NEW YORK, NY – As Han Solo said of the mythical stories of Jedi knights, Luke Skywalker, and the dark side, “It’s true, all of it”, this week, the New York Times said the same thing about the mystery behind Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop.
In a story about President Joe Biden’s son Hunter’s tax troubles, the Times referenced the laptop, which social media giants Twitter and Facebook had previously classified as fake news, misinformation, and even Russian propaganda meant to help President Donald Trump during his re-election bid.
“People familiar with the investigation said prosecutors had examined emails between Mr. Biden, Mr. Archer, and others about Burisma and other foreign business activity,” the Times reported. “Those emails were obtained by The New York Times from a cache of files that appears to have come from a laptop abandoned by Mr. Biden in a Delaware repair shop. The email and others in the cache were authenticated by people familiar with them and with the investigation.”
The New York Post, who was censored by Twitter and Facebook over their bombshell Hunter Biden laptop report celebrated the Times’ arrival to the party.
“Authenticated!!! You don’t say. You mean, when a newspaper actually does reporting on a topic and doesn’t just try to whitewash coverage for Joe Biden, it discovers it’s actually true?” the Post responded.
“But wait, it doesn’t end there. In October 2020, the Times cast doubt that there was a meeting between Joe Biden and an official from Burisma, the Ukrainian gas company for which Hunter was a board member. “A Biden campaign spokesman said Mr. Biden’s official schedules did not show a meeting between the two men,” the Times wrote, acting as a perfect stenographer,” the Post claimed.
Hunter Biden’s laptop revealed a bizarre and lavish lifestyle of the President’s son who was given a high-paying job at a Ukrainian energy company in return, Ukraine was given access to his father, who then served as Vice President under Barack Obama.
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Thursday was pressed on the matter, but refused to comment.
“The New York Times has authenticated emails that appear to have come from a laptop abandoned by Hunter Biden in Delaware. The President previously said that the New York Post story about this was “a bunch of garbage” and that it was “a Russian plant.” Does he stand by that assessment?” a reporter asked.
“I’d point you to the Department of Justice and also to Hunter Biden’s representatives. He doesn’t work in the government,” Psaki responded.
Later in the press conference, the reporter asked, “And if I may, you were asked about Hunter Biden’s laptop. You also, in October 2020, dismissed it as “Russian disinformation.” Do you stand by that assessment?”
“Again, I’d point to the Department of Justice and Hunter Biden’s representatives. I’m a spokesperson for the United States; he doesn’t work for the United States,” Psaki replied.
In September of 2021, the New York Times quietly updated its article saying the Hunter Biden laptop story was “unsubstantiated”.
The Federal Election Commission dismissed accusations against social media networks that banned users for sharing the Post article.
“The Federal Election Commission has dismissed Republican accusations that Twitter violated election laws in October by blocking people from posting links to an unsubstantiated New York Post article about Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s son Hunter Biden, in a decision that is likely to set a precedent for future cases involving social media sites and federal campaigns,” Times reporter Shane Goldmacher stated in its original version.
The Times removed the word “unsubstantiated” from its story.
The FEC would later declare Twitter did nothing wrong in banning the story.
The Federal Election Commission reportedly ruled last August that Twitter did not violate election laws by blocking users from sharing a New York Post article based on a cryptographically authentic email from Hunter Biden’s laptop less than a month before the 2020 presidential election.
“The FEC found that Twitter’s move to censor the story was a commercial decision based on its hacked materials policy, according to the Times. The commission also ruled that there was “no information that Twitter coordinated” with the Biden campaign in censoring the story,” the Daily Caller News Foundation reported.
“Sometimes a newspaper story is just a story about someone. And sometimes the story inadvertently reveals far more about the newspaper itself,” New York Post writer Michael Goodman said this week of the Times’ coverup. “The reason for that coverup was simple: Many of the emails to and from Hunter Biden implicated Joe Biden in the international influence-peddling business run by Hunter and Joe’s brother Jim Biden.”