Instead, the spokesman referred to an April WaPo article that includes a campaign denial of any meeting. The article confirms Joe Biden’s presence at the dinner, while casting doubt on any Pozharskyi encounter there. Pozharskyi did not respond to requests for comment.

[b]WHAT DOES HUNTER HAVE TO SAY?[/b] This spring, he told CBS the laptop “certainly” could be his. His lawyer, [b]CHRIS CLARK,[/b] did not respond to questions for the book.