The NYT Now Admits the Biden Laptop — Falsely Called “Russian Disinformation” — is Authentic

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By Glenn Greenwald

One of the most successful disinformation campaigns in modern American electoral history occurred in the weeks prior to the 2020 presidential election. On October 14, 2020 — less than three weeks before Americans were set to vote — the nation’s oldest newspaper, The New York Post, began publishing a series of reports about the business dealings of the Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, in countries in which Biden, as Vice President, wielded considerable influence (including Ukraine and China) and would again if elected president.

 

The backlash against this reporting was immediate and intense, leading to suppression of the story by U.S. corporate media outlets and censorship of the story by leading Silicon Valley monopolies. The disinformation campaign against this reporting was led by the CIA’s all-but-official spokesperson Natasha Bertrand (then of Politico, now with CNN), whose article on October 19 appeared under this headline: “Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say.”

 

Natasha Bertrand, Politico, Oct. 19, 2020

 

These “former intel officials” did not actually say that the “Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo.” Indeed, they stressed in their letter the opposite: namely, that they had no evidence to suggest the emails were falsified or that Russia had anything to do them, but, instead, they had merely intuited this “suspicion” based on their experience:

We want to emphasize that we do not know if the emails, provided to the New York Post by President Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, are genuine or not and that we do not have evidence of Russian involvement — just that our experience makes us deeply suspicious that the Russian government played a significant role in this case.

But a media that was overwhelmingly desperate to ensure Trump’s defeat had no time for facts or annoying details such as what these former officials actually said or whether it was in fact true. They had an election to manipulate. As a result, that these emails were “Russian disinformation” — meaning that they were fake and that Russia manufactured them — became an article of faith among the U.S.’s validly despised class of media employees.

 

Very few even included the crucial caveat that the intelligence officials themselves stressed: namely, that they had no evidence at all to corroborate this claim. Instead, as I noted last September, “virtually every media outlet — CNN, NBC News, PBS, Huffington PostThe Intercept, and too many others to count — began completely ignoring the substance of the reporting and instead spread the lie over and over that these documents were the by-product of Russian disinformation.” The Huffington Post even published a must-be-seen-to-be-believed campaign ad for Joe Biden, masquerading as “reporting,” that spread this lie that the emails were “Russian disinformation.”

 

This disinformation campaign about the Biden emails was then used by Big Tech to justify brute censorship of any reporting on or discussion of this story: easily the most severe case of pre-election censorship in modern American political history. Twitter locked The New York Post‘s Twitter account for close to two weeks due to its refusal to obey Twitter’s orders to delete any reference to its reporting. The social media site also blocked any and all references to the reporting by all users; Twitter users were barred even from linking to the story in private chats with one another. Facebook, through its spokesman, the life-long DNC operative Andy Stone, announced that they would algorithmically suppress discussion of the reporting to ensure it did not spread, pending a “fact check[] by Facebook’s third-party fact checking partners” which, needless to say, never came — precisely because the archive was indisputably authentic.

 

The archive’s authenticity, as I documented in a video report from September, was clear from the start. Indeed, as I described in that report, I staked my career on its authenticity when I demanded that The Intercept publish my analysis of these revelations, and then resigned when its vehemently anti-Trump editors censored any discussion of those emails precisely because it was indisputable that the archive was authentic (The Intercept‘s former New York Times reporter James Risen was given the green light by these same editors to spread and endorse the CIA’s lie, as he insisted that laptop should be ignored because “a group of former intelligence officials issued a letter saying that the Giuliani laptop story has the classic trademarks of Russian disinformation.”) I knew the archive was real because all the relevant journalistic metrics that one evaluates to verify large archives of this type — including the Snowden archive and the Brazil archive which I used to report a series of investigative exposés — left no doubt that it was genuine (that includes documented verification from third parties who were included in the email chains and who showed that the emails they had in their possession matched the ones in the archive word-for-word).

