Miranda Devine > Quotes

“Every great family is persecuted…you are part of a great family—not a side show, not deserted by them even in your darkest moments. That’s the way Bidens are different, and you are a Biden. It’s the price of power and the people questioning you truly have none.”
― Miranda Devine, Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide

“He had the good fortune that his conviction was overturned in November 2019 by US District Court Judge Ronnie Abrams, an Obama appointee.”
― Miranda Devine, Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide

“year-old tycoon Che Feng (or Fung in Cantonese), the son-in-law of high-ranking CCP member, Dai Xianglong. This was the Super Chairman. Che was one of more than a dozen Chinese princelings found to be using offshore companies in the British Virgin Islands, according to the “Paradise Papers,” including President Xi’s own brother-in-law, Deng Jiagui, a real-estate developer.”
― Miranda Devine, Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide

“Kotlarsky is described in the 2019 article as a “Ukrainian who was in the car-service business in New York City.”
― Miranda Devine, Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide

“Super Chairman Che has not been seen since he was detained for questioning in Beijing in June 2015.”
― Miranda Devine, Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide

“The Super Chairman
“At the top of America’s core inner circle of power and influence, we have our old friends.” —Professor Di Dongsheng, Renmin University vice dean of International Studies, November 28, 2020 Who was the mysterious “Super Chairman” who promised to plough $100 million seed capital into Hunter’s first big deal in China? Why was his identity such a secret that his American partners referred to him as SC? And why, as Hunter wrote confidentially to his friend and partner Devon Archer, “does the Super Chairman love me so much?” “It has nothing to do with me and everything to do with my last name,” he wrote in a jubilant email on September 23, 2011.”
― Miranda Devine, Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide

“Hunter’s lawyer, George Mesires, said in a statement in October 2019 that his client had “committed to invest approximately $420,000 USD to acquire a 10% equity position in BHR” in October 2017 and had received no return on his investment at the time he resigned from the board. If the stake was of no value, why didn’t Hunter relinquish it when he gave up his directorship and sever all ties to a Chinese state-backed investment fund that had already brought so much heat on his father? Hunter was willing to expose his father’s reputation to risk at this critical moment and hold on to his 10 percent share because the real payout is yet to come.”
― Miranda Devine, Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide

“They understood implicitly the concept of guanxi, the Confucian system of personalized social networks and reciprocal obligations that is the foundation stone of Chinese culture going back thousands of years. The chaos of the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s and 1970s”
― Miranda Devine, Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide

“friends.” But Donald Trump’s election in 2016 had disrupted this cozy relationship. “During the US-China trade war, they [Wall Street] tried to help, and I know that my friends on the US side told me that they tried to help [but] Wall Street couldn’t fix Trump.” With comical glee, Di said: “But now we’re seeing Biden was elected,” and the audience erupted in laughter. “Trump has been saying that Biden’s son has some sort of global foundation. Have you noticed that?”
― Miranda Devine, Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide

“Alex Kotlarsky was a New York–based Eastern European employed by consulting firm TriGlobal Strategic Ventures,”
― Miranda Devine, Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide

“signal, etc to stop what we consider to be politically motivated actions.” Hunter replied: “Vadim—I am with Devon in Doha. We will have a discussion with the [lawyers] Boies Schiller team ASAP.” Boies is the New York–based law firm that paid Hunter $216,000 a year as “of counsel,” and whose”
― Miranda Devine, Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide

“World Trade Organization, a landmark decision that would deal a body blow to America’s working class. Millions of manufacturing”
― Miranda Devine, Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide

“crowded into the Finnegans’ modest gray clapboard on North Washington Street, with his parents, siblings, grandparents, his aunt Gertie and uncle Edward.”
― Miranda Devine, Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide

“April 2020, the Kyiv District Court ordered that Shokin be formally recorded as the victim of an alleged crime by the former US vice president. Joe’s identity originally was redacted, but the court ruled that he be formally named.”
― Miranda Devine, Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide

“Sheen Armor Company, which made sealant for merchant marine ships. But within two years, Joe Sr. had decided”
― Miranda Devine, Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide

“Ashley doesn’t return fire. In future messages she will remain loving and patient toward the brother she idolizes. Hunter’s ambivalent attitude toward his father also emerges in conversations with his therapist Keith Ablow, who also variously acts as friend, landlord, and potential collaborator in a book or podcast. The pair joke about Joe Biden’s “dementia” in text messages in 2019.”
― Miranda Devine, Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide

“In an article titled “How Grief Became Joe Biden’s ‘Superpower,’” Politico reported that, while campaigning in Iowa in 2007, Joe told a crowd, “A tractor-trailer, a guy who allegedly—and I never pursued it—drank his lunch instead of eating his lunch, broadsided my family and killed my wife instantly and killed my daughter instantly and hospitalized my two sons.”
― Miranda Devine, Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide

