Now that Joe Biden’s president, the Times finally admits: Hunter’s laptop is real

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Now that Joe Biden’s president, the Times finally admits: Hunter’s laptop is real

First, The New York Times decides more than a year later that Hunter Biden’s business woes are worthy of a story. Then, deep in the piece, in passing, it notes that Hunter’s laptop is l…

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Now that Joe Biden’s president, the Times finally admits: Hunter’s laptop is real​

By
Post Editorial Board


March 17, 2022 4:56am
Updated

The New York Times confirmed that the contents of the Hunter Biden laptop were "authenticated." AP

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Forgive the profanity, but you have got to be s–tting us.
First, the New York Times decides more than a year later that Hunter Biden’s business woes are worthy of a story. Then, deep in the piece, in passing, it notes that Hunter’s laptop is legitimate.
“People familiar with the investigation said prosecutors had examined emails between Mr. Biden, Mr. Archer and others about Burisma and other foreign business activity,” the Times writes. “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.”
Authenticated!!! You don’t say. You mean, when a newspaper actually does reporting on a topic and doesn’t just try to whitewash coverage for Joe Biden, it discovers it’s actually true?
But wait, it doesn’t end there. In October 2020, the Times cast doubt that there was a meeting between Joe Biden and an official from Burisma, the Ukrainian gas company for which Hunter was a board member. “A Biden campaign spokesman said Mr. Biden’s official schedules did not show a meeting between the two men,” the Times wrote, acting as a perfect stenographer.
Hunter Biden’s laptop was full of images featuring the president’s son.
Yet in the latest report, published Wednesday night, the Times said the meeting likely did happen. Biden had attended the dinner in question. Funny how this works when you don’t just take someone’s word for it.

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Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop confirmed in New York Times report​

In the heat of the presidential race of 2020, the Times never missed a chance to cast doubt on the laptop, saying the information was “purported” and quoting a letter from former Democratic officials who claimed — with no evidence — that it was Russian disinformation. As recently as September 2021, the Times called the laptop “unsubstantiated” in a news story.
Why was it unsubstantiated? Because of willful ignorance and the Times’ curious lack of curiosity. Hunter’s business partner Tony Bobulinski came forward immediately after The Post’s reports and confirmed that the emails bearing his name were legitimate. The Bidens didn’t even deny it was true! They just deflected, with the media’s help, saying it was a dirty trick or not a story. Mostly, the press just ignored it.
Hunter Biden’s former business partner Tony Bobulinski confirmed that his emails were legitimate.AFP via Getty Images John Paul Mac Isaac, a Delaware computer repairman who went public with the sordid contents of Hunter Biden’s hard drive, at his home in Wilmington, Delaware.James Keivom
Now we’re 16 months away from the 2020 election, Joe Biden’s safely in the White House, and the Times finally decides to report on the news rather than carry the Biden campaign’s water. And they find that hey, Hunter Biden’s business interests benefited from Joe Biden’s political status to a suspicious degree. Perhaps this is a topic worthy of examination.
A crack pipe dangles from Hunter Biden’s mouth in this image from the infamous laptop.
How did the Times “authenticate” the laptop? It doesn’t say. Unlike The Post’s reporting, which detailed exactly how we got the files and where they came from, the Times does a hand wave to anonymous sources. No facts have changed since fall 2020. They knew the laptop was real from the start. They just didn’t want to say so.
There’s never any shame with these 180s. Sorry that we wrote a “fact check” that turned out to be bull! Sorry we wrote a piece claiming something wasn’t a story and you were stupid for thinking so!
Twitter banned us for supposedly publishing “hacked materials” that weren’t hacked. The company’s CEO apologized, but by that point, they had accomplished what they wanted. Like the Times, they cast enough doubt to avoid making their preferred candidate look bad.
Readers of the Times have discovered in March 2022 that Hunter Biden pursued business deals in Europe and Asia, and may have leveraged his father’s position as vice president to do it. Hunter also may not have properly registered with the government or declared all his income. All legitimate topics of discussion about a presidential candidate’s family, no?
Readers of The Post have known this since October 2020. We also have a much better sports section. We’ve authenticated it.
Hunter Biden is pictured in a bathtub in another image off the laptop. The Wilmington, Delaware, repair shop where the Hunter Biden laptop was reportedly found.AFP via Getty Images Hunter Biden is seen at Joe Biden’s presidential inauguration alongside Jill Biden, Ashley Biden and Kamala Harris.AP

 

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Beau Biden Foundation rakes in millions, spends fraction on kid programs

The Beau Biden Foundation for the Protection of Children raked in $3.9 million in 2020, but spent only a fraction of that on its purported mission to help kids.

