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Hunter Biden bought and used burner phone apps, laptop records show

The Washington Examiner

Hunter Biden bought and used burner phone applications from the Apple app store from 2014 through 2018, records on a copy of his abandoned laptop obtained by the Washington Examiner show.

The applications — Phoner, textplus, and Wephone — gave him the ability to generate new phone numbers capable of making calls and texting from his iphones and ipads, said Konstantinos “Gus” Dimitrelos, a former Secret Service agent and cyber forensics expert who examined a copy of Biden’s abandoned laptop for the Washington Examiner.

It’s unclear why the son of President Joe Biden purchased and used burner phone apps or whether and to what extent he did so to pursue business deals or his drug habit.

When asked to comment, an attorney for Hunter Biden demanded that the Washington Examiner provide a copy of it but refused to respond to any questions concerning its contents.

Dimitrelos found a spreadsheet on Hunter Biden’s hard drive created Jan. 21, 2019, containing records of his transactions in the Apple app store.

“The file contained over 2,000 purchases by Robert Hunter Biden and dozens of purchases of burner phone apps, which are used to generate alternate phone numbers capable of making calls and texting from a primary mobile device such as an iphone or ipad,” Dimitrelos said.

Hunter Biden made multiple purchases with each of the burner phone applications. Item descriptions for the purchases include “Unlimited Mexico Calls,” “Unlimited Calling US & Canada,” and “Second Phone Number Yearly.”

Dimitrelos cross-referenced the records in the spreadsheet with emailed receipts on the hard drive. He also found pictures Hunter Biden took of the credit cards he used to buy the burner phone applications. Metadata attached to the pictures show they were taken with an iphone X, which Hunter Biden had linked to his icloud account.

Hunter Biden used the Phoner application at least once to record a call between him and Hallie Biden, the widow of his brother, Beau Biden. Hunter Biden and Hallie Biden began a romantic relationship shortly after Beau Biden’s death in 2015.

In the 8-minute phone call, which Hunter Biden recorded via the Phoner application toward the end of their relationship on Aug. 14, 2018, he yelled at her for hanging up on him during a previous call and begged her to “name one thing you love about me.”

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