Among honest observers and journalists, the authenticity of Hunter Biden’s laptop was never in question. It was obvious since the beginning, during the summer of 2020 when the laptop first surfaced, that the material was real and then-candidate Joe Biden’s son was as corrupt as they come with trails leading to his father.
Democrats and the media colluded to downplay and discredit anyone reporting on the Hunter Biden laptop, yet the physical evidence remained intact and in the custody of the FBI at the time. Hunter Biden’s business dealings all over the world and the millions of dollars flowing back to him and the Biden family have been suspect for years now, but the law may be catching up.
Now, as Hunter Biden continues to be stuck in a tax evasion case, the New York Times reported today that the investigation was based on the contents of the much-maligned laptop left at a Delaware computer repair shop in 2020:
People familiar with the investigation said prosecutors had examined emails between Mr. Biden, Mr. Archer and others about Burisma and other foreign business activity. 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.
In some of the emails, Mr. Biden displayed a familiarity with FARA, and a desire to avoid triggering it.
In one email to Mr. Archer in April 2014, Mr. Biden outlined his vision for working with Burisma. In the email, Hunter Biden indicated that the forthcoming announcement of a trip to Ukraine by Vice President Biden — who is referred to in the email as “my guy,” but not by name — should “be characterized as part of our advice and thinking — but what he will say and do is out of our hands.”
The announcement “could be a really good thing or it could end up creating too great an expectation. We need to temper expectations regarding that visit,” Hunter Biden wrote.
Vice President Biden traveled to Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, about a week after the email.
The investigation goes well beyond taxes, of course, and dips into the realm of public corruption. Did Hunter Biden trade on his father’s name to win influence and collect money from entities from Ukraine to China? Was he acting as an unregistered foreign agent on behalf of other governments? We don’t know, but it certainly appears that way:
But Mr. Biden’s taxes are just one element of the broader investigation stemming from work he did around the world. Hunter Biden is a Yale-educated lawyer; his professional life has intersected with his father’s public service, including working as a registered lobbyist for domestic interests and, while his father was vice president, pursuing deals and clients in Asia and Europe.
As recently as last month, the federal grand jury heard testimony in Wilmington, Del., from two witnesses, one of whom was a former employee of Hunter Biden whose lawyer was later subpoenaed for financial records that reflected money Mr. Biden received from a Ukrainian energy company.
The broad point to take from the Times article is that every media outlet and personality downplaying the Hunter Biden laptop story in 2020, before the general election between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, should resign in shame.
There are few real journalists today willing to ask questions and follow the truth even if it leads down a partisan alley they’d rather not travel. It was crystal clear that something in the Biden family is corrupt. The fact that Hunter Biden, a self-proclaimed crack addict, was awarded a board seat on a Ukrainian energy company for millions of dollars in compensation despite zero experience in the energy industry should alone be enough to start asking questions and demanding answers.
The list goes on and on, and it’s unlikely Joe Biden was in the dark about his son’s activities.
Nothing to see here though when it comes to Joe Biden, right?
For President Biden, the long-running case is both politically and personally fraught. Hunter Biden’s work for Burisma Holdings, the Ukrainian energy company, became a flashpoint in his father’s race in 2020 against President Donald J. Trump and helped set off the events that led to Mr. Trump’s first impeachment.
The New York Times article is lengthy and thorough, almost like a novel of the corruption and dealings of the Biden family, using Hunter as a conduit, to trade on the family name across the globe.
The irony, however, is that now that mainstream media sources have deemed materials on the Hunter Biden “laptop from hell” to be real, it doesn’t excuse or undo the cover-up during the 2020 election by the Biden campaign and liberal media outlets.
Hunter Biden has taken out a $1 million loan to pay his back taxes, a move intended to slow down or end the tax evasion investigation. It might work, but the other criminal layers remain under ongoing scrutiny. The Justice Department should get around to prosecuting the case as soon as Joe Biden is no longer president.
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