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Giuliani's been 'parading around with a Russian secret agent' and cannot be trusted: Dems brush off Rudy's warning that there is 'much more to come' on Hunter Biden laptop scandal

President Donald Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani promised 'much more to come' from Hunter Biden's laptop. 

Meanwhile, Democrats have already tossed cold water on the New York Post's story that details contents from a laptop allegedly belonging to Democratic nominee Joe Biden's son, which contains messages about Hunter Biden's Ukrainian business deals and photos of the 50-year-old smoking and doing drugs. 

'When evaluating any information provided to anyone by Rudy Giuliani, just remember he’s been parading around with a Russian secret agent for the last year, taking everything he says at face value,' tweeted Sen. Chris Murphy, a Democrat from Connecticut. 

Rudy Giuliani is promising there is 'much more to come' from a laptop that he believes belonged to Hunter Biden that contained information about the Democratic nominee's son's business dealings and pictures of him doing drugs

Rudy Giuliani is promising there is 'much more to come' from a laptop that he believes belonged to Hunter Biden that contained information about the Democratic nominee's son's business dealings and pictures of him doing drugs 

Giuliani gave the contents of the laptop over to The New York Post, which wrote a report saying it contained a 'smoking-gun' email revealing that Hunter Biden had introduced his father to an adviser at his Ukrainian gas firm. Joe Biden had said he never spoke to his son about his overseas business dealings

Giuliani gave the contents of the laptop over to The New York Post, which wrote a report saying it contained a 'smoking-gun' email revealing that Hunter Biden had introduced his father to an adviser at his Ukrainian gas firm. Joe Biden had said he never spoke to his son about his overseas business dealings 

Connecticut Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy tweeted Wednesday that Giuliani had been 'parading around with a Russian secret agent for the last year' and so Americans shouldn't take everything he says at 'face value'

Connecticut Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy tweeted Wednesday that Giuliani had been 'parading around with a Russian secret agent for the last year' and so Americans shouldn't take everything he says at 'face value' 

Murphy was talking about Giuliani's (left) associate Andriy Derkach (right), a Ukrainian lawmaker who the U.S. Treasury Department in September called 'an active Russian agent for over a decade'

Murphy was talking about Giuliani's associate Andriy Derkach , a Ukrainian lawmaker who the U.S. Treasury Department in September called 'an active Russian agent for over a decade' 

Murphy was referring to Ukrainian lawmaker Andriy Derkach, a Giuliani associate, who the Treasury Department deemed in September 'an active Russian agent for over a decade.'  

Derkach has not been formally tied to the information. 

Instead, a MacBook Pro believed to be owned by Hunter Biden - because it had a Beau Biden Foundation sticker on it - turned up at a computer repair shop in Delaware, where the owner turned over a copy to the feds and also made a copy of the harddrive for Giuliani.  

Giuliani said the FBI had investigated it and produced a grand jury summons as evidence. It is unknown what the FBI investigation was into or what has happened to it. 

The emails appear to shed new light on the younger Biden's business dealings in Ukraine, which were at the center of the Trump impeachment probe and which the president has repeatedly tried to use against the Democratic nominee.  

Joe Biden, who leads the polls with 20 days left until the election, has previously said he never speaks to his son about his overseas business dealings. His campaign offered no comment but Hunter's attorney accused Giuliani of pushing Russian disinformation.

The 'smoking-gun,' as The Post put it, was an email that purported to show Hunter Biden had introduced his father to an adviser at his Ukrainian gas firm before Joe Biden lobbied for the firing of a prosecutor who had investigated that company. 

The Biden campaign pushed back and said, 'we have reviewed Joe Biden's official schedules from the time and no meeting, as alleged by the New York Post, ever took place.' 

Burisma adviser Vadym Pozharskyi thanked Hunter Biden for 'an opportunity to meet your father' in an email sent in 2015, according to the stash of data given to The Post by Giuliani.  

A year later, Joe Biden successfully pushed for the prosecutor's removal, amid concerns at his failure to tackle corruption, which were shared by other countries. 

The files also show Hunter repeatedly apparently referring to his father as 'my guy' while writing to a colleague at Burisma. 

