Biden's response to Hunter's laptop story was false and misleading

 National Review:

White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Thursday declined to comment on a new report from the New York Times confirming the authenticity of emails and a laptop attributed to Hunter Biden in a censored New York Post story prior to the 2020 presidential election.

“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 officials acknowledged that there was no evidence linking the laptop— reportedly abandoned by the younger Biden at a Delaware repair shop— to Russian intelligence, but suggested that the link existed despite the lack 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.

“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 came in mid-October 2020, and was censored by Facebook and Twitter, as well as derided as part of a Russian disinformation campaign by many in the press. Both social media companies have admitted to erring in their actions pertaining to the article.

In September 2o21, the Times described the Post story as “unsubstantiated,” before retracting the claim a day later without affixing an editor’s note.
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Russia has become a go-to scapegoat for Democrats when attacking opponents like Trump or when trying to cover up a scandal like the "Laptop from Hell."  Joe Biden is quick to lie to cover up his family corruption operation.

See, also:

Major Report on Hunter Biden Laptop and Investigation Implodes White House Narrative

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