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White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Thursday refused to comment on a brand-new report from the New York Times verifying the authenticity of emails as well as a laptop associated with Hunter Biden in a censored New York Post story prior to the 2020 presidential election. A story, later polls have shown, could’ve thrown the whole race.
“I would point you to the Department of Justice and also to Hunter Biden’s representatives, he doesn’t work in the government,” said Psaki when asked if President Joe Biden stood by his past comments on the Post story.
“There are 50 former national intelligence folks who said that what he’s accusing me of is a Russian plant,” said the future president in 2020. Biden went on to observe that “five former heads of the CIA, both parties, say what he’s saying is a bunch of garbage.”
The open letter signed by former intelligence authorities acknowledged that there was no evidence connecting the laptop computer– apparently abandoned by the more youthful, scandal-prone Biden at a Delaware service center– to Russian intel, but went on to suggest that the link existed despite the complete absence of corroboration.
The Times article, which details the latest in the Justice Department’s investigation of the president’s son’s international business dealings, notes that emails exchanged between Hunter Biden and his business partners about Burisma, the Ukrainian energy company Biden served on the board of, have been obtained and looked at by prosecutors.
The Times story, which lays out in detail the most recent developments in the Justice Department’s investigation of the president’s wayward son’s global, and suspicious business dealings, keeps in mind that emails traded in between Hunter Biden and his service partners regarding Burisma, the Ukrainian power firm Biden served on the board of, have been acquired and also checked out by district attorneys.
“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 story acknowledges.
The Post’s original reporting on the matter was available in mid-October 2020, but was censored by Facebook and also Twitter, and even derided by the left as part of a Russian disinformation project by numerous so-called ‘journalists’. Both social media businesses have since confessed to erring in their activities relating to the article.
In September 2o21, the Times described the Post story as “unsubstantiated,” before retracting the claim a day later without even bothering to add an editor’s note.
Loads of former authorities in intel as well as national security joined to a letter— released through reporter Natasha Bertrand, then of Politico, now covering the White House for CNN– sharing the “view that the Russians are involved in the Hunter Biden email issue.” Signatories consisted of Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, and also CIA director John Brennan, all of whom offered in the Obama administration.
Psaki promoted the letter at the time while Michael Carpenter, a senior aide to the Biden campaign, reacted to the Post story by professing to be “very comfortable saying” that it was “a Russian disinformation operation.”
Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say https://t.co/zRdHxTxVsl
— Jen Psaki (@jrpsaki) October 20, 2020
After Politico’s Ben Schreckinger verified that several of the files reported on by the Post were real in September 2021, Psaki replied to a concern from Fox News’s Peter Doocy concerning the revelation by clinging to the party line, saying,
“I think it’s broadly known and widely known, Peter, that there was a broad range of Russian disinformation back in 2020.”
DOOCY TIME, part 2: Biden "has said and you have tweeted that allegations of wrongdoing based on files from Hunter Biden laptop are Russian disinformation. There is a new book…that finds some of the files…are genuine. Is the [WH] still going with Russian disinformation?" pic.twitter.com/zRKOzh9gJ1
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) September 24, 2021
Senator Chris Coons (D., DE.), an avowed Biden sycophant, professed to be “glad they’re managing the content on their own websites.”
A rogues gallery of other figures and outlets followed the Biden camp in dismissing and condemning the story, its authors, and even the New York Post itself.
Brian Stelter, chief propogandist ‘media correspondent’ for CNN declared mockingly at the time that the Post story was not based on “fully reliable sources here,” and called the Hunter Biden scandal “a classic example of the right-wing media machine,” and a “manufactured scandal.”
At National Public Radio, managing editor Terence Samuel wrote that the organization would not be covering the story because “we don’t want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don’t want to waste the listeners’ and readers’ time on stories that are just pure distractions.”
Why haven't you seen any stories from NPR about the NY Post's Hunter Biden story? Read more in this week's newsletter➡️ https://t.co/CJesPgmGvo pic.twitter.com/jAi7PnpbZf
— NPR Public Editor (@NPRpubliceditor) October 22, 2020
Later, NPR senior editor Ron Elving wrote that “the laptop story was discredited by US intelligence and independent investigations by news organizations,” in a glowing review of Hunter Biden’s memoir. That assertion was later retracted.
NBC News correspondent Heidi Pryzbyla warned that media outlets that reported on the emails would have “egg on” them.
On MSNBC’s Morning Joe, guest Dave Aronberg pontificated that the story looked “like it’s tied to Vladimir Putin in Moscow.”
Bertrand and NPR did not respond to requests for comment.
H/T National Review