Hunter Biden (left) and his father Joe Biden (right) in 2016. Hunter's business dealings in Ukraine were at the center of the Trump impeachment case

Hunter Biden and his father Joe Biden in 2016. Hunter's business dealings in Ukraine were at the center of the Trump impeachment case 

In hot water: Hunter Biden's laptop also contained sexually explicit pictures and footage of him apparently smoking crack, the New York Post reported

In hot water: Hunter Biden's laptop also contained sexually explicit pictures and footage of him apparently smoking crack, the New York Post reported

Here's Hunter: The Democratic candidate's son's photos were part of the laptop which was obtained by Rudy Giuliani's attorney and has now been released by the president's lawyer

Here's Hunter: The Democratic candidate's son's photos were part of the laptop which was obtained by Rudy Giuliani's attorney and has now been released by the president's lawyer

Intimate pictures: An apparent mirror selfie of a topless Hunter Biden is among the cache of information released by Rudy Giuliani

Intimate pictures: An apparent mirror selfie of a topless Hunter Biden is among the cache of information released by Rudy Giuliani

Biden in bed: A photo of the former vice-president's son apparently asleep is among the pictures Giuliani released

Biden in bed: A photo of the former vice-president's son apparently asleep is among the pictures Giuliani released

WHO'S WHO IN THE HUNTER BIDEN EMAILS

Hunter Biden

Joe's son and Yale-educated attorney who was a lobbyist while his father was senator. Quit lobbying and founded investment and advisory firm Rosemont Seneca with John Kerry's stepson Christopher Heinz and Kerry adviser Devon Archer and also became lawyer with Boies Schiller Flexner. Now living in Los Angeles with second wife and sixth child after rehab for crack addiction

Burisma Holdings

Ukrainian natural gas producer founded by Mykola Zlochevsky, who was minister of natural resources under Ukraine's president Viktor Yanukovych, who was deposed in early 2014 in a revolution. That April Hunter Biden was appointed to Burisma's board to 'improve corporate governance,' and at the same time Britain Serious Fraud Office accused the oligarch and his company of money-laundering. Has been the subject of on and off again investigations by Ukrainian prosecutors

Devon Archer

Biden's business partner with Heinz, who was his Yale room mate. Heinz and Archer fell out over Biden being on board of Burisma. Archer is now convicted in a separate fraud after federal prosecution in New York

Vadym Pozharskyi 

Adviser to the board of Burisma who thanked Hunter in April 2015 for 'opportunity to meet' his father, then the vice-president. In September 2018 he met Trump's special envoy to Ukraine, Kurt Volker and other U.S. officials

Viktor Shokin

Controversial Ukrainian prosecutor general from February 2015 until March 2016. Conflicting accounts of whether he ordered a corruption investigation into Burisma; the issue remains unresolved. Widely accused of hindering fight against corruption generally by European Union diplomats, IMF and the U.S. Fired after Joe Biden demanded his removal in moment he later bragged about

Petro Poroshenko 

Ukrainian president from June 2014 to May 2019 and also an oligarch. Controversial record over corruption: he established an anti-corruption court but his 2019 re-election campaign was hit by claims of graft by his business partners

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WHO'S WHO IN THE HUNTER BIDEN EMAILS

Hunter Biden

Joe's son and Yale-educated attorney who was a lobbyist while his father was senator. Quit lobbying and founded investment and advisory firm Rosemont Seneca with John Kerry's stepson Christopher Heinz and Kerry adviser Devon Archer and also became lawyer with Boies Schiller Flexner. Now living in Los Angeles with second wife and sixth child after rehab for crack addiction

Burisma Holdings

Ukrainian natural gas producer founded by Mykola Zlochevsky, who was minister of natural resources under Ukraine's president Viktor Yanukovych, who was deposed in early 2014 in a revolution. That April Hunter Biden was appointed to Burisma's board to 'improve corporate governance,' and at the same time Britain Serious Fraud Office accused the oligarch and his company of money-laundering. Has been the subject of on and off again investigations by Ukrainian prosecutors

Devon Archer

Biden's business partner with Heinz, who was his Yale room mate. Heinz and Archer fell out over Biden being on board of Burisma. Archer is now convicted in a separate fraud after federal prosecution in New York

Vadym Pozharskyi 

Adviser to the board of Burisma who thanked Hunter in April 2015 for 'opportunity to meet' his father, then the vice-president. In September 2018 he met Trump's special envoy to Ukraine, Kurt Volker and other U.S. officials

Viktor Shokin

Controversial Ukrainian prosecutor general from February 2015 until March 2016. Conflicting accounts of whether he ordered a corruption investigation into Burisma; the issue remains unresolved. Widely accused of hindering fight against corruption generally by European Union diplomats, IMF and the U.S. Fired after Joe Biden demanded his removal in moment he later bragged about

Petro Poroshenko 

Ukrainian president from June 2014 to May 2019 and also an oligarch. Controversial record over corruption: he established an anti-corruption court but his 2019 re-election campaign was hit by claims of graft by his business partners

Other material in the cache is said to include sexually explicit images of Hunter, and footage of him smoking drugs while engaged in a sex act with a woman. 

The Post published four pictures of Biden in states of undress, one apparently in a bath, one in bed, and smoking in two of them.

Hunter, 50, has admitted to cocaine use in the past and received an administrative discharge from the US Navy reserve for that reason in 2014.  

