After half a decade of deliberate inaction by the Justice Department, Hunter Biden now faces actual prison time, not just over the nine tax crimes he is currently indicted for, but also related to whether he failed to register as a foreign agent during his overseas influence peddling. And nearly all the criminal comeuppance for the First Son originated with the now infamous reporting on Biden’s abandoned laptop, a story that the corporate press and the intelligence community spent four years of concerted efforts to silence and discredit.
And yet, NBC News and the Deep State flaks that tried to gaslight us all about the veracity of the laptop are now trying to take a victory lap over the indictment of FBI informant Alexander Smirnov, who had nothing to do with the original laptop story.
“[Marc] Polymeropoulos, who spent much of his career in counterterrorism, said he received emails saying he and his family should be hung, and a barrage of crank phone calls,” Ken Dilanian reports of the flaks who signed a 2020 letter claiming the laptop was Russian disinformation. “Another signatory, former CIA operations officer John Sipher, says he was also targeted by threats. Sipher said the group never claimed that material about Hunter Biden was made up — only that the story fit a narrative being pushed by people with ties to Russian intelligence, including some who had met in Ukraine with Trump’s lawyer and adviser Rudy Giuliani.”
This, of course, runs counter to how NBC News reported on the laptop story at the time. Ben Collins and Brandy Zadrozny likened the laptop story to the Pizzagate conspiracy theory in the run up to the 2020 election. Dilanian himself tried to explain away NBC’s refusal to report on the contents of the laptop at the time with the reminder that “after the election interference of 2016, the news media is especially wary of doing anything to further an effort by a foreign government to intervene in a presidential campaign.”
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Even Dilanian’s new piece concedes that “no public evidence has emerged pointing to a Russian government role in how the laptop materials were made public.”
And yet, the victory lap has been granted in the media’s attempt to falsely and maliciously conflate the Smirnov indictment with the laptop story altogether. After all, that would be easier for the bamboozled press than admitting they spent four years botching this story from the start.
