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A new batch of text messages from Hunter Biden’s laptop just handed Fox’s “The Five” its latest headache for the White House.
Newly surfaced texts pulled from Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop show the president’s son repeatedly using the N-word in exchanges with his own corporate attorney, George Mesires, according to transcript excerpts published by the Daily Mail in early June 2021. Co-host Jesse Watters and the panel on “The Five” tore into the revelations, framing them as the latest chapter in what Watters called the “laptop from hell” — a device that first surfaced publicly when the New York Post broke the story in October 2020 and has been dribbling out damaging material ever since.
- Text chains dated between late 2018 and early 2019 show Hunter Biden using the racial slur casually while messaging attorney George Mesires.
- The Daily Mail published the transcript excerpts in early June 2021, reviving scrutiny of a laptop the New York Post first reported on in October 2020.
- Jesse Watters argued on “The Five” that the steady drip of material from the laptop — covering foreign business dealings, addiction, personal conduct and now racial language — poses an ongoing political threat to President Biden.
Documentary Evidence Confirms Reported Findings
The exchanges in question aren’t a single stray comment — Snopes’ review of the reporting found the slur used repeatedly across multiple text chains with Mesires, Hunter Biden’s longtime corporate lawyer, spanning roughly late 2018 into early 2019. The Daily Mail’s transcript excerpts landed in early June 2021, giving the story fresh legs nearly eight months after the laptop first became a national story.
For a panel show built around unscripted reaction, the language itself was almost secondary to the pattern Watters kept hammering: this is one more entry in a file that already includes foreign business dealings in Ukraine and China, well-documented struggles with addiction, and now casual racist language directed at his own attorney.
Watters Makes His Case
Watters didn’t mince words on set, describing the device bluntly as the “laptop from hell” and arguing it carries enough combined weight to threaten his father’s standing in office. His argument wasn’t built on any single revelation — it was about volume. Business records, personal messages, and now racially charged texts all traced back to the same hard drive, all surfacing on a drip that keeps the story alive news cycle after news cycle.
The “laptop from hell” — Jesse Watters’ shorthand for a hard drive that keeps producing fresh headaches for the Biden family, eight months after it first became public.
The panel’s broader point tied directly into a running theme on Fox’s opinion side — that Joe Biden’s presidency has been repeatedly shadowed by unresolved questions his team would rather not address, a theme visitors to Joe Biden’s Bloopers, Blunders, and Gaffes: The TOP 30 Countdown! will recognize as a recurring complaint from the network’s hosts.
The Media Suppression Angle
A big chunk of the segment wasn’t about Hunter Biden at all — it was about who didn’t cover him. The panel revisited the fact that Twitter and Facebook both took action to limit the New York Post’s original October 2020 laptop story, and that much of the mainstream press either downplayed it or ignored it outright at the time. That grievance has become its own storyline independent of whatever the laptop actually contains, feeding into a broader conservative critique of how newsrooms and platforms handled the run-up to the 2020 election — a complaint laid out at length in What the MSM Was Afraid to Tell You.
Watters and the panel treated the resurfacing of the texts as vindication of sorts — proof, in their telling, that the original story was never adequately chased down, and that new material keeps validating concerns that were dismissed nearly a year earlier.
Persistent Trends Remain Highly Relevant
What makes the laptop story different from a typical one-week controversy is the sheer amount of unreviewed material still reportedly on the device. Every few months brings another batch — foreign consulting contracts, personal messages, now racial slurs in texts to his own lawyer — and each one restarts the news cycle. That’s precisely the dynamic Watters flagged on air: not one bombshell, but a slow leak that never fully stops.
Whether the Mesires texts change any minds outside Fox’s audience is an open question, but the pattern itself is now the story — another round of laptop material, another Fox panel segment, another round of the same media-suppression argument. Don’t be surprised if this isn’t the last batch of texts “The Five” ends up reacting to before the year’s out.
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