described her as "one of Trump's favourite writers" after the President again retweeted one of her articles. Devine drew criticism for a "fantastically fawning love letter" to Trump in which she described him as an "invincible hero" after his recovery from COVID-19 and called COVID-19 "the Chinese virus". Devine has since repeated Donald Trump's unsuccessful attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election with unsubstantiated claims that Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 United States presidential election was driven by large-scale electoral fraud. In January 2021, Devine blamed past Black Lives Matter demonstrations for the actions of rioters during the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol. Quaden Bayles In February 2020, Devine alleged in a series of tweets that a video showing Quaden Bayles, an Indigenous boy with achondroplasia dwarfism, crying after being bullied at school, was a scam and that Bayles was actually an adult actor. That led to Quaden's mother, Yarraka, suing Devine for defamation on behalf of her son, and also suing on her own behalf over Devine's suggestion she had coached Quaden. In September 2020, ahead of an anticipated settlement of the suit, Devine, who was on secondment at the New York Post, tweeted an apology for her allegations that the video had been faked. Hunter Biden conspiracy Miranda Devine has been cited as the source for a rental application of Hunter Biden's purporting to have previous paid $49,910 of rent a month at a previous property. This has been construed by Tucker Carlson, Judge Jeanine and other Fox News hosts as proof of money laundering within the Biden family. The Fact checking website PolitiFact, points out that this claim is wrong, and that the actual property referenced is Hunter Biden's office space in the "House of Sweden" building on K Street, Washington, D.C. References External links 1961 births Living people Writers from New York City 20th-century Roman Catholics 21st-century Roman Catholics Australian columnists Australian Roman Catholics Australian conspiracy theorists Female critics of feminism Macquarie University alumni Australian women columnists Fox News people New York Post people