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== Laptop controversy ==
{{main|Hunter Biden laptop controversy}}
[[File:P20210120CK-0659 (50911775498).jpg|thumb|Biden, with [[Ashley Biden|his half-sister]] to his right, at his father's inauguration, January 2021. Controversy concerning the authenticity and contents of Hunter Biden's laptop was [[2020 October surprise|an October surprise]] in the lead up to his father's election.<ref name=":1">{{cite web |last=Prokop |first=Andrew |date=March 25, 2022 |title=The return of Hunter Biden's laptop |url=https://www.vox.com/22992772/hunter-biden-laptop |access-date=March 28, 2022 |website=Vox |language=en |quote=no evidence has emerged to back up suspicions from former intelligence officials, backed by Biden himself, that the laptop's leak was a Russian plot. |archive-date=March 27, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220327135904/https://www.vox.com/22992772/hunter-biden-laptop |url-status=live }}</ref>]]
On October 14, 2020, twenty days prior to the [[2020 United States presidential election]], the ''[[New York Post]]'' published an article, with the involvement of [[Donald Trump]]'s personal attorney [[Rudy Giuliani]] and former chief strategist [[Steve Bannon]], about a laptop computer that belonged to Hunter Biden, who allegedly left it for repairs at a [[Wilmington, Delaware]], computer shop. The laptop contained an email describing what the ''New York Post'' characterized as a "meeting" between Joe Biden and Vadym Pozharskyi, a Burisma advisor.<ref name="WaPo-Kessler">{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/10/14/hunter-bidens-alleged-laptop-an-explainer/ |title=Hunter Biden's alleged laptop: an explainer |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |first=Glenn |last=Kessler |author-link=Glenn Kessler (journalist) |date=October 15, 2020 |access-date=October 15, 2020 |archive-date=October 15, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201015001532/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/10/14/hunter-bidens-alleged-laptop-an-explainer/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In July 2023, ''The Wall Street Journal'' reported that the laptop files circulated online "during the 2020 election—[provided] an extraordinary glimpse into Hunter Biden’s business and personal dealings that his critics, journalists and Republican politicians have mined ever since."<ref name="wsjjul28" />
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