Hunter Biden sat down with Tucker Carlson for a sprawling interview touching on Israel, the laptop saga, insider trading, and Burisma, and law enforcement records raise questions about at least one of his most dramatic claims.
The former president's son called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "evil incarnate," insisted he has no memory of ever leaving a laptop at a Delaware repair shop, labeled his own Burisma board seat a mistake, and accused Washington of tolerating what amounts to insider trading, all in a single episode of The Tucker Carlson Show whose exact air date was not disclosed in the Daily Caller's report on the interview.
Biden did not respond to the Daily Caller's request for comment on the story.
Biden's sharpest language was reserved for the Israeli prime minister. He framed his criticism as a moral imperative, not a political calculation, and preemptively dismissed any accusation of antisemitism.
"If it's antisemitic to point out that Bibi Netanyahu is evil incarnate, then I don't know what to say to people anymore. I mean all you have to do is just open your eyes. Literally open your eyes. Open your heart for one minute."
Carlson, for his part, steered the conversation toward Israel from a different angle. He claimed that allegations about abuse of minors on the laptop "came from the Israelis," though he offered no specific sourcing for that assertion. A clip of Carlson's remarks circulated on X on August 10, posted by a user named Justin, who characterized Carlson as blaming "Israel and people affiliated with Netanyahu" for the most serious laptop allegations.
Carlson added that he believed the connection was widely understood in political circles.
"I felt that everybody in DC knew that."
Neither Carlson nor Biden provided documentary evidence during the interview to support the claim that Israeli-linked figures were behind the most incendiary laptop allegations. The assertion remains unverified by any official source in the available reporting.
Biden repeated a claim he has made in previous public appearances: that he has "zero recollection or memory of ever dropping off a laptop." He also called the allegation that the laptop contained evidence of abuse of minors an "absolute, complete, and utter effing lie."
Those denials sit awkwardly beside the established record. The FBI authenticated the laptop's contents. The Department of Justice used data from the laptop as evidence in the federal prosecution of Hunter Biden, a prosecution that took place under his own father's administration. The New York Post first published emails from the device three weeks before the 2020 presidential election, after obtaining the material from former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Days later, the Daily Caller News Foundation obtained its own copy from Giuliani and independently authenticated an email the Post had described as a "smoking gun."
So Biden's position amounts to this: the laptop he does not remember dropping off was real enough for the FBI to verify, real enough for federal prosecutors to use against him, and real enough for two separate news organizations to authenticate independently. His quarrel is not with the device's existence but with how it ended up in public hands, and with the worst allegations attached to it.
That is a narrower denial than it first sounds. Saying you don't recall dropping off a laptop is not the same as saying the laptop isn't yours or that its contents are fabricated. Biden chose his words carefully, and the distinction matters.
Biden acknowledged that joining the board of Burisma, the Ukrainian energy company, while his father served as vice president was a "stupid thing to do." It was a rare concession. For years, the Biden family treated questions about the arrangement as partisan overreach. Now Hunter Biden himself has used the word "stupid" to describe it on camera.
But Biden quickly shifted the focus to what he framed as a broader corruption problem in Washington. He argued that members of Congress should be banned from trading stocks while in office, calling the idea "the most common sense thing in the world." He also took aim at paid early access to posts on Truth Social, the platform associated with Donald Trump, suggesting the arrangement could function as a vehicle for insider trading by giving subscribers advance knowledge of market-moving statements.
Carlson appeared to agree on the stock-trading point, arguing that lawmakers should face restrictions. The two men found common ground on the idea that Washington's political class enriches itself through access and information unavailable to ordinary Americans, a point that will land differently depending on whether the audience remembers who was sitting on a Ukrainian energy board while his father ran U.S. policy toward Ukraine.
Biden has made a habit of these wide-ranging interviews. He sat for a Newsom podcast interview in which he relitigated his legal troubles, and he has repeatedly volunteered sensitive family details in public forums, including disclosing that his father's prostate cancer had spread to his bones.
Biden described what he characterized as a harrowing episode of political harassment directed at his family. He said the New York Post published an aerial photograph of his home that allowed people on the street to see through floor-to-ceiling windows. What followed, he claimed, was a direct physical threat.
"A group of men with bullhorns and MAGA hats showed up at the door, banging on the door, with my then-pregnant wife, who was home alone, who literally fled the house."
Biden went further, alleging that the men "chased her in a car and literally ran her off the road." The account, if true, would describe conduct that crosses well past protest into criminal territory, vehicular assault on a pregnant woman.
But the Daily Caller checked with law enforcement. The Los Angeles Sheriff's Department said it found no police reports under victims named Melissa Cohen or Biden during the relevant time period. The LAPD said it could not confirm an incident without an exact address.
No police report does not automatically mean no incident. It does mean there is no official record to corroborate a story that, as told, describes serious felony conduct. If a pregnant woman were run off the road by a car, the absence of any law enforcement record is difficult to explain. Biden did not provide documentation or evidence to support the claim, and he did not respond to the Daily Caller's inquiry.
Biden has also spoken publicly about his father's pardon and its role in shielding the family from further legal exposure, another instance of Hunter volunteering details about internal family dynamics that few principals would normally discuss on the record.
Biden reserved his broadest political statement for the end of the interview's sweep. He called Trump "the one existential threat that I think that we face as a country" and rejected the common framing that Trump is merely a symptom of deeper dysfunction.
"I am not this believer that Trump is merely the symptom of a disease; I believe that Trump is central to why this disease has gone from a local epidemic to a pandemic."
Biden also blamed Trump for starting the "Where's Hunter" campaign, which he said led to the public harassment he described. He connected the dots from Trump's rhetoric to the New York Post photograph to the alleged confrontation at his home, a chain of causation that rests entirely on Biden's own account and, as noted, lacks any corroborating police record.
The interview covered an extraordinary range: Israeli leadership, the laptop, congressional corruption, Burisma, stock trading, and political violence. Biden spoke freely, sometimes recklessly, and without apparent concern for the evidentiary gaps in his own narrative. He conceded what he had to, the Burisma seat was foolish, and denied what he could, while offering dramatic claims that no available record supports.
When a man whose laptop was authenticated by the FBI and used against him in federal court says he has "zero recollection" of dropping it off, and then describes a vehicular assault on his pregnant wife that left no trace in any police database, the audience is left to weigh his credibility on its own. The facts on the record do not help his case.
