Was the Hunter Biden laptop story true?
Gee, I'm sure people in the media and the US government and the Big Tech Company fact checkers wouldn't lie to us. They are our friends.
In April 2019, Hunter Biden, the son of Joe Biden (Joe at the time was ‘increasing his assets’ with speaking tours and books, now US President), left his laptop for repair at a repair shop in Wilmington, Delaware. By October 2020, Hunter Biden hadn’t come back to retrieve his laptop, so John Paul Mac Isaac, the owner of the computer shop, looked into the contents of the laptop to see if he could find any clues as to how to find the owner and return the laptop.
Finding emails, photographs and home movies that incriminated Hunter Biden in criminal activities, John Paul Isaac handed the laptop over to the FBI for them to investigate, while also giving a copy of the contents to Rudy Giuliani, the former Mayor of New York and President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer.
The New York Post was the first to break this story and to publish some of the contents. At the time, the 2020 US Election was in full swing, and the laptop contents - which included very incriminating videos of some fairly unsavoury activities that we won’t go into and emails that indicated Hunter Biden was passing a share of millions of dollars in what appeared to be bribes along to his father from Burisma, a huge Ukrainian energy company of which Hunter Biden was a board member - could have changed the course of the US Election.
It seems to be quite a puzzle, really, as to how Hunter Biden became a board member of the multi-million dollar company despite being at that time in his life essentially a grifter and drug addict, if the contents of his laptop released on the New York Post are anything to go by. Hunter Biden has a law degree from Yale, and has managed companies before - so he didn’t come into that position without any experience. Some very suspicious interactions with Burisma regarding his father benefiting from his position are very difficult to write off. But that’s what the New York Times did for more than a year.
It was the New York Post that broke the story, reporting on 14th October 2020, “ an email obtained by The Post shows a senior Burisma executive thanking Hunter for the opportunity to meet Joe Biden just 12 months after Hunter joined the Burisma board at a reported salary of up to $50,000 a month. ‘Dear Hunter, thank you for inviting me to DC and giving an opportunity to meet your father and spent [sic] some time together. It’s realty [sic] an honor and pleasure,’ wrote top Burisma executive Vadym Pozharskyi in the April 17, 2015, email.”
Tony Bobulinski, Hunter’s business partner, confirmed that the emails bearing his name were legitimate right after the New York Post’s first report.
Doubt was cast on the contents of the laptop from all the official quarters, however, including fifty former intel officials who signed a letter saying it was Russian disinformation. Jen Psaki, the present Whitehouse press secretary, formerly an intrepid reporter with CNN, posted this gem at the time, with a lovely photograph of Hunter Biden looking cleancut and professional:
NBC News said, “The disinformation campaign appears to have been successful in its goal of generating a smear against the former vice president's son. According to Google Trends, "human trafficking" is now the third-most common related search term for "Hunter Biden" in the last year, after "laptop" and "New York Post," which point to search interest around the unconfirmed allegations that a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden contained evidence of crimes.”
Facebook and Twitter stopped the articles from being shared, calling them Russian disinformation. Washington Post columnist Greg Sargent called the story, "Trump's fake new Biden scandal," and said the allegations were "laughably weak."
The New York Times claimed that the story was Russian disinformation, and that intelligence agencies warned that Russian intelligence was using Rudy Giuliani to spread falsehoods about the Bidens, saying, “Mr. Trump and Mr. Giuliani have promoted unsubstantiated claims about Mr. Biden that have aligned with Russian disinformation efforts, and Mr. Giuliani has met with a Ukrainian lawmaker whom American officials believe is a Russian agent.”
OUR HOSTILE WITNESS: THE NEW YORK TIMES, FINALLY ADMITS THE STORY IS TRUE.
As I have said before, the hostile witness is the most important proof that something is true. The question is, what changed? Something big must be in the works; the New York Times feels like they have to report on this story now; it must be because of what is soon going to happen. (*Margot Cleveland at The Federalist agrees with my take on this; she has written a good article about what this might indicate.)
So it is that, in a long article about the FBI investigation into Hunter Biden which is progressing, the New York Times seems to have suddenly discovered that the emails were true. They talk about Hunter Biden’s “work for Burisma Holdings, the Ukrainian energy company” which “became a flashpoint in his father’s race in 2020 against President Donald J. Trump and helped set off the events that led to Mr. Trump’s first impeachment.”
The New York Times mentioned the “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.” It’s so timely of the New York Times to uncover these emails, that the New York Post and the Daily Mail, much more reputable newspapers it turns out, got hold of more than a year ago.
The New York Times seem to have discovered Hunter’s references to his father in these emails. It is new information to them but it’s old information to anybody who reads the real media, which today is not the New York Times apparently. “In one 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.’”
CORRECTED FACT CHECK HALL OF FAME -
THE TOO LITTLE TOO LATE AWARD GOES TO THE NEW YORK TIMES!
