By The Editorial Board | The Wall Street Journal
Hunter
Biden walks to Marine One on the Ellipse outside the White House on May 22,
2021. - PHOTO: BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES
The press that ignored the story in 2020 admits that it’s real.
Talk about burying the lead—for 17
months. The New York
Times has finally acknowledged that Hunter Biden’s business dealings
are legitimate news. Implicit apology accepted.
The Times waddled in this week with a story on the “tax affairs” of the President’s son,
including this gem in the 24th paragraph: “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 email and others in the
cache were authenticated by people familiar with them and with the investigation.”
You don’t say. This admission comes six months after a
Politico writer published a book that also confirmed that the laptop emails were
authentic. But the original scoop belonged to the New York Post, which broke
its laptop story in October 2020—only to meet a media wall of denial and
distortion.
Rather than attempt to confirm the emails, nearly all of the media at the time ignored the story or “fact-checked” it as false. This in-kind contribution to candidate Joe Biden was all the more egregious given other evidence supporting the Post’s scoop. Neither Hunter Biden nor the Biden campaign denied that the laptop was Hunter’s. And Hunter’s former business partner, Tony Bobulinski, went public with documents backing up some of the laptop’s contents.
The herd of media conformists also echoed the speculation
of obviously partisan “intelligence officials.” Some 50 of these
officials—headlined by former Obama spooks James Clapper and John Brennan
—circulated a statement peddling the Russian “disinformation” line—even as they
admitted they had no evidence.
This result was a blackout of the Hunter news, except in
a few places, including these pages. Twitter blocked the
Post’s account for nearly two weeks, and Facebook used
algorithms to quash the story. This deprived voters of information they
might have wanted to know before Election Day.
There’s more for our reborn media sleuths to investigate.
Mr. Bobulinski provided these pages with documents showing Hunter was looking
to use the Biden name to profit from a business deal with a Shanghai-based
company with ties to the Chinese government.
One May 2017 “expectations” email from Hunter associate
James Gilliar shows Hunter receiving 20% of the equity in the venture, with
another “10 held by H for the big guy.” Mr. Bobulinski says the “big guy” is
Joe Biden. To this day the Bidens have not had to explain their business
arrangement.
The emails make clear that Hunter was cashing in on the
Biden name, including as a board member of Burisma, a Ukrainian gas company.
That influence-peddling was a potential political liability for Mr. Biden,
which was why the facts deserved an airing before the election. They are still
relevant, especially with U.S.-China relations so fraught.
The Times won a Pulitzer Prize for pushing the Russia collusion narrative, which proved to be much ado about nothing. The New York Post deserves a Pulitzer, but it will probably have to settle for well-earned vindication.
Potomac
Watch (10/22/20): As former business partner, Tony Bobulinski, attests that
Hunter Biden did refer to his father as "the big guy"—the news media
remains silent. Images: AP/New York Post Composite: Mark Kelly
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Today’s blacklisted American: Man who found
Hunter Biden’s laptop harassed, threatened, and driven to bankruptcy
Persecution
is now cool! The computer repair shop owner who found and made public
Hunter Biden’s laptop prior to the election has
found himself harassed, threatened, and even driven to bankruptcy
because of that entirely legal act.
The Delaware computer repair shop owner who
alerted the FBI to Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop before ultimately taking it
to Rudy Giuliani says he’s faced harassment from Big Tech, the IRS and other
government agencies ever since, and now faces bankruptcy.
“I was getting a lot of death threats,” John
Paul Mac Isaac said. “I had to have a Wilmington trooper parked in front of my
shop all the time.
“There were multiple situations where people
came in and you could tell they were not there to have a computer fixed. And if
there were not other people in the shop, I don’t know what would have
happened,” he told The Post. “I was having vegetables, eggs, dog s–t thrown at
the shop every morning.”
The threats and violence got so severe in November 2020
that Isaac had to shutter his shop and flee Delaware and live in hiding for
more than a year. When he later tried to file for unemployment Delaware
bureaucrats kept closing his case without resolution so that he received no
checks and had use some of the money in his 401K to pay his bills. The Delaware
unemployment department only finally acted after he sent a letter to the
state’s governor.
In December 2021, the computer man sent a pointed letter to Delaware Sen.
Chris Coons. “I would hate to think that I was singled out in a politically
motivated attack. If a state agency was weaponized to punish a perceived
political enemy, the country has a right to know,” he warned the Democratic
colleague of Joe Biden.
The unemployment cash came swiftly after
that, though Mac Isaac insists he still ended up getting short-changed by
several thousand dollars.
This ugly story, published on March 12, 2022, takes on
even more significance with
the admission by the New York Times only
four days later that this laptop was real, belonged to Hunter Biden,
and contained significant evidence of corruption by Hunter in league with his
father, Joe Biden, now the President of the United States.
The leftist Times of course is very late to the game.
That laptop’s existence, and the evidence it contained, was made public in
October 2020 — weeks before the election — with the
New York Post publishing the scoop. The conservative press then immediately
documented it quite widely, while the leftist press censored that information
instead. Twitter shut down the New York Post’s feed. The Times and the major
media outlets refused to publish anything about it, other than to
smear it as “Russian disinformation,” without any evidence.
That slander campaign helped Joe Biden get elected. It
also directly contributed to Isaac’s own problems, as the dishonest reporting
by these corrupt media outlets encouraged the hate and blacklisting that Isaac
then experienced.
I doubt most of my readers depend on the New York Times
or the mainstream press for much of their political news. If you do, however,
this story should finally make you question these sources. Nor are is this
story the first example of their dishonesty and incompetence. The mainstream
press has for now more than decade clearly revealed itself to be corrupt,
blatantly biased in favor of the Democratic Party, and wholly unreliable in its
reporting. Anyone who still believes anything they publish in connection with
that party, especially prior to any election, should have their own head
examined for being too innocent, naive, or willfully ignorant.
