The New York Post gets to gloat a little.
In a report that Hunter Biden, President Biden’s son, has finally paid a federal tax liability of more than $1 million but is still under investigation for his shady international business dealings, The New York Times confirmed that the “laptop from hell” left at a repair shop in Delaware is not “Russian disinformation.”
The machine is authentic, as are the emails, which were confirmed authentic long ago. They revealed the Biden Boys’ global business dealings that involved China and an influence-peddling scheme in Ukraine. The Post uncovered the laptop’s existence.
It also means Biden, his Mistress of Misinformation Jen Psaki, and Democratic spear carriers such as leftist Rep. Adam Schiff of California, have been lying about it since Day One of the story.
Emails, Laptop Confirmed
The Times’ key revelation is buried deep, more than two dozen paragraphs into its turgid, complex narrative.
“Over the last two years, federal prosecutors in Delaware have issued scores of subpoenas for documents related to Hunter Biden’s foreign work and for bank accounts linked to him and his associates, including two formerly close business partners, Eric Schwerin and Devon Archer, according to people familiar with the investigation,” the newspaper reported.
Last year, prosecutors interviewed Mr. Archer and subpoenaed him for documents and grand jury testimony, the people said. Mr. Archer, who was sentenced last month in an unrelated securities fraud case in which a decision to set aside his conviction was reversed, had served with Mr. Biden on Burisma’s board, starting in 2014.
People familiar with the investigation said prosecutors had examined emails between Mr. Biden, Mr. Archer and others about Burisma and other foreign business activity. 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 last two sentences of that passage vindicate not only the original report from the Post, which broke the laptop story, but also disclosures from John Solomon of JusttheNews.com.
Not Russian Disinformation
The significance of the Times report goes beyond confirming the authenticity of the laptop, or that Hunter Biden was a federal tax deadbeat who might be charged with violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
It also proves that the White House, and Biden himself, lied about the machine, which they surely knew belonged to Hunter. He had somehow landed on the board of directors of Burisma Holdings, an energy company, despite having zero experience in the energy industry and a long record as a raging drug addict.
“Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say,” Psaki tweeted over a story from Politico in October 2020.
In September last year, she stood by the absurd claim when Peter Doocy of Fox News asked her about a new book that authenticated the emails.
During his third debate with President Trump, then-candidate Joe Biden said the same thing. “There are 50 former national intelligence folks who said that what he’s accusing me of is a Russian plant,” Biden said during the third presidential debate when Trump raised the issue. “Five former heads of the CIA, both parties, say what he’s saying is a bunch of garbage,” Biden continued.
One didn’t.
John Ratcliffe, President Trump’s Director of National Intelligence, said the laptop and emails were authentic when Schiff peddled disinformation that the laptop and its contents were disinformation.
“Unfortunately … Adam Schiff … said that the intelligence community believes that Hunter Biden’s laptop and emails on it are part of a Russian disinformation campaign.”
Continued Ratcliffe:
Let me be clear: the intelligence community doesn’t believe that because there is no intelligence that supports that. And we have shared no intelligence with Chairman Schiff, or any member of Congress, that Hunter Biden’s laptop is part of some Russian disinformation campaign.
It’s simply not true.
Some of us said that from the beginning.
H/T: Breitbart
