The desired effect

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Democrats must be confused. A story the liberal media told them before the 2020 Presidential election was refuted last week by the New York Times — 17 months after the story appeared in the New York Post.

They must be embarrassed. They did not do this in a giant headline on the front page. After all, they participated in the disinformation. Buried on page 20 in the 24th paragraph of its story, the Gray Lady says they’ve “authenticated” the emails reported in the Post were from Hunter Biden’s laptop.

Let’s back up to October 2020, when the story first broke. It was indeed an October surprise. 

Hunter left his laptop at a repair shop in Delaware in 2019. After not returning to claim the computer, the repairman turned over the hard drive to the FBI for a criminal fraud investigation. He also gave a copy to Rudy Giuliani, who shared it with the New York Post.

The laptop’s contents included emails, text messages, photographs, and financial documents implicating the Biden family, including his father Joe, in schemes to use their political influence to make money in Ukraine and China. 

New York Post columnist Michael Goodwin, in his Friday column, repeated that the laptop included “pictures of drug-addled Hunter having sex with prostitutes,” along with emails from Tony Bobulinski that declared 10 percent of cash from “a joint-venture Hunter set up with a Chinese communist who headed an energy conglomerate” went to “the big guy.”

Bobulinski identified Joe Biden as the big guy.

The laptop also caught Joe in a lie. Candidate Biden said, “I’ve never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings.” But the computer revealed — confirmed by the White House — that then-VP Biden attended a dinner with Hunter and his business associates from Ukraine, Russia and Kazakhstan on April 16, 2015, in a private room at Café Milano, Washington, DC.

The Times and pundits in the liberal media dismissed the Biden laptop story as “Russian disinformation” and claimed that the Post’s story was “unsubstantiated.”

Jumping on the bandwagon, Facebook and Twitter censored the story on their platforms to protect Joe before the 2020 election. Twitter went further and locked the Post’s account for two weeks.

In December 2020, Project Veritas published leaked audio recordings of conference calls featuring CNN’s top executives urging staff to avoid the Biden scandal during the election.

MSNBC, NPR and the Washington Post also ignored the story.

According to former Attorney General Bill Barr, the Director of National Intelligence “and the FBI both came out and said this was not the result of Russian disinformation. The media ignored that completely.”

These lies, disinformation — also called fake news — and censorship had the desired effect. Joe Biden was elected President.

According to polling after the 2020 election by the Media Research Center, upwards of 50 percent of Democrat voters knew nothing of Hunter’s laptop scandal. Close to 10 percent said they would not have voted for Biden had they known.

If this is true, Joe Biden would not be the 46th President of the United States.

Of course, this is nothing new. The liberal media routinely misleads voters at the benefit of the Democrat party.

Another good example is what the media did to Donald Trump after being elected President.

For most of the Trump Presidency, the liberal media repeated the false story from the infamous Steele dossier that Trump colluded with the Russians to win the Presidency. Towards the end of many of these stories was the caveat that there was no evidence of wrongdoing.

Two separate investigations — by Robert Mueller and John Durham — have refuted this whole story.

There is evidence that the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee financed the Steele dossier to take pressure off Hillary’s email scandals.

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To show how one should not go against powerful government officials — like the Biden family — the Delaware computer repair shop owner says he is being harassed by Big Tech, the IRS and other government agencies, and now faces bankruptcy.