 

Any residual doubts that the Biden archive was genuine — and there should have been none — were shattered when a reporter from Politico, Ben Schreckinger, published a book last September, entitled “The Bidens: Inside the First Family’s Fifty-Year Rise to Power,” in which his new reporting proved that the key emails on which The New York Post relied were entirely authentic. Among other things, Schreckinger interviewed several people included in the email chains who provided confirmation that the emails in their possession matched the ones in the Post‘s archive word for word. He also obtained documents from the Swedish government that were identical to key documents in the archive. His own outlet, Politico, was one of the few to even acknowledge his book. While ignoring the fact that they were the first to spread the lie that the emails were “Russian disinformation,” Politico editors — under the headline “Double Trouble for Biden”— admitted that the book “finds evidence that some of the purported Hunter Biden laptop material is genuine, including two emails at the center of last October’s controversy.”

 
The vital revelations in Schreckinger’s book were almost completely ignored by the very same corporate media outlets that published the CIA’s now-debunked lies. They just pretended it never happened. Grappling with it would have forced them to acknowledge a fact quite devastating to whatever remaining credibility they have: namely, that they all ratified and spread a coordinated disinformation campaign in order to elect Joe Biden and defeat Donald Trump. With strength in numbers, and knowing that they speak only to and for liberals who are happy if they lie to help Democrats, they all joined hands in an implicit vow of silence and simply ignored the new proof in Schreckinger’s book that, in the days leading up to the 2020 election, they all endorsed a disinformation campaign.
 

It will now be much harder to avoid confronting the reality of what they did, though it is highly likely that they will continue to do so.

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But Meanwhile the New York Pravda continues to print its Fake News in its liberal rag all 12 months a a year

What about all of those scumbags who signed the letter affirming it was Russian disinformation?

Ok now how about those Huma/Weiner Laptops.
Happy St. Patricks day everyone.

Uh-oh… has idiot Biden’s disastrous performance as the most fraudulent president in history cost him his liberal media protection? Might they (or some of them) begin reporting semi-honestly on idiot Biden and his crime family?

Putin puts sanctions on the Bidens, a previous 3.5 million dollar payoff from a russian widow, how much of the chinese payoff and other slimey deals ill gotton gains sit in Russia? There are others too.

White House Spokesperson Jen Psaki Gets Very Nervous When Questioned About Joe Biden Financial Conflicts of Interest in Russia, Ukraine and China

Joe Biden’s press secretary was questioned today about the Biden family’s well documented dealing with Russian Billionaires, Ukraine officials and Hunter Biden’s deals with China.
The specific question was asking how the White House handles the conflicts of interest when engaging with policy decisions over Russia, Ukraine and China. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki nervously attempted to avoid the questions, but her responses shouted guilt. WATCH:

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There is growing speculation that the US Attorney in Delaware is getting closer to a potential indictment relating to tax questions surrounding the crack addicts income over the years while a board member of burisma.

BTW

Big thumbs up on the new features on the site.

Trump Responds To Hunter Biden Bombshell
We have been vindicated, and so has everyone else, including the Daily Mail, who has had the courage to bring the American people the truth about Hunter Biden’s laptop contents.
We interviewed Jack Maxey numerous times and published numerous stories about the open secrets on Hunter Biden’s ‘LapTop From Hell’, which was suppressed by big tech and the media oligarchs before the 2020 Presidential election.

The biggest news is that President Donald J. Trump was right, and activists and media pundits have been ringing the bell about this same laptop- while powerful forces have tried to spike the information from the American people.
Consider this- when Leslie Stahl tried to shame and humiliate Trump for speaking the truth about the laptop:

It is well known by now that many prominent political and media figures were busy gaslighting the country over the contents of Biden’s laptop- and now- as if it is no big deal, the American people are finding out that YES, the contents on Hunter Biden’s laptop are accurate- and everyone knew.

Trump responded to the news that the New York Times finally admitted that Hunter’s laptop is real, and not Russian disinformation.

Trump in a statement said, “The New York Times just admitted that it participated in an effort to rig the election for Joe Biden.”

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Remember, this scandal involves the US Intelligence community, who lied about the laptop.
And according to Maxey, everyone in DC has known for a very long time about the Biden scandals, and there has been cover-up on massive crimes against the American people by what Maxey calls “The Biden Crime Family.”

Maxey has been out in public saying that the information on the laptop is not just shocking about Hunter, but about many- many people in the US Government, and could impact most of DC with their associations to Bidens.
Maxey has been on a worldwide tour for almost two years to demand that lawmakers examine the contents of Hunter’s laptop and do something about it.
As of now, there have been no consequences for anyone in the government “swamp,” only for advisors to Trump and for the American people.
As we covered here, Maxey delivered a copy of the contents of Hunter’s laptop to the US Senate Judiciary Committee and has been waiting for the US Government to do its job, with its oversight powers.
Check out this stream of stories:

The Daily Mail updated about Jack Maxey here, reporting that the New York Times has to admit it is all true:

EXCLUSIVE: They’re as slow as Joe! Sleepy New York Times FINALLY wakes up and admits Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop IS REAL, a YEAR after DailyMail.com authenticated its contents and broke dozens of stories about his shady dealings.

  • The New York Times admitted the contents of Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop are indeed authentic, in a report about his business dealings published this week
  • The Macbook Pro was recovered in October 2020 after the president’s son left it at a repair shop in Wilmington, Delaware in April 2019 and never returned for it
  • When files from the device were first published ahead of the 2020 election, the NYT cast doubt on its provenance and linked it to Russian disinformation
  • On Wednesday, the paper changed its tune in an article referencing the files, which they confirmed ‘were authenticated by people familiar with them’
  • Last March, DailyMail.com authenticated the laptop and was the first – and only – news organization to publicly verify its contents using expert analysis
  • DailyMail.com can also reveal that the Washington Post has had a copy of the laptop hard drive for over six months, but has failed to admit it or report on it
  • ‘They haven’t done anything. They’re not just late to the party, they didn’t even show up,’ said Jack Maxey, a political activist who gave DailyMail.com the laptop

But we -are NOT late to the party. We have been covering Maxey for a long time, and brought the story about the collusion, the hoaxes and the gaslighting, to the table.
Even when it was pretty scary to do.

Consider this story- the Intel agency told us that the contents of the laptop were Russian disinformation. That is the usurpation. That is the scandal.
Maxey gave us the inside info.

We will keep following up with Maxey, he seems to be the only one brave enough to really dig in and demand action on this.
Perhaps Trump’s slogan for 2024 should be- Make The Truth Great Again.

Meanwhile, Hunter has more problems himself. He is expected to face tax fraud charges, said the attorney for the mother of Hunter’s 3-year-old daughter.
Jeff Miller of Republic Brief reported:

Lunden Alexis Roberts, the mother of Hunter’s daughter, testified to a Delaware grand jury in the criminal investigation of Hunter this week, according to Clint Lancaster, her attorney. Former stripper Roberts had once been employed by Hunter Biden’s consulting firm, according to the New York Post.
The authorities have already received a substantial amount of Hunter’s financial records from Lancaster.
“I expect him to be indicted,” Lancaster to a CNBC reporter. “Just based on what I saw in his financial records, I would be surprised if he’s not indicted.”
Lancaster revealed he showed the records to the Arkansas child support court as part of a case against Hunter Biden.

According to him, he saw “a lot of information” as being “problematic” for Hunter, without stating specifically what he saw.

Trump Responds To Hunter Biden Bombshell — The Republic Brief

Is this a bad time to bring up that Hunter himself said that his Russian dope dealer probably stole ANOTHER of his laptops? What are the chances that Putin himself took the opportunity to connect one of his assets with the crack-head, drug-addled, whore-mongering son of a US Vice President? Pretty good? Better than even? 100% POSITIVE?