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/16/us/politics/hunter-biden-tax-bill-investigation.html
THE UNCORRECTED FACT CHECK HALL OF INFAMY
1) HALL OF MEALY MOUTHED PATHETIC FAKE FACT CHECK CORRECTIONS THAT HIDE THE TRUTH ABSOLUTE INFAMY
https://www.snopes.com/news/2020/10/15/hunter-biden-laptop-giuliani/
Snopes adds a paragraph hidden in the middle of the article about the recent New York Times confirmation of the story, but leave the conclusion the same, making it look like the story is untrue. This is the most pathetic example of fact check correction I’ve ever seen - how contemptible.
Snopes doesn’t even deserve a link. How disgustingly dishonest. This is how their fact check ends, as if there was any doubt at all about these emails:
We sent questions to the Post’s editors asking how the Post verified the authenticity of the hard drive’s contents and why it included personal images from it which were not pertinent to the story. We will update if we hear back.
And it’s perfectly clear why Joe Biden’s son smoking a crack pipe might be interesting, wouldn’t you think?
Here is a screen shot of their complete dishonesty. I wonder why they need to beg for money? Don’t ever bother going to Snopes ever again.
2) STILL UNCORRECTED EVEN AFTER MORE FACTS HAVE COME OUT HALL OF INFAMY
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/inside-campaign-pizzagate-hunter-biden-n1244331
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/19/hunter-biden-story-russian-disinfo-430276
Facebook, Twitter, etc etc
https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000175-4393-d7aa-af77-579f9b330000
& I haven’t even scratched the surface of the plethora of mainstream news organisations that failed to report this story as true at the time, despite the many confirmations that it was...
The fifty former intelligence agents who signed the letter saying the laptop was fake:
Jim Clapper
Former Director of National Intelligence
Former Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence
Former Director of the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency Former Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency
Mike Hayden
Former Director, Central Intelligence Agency
Former Director, National Security Agency
Former Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence
Leon Panetta
Former Director, Central Intelligence Agency Former Secretary of Defense
John Brennan
Former Director, Central Intelligence Agency
Former White House Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Advisor Former Director, Terrorism Threat Integration Center
Former Analyst and Operations Officer, Central Intelligence Agency
Thomas Finger
Former Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Analysis
Former Assistant Secretary for Intelligence and Research, Department of State Former Chair, National Intelligence Council
Rick Ledgett
Former Deputy Director, National Security Agency
John McLaughlin
Former Acting Director, Central Intelligence Agency
Former Deputy Director, Central Intelligence Agency
Former Director of Analysis, Central Intelligence Agency
Former Director, Slavic and Eurasian Analysis, Central Intelligence Agency
Michael Morell
Former Acting Director, Central Intelligence Agency Former Deputy Director, Central Intelligence Agency Former Director of Analysis, Central Intelligence Agency
Mike Vickers
Former Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Former Operations Officer, Central Intelligence Agency
Doug Wise
Former Deputy Director, Defense Intelligence Agency Former Senior CIA Operations Officer
Nick Rasmussen
Former Director, National Counterterrorism Center
Russ Travers
Former Acting Director, National Counterterrorism Center
Former Deputy Director, National Counterterrorism Center
Former Analyst of the Soviet Union and Russia, Defense Intelligence Agency
Andy Liepman
Former Deputy Director, National Counterterrorism Center Former Senior Intelligence Officer, Central Intelligence Agency
John Moseman
Former Chief of Staff, Central Intelligence Agency
Former Director of Congressional Affairs, Central Intelligence Agency Former Minority Staff Director, Senate Select CommiSee on Intelligence
Larry Pfeiffer
Former Chief of Staff, Central Intelligence Agency Former Director, White House Situation Room
Jeremy Bash
Former Chief of Staff, Central Intelligence Agency
Former Chief of Staff, Department of Defense
Former Chief Counsel, House Permanent Select CommiSee on Intelligence
Rodney Snyder
Former Chief of Staff, Central Intelligence Agency
Former Director of Intelligence Programs, National Security Council Chief of Station, Central Intelligence Agency
Glenn Gerstell
Former General Counsel, National Security Agency
David B. Buckley
Former Inspector General, Central Intelligence Agency
Former Democratic Staff Director, House Permanent Select CommiSee on Intelligence Former Counterespionage Case Officer, United States Air Force
Nada Bakos
Former Analyst and Targeting Officer, Central Intelligence Agency
Patty Brandmaier
Former Senior Intelligence Officer, Central Intelligence Agency
Former Deputy Associate Director for Military Affairs, Central Intelligence Agency Former Deputy Director of Congressional Affairs, Central Intelligence Agency
James B. Bruce
Former Senior Intelligence Officer, Central Intelligence Agency Former Senior Intelligence Officer, National Intelligence Council
