Hunter Biden was close friends with Tucker Carlson, wrote a recommendation for his son’s Georgetown application, and even got Carlson to intervene in a story about him on Hunter’s behalf.
Emails from Hunter’s abandoned laptop show the Fox anchor and the president’s son were close until around 2015 – revealing Carlson failed to disclose the true extent of his friendship throughout his extensive coverage of the scandals surrounding Hunter’s business and personal transgressions revealed by his abandoned computer.
In emails Hunter professed his ‘love’ for Carlson and his family, called him ‘buddy’ and told him ‘you’re a friend’.
A Fox News spokeswoman said Carlson ‘has been transparent about his relationship’ with the president’s son.’
In August 2015 data on the 30 million users of extramarital affairs website Ashley Madison were leaked, including Hunter’s name and c.redit card.
DailyMail.com wrote a story about Joe Biden’s son’s alleged use of the site, whose tag line is ‘Life is short. Have an affair’.
On August 27, Hunter wrote ‘call me pls’ to the top Fox anchor. About two hours later Carlson wrote back revealing he had intervened in their reporting on Hunter’s behalf.
‘Just lost my s**t on the editor over there. He claims the London office forced him to do it. He’s a pig either way, and I told him so,’ he said.
‘This whole thing is disgusting and awful and it breaks my heart that you all have to go through it. I’m really sorry. Let me know if there’s anything [Carlson’s wife] Susie and I can do to help.’
Hunter wrote back: ‘I’m sorry for even calling you. I know I put you in a difficult position- and upon reflection as you’re [a] friend I should have never done that.
‘I was just so upset that they went to my house and confronted Finnegan. I’ve been in DE [Delaware] the last two months sleeping in my nephew’s bed, and it’s hard to even get up in the morning sometimes.
‘Eric [Schwerin, Hunter’s business partner] provided all the information on background that proves this was not me – not my IP address- not my credit card #, not my birthdate etc…but they still come anyway. I can take the hit- I’ll be fine, but the notion that under any circumstance whether ordered to by an editor or not that someone would confront my 16 year old daughter at my home is just wrong.
‘Regardless, I should have never put you in this position- you have your own family all of whom I love, and your own business and defending me is not something a friend should ask a friend to do. Tell Susie we love her and miss you both very much.’
In an email exchange a year earlier further evidencing the close relationship between Hunter and Carlson, the anchor thanked Hunter profusely for writing a letter of recommendation for his son’s Georgetown University application – Hunter’s alma mater.
‘Hunter! I can’t thank you enough for writing that letter to Georgetown on Buckley’s behalf. So nice of you. I know it’ll help. Hope you’re great and we can all get dinner soon,’ Carlson wrote on November 12, 2014.
‘Hey buddy- I need Buckley’s CV if you have one handy- Thanks,’ Hunter replied.
‘Of course. Getting on a plane now but I’ll ask Susie to send it right away. Thanks again. It’s really nice of you to do this,’ Carlson wrote.
Carlson declined to comment on his emails about Georgetown.
Buckley ended up majoring in government and political science at the University of Virginia, graduating in 2019.
Emails also show Hunter, Carlson and his wife were involved in an outward bound group together, The Elements DC, which arranges nature trips for parents and their children.
The president’s son and the Fox anchor were in a group of around 47 others emailed by the organization dating back to 2011.
In a November 2011 email Carlson and his wife were listed as ‘friends’ by Kathleen on a guest list for a cocktail party, and both couples were among a dozen invited to a friend’s labor day barbecue that year.
Hunter and Schwerin also put Carlson’s name on a list of powerful and well-connected people for a party in April 2011 organized by the NativityMiguel Jesuit school group.
Invitees included Democrat senators Robert Casey and Bob Menendez, Georgetown president John DeGioia, Special Olympics chairman Tim Shriver, UAE ambassador Yousef Al-Otaiba, painter Bob Ross’ son Steve Ross, lobbyist Mike Manatos, and Teresa Heinz Kerry – climate change envoy and former Secretary of State John Kerry’s wife and heiress to the Heinz fortune.
Though Carlson declined to comment on his emails about Hunter’s Georgetown letter of recommendation for his son, in a statement the anchor said he stood by his comments about DailyMail.com’s reporting.
It reads, in part, ‘Daily Mail reporter showed up at his house when he wasn’t home and informed one of his daughters that her dad was cheating on her mom. I don’t care if it’s Hunter Biden or not, that’s awful,’ he said.
‘I knew the Daily Mail’s Washington editor at the time, so I called and told him I thought he was a pig for doing that. That’s still my opinion.’
Carlson has given extensive air time to the scandals surrounding Hunter Biden’s dealings with Chinese government-linked companies, alleged influence-peddling and transgressions with drugs and prostitutes, and has been highly critical of the president’s son in the past year.
But in one episode of his show in October last year, he u-turned and told viewers he didn’t want to be involved with ‘piling on’ Hunter, claiming he had received an ‘awful lot of documents’ about him but has ‘not aired’ many of them.
‘Hunter Biden is a fallen man at this point,’ he said, hinting at their relationship saying that he once knew Hunter well.
‘I never thought Hunter Biden was a bad person,’ the anchor told his millions of viewers.
‘I thought he had demons but in the time I knew him he kept them mostly under control. At some point, he lost control of those demons and the world knows that now. He’s now humiliated and alone.
‘Probably too strong to say we feel sorry for Hunter Biden, but the point is pounding on a man, jumping on, and piling on when he’s already down is something we don’t want to be involved in.’
This is an excerpt from Daily Mail.
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