Inside the laptop

New York Post columnist Miranda Devine recalls in her June 12 New York Post column:

The last time Joe Biden met Donald Trump on a debate stage, he lied that his son Hunter’s laptop was Russian disinformation, “a Russian plant” and “a bunch of garbage.”

Taking account of the evidence introduced in the Hunter Biden gun case, Devine itemizes the ways in