By JOSH BOSWELL FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
EXCLUSIVE: What WASN'T in Hunter Biden's book: How he got unauthorized Secret Service protection, begged Joe to run for WH to salvage his own reputation and made porn films with prostitutes. Forensic experts prove laptop IS President's son's
· DailyMail.com can reveal those secrets after contents of his abandoned laptop - including a cache of 103,000 text messages, 154,000 emails, more than 2,000 photos - were verified by top forensics experts
· Hunter left his MacBook Pro laptop at a Wilmington, Delaware computer repair shop in April 2019 and never returned for it
· In texts from 2019, Hunter begged his father to run for president to salvage Hunter's own reputation
· Hunter repeatedly dodged police action against him, despite constantly dealing with drug dealers and prostitutes and having multiple run-ins with the law
· The president's son 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
· Hunter appeared to be obsessed with making porn films with prostitutes, videos and photos on his laptop show
· Texts also show Joe Biden was afraid his conversations with Hunter were being hacked even as they discussed his White House bid
Hunter Biden's 'tell-all' autobiography promised the unvarnished story of his struggles with drugs, family turmoil and his controversial love life.
But there were many shocking details of his debauched
life that the president's son chose not to share with readers, including
details of his fragile relationship with his father.
Now DailyMail.com can reveal the secrets Hunter chose not
to divulge, exposed in the contents of his abandoned laptop and verified by top
forensics experts.
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 with prostitutes and crack cocaine
In texts from February 2019, Hunter begged his father Joe to run for president to salvage Hunter's own reputation. 'H is wrong,' Joe writes, referring to Hallie Biden.
On Hunter's laptop he had his own profile on porn site Pornhub where there was content of him in bed with two woman with a small dog nearby. Hunter photographed and filmed himself, often with two prostitutes at a time, in explicit videos
The president's son left his 2017 MacBook Pro laptop at a
Wilmington, Delaware computer repair shop in April 2019 and never returned for
it.
Emails leaked from the computer sparked a scandal before
the 2020 presidential election in October, but were dismissed as Russian
disinformation by the Bidens and other senior Democrats, social media giants
Twitter and Facebook, and several major media organizations.
After obtaining a copy of the hard drive, DailyMail.com commissioned
top cyber forensics experts Maryman & Associates to analyze its data and
determine whether the laptop's contents were real.
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.
'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.
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'
A
shocking photo obtained from Hunter's laptop shows his badly damaged and worn
down teeth - also known as 'meth mouth' - as he sits in a dentist chair
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 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.
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.
'I'll run but I need you,' he wrote. 'H[allie] is wrong.
Only focus is recovery. Nothing else... When you can and feel like it call.
Positive my text etc a target. Love.'
He declared his candidacy two months later.
After another rant from Hunter in September 2018 Joe
wrote: 'Be careful what you text. Likely I'm being hacked.'
The future president had good reason to worry, as his
phone was filling up with incriminating and embarrassing texts as his son's
relationship with Hallie disintegrated, according to Hunter's messages to him.
Hunter
Biden describes falling in love with his grieving sister-in-law Hallie Biden
(pictured) after his brother Beau's death, in his new memoir
When Hunter's controversial affair with Beau's widow was publicly revealed in March 2017, Joe reluctantly released a statement giving the couple his blessing.
But a year later he was already being drawn into the
couple's meltdown by his erratic, addict son.
In July 2018 Hunter sent a recording to his father of
himself talking on the phone to Hallie.
Joe responded: 'Got your text. Can't say I'm surprised.
Going to bed I'll call you tomorrow morning. Love you. Be strong. Love Dad.'
The president's continued forgiveness and offers of money
via text to his son after his crack binges – are at odds with his long history
of tough stances against drug users and suppliers.
Joe criticized George Bush Sr's 1980s War on Drugs for
being 'not tough enough' and wrote punitive laws with harsher sentences for
drug crimes when he was head of the Senate Judiciary Committee in the late
1980s and early 1990s.
His son's drug-fueled calamities have resulted in
multiple run-ins with law enforcement that would usually result in criminal
charges or investigation, but Hunter has so far avoided the dock.
His laptop, which was handed over to the FBI in 2019, is
brimming with evidence of apparent criminal activity by Hunter and his
associates including drug trafficking and prostitution.
Photos also show Hunter with cracked and badly damaged
teeth - known as 'meth mouth' - as he sits in a dentist chair, and another
photo showing him visibly balding.
Texts
show Joe Biden was afraid his conversations with Hunter were being hacked even
as they discussed his White House bid
Hunter appeared to be obsessed with making and starring
in porn films with prostitutes, videos and photos on his laptop show.
The hard drive contains hundreds of pictures of naked
women and naked selfies of Hunter, as well as dozens of videos.
Hunter photographed and filmed himself, often with two
prostitutes at a time, in explicit videos that he then posted on adult website
Pornhub under the username 'RHEast'.
Hunter filmed himself with the women from his laptop
webcam, sometimes shooting at different angles using an iPad and cell phone.
The sex tapes and shots with hookers are mixed in with
family photos, business documents and selfies from his then-lover and brother's
widow Hallie in his laptop's photos folder.
