Now that Joe Biden is president, the media are willing to admit what everyone knew to be true back in 2020: that his son, Hunter Biden, was (and may continue to be) engaged in shady foreign business dealings, many of which were documented on a laptop he abandoned at a Delaware computer repair shop in 2019.
In an extensive report this week about the federal government’s investigation into the younger Biden’s tax filings, the New York Times admitted that this abandoned laptop, the existence of which was reported by the New York Post back in October 2020, is, in fact, legitimate. The publication revealed the FBI seized the laptop and its hard drive from the Delaware repair shop owner and handed it over to federal prosecutors, who have been looking into the laptop’s emailed correspondence between Biden and his former business associates.
The New York Times wrote:
A little over a year ago, this paragraph from the New York Times would have prompted a crackdown from Big Tech. Its Twitter account would have been suspended, circulation of the story on Facebook would have been squashed, and users who shared it would have found themselves deplatformed as well. That is, after all, exactly what happened to the New York Post.
Social media companies absurdly claimed this crackdown was necessary because reports about Biden’s laptop violated their rules on misinformation and hacked material. This was always a lie — one that much of the media willingly ran with. NPR said it would not be covering the story because it didn’t want to “waste … time on stories that are not really stories.” CNN’s Brian Stelter dismissed the story as a “classic example of the right-wing media machine.” MSNBC’s Joy Reid said the story was a “Russian hatchet-job.” Politico published a letter from more than 50 former “senior intelligence officials” who smeared the story as a “Russian information operation.”
But now the New York Times is admitting Biden’s laptop was legitimate and that the New York Post’s reports on it were accurate. We don’t even need to bother asking, “Why now?,” because the answer is obvious: The election is over. Joe Biden doesn’t need saving. He’s already in the White House, and whatever corruption his son was involved in will now be considered largely irrelevant.
The media got what they wanted, and the public got to catch a glimpse of the true nature of a press corps more interested in advancing its own political agenda than in telling the truth.
