Hunter Biden launches Substack with post on ‘the laptop’

Hunter Biden, the son of former President Biden, announced on Thursday that he will publish a series of essays about the past seven years of his life on Substack, beginning with one revisiting the controversy surrounding his laptop.

“Over on Substack I’m writing about the last seven years of my life. It’s the first draft of the whole story. All of it,” he wrote on the social platform X.

Hunter Biden said he will be releasing chapters every few days, along with an exclusive video series titled “Where’s Hunter?”

The first essay, called “The Laptop,” centers around a political firestorm during his father’s 2020 presidential campaign. The New York Post reported that a laptop Hunter Biden dropped off at a computer store contained incriminating information about him and his father.

It fueled what would later become years of scrutiny from the GOP over Hunter Biden’s business ventures and personal life.

“They called it the laptop. I will call it that too, although the name is not accurate, the provenance was never established, and no court or forensic examiner ever certified the chain of custody that would have made it evidence rather than theater,” he said in an excerpt on X.

He claimed that efforts to target him began before the device was recovered, and that “a scandal was constructed, and a laptop was produced to anchor it.”

While he disputed the narrative surrounding the laptop, Hunter Biden acknowledged that it did contain evidence of his years-long struggle with addiction.

“Twenty years of my life, or a version of it. Messages sent at hours that don’t belong to anyone sober. Photographs I would never have taken in daylight,” he wrote. “It is accumulation, the slow daily work of an addict doing the thing that is killing him because the alternative feels like dying faster.”

Hunter Biden, who recently celebrated seven years of sobriety, has spoken publicly about his battle with drug and alcohol addiction. He detailed his recovery in his 2021 memoir, “Beautiful Things.”