Fox News host Tucker Carlson said on Wednesday a collection of confidential documents related to the Biden family obtained by his team this week “vanished” when they were shipped across the country.
During Wednesday’s airing of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson said that his staff received a “collection of confidential documents related to the Biden family” from a source on Monday, the same day that Carlson was in Los Angeles interviewing Tony Bobulinski, a former business partner of Hunter Biden, the son of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. Tucker said his team believed the documents were “authentic” and “damning.”
Carlson, who has cable news’s top-rated show, said that he asked a producer in New York to mail the documents to the team in Los Angeles on Monday afternoon using overnight shipping.
The package never arrived, and Carlson said he received a notification Tuesday morning from the shipping company saying that the envelope had been opened and the contents had “disappeared.”
Carlson did not say which shipping company his team had used but added that it took the complaint “seriously.” They were able to track the package from when Carlson’s producer shipped the package in New York until 3:44 a.m. Tuesday, when “an employee at a sorting facility in another state noticed that our package was opened and empty,” the host said.
A security team interviewed everyone who had touched the package and conducted a thorough investigation of the sorting facilities but were unable to locate the documents or determine what happened to them. “As of tonight, the company has no idea or no working theory, even, about what happened to this trove of material,” Carlson said.
Carlson made the announcement six days ahead of Election Day, when Biden seeks to defeat President Trump.
In his Monday interview with Carlson, Bobulinski said that he knew firsthand that Joe Biden was aware of his son’s business dealings in China, a claim that the former vice president has denied. Before his interview, Bobulinski released a tranche of documents to the press, the FBI, and the GOP-led Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. A spokesman for Sen. Ron Johnson, the chairman of that panel, told the Daily Caller that all the materials reviewed so far have turned out to be legitimate. The committee has not said what materials it has reviewed so far, nor did it say whether the documents that have been validated proved any of the allegations made by Bobulinski.
Earlier in Wednesday night’s show, Carlson revealed audio of a phone call with Bobulinski, Rob Walker, and James Gilliar, both former business partners of Hunter Biden, expressing their concern should Bobulinski’s allegations be publicized.
“If somebody comes out now and verifies the story, it blows up big time,” Walker said. “Already, it’s back on the front pages,” Gilliar added.
