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Hunter Biden has asked state and federal officials to launch investigations into leading conservative figures who helped spread claims based on private information discovered on a laptop he allegedly dropped off at a Delaware repair shop.
In a series of letters to the Justice Department, Delaware attorney general’s office, and others, the president’s son called for probes into former New York mayor and Trump ally Rudy Giuliani, as well as conservative agitator Steve Bannon, for the role in the laptop story, which was seized upon by political opponents of the president.
Mr Biden also threated to sue Fox News host Tucker Carlson for defamation in relation to claims made on air about the laptop.
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