“Hunter, “the individual I told you about that’s helping us with the business that we’re working on with the Chinese.”
― Miranda Devine, Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide

“In April, his father, former vice president Joe Biden, announced he was running for president. Two weeks later, Hunter left his laptop at a Mac repair shop in Delaware and never came back.”
― Miranda Devine, Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide

“Department luncheon Joe is hosting for the visiting Chinese president, Xi Jinping, whose patronage Hunter enjoys by proxy. “All international politics is only personal,” Joe tells Xi and assembled guests, including Henry Kissinger. “If you can’t establish a personal relationship where you understand one another, it’s awfully hard to get anything done. And more than four years ago, President Obama and…President Hu decided that then-Vice President Xi and I should get to know one another.”
― Miranda Devine, Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide

“But Donald Trump’s election in 2016 had disrupted this cozy relationship. “During the US-China trade war, they [Wall Street] tried to help, and I know that my friends on the US side told me that they tried to help [but] Wall Street couldn’t fix Trump.” With comical glee, Di said: “But now we’re seeing Biden was elected,” and the audience erupted in laughter. “Trump has been saying that Biden’s son has some sort of global foundation. Have you noticed that? “Who helped him build the foundations? Got it? “At such a time, we use an appropriate way to express some goodwill…. If we understand this matter from the perspective of the international political economy, I think there is a tactical and political value in it.” Deng’s candor reflected a growing arrogance among China’s elites toward the United States.”
― Miranda Devine, Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide

“For a Chinese dissident, Guo struck a curiously insouciant figure, giving interviews to the Western media and posing for photographs in the splendor of his new surrounds. His Chinese-language GTV Media Group would run lurid material from Hunter’s laptop after the New York Post broke the story in October 2020. But some Chinese-language websites also made false claims about the material, feeding a perception that the story was disinformation and that respectable news organizations were right to ignore it.”
― Miranda Devine, Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide

“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” —Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina”
― Miranda Devine, Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide

“Aspergers”
― Miranda Devine, Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide

“Joe flies to L.A. to do a welfare check on Hunter the day after he is evicted from the Chateau Marmont, although he is unaware of his son’s dramas with the hotel. Father and son have “an emotional morning” at La Peer, Hunter tells his friend, Azura. “I’m taking him for a haircut. Sorry, we were engrossed. A very personal and long overdue talk.” Uncle Jim texts later that day to check the temperature: “How’s it going with your dad? (1-10) 10 best.” Hunter: “7.” Jim: “Hang in there my friend. Rome wasn’t built in a day!” Joe leaves the next day, and Hunter moves to an Airbnb to resume his carousing. “Should I come…I have mushroom pills,” texts his buddy Rush. “Yes please come,” says Hunter. “Wait, are you not staying at the Chateau anymore?”
― Miranda Devine, Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide

“Two more daughters were born, Finnegan and Maisy. The girls would attend the elite Sidwell Friends school, where Maisy became best friends with Sasha Obama, the president’s daughter.”
― Miranda Devine, Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide

“Afterward, Hunter is ensconced in a $1,100 a night Balinese-style Airbnb in the Hollywood Hills, but he resents having to share it with “my sober living companion 24/7.” He complains to Jim that the companion is a “complete moron” and an “idiot fat Jewish kid who insisted he had a right to enter the bathroom while I was on the toilet.” Hunter is in such a foul mood that even his long-suffering uncle is fed up with him: “Text/email your father your plans. I’m sick of getting kicked in the teeth. I’m out.”
― Miranda Devine, Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide

“The Kyiv embassy’s Kent had gone to the VP’s office in February 2015, when he first heard about Hunter’s connection to the “odious oligarch” Zlochevsky.”
― Miranda Devine, Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide

“Ablow, still quoting himself: “‘Perhaps he can help us remember all we intended to be as a people since he can now remember his address.’” Hunter replies: “He doesn’t need to [know] where he lives Keith that’s the only thing the secret service get right at least 75% of the time.” In a separate text exchange on February 6, 2019, about a planned podcast, Hunter texts: “Dad is our first guest.” Ablow replies: “Perfect. Does he recall details tho, with the dementia and all.” Hunter: “Not much these days but since it’s all fake news anyway I don’t see the problem.”
― Miranda Devine, Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide

“This maneuver is what got Senator Joe Biden elected,” Sheeran claimed in the 2004 deathbed biography, I Heard You Paint Houses—whose macabre title is a mob euphemism for the mess a hitman makes when he blows someone’s brains out. Martin Scorsese’s movie The Irishman was based on the book.”
― Miranda Devine, Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide