The Washington Post’s new scoop on Hunter Biden and his infamous laptop isn’t just breaking; it’s positively earth-shattering.
A Post review of Hunter Biden’s deals with a Chinese energy company confirms key details and offers new documentation https://t.co/bJI401clhJ
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) March 30, 2022
What??? This is nuts, you guys. Our jaws are literally on the floor right now:
Biden aides and some former U.S. intelligence officials have voiced concern that the device may have been manipulated by Russia to interfere in the campaign. On Capitol Hill, Democrats have dismissed earlier reports about Hunter Biden’s work in China as lacking credibility or being part of a Russian disinformation campaign. The Post analysis included forensic work by two outside experts who assessed the authenticity of numerous emails related to the CEFC matter. In addition, The Post found that financial documents on the copy of Hunter Biden’s purported laptop match documents and information found in other records, including newly disclosed bank documents obtained by Sen. Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, a senior Republican on the Senate Finance and Judiciary committees.
The potential energy projects Hunter Biden discussed with CEFC never came to fruition.
Nonetheless, accounts linked to Hunter Biden received at least $3.79 million in payments from CEFC through consulting contracts, according to bank records and joint agreements reviewed by The Post.
Clearly the Washington Post put a lot of time and energy into their investigation if it took them this long to do it.
NEW: Thousands of emails purportedly from the laptop computer of Hunter Biden are authentic communications that can be verified through cryptographic signatures from technology companies.
How The Washington Post analyzed Hunter Biden’s laptop: https://t.co/Fp2bFEIdWY
— Matt Viser (@mviser) March 30, 2022
— Seth Mandel (@SethAMandel) March 30, 2022
More from the Washington Post:
The contents of Biden’s laptop computer have sparked debate and controversy since the New York Post and other news organizations in the closing month of the 2020 presidential campaign reported stories based on data purportedly taken from it.
Many Republicans have portrayed this data as offering evidence of misbehavior by Hunter Biden that implicated his father in scandal, while Democrats have dismissed it as probable disinformation, perhaps pushed by Russian operatives acting in a well-documented effort to undermine Biden. Facebook and Twitter in 2020 restricted distribution of stories about the drive’s contents out of concern that the revelations might have resulted from a nefarious hacking campaign intended to upend the election, much as Russian hacks of sensitive Democratic Party emails shaped the trajectory of the 2016 election.
The Washington Post’s forensic findings are unlikely to resolve that debate, offering instead only the limited revelation that some of the data on the portable drive appears to be authentic. The security experts who examined the data for The Post struggled to reach definitive conclusions about the contents as a whole, including whether all of it originated from a single computer or could have been assembled from files from multiple computers and put on the portable drive.
“The Washington Post’s forensic findings” could help to resolve the debate if the Washington Post wanted, but then the Washington Post would have to do a hardcore mea culpa and admit that, while Republicans were pouncing on the Hunter Biden laptop story, WaPo was pouncing on Republicans.
LOLhttps://t.co/2EMFgRzk9h pic.twitter.com/Lzv1r9HVvZ
— Jerry Dunleavy (@JerryDunleavy) March 30, 2022
They're just gonna keep pretending that it was OK to suppress this story during the heat of a national election based on false pretenses, & that the intel professionals who endorsed the lie should face no consequences, not even in public credibility. https://t.co/7TfuWrJmf6
— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) March 30, 2022
It’s almost cute how the Washington Post is trying to make it seem like they’ve always been interested in getting to the bottom of the Hunter Biden laptop story.
What technology exists today that didn’t exist in 2020 that allows them now to authenticate the emails? https://t.co/VF33mw31sr
— Becket Adams (@BecketAdams) March 30, 2022
Step 1: Say it's definitely fake
Step 2: Wait until after election
Step 3: Begin analyzing whether it might not be fake https://t.co/Y46HVhHr0S— Jason Hart (@jasonahart) March 30, 2022
Wash, rinse, repeat.
if they're authentic why are they purportedly from the laptop? also didn't the daily caller do this exact same story like a year and a half ago? https://t.co/PjgrOzpwep
— Joe Gabriel Simonson (@SaysSimonson) March 30, 2022
Isn't this what the Daily Caller did in October of 2020? https://t.co/JjYNpWCALh
— The Partyman (@PartymanRandy) March 30, 2022
As a matter of fact, they did. But if you look to the MSM for information, you probably missed it, because they tried to bury the Daily Caller’s work:
- ‘Self-owning at its finest’: CNN’s swipe at the Daily Caller over Hunter Biden coverage ‘is actually just an indictment of CNN’
- Daily Caller reports more problematic Hunter Biden news; NYT’s Ben Smith attempts to deploy squirrel and exposes NYT’s bias by mistake
And it wasn’t just the New York Post and Daily Caller who were on this.
I read almost all of this in conservative outlets a year and a half ago https://t.co/OMSbKiLHgm
— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) March 30, 2022
That was the only place to read about it.
Most of these details were reported and confirmed in several outlets *before* the 2020 election — as opposed to now when it's safe to say it — but they were censored by Twitter and FB based on the CIA lie spread by most corporate outlets that it was "Russian disinformation." https://t.co/WOrzmvlz8y
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) March 30, 2022
Don’t expect any retractions.
Once Joe Biden was safely in the White House and an appropriate amount of time had passed, the New York Times felt comfortable enough to report that the fake news about Hunter Biden’s laptop was actually true. And once the New York Times is comfortable enough, then the Washington Post knows they’ve got the green light to go ahead, too.
The WPost article — like the NYT one 10 days ago — states over and over they verified the key emails from the Biden archive. Many liberal outlets lied and said these emails were forged by Russia. @TheIntercept's partisan editors blocked me from reporting them based on this lie. pic.twitter.com/fEY4vGAsZn
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) March 30, 2022
The laptop's authenticity was proven *from the start*. @mtaibbi just published the pre-election texts from @TheIntercep's editor Betsy Reed saying I couldn't publish because they weren't real. She knew that was a lie but, either way, no retraction now!https://t.co/5LfecVkO2N
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) March 30, 2022
I don't care that I talk about this a lot. It's not talked about enough. The CIA, Big Tech and corporate media all conspired in the weeks before the election to spread a clear lie to manipulate the election: that these emails were forged by Russia. Now *they ignore the proof*.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) March 30, 2022
Yep.
Working the refs works, that's the lesson here. Tell Twitter and FB that they have a responsibility to suppress during an election or Liz Warren will beat them up.
— Seth Mandel (@SethAMandel) March 30, 2022
All the MSMS’s screeching about “CoLLusIoN” would appear to have been nothing more than classic projection.
Anyway, something to think about as the dam continues to break:
I'm reading WaPo's report on Hunter and CEFC as a smoke signal that something is brewing on that front in the federal investigation. Story comes after NYT reported that feds are investigating CEFC's payments to Hunter.
— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) March 30, 2022
Stay tuned …
Editor’s note: The headline of this post has been amended to correct a typo.
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