The Hunter Biden laptop controversy began three weeks before the 2020 United States presidential election when the New York Post published a story in October 2020 using emails from a laptop computer which the Post alleged to show corruption by then-US presidential candidate candidate Joe Biden with regard to his son Hunter Biden's tenure as a director at Burisma Holdings Limited. Then-president Donald Trump tried to turn the story into an October surprise to hurt Biden's campaign, with Trump falsely claiming Biden had acted corruptly regarding Ukraine while in office. After extensive scrutiny of the laptop contents by multiple parties, no evidence of illegal or unethical activity by Joe Biden or Hunter Biden was found.