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Politico scribe ‘confirms’ what you read here
IN his new book, “The Bidens: Inside the First Family’s FiftyYear Rise to Power,” Politico reporter Ben Schreckinger says that evidence points to Hunter Biden’s laptop being legit. While we appreciate the support, the truth is that The Post’s reports always have been true, and it’s only because the media want to protect Joe Biden that they keep referring to the laptop as “unsubstantiated.”
Schreckinger notes that “a person who had independent access to Hunter Biden’s e-mails” confirms two of those messages The Post published, including one about a potential deal with China with the line “10 held by H for the big guy?” — that is, Joe Biden.
But Hunter Biden’s former business partner Tony Bobulinski already said those e-mails were authentic — the media just ignored him.
Schreckinger adds that e-mails released by the Swedish government also match e-mails from the laptop. (Hunter had gotten into a kerfuffle when he was staying in a Swedish Embassy building). That’s also been reported.
For those who doubt that Hunter would just forget a laptop at a repair shop, Schreckinger notes that Biden’s son abandoned another computer at the home of psychiatrist Keith Ablow. Feds seized that machine when they raided Ablow over abuse claims; Hunter eventually got it back.
“I wasn’t keeping tabs on possessions very well for about a fouryear period of time,” Hunter said.
All of this information is out there. Yet The New York Times still called the laptop “unsubstantiated” last week (until quietly correcting the story). And even as Politico credited its reporter, it added, “While the leak contains genuine files, it remains possible that fake material has been slipped in.”
What part? The pictures of Hunter smoking crack?
Schreckinger called the White House to check whether, as we reported, Joe Biden met Hunter for an April 2015 dinner that included Burisma adviser Vadym Pozharskyi. Biden’s team pointed him to a Washington Post “fact check” — which noted that the team had at first said there was “no record of such a meeting,” until they finally conceded that, yes, Joe did drop in on that dinner. The fact confirmed, the writer still concludes, haughtily, that there’s “less to the story than one might imagine.”
It’s the perfect example of how Democrats weaponize “fact checkers” to deflect criticism and enlist social media to censor articles. Nothing to see here! See: The Wuhan lab theory.
Consider the level of skepticism brought to bear here. Biden’s team lied to us, but we’ll take them at their word that nothing of consequence happened at that dinner. E-mail after e-mail, picture after picture from the laptop are proven authentic, but hey, maybe some of it is fake.
The laptop is “unsubstantiated” because the media don’t want it substantiated. We figure that won’t change, but thanks, Mr. Schreckinger, for at least bucking the trend.