If we're to consider this being deliberate, let's look at another situation that could have been disastrous for him and his family, when he got caught with an illegal firearm. What did he do?

He immediately called in favors and got the thing buried. He protected himself, kept himself out of jail. And he did all of this while maintaining his drug and hooker habits.

So, why would we think he wouldn't do the same with this laptop which had literally everything on it. All the corrupt deals. All the evidence of Biden literally selling out America for money, connections to every major enemy of the US, and some child porn on there to boot? Why wouldn't Hunter immediately call in favors and get this thing buried like he did with the gun thing?

On that note, we've got Ashley Biden's diary of Project Veritas fame in this mix too. Hunter's laptop lays bare the dirty sex secrets of this family. The diary confirms it, from Ashley's own hand. Both were left out in the open to be found. Both of them resisted good faith efforts to return the "misplaced" items.

Possibilities:

• Revenge for mistreatment within the family and wanting to hurt his dad? Hunter's going down too with this. There's no way he comes out of it looking sympathetic.
• One of his Chinese friends in their intel community is blackmailing him and using this as a means of controlling Biden. That's certainly possible and the connections are well documented at this point. However, blackmail only works if the secrets stay secret. If the "secrets" are now public knowledge, can he be further blackmailed? Did Hunter leave the laptop to be found in order to destroy CCP leverage?

I'm not sure. Lots of questions. Few answers.