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October 31, 2020 8:26 p.m.
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In the chaotic rush of news you may have noticed this headline that another laptop of Hunter Biden’s was found in a February DEA raid. Read a little further and you learn it was a raid on the office of a “celebrity psychiatrist.” One might legitimately ask just how many laptops Hunter Biden owned and why he seemed to be leaving them all over the country – this one was in Massachusetts. But one would look long and hard for any clear reference to the fact that this “celebrity psychiatrist” was in fact a high profile former Fox News commentator named Keith Ablow.

If you don’t remember Ablow, you can see some of his greatest hits here, your standard litany of racist or otherwise outrageous claims – Obama wants Ebola in America because “his affinities” are with Africa. Stuff like that. Ablow, a psychiatrist, was eventually bounced from Fox News. A year later a stream of former patients came forward to accuse him of various forms of sexual misconduct. He eventually lost his license to practice medicine.

But how on earth did what purports to be one of Hunter Biden’s laptops end up in his possession on or before February 2020? Remember, Biden allegedly dropped off three of them at a Delaware computer repair shop. The idea seems to be that Biden, strung out on coke, was crisscrossing the country dropping off numerous laptops with Fox News personalities and friends of President Trump. It really seems hard to figure.

But again, what seems relevant here is how an actual or concocted laptop belonging to Hunter Biden ended up in the possession of a high profile Fox News personality around the time of the President’s impeachment trial.

[ed.note: An earlier version of this post incorrectly stated that Ablow was let go by Fox News after charges of sexual misconduct were lodged against him. In fact, he was let go a year earlier.]

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