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The Hunter Biden laptop controversy involves a laptop computer that belonged to Hunter Biden, son of the then-presidential candidate and former vice president Joe Biden. The Federal Bureau of Investigation seized the laptop after being informed of its existence by John Paul Mac Isaac, a computer repair shop owner in Wilmington, Delaware, who claimed that it had been brought to his shop in April 2019 by a person claiming to be Hunter Biden, but never came back to retrieve it. Three weeks before the 2020 United States presidential election, the New York Post published a story presenting these claims, Hunter Biden's ownership, and some material on the laptop that was allegedly compromising for Joe Biden. The incumbent president and presidential candidate Donald Trump tried to turn the story into a so-called October surprise to hurt Joe Biden's campaign. Other conservative media outlets promoted the story, leading most other major media outlets to also discuss the story. The laptop was of unclear origin and contained emails allegedly from Hunter Biden and other digital files relating to Hunter Biden, some of which were confirmed as authentic in 2022. However, "the vast majority of the data — and most of the nearly 129,000 emails it contained — could not be verified by either of the two security experts who reviewed the data for The Post."PolitiFact wrote in June 2021: "Over time, there has been less doubt that the laptop did in fact belong to Hunter Biden", concluding that the laptop "was real in the sense that it exists, but it didn't prove much", as "[n]othing from the laptop has revealed îllégâl or unethical behavior by Joe Biden as vice president with regard to his son's tenure as a director for Burisma..." PolitiFact states that it is possible that "copies of a laptop" were obtained, instead of the actual laptop.

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