As some media outlets, albeit reluctantly, are finally admitting in their coverage of the Hunter Biden gun trial that the “Laptop From Hell” is real and not the result of Russian disinformation, a main source of that fake news story in 2020, Politico, is now avoiding its own highly embarrassing role in promoting the now discredited conspiracy theory. Perhaps Josh Gerstein and Betsy Woodruff Swan hoped we wouldn’t notice their attempt to deflect responsibility from Politico on Tuesday in “Prosecutors open their case against Hunter Biden by playing his own voice for the jury.”
Buried deep, deep down in their story — about 30 paragraphs deep — was this paragraph with the responsibility-deflection twist:
Jurors also saw first-hand the infamous laptop that Biden allegedly dropped off at a Delaware repair shop and never retrieved. The disclosure of its…