Texts show he would often order drugs to hotel rooms and
take them with the women before or after sex – and photos include bottles of
100mg Viagra pills, the highest dose prescribed by doctors.
His Pornhub account had 66 award badges, including a
badge for reaching 50 subscribers, watching 500 videos, and watching porn in
high definition.
Hunter would sometimes leave on the webcam after filming
his sex scenes, and captured himself hunched over his computer, intently
watching back through the footage.
In one video on the laptop, Hunter recorded his screen
and can be heard speaking to a woman about his favorite porn stars as he
browsed an adult website with her.
Texts from February 20, 2019 appear to show Hunter
coordinating with a woman called Dianna Pagano to transport other women in
Ubers to his hotel room in New Haven, Connecticut.
A month later Pagano texted Hunter offering to 'hang'
with him for '100 or 200 for the night', as well as appearing to offer him
drugs, saying 'My guy is giving me 2500qorrh of work cuz he is going on
vacation. I just gotta give him 200$; and 'I got some good work if u need
anything hun its fire'.
Pagano was charged in November that year with violating
her probation by allegedly running a drug ring out of her home in East Haven.
Police told the New Haven Register that items 'believed
to be the fruits of a narcotics and prostitution operation, [were] found within
the residence.'
Pagano was not charged with a prostitution-related
offence.
Hunter may have narrowly avoided a tangle with law
enforcement, as six of Pagano's alleged customers were also arrested in the
police raid.
Hunter had a second close shave with the law in March
2019 according to his texts, when police allegedly showed up at a Naugatuck,
Connecticut, motel where Hunter was taking drugs and entertaining hookers.
When the president's son left his Comfort Inn room to get
cash from an ATM, one of the panicked prostitutes, Crystal, texted him 'U
called the cops???'
Returning to his room a confused Hunter texted their
dealer and pimp 'Where is she? She said the cops came to the room????? WTF man?
I went to bank. Call me back.'
Naugatuck Police Department told DailyMail.com they had
no record of officers attending the Comfort Inn on March 7.
Hunter
had a close shave with the law in March 2019 according to his texts, when
police allegedly showed up at a Naugatuck, Connecticut, motel where Hunter was
taking drugs and entertaining hookers. When the president's son left his
Comfort Inn room to get cash from an ATM, one of the panicked prostitutes,
Crystal, texted him 'U called the cops???'
Naugatuck
Police Department told DailyMail.com they had no record of officers attending
the Comfort Inn on March 7. Returning to his room a confused Hunter texted
their dealer and pimp 'Where is she? She said the cops came to the room?????
WTF man? I went to bank. Call me back'
Hunter's laptop, which was handed over to the FBI in 2019, is brimming with evidence of apparent criminal activity by Hunter and his associates including drug trafficking and prostitution.
Hunter did come under investigation after he dropped off
a rental car in Prescott, Arizona, leaving behind a crack pipe and white
powder, his drivers license and his late brother Beau's attorney general badge.
Hunter allegedly used a fake name to call the Hertz
rental the next day to tell them he left the keys in the car's gas tank
compartment.
The police report said they called in the FBI and Hunter
was 'located by Secret Service' and found to be 'well.'
Prescott Police Department said they couldn't find
fingerprints on the pipe. It is unclear whether the department tried to extract
DNA from the pipe.
Despite being dubbed the state's 'foremost pot
prohibitionist', County Attorney Sheila Polk declined to prosecute.
Hunter was investigated but again not prosecuted in 2018
after Hallie left his .38 caliber handgun in a Wilmington, Delaware grocery
store trash can.
In texts to his therapist, Hunter claimed that when
Delaware cops found the gun 'the FBI and the Secret Service' got involved, and
that Hallie told officers she took the weapon because she was 'afraid for the
kids' and 'because she was scared I would harm myself due to my drug and
alcohol problem'.
A copy of a police report obtained by news site Politico
confirmed the October 23, 2018 incident.
The site reported that Hunter may have lied on his
background check to obtain the gun, which would be a felony if true.
In
texts obtained by DailyMail.com, Hunter messaged his therapist to tell him
about Hallie dropping his gun in a grocery store trash can. 'She stole the
gun out of my truck lock box and threw in a garbage can full to the top at
Jansens. Then told me it was my problem to deal with,' Hunter wrote.
One question on the background check document is: 'Are
you an unlawful user of, or addicted to, marijuana or any depressant,
stimulant, narcotic drug, or any other controlled substance?'
Hunter reportedly checked 'No' on the form, despite
photos and texts from his laptop showing heavy drug use at the time, including
crack cocaine.
Prosecutions for lying on such forms are very rare, and
police did not pursue Hunter over the apparent infraction.
According to Hunter's texts to his therapist about the
incident, the Secret Service were also involved in the investigation.
The Department of Homeland Security agency claimed they
had no record of agents investigating the incident, and Joe Biden, who was not
under their protection at the time, said he had no knowledge of their involvement.
But Hunter's texted claims that the agency was involved
are echoed by two sources who spoke to Politico.
One source said Secret Service agents asked the
Wilmington, Delaware gun store owner where Hunter bought the .38 for the sale
paperwork.
