66% of Americans say Hunter Biden’s laptop is an ‘important story’ and believe President Joe Biden was likely involved in his dealings, new poll shows: Republicans say they will investigate as soon as they take back the House
- A new poll released Thursday shows 66% of Americans think the Hunter Biden laptop story is either ‘very important’ or ‘somewhat important’
- Foreign Affairs Ranking Member Michael McCaul said if the GOP takes back a majority, they will investigate Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings
- ‘We know the information found on his laptop is real,’ the Republican wrote
- He added: ‘Congress must take a serious look at Hunter Biden – and if Republicans take the majority, it will be a top priority’
- Two-thirds in the poll also said that President Joe Biden ‘was consulted about and perhaps profited from his son Hunter’s overseas business deals’
- The New York Times recently followed suit of several other media outlets, including DailyMail.com, confirming the authenticity of Hunter’s laptop
Two-thirds of Americans think that the Hunter Biden laptop story is ‘important’ and the same percentage think that President Joe Biden was somehow involved in foreign business dealings, according to a poll released Thursday.
Republicans say they will investigate the whole ordeal once they take back a majority in the House, which could very likely happen in the 2022 midterms as Speaker Nancy Pelosi can only afford a handful of Democrats to maintain her advantage.
‘@POTUS swept Hunter Biden’s Ukraine business dealings under the rug, claiming it’s Russian disinformation,’ Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Michael McCaul tweeted of the Hunter laptop story.
‘We know the information found on his laptop is real,’ he added. ‘Congress must take a serious look at Hunter Biden – and if Republicans take the majority, it will be a top priority.’
A Rasmussen Reports poll of 1,000 likely U.S. voters taken March 21-22 shows that 66 percent think that the laptop story is important, even though many media outlets downplayed the validity of initial reports claiming the device belonged to Hunter Biden.
A new poll released Thursday shows 66% of Americans think the Hunter Biden laptop story is either ‘very important’ or ‘somewhat important’
Foreign Affairs Republican Ranking Member Michael McCaul said if the GOP takes back a majority in a House, it will immediately investigate Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings – much of which was revealed from his laptop
The New York Times recently followed suit of several other media outlets, including DailyMail.com, confirming the authenticity of reports claiming they stemmed from a hard drive from the laptop belonging to Hunter Biden
Only 15 percent of respondents said that the story is ‘not at all important’ and another 16 percent said it wasn’t ‘very important.’
When asked by pollsters if Joe Biden ‘was consulted about and perhaps profited from his son Hunter’s overseas business deals’, Americans didn’t signal much confidence in the president.
Sixty-five percent said it was likely the president was involved – with 48 percent saying it was ‘very likely’ and 17 percent saying ‘somewhat likely.’ While only 28 percent total respondents said it was either ‘not very likely’ or ‘not at all likely’ that the president was consulted or profited.
The margin of error in the poll is plus or minus 3 percentage points.
In October 2020, just weeks before the presidential election, a report emerged with information that was allegedly on a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden.
While several outlets, including the New York Post and DailyMail.com, confirmed the authenticity of the laptop, The New York Times just recently did the same this month – leading to a slew of new criticism after many media outlets downplayed the fact that reports were based on information coming directly from Hunter’s laptop.
‘The press seemed to discount the whole laptop tissue,’ McCaul told The Washington Times.
‘But now, it seems that that [has been] kind of validated,’ the Texas Republican continued. ‘And I think you will see, we have basically the power of the purse in oversight. You’re going to see a very aggressive oversight by Republicans if we get the majority.
‘That’s definitely something that we will be looking at,’ he said.
Nearly two-thirds surveyed in the poll also said it was ‘very’ or ‘somewhat likely’ that President Joe Biden ‘was consulted about and perhaps profited from his son Hunter’s overseas business deals’
Many details emerged from Hunter’s hard drive, including compromising images – like him with a crack pipe in his mouth (left) or images of him engaged in sexual acts
On April 12, 2019 Hunter Biden dropped off three water-damaged laptops at John Paul Mac Isaac’s computer repair shop. One of the laptops had a sticker for the Beau Biden Foundation, an organization dedicated to his late brother.
One computer, according to Mac Isaac, was beyond repair, one needed an external keyboard and another needed data recovery, which was completed. However, no one ever came to pick up the last device.
Eventually, the laptop’s data came into the hands of Rudy Giuliani, who was then-President Donald Trump’s lawyer at the time. He then handed that information over to the Post, which published stories on the contents.