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Beau Biden Foundation rakes in millions, spends fraction on kid programs​

By
Melissa Klein


March 26, 2022 1:23pm
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The foundation was started in memory of President Biden's son Beau, seen together here in 2009. AFP via Getty Images

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The Beau Biden Foundation for the Protection of Children raked in $3.9 million in 2020, but spent only a fraction of that on its purported mission to help kids, The Post has learned.
The Delaware-based charity, which was started in honor of President Biden’s late son, got an infusion of $1.8 million from the Biden Foundation before that group shut down in 2020, according to the charities’ latest tax filings. The Biden Foundation was started by Joe Biden and his wife, Jill Biden, to champion “progress and prosperity for American families.”
The Beau Biden charity also took in $225,000 from entities tied to a top political donor and bundler to President Biden.
Despite the $2 million-plus windfall, the organization put only $544,961 in 2020 toward its stated purpose of protecting children from abuse, according to tax filings.
The organization put only $544,961 in 2020 toward its stated purpose of protecting children from abuse.
The charity spent a total of $932,865 that year, with a large chunk of it going to the six-figure salaries of Biden cronies who held executive jobs at the non-profit.
Patricia Dailey Lewis, who served as Delaware deputy attorney general under late AG Beau Biden, runs the non-profit and was paid $150,660 in 2020, including a $3,500 bonus.
Joshua Alcorn, a longtime Democratic operative and consultant on both Beau Biden’s and Joe Biden’s political campaigns, served as COO and was paid $131,437. He has since stepped down.
Patricia Dailey Lewis runs the non-profit and was paid $150,660 in 2020.AP
CharityWatch, a watchdog group, says that its top-rated nonprofits generally spend at least 75 percent of their budgets on programs. In this charity’s case, just 58 percent of its spending went to its cause.
“A 58 percent program ratio does not reflect a high level of financial efficiency,” said Laurie Styron, the executive director of CharityWatch.
Biden’s troubled son, Hunter, served on the board of the Beau Biden charity in 2020 during the time The Post revealed the discovery of his infamous laptop, a device plastered with a sticker from the foundation. Biden’s daughter, Ashley, and Beau’s widow, Hallie Biden, were also on the board.
Beau Biden’s widow, Hallie is the only family member still on the board of the foundation.ASSOCIATED PRESS President Biden poses with his son, Army Capt. Beau Biden at Camp Victory on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq on July 4, 2009.AP
Hallie Biden is the only family member still on the board, which includes former FBI director Louis Freeh.
The group said that following Joe Biden’s 2021 inauguration, it wouldn’t take money from lobbyists or foreign donors and would release names of its major contributors on its website in a bid to increase transparency.
But the organization refused to provide a copy of its 2020 tax filing to The Post in early March. It later said the document was available on the Guidestar website.
Beau Biden pictured in 2008 with other members of the Delaware Army National Guard unit.ASSOCIATED PRESS
The document posted to the site earlier this week included a list of top donors, but by Friday that list was missing from the filing.
The donors included the Masimo corporation, a medical device manufacturer, and the Masimo Foundation. Both are headed by Joe Kiani, who gave $750,000 to the pro-Biden Unite the Country PAC in 2020 and was named last year to a presidential advisory committee on science and technology. His company also has millions in government contracts, according to a report.
A representative of the Masimo Foundation said it had long contributed to the Beau Biden Foundation “because of the work it does for kids” and the value of the company’s federal contracts had actually gone down since Biden took office.
The Beau Biden Foundation did not immediately return requests for comment.
The foundation was incorporated less than a month after Beau Biden died from cancer in 2015.AP
The foundation was incorporated in Wilmington, DE in June 2015, less than a month after Beau Biden died of cancer.
The Beau Biden Foundation conducts virtual and in-person workshops for adults starting at $500, according to its website. It also holds sessions for kids on issues such as bullying and internet safety.
The foundation is one of three nonprofits tied to the Biden family.
The Biden Foundation was started by the Bidens in 2016. They then started The Biden Cancer Initiative in 2017. Both groups suspended operations in 2019 when Biden ran for president.
Each group’s 2020 tax filing says it notified appropriate state authorities of its dissolution.
The Delaware Attorney General’s office, where the groups were legally based, did not immediately return requests for comment.