You don't say you don't say you don't say.
This is as shocking as finding out, three years later, that Hunter Biden's laptop belonged to Hunter Biden and not Macedonian Content Farmers.
Ed Morrissey, with quotes from a very, very late report from Ken Vogel of the NYT:
Just four short years ago, we were all assured by the Protection Racket Media that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation, and that allegations of influence-peddling by the Bidens were just political dirty tricks, right? Right? Wrong. The New York Times' Ken Vogel reports that Hunter's efforts to sell influence within the administration were well known during Joe Biden's term as Vice President. It's even about Burisma, the company that we were told paid Hunter a lot of money for his energy-industry expertise.
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Oh, and the records of it got "withheld" by the Biden administration for "years," too:
Hunter Biden sought assistance from the U.S. government for a potentially lucrative energy project in Italy while his father was vice president, according to newly released records and interviews.The records, which the Biden administration had withheld for years, indicate that Hunter Biden wrote at least one letter to the U.S. ambassador to Italy in 2016 seeking assistance for the Ukrainian gas company Burisma, where he was a board member.
Well, we did have records in October 2020. Hunter Biden kept records of these dealings on his laptop, which he abandoned in a repair shop. When the New York Post reported on the contents of the laptop, including a number of emails that made clear he leveraged his fathers office to sell influence at Burisma and elsewhere, the media ignored it -- even though one of Hunter's partners (Tony Bobulinski) publicly authenticated the messages when asked.
Nearly four years later, the NYT gets around to the truth. And if you're questioning the timing, you have good company, because Vogel appears to be somewhat curious about it as well:
The department's release of documents to The New York Times came shortly after President Biden dropped out of the presidential race, and as his son prepares to stand trial next month on charges of evading taxes on millions of dollars in income from Burisma and other foreign businesses.
Go figure again! It's as if the cover-up extended as long as Joe Biden had electoral interests to protect. Now that Biden has pulled out of the race, there's no need to keep covering up for Biden Inc....
Hunter Biden has not been charged with violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act, or FARA, which requires people to disclose when they lobby the U.S. government on behalf of foreign interests.In a court filing last week, in what was perceived as a pressure move, prosecutors indicated that they did not intend to add a FARA charge, but noted that they had evidence that Mr. Biden had reached out to the State Department on behalf of a different foreign client, a real estate magnate facing corruption charges in Romania. Mr. Biden did not register under FARA as a lobbyist for the Romanian developer or Burisma.
I keep thinking the same thing: The Democrat Media Regime has for years attempted to destroy all of their competition -- their business competition and their ideological/political competition -- by branding any competitor to be peddling "disinformation" and using the weaponized power of the state to squelch them.
It's time to begin deploying these same weapons against the Lying Press. They will squeal, but their objections are hollow: they have eagerly cheered on the use of these tools against their enemies. We should not be shy or squeamish about returning the favor.
Below, a Washington Post activist with a press pass urges the Biden White House to shut down the then-upcoming conversation between Trump and Elon Musk.
Why should we allow their speech, if they are absolutely determined to end ours?