The NY Times published a story today titled “Hunter Biden’s Laptop, Revealed by New York Post, Comes Back to Haunt Him.” It’s an awkward piece that tries to simultaneously make the point that the laptop was real while also arguing that skeptics of the original NY Post story had a point.
The Post first reported on the existence of the laptop on Oct. 14, 2020, less than a month before the presidential election. In a front-page article, The Post wrote that the laptop contained emails that it described as a “smoking gun” showing corruption in the Biden family, including correspondence that appeared to describe a meeting that Mr. Biden had arranged between his father and a Ukrainian businessman when his father was vice president.
Questions were raised immediately after The Post published its article, including about the legitimacy of the laptop. Facebook and Twitter restricted the…
