What Next: Is Hunter Biden’s Laptop Actually a Big Deal?

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News, News Commentary, Politics

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🗓️ 20 September 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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An obsession with Hunter Biden’s laptop has been written off as the byproduct of a right-wing media bubble—but the reality is that what you don’t know can hurt you. It’s past time for Democrats and their supporters to confront some uncomfortable facts. Guest: Olivia Nuzzi, Washington Correspondent for New York magazine. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Amicus—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.2	Hey there, what next listeners?
0:33.7	There is some salty language ahead.
0:42.1	Olivia Newsie and her colleague Andrew Rice, I've got this thing back in their office.
0:47.5	They're almost afraid to touch it, and before we opened it first we just thought, you
0:54.4	know, what the hell do we do with this thing?
1:00.2	Should we just burn it?
1:01.2	Should we send it to the FBI?
1:02.7	Like what should we do?
1:04.8	And Andrew made the decision to put it in an envelope, seal the envelope, sign and
1:13.4	date the envelope in a locked safe in our office, and then send an email to me and our editors,
1:25.6	and I believe our lawyers, and just establishing where this object was.
1:35.4	This object is Hunter Biden's laptop.
1:38.4	Well, sort of, it's a copy of what some Republican operatives say was once Hunter Biden's laptop.
1:46.7	It felt very much like, oh god, we have this evil possessed object, and we need to do
1:52.5	away with it.
1:54.3	We need to just put it in a stray jacket and keep it somewhere where it can't get out.
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