Considerable work related to Russia
David Cariens
Former Intelligence Analyst, Central Intelligence Agency 50+ Years Working in the Intelligence Community
Janice Cariens
Former Operational Support Officer, Central Intelligence Agency
Paul Kolbe
Former Senior Operations Officer, Central Intelligence Agency Former Chief, Central Eurasia Division, Central Intelligence Agency
Peter Corsell
Former Analyst, Central Intelligence Agency
Brett Davis
Former Senior Intelligence Officer, Central Intelligence Agency
Former Deputy Director of the Special Activities Center for Expeditionary Operations, CIA
Roger Zane George
Former National Intelligence Officer
Steven L. Hall
Former Senior Intelligence Officer, Central Intelligence Agency Former Chief of Russian Operations, Central Intelligence Agency
Kent Harrington
Former National Intelligence Officer for East Asia, Central Intelligence Agency Former Director of Public Affairs, Central Intelligence Agency
Former Chief of Station, Central Intelligence Agency
Former Analyst, Central Intelligence Agency
Don Hepburn
Former Senior National Security Executive
Timothy D. Kilbourn
Former Dean, Sherman Kent School of Intelligence Analysis, Central Intelligence Agency Former PDB Briefer to President George W. Bush, Central Intelligence Agency
Ron Marks
Former Officer, Central Intelligence Agency
Twice former staff of the Republican Majority Leader
Jonna Hiestand Mendez
Technical Operations Officer, Central Intelligence Agency
Emile Nakhleh
Former Director of the Political Islam Strategic Analysis Program, Central Intelligence Agency Former Senior Intelligence Analyst, Central Intelligence Agency
Gerald A. O’Shea
Senior Operations Officer, Central Intelligence Agency
Served four tours as Chief of Station, Central Intelligence Agency
David Priess
Former Analyst and Manager, Central Intelligence Agency Former PDB Briefer, Central Intelligence Agency
Pam Purcilly
Former Deputy Director of Analysis, Central Intelligence Agency
Former Director of the Office of Russian and European Analysis, Central Intelligence Agency Former PDB Briefer to President George W. Bush, Central Intelligence Agency
Marc Polymeropoulos
Former Senior Operations Officer, Central Intelligence Agency
Former Acting Chief of Operations for Europe and Eurasia, Central Intelligence Agency
Chris Savos
Former Senior Intelligence Officer, Central Intelligence Officer
Nick Shapiro
Former Deputy Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor to the Director, Central Intelligence Agency
John Sipher
Former Senior Operations Officer, Central Intelligence Agency
Former Deputy Chief of Russian Operations, Central Intelligence Agency
Stephen Slick
Former Senior Director for Intelligence Programs, National Security Council Former Senior Operations Office, Central Intelligence Agency
Cynthia Strand
Former Deputy Assistant Director for Global Issues, Central Intelligence Agency
Greg Tarbell
Former Deputy Executive Director, Central Intelligence Agency
Former Analyst of the Soviet Union and Russia, Central Intelligence Agency
David Terry
Former Chairman of the National Intelligence Collection Board
Former Chief of the PDB, Central Intelligence Agency
Former PDB Briefer to Vice President Dick Cheney, Central Intelligence Agency
Greg Treverton
Former Chair, National Intelligence Council
John Tullius
Former Senior Intelligence Officer, Central Intelligence Agency
David A. Vanell
Former Senior Operations Officer, Central Intelligence Agency
Winston Wiley
Former Director of Analysis, Central Intelligence Agency
Former Chief, Counterterrorism Center, Central Intelligence Agency
Kristen Wood
Former Senior Intelligence Officer, Central Intelligence Agency Former PDB Briefer, Central Intelligence Agency
And the additional nine former IC officers who declined to be named; well at least their reputation for honesty is intact.
REAL NEWS REFERENCES
*This great Federalist article comes up with some good theories as to why the New York Times is doing this now. https://thefederalist.com/2022/03/25/4-big-takeaways-from-nyts-attempt-to-control-the-hunter-biden-narrative/
https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/email-reveals-how-hunter-biden-introduced-ukrainian-biz-man-to-dad/
https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/voters-have-right-to-know-what-joe-biden-did-for-son-hunter-devine/
https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/email-reveals-how-hunter-biden-introduced-ukrainian-biz-man-to-dad/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/hunter-biden/index.html
https://nypost.com/2022/03/17/psaki-ignores-posts-hunter-biden-laptop-scoop-verification/
https://nypost.com/2020/12/11/repair-shop-owner-at-center-of-hunter-biden-saga-defends-himself/
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hunter-biden-emails-computer-repair-store-owner-john-paul-mac-isaac
CORRECTION
I was in error when I said Hunter Biden had no experience in company management; he has a law degree and has managed quite a few companies since he finished his studies.
UPDATES
23 March 2022 Updated the snopes fact check fact check to reflect their terminal dishonesty.
25 March 2022 Updated to include the Federalist article. And updated the section about Hunter Biden’s qualifications and experience to reflect the facts.