The trove of files was given to the Post by Giuliani after the computer store owner gave one copy to the FBI and kept hold of another. 

He eventually gave it to Giuliani's lawyer, and the contents were passed to the Post after the paper learned of its existence from former Trump aide Steve Bannon. 

Giuliani has spearheaded claims, fiercely denied by both Bidens, that Joe Biden tried to fire Ukraine's chief prosecutor Viktor Shokin in order to stop him investigating Burisma. 

Shokin had previously led an investigation into the company's owner. 

Responding to the leak, lawyers for Hunter Biden said Giuliani was 'pushing widely discredited conspiracy theories'. 

The lawyers did not comment directly on the content of the emails, while Joe Biden and his campaign have yet to respond. 

The April 2015 email from Pozharskyi came a year after the Burisma adviser had written to Hunter asking for 'advice on how you could use your influence'.

Discussing his apparent meeting with Biden senior, Pozharskyi said it was an 'honor and a pleasure' to be introduced to the then-vice president. 

By late 2015, Biden was lobbying for the removal of Shokin, a position supported by the Obama administration, the IMF and other Western countries who regarded him as ineffective and an obstacle to corruption. 

In one phone call, then-Vice President Biden told Ukraine's president that he would commit a $1billion loan guarantee to the country once Shokin was fired.

Biden, 77, described this in a speech in 2018, saying: 'I looked at them and said: I'm leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you're not getting the money. 

'Well, son of a b****. He got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time.' 

The IMF also threatened to withhold $40billion to Ukraine if it failed to remove Shokin.  

Shokin was indeed fired in March 2016, by which time his investigation into Burisma had already been lying dormant for a time, according to reports last year.   

However, Burisma did have a reputation for corruption and last year's impeachment inquiry was told that Hunter Biden's involvement 'created the potential for the appearance of a conflict of interest'. 

Hunter joined the Burisma board in 2014 and served a five-year term, but reputedly never visited Ukraine for company business in that time.  

Joe Biden has previously accused Giuliani of peddling 'false, debunked conspiracy theories' about his son's involvement in Ukraine. 

The issue came rushing back into the spotlight last year after President Trump lobbied Ukraine's new president to investigate the Bidens' dealings.

Trump's request led to his impeachment after Democrats said he had abused his powers to strong-arm Ukraine into granting him a personal political favor. 

Democrats said Trump had used $391million of  foreign aid as a threat to pressure Ukraine, but the president denied there was any 'quid pro quo'. He was acquitted by the Republican-controlled Senate. 

A report by the Democratic-led House Judiciary Committee said last year there was 'no legitimate basis' to accuse Joe Biden of wrongdoing.

The report argued that Shokin's removal 'would have increased the likelihood that Burisma would be investigated for corruption, not the opposite, given that Mr. Shokin was widely considered to be both ineffective and corrupt'.  

Burisma adviser Vadym Pozharskyi (pictured) thanked Hunter Biden for 'an opportunity to meet your father' in an email sent in 2015

Burisma adviser Vadym Pozharskyi thanked Hunter Biden for 'an opportunity to meet your father' in an email sent in 2015

The Hunter Biden issue came rushing into the political spotlight last year after Donald Trump (pictured) lobbied Ukraine to investigate the Bidens, leading to his impeachment

The Hunter Biden issue came rushing into the political spotlight last year after Donald Trump lobbied Ukraine to investigate the Bidens, leading to his impeachment 

Trump tried to bring up Hunter at last month's presidential debate in Cleveland, saying he was 'given tens of millions of dollars' in his business dealings. 

The president also referred to Hunter's cocaine use, while incorrectly claiming that Hunter had been dishonorably discharged from the US Navy Reserve. 

The Democratic nominee's son was actually handed a less severe administrative discharge after failing a drug test.   

Joe Biden said in the debate: 'My son, like a lot of people, had a drug problem. He's overtaken it. He's fixed it. He's worked on it. And I'm proud of him.'

Hunter Biden's activities at Burisma have also been the target of scrutiny by a committee in the Senate. 

One email sent to his business partner Devon Archer around the time Hunter joined the company's corporate board repeatedly refers to his father as 'my guy'. 

In the same email, Hunter discussed a Burisma contract which he felt 'should include a retainer in the range of 25k per month'.  

It is reportedly dated just over a week before Joe Biden held a press conference in Ukraine with the country's PM Arseniy Yatsenyuk in April 2014.

'The announcement of my guys upcoming travels should be characterized as part of our advice and thinking - but what he will say and do is out of our hands,' Hunter Biden wrote on April 13, 2014.

'In other words it could be a really good thing or it could end up creating too great an expectation. We need to temper expectations regarding that visit.' 

Unwittingly caught up in the impeachment row last year, Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said Ukrainians are 'tired' of the issue and did not want Ukraine being dragged into the 2020 presidential race.  

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