Dr. Keith Ablow interprets Hunter Biden’s ‘Freudian desire’ to leave laptops behind on ‘Pod Force One’

Hunter Biden’s former psychiatrist, Dr. Keith Ablow, explained to The Post’s Miranda Devine that the reason the former first son abandoned several of his so-called “laptops from hell” may lie deep within his subconscious. 

“I don’t think you have to be a psychiatrist to say if somebody is leaving behind information of that kind on laptops, maybe there’s kind of a Freudian desire to be rid of that part of your life,” Ablow, 63, suggested on the latest episode of the “Pod Force One” podcast in reference to Hunter’s lurid sex-and-drug-fueled escapades.

“It’s interesting,” the former Fox News contributor and best-selling author continued. “I don’t know that Democrats would agree with this, or a lot of them, but God works in mysterious ways. And if you are unsettled with the kind of life you’re leading, or your life story, if it’s not authentic to you – and I don’t know if he had that sense, I mean, after all, he’s evolved, apparently, into an artist, quite different than what he was doing – then you may arrange, unconsciously, to rid yourself of that false persona.

“And if someone said to me, ‘Well, is it out of the question, Keith, that [Hunter] would literally dispense with that part of himself by leaving it behind again and again, yet, in a way that ultimately ends up with him pursuing a very different kind of life?’ I’d say, ‘Well, certainly it’s possible,’” Ablow added. 

“It’s kind of textbook.” 

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Hunter, now 55, infamously abandoned a laptop – loaded with emails detailing shady business deals involving then-Vice President Joe Biden, other family members and videos of himself smoking crack cocaine and having sex with prostitutes – at a Delaware computer repair shop in 2019, within weeks of his father announcing his 2020 White House run.  

The owner of the repair shop, John Paul Mac Isaac, alerted the FBI after he viewed some of the laptop’s alarming contents – and he also provided an associate of Rudy Giuliani with a copy of the hard drive, which Giuliani later provided to The Post to form the basis of a series of bombshell reports about the Biden family’s overseas business interests.

The abandoned laptop was used by federal prosecutors as evidence against Hunter in his gun trial — after which he was convicted on three felony charges, but later pardoned by his father.

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Later in the episode, Ablow and Devine discussed how Hunter’s bond with Joe Biden was forged and tested by the 1972 car accident that killed Hunter’s mother and baby sister as well as older brother Beau Biden’s death from brain cancer in 2015.

“If you are, as Hunter was, in the backseat of a car when your mother and sister are killed, it’s an indelible event,” the doctor said, “and would that set someone up to need a tremendous connection and have a magnified kind of hope that things will be OK and that the person who has now become your only parent will acquit himself perfectly?

“Would you bond with that person in an incredibly powerful way? Yes,” Ablow went on. “Could that lead to some ambivalence about it? Sure, because again, you want to be yourself. Everybody wants to be an individual … If that seems to be eroded by an outsized connection to another person, even your dad, you may have to do something unpredictable, dramatic, and even unconscious in order to have your own path in life.”

“In terms of what opens the door to addiction, it’s unbearable pain … If you aren’t able to think about how profound a loss you suffered as a little boy, for instance, you might then find yourself using drugs in order to not go there.”