The source, who the site reported had firsthand knowledge
of the episode, said that the store owner, Ron Palmieri, refused to hand over
the papers as he feared the agents wanted to hide Hunter's ownership of the
gun.
The source said Palmieri instead later turned over the
documents to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
A second source who was reportedly briefed by the Secret
Service confirmed the story to the site.
Texts from earlier that year show Hunter was being
guarded by a Secret Service agent while he went on a week-long drug and
prostitute binge in a Hollywood hotel.
The texts raise questions for the federal agency, which
has claimed that no Bidens received protection in 2018.
The
agent added that he was working on 'Celtic's account', an apparent code name
for a senior politician under protection, and told the president's son 'DC is
calling me every 10.' The Bidens lost their protection by federal agents after Joe
ended his term as Vice President in January 2017, and did not officially regain
a detail until congressional officials approved his application in Spring last
year.
In the messages, a Los Angeles-based Secret Service
officer warned Hunter he would 'have to assume you are in danger' and
commandeer keys to the room if he didn't come out.
The agent added that he was working on 'Celtic's
account', an apparent code name for a senior politician under protection, and
told the president's son 'DC is calling me every 10.'
Press releases by a private security firm published a
week after the text exchange with Hunter, announced the agent left the Secret
Service after a 25-year career and joined the firm as CEO.
The Bidens lost their protection by federal agents after
Joe ended his term as Vice President in January 2017, and did not officially
regain a detail until congressional officials approved his application in
Spring last year.
A bill from The Jeremy Hotel in West Hollywood obtained
by DailyMail.com shows that Hunter stayed in a third-floor suite for seven days
from May 19 2018, holed up ordering room service each night, drinking at the
hotel bar and racking up a $5,195 bill – including a $400 fine for smoking in
his room.
Texts on the laptop show that during his lavish stay
Hunter sought refills for prescriptions of Viagra generic equivalent
sildenafil, an antidepressant Lexapro, and anxiety medication Clonazepam, a
similar drug to Xanax.
Emails from May 24 show Hunter added a prostitute as a
wire transfer recipient on his bank account and wired out $25,000.
DailyMail.com obtained a copy of Hunter's laptop hard
drive from former Steve Bannon podcast co-host Jack Maxey.
John Paul Mac Isaac, the owner of the computer store
where Hunter abandoned his laptop, gave a copy of its hard drive to Donald
Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani in September last year.
Giuliani reportedly leaked documents and photos from the
drive to the New York Post, and also gave a whole copy of the drive to Trump's
former advisor Bannon and his podcast co-host Maxey.
Hunter, the Secret Service, their agent who now works for
a private company and the White House did not respond to requests for comment.
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After obtaining a copy of the hard drive, DailyMail.com commissioned top cyber forensics experts Maryman & Associates to analyze its data and determine whether the laptop's contents were real.
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AUTHENTICATING
THE LAPTOP
DailyMail.com
commissioned cyber forensics experts at Maryman & Associates to examine the
hard drive to determine its authenticity.
The firm's founder, Brad
Maryman, was a 29-year veteran of the FBI, served as a Chief Information
Security Officer and founded the bureau's cyber forensics unit. His partner,
Dr. Joseph Greenfield, is an associate professor at the University of Southern
California and helped write their degree program in intelligence and cyber
operations.
After an extensive
analysis of the hard drive, Greenfield and Maryman produced a report for
DailyMail.com detailing their findings.
Using the same forensic
tools as federal and state law enforcement in criminal investigations, they
found a total of 103,000 text messages, 154,000 emails and more than 2,000
photos.
- They found
emails for multiple accounts on the laptop dating back to 2009, and other data
which 'appears to be related to Mr. Biden' between 2016 and 2019.
- The
report's findings were consistent with the known timeline for the hard
drive. A Wilmington, Delaware computer store work order with Hunter's
signature shows he left his 2017 MacBook Pro laptop there on April 12, 2019.
- The Maryman
& Associates report said the original 'Macintosh HD' drive was created on
March 28, 2018
- Hunter's iCloud
email address was added to the laptop's system on October 21 2018, as well as
his work email at his firm Rosemont Seneca on February 2 2019.
- The same day, a
Gmail address he used to log onto sex cam sites, and another personal Gmail
address belonging to Hunter, were also added.
- Beau Biden's old Gmail
account was added on February 7 2019.
- Emails addressed to
Hunter's various email addresses dating from December 2009 to December 2020
were found on the system.
- An iPad with the name
'Hunter's iPad' and three email addresses associated with the Biden family was
backed up on the laptop and on iCloud in January 2019 and again a month later.
- Greenfield found 818
call logs in this iPad backup with timestamps from June 2016 to February 2019.
- There were 8,942
entries in the iPad's contacts book, created between April 2016 and January
2019.
- In February
2019 an iPhone XS was also synced with the laptop. Its serial number was
consistent with the timestamps of the data on the phone.
In conclusion, 'The operating system timestamps appear to be authentic, and no evidence was found to suggest that the timestamps or data were altered or manufactured,' the report said. 'No indications were found that would suggest the data was manufactured.'
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