“JRB Ware,” indeed. Despite years of claiming that Joseph R. Biden has bewared of involvement in his son Hunter’s businesses, the e-mail record from Hunter’s laptop tells a much different story.

The New York Post analyzed their copy of the data and discovered that the pseudonyms identified by James Comer passed along inside information to Hunter. That includes diplomatic developments in Ukraine that related to Hunter’s business interests there while Biden was vice-president:

Then-Vice President Biden emailed Hunter under the aliases “Robin Ware,” “Robert L. Peters” and “JRB Ware” between 2014 and 2016, keeping his son abreast of scheduled talks with then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Kyiv Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman, among other communications The Post first revealed in 2021.

The elder Biden had one of his aides, John Flynn, send his daily schedule to the private email address “[email protected]” at least 10 times between May 18 and June 15, 2016, copying Hunter on a May 26 message with a note about an “8.45am prep for 9am phonecall [sic] with Pres Poroshenko.”

That meeting took place five months after Biden forced Poroshenko to fire Viktor Shokin, who at the time was investigating Burisma. Not coincidentally, Burisma was paying Hunter $1 million a year for … something, although it’s never been explained why they hired Hunter. The meeting in question involved the next steps in the US effort to deal with corruption in Ukraine, the New York Post reports from White House records.

Do you suppose Burisma might have wanted the inside scoop on that? Or perhaps more to the point, did Burisma want to make sure they got what they paid for in hiring Hunter?

Biden wasn’t the only public official sending information to Hunter and “Robert L. Peters,” either:

Hunter didn’t only receive heads-up about Ukraine from his dad’s office. In June 2015, Joe Biden’s longtime assistant Kathy Chung sent both Hunter and “Peters” a list of 25 cell phone numbers linked to major political players — including Bill and Hillary Clinton, Senate party leaders Mitch McConnell and Harry Reid, then-DNC Chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch.

Why would a vice president’s aide send that kind of information to the vice president’s son, if not to provide business contacts? In fact, why would a vice president use pseudonyms at all in conducting this kind of “business” except to hide illegal activity from Congress and other prying eyes? There is no other explanation other than to cover up personal corruption in allowing the vice president’s son to profit from inside information coming from a position of high public trust — and likely for the vice president himself to benefit from that profit, too.

Charles C.W. Cooke couldn’t figure out any other explanation yesterday in an NRO podcast, either:

“I am fairly generous in trying to find plausible reasons why someone could have done something or why the evidence that we have doesn’t suggest criminal or immoral behavior,” Charlie said. “. . . But my efforts yesterday to conceive of a reason why, if it is true, the president — at the time, vice president of the United States — should be using a pseudonym to exchange emails with Burisma and his son . . . Well, that search was fruitless.”

There is no other explanation. If Comer can firmly establish that “Robert L. Peters,” “JRB Ware,” and “Robin Ware” were all e-mail accounts used by Joe Biden, this is smoking-gun evidence of rank corruption.