News organizations have confirmed the legitimacy of the laptop abandoned at a Delaware repair shop in 2019, but investigations continue about what the contents mean. The laptop has become a focal point of Republican investigations because it contains a trove of documents and pictures about Hunter Biden. Democrats also questioned the basic allegations against Biden stemming from the laptop as “categorically false.”
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