Fact check: Did the New York Times finally admit that the Hunter Biden laptop story is true?
Finally in October 2022 they admitted the emails were real.
The New York Times is the perfect hostile witness for this story, as they spent over a year and a half denying it. The story first came out in October of 2020, when the New York Post published it. The New York Times finally published the story in March of 2022, nineteen months after the New York Post first published it.
This is a link to the article, and I’ve quoted the paragraph below in which the New York Times finally admitted the story is true and the facts are very damning, both for Hunter Biden and for the New York Times, which denied a true story for more than eighteen months.
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.
In some of the emails, Mr. Biden displayed a familiarity with FARA, and a desire to avoid triggering it.
In one email to Mr. Archer in April 2014, Mr. Biden outlined his vision for working with Burisma. In the email, Hunter Biden indicated that the forthcoming announcement of a trip to Ukraine by Vice President Biden — who is referred to in the email as “my guy,” but not by name — should “be characterized as part of our advice and thinking — but what he will say and do is out of our hands.”
This piece of information was added to my fact check when the article came out, in March of 2022,