Hunter Biden has been a main character in far-right conspiracy theories for years, and Donald Trump’s associates spent a lot of effort in search of proof that could lead to his prosecution.
In the end, Hunter allegedly provided the only proof that has mattered: a laptop full of terribly embarrassing and potentially incriminating material.
The truth of how that laptop found its way to Trump’s favourite lawyer Rudy Giuliani is almost too bizarre to believe.
But the Biden family story has been improbably tragic for decades, and it was those tragedies that have seemingly steered the outgoing president to pardon his son despite the very real cost to his own reputation, and the country.
Matt Bevan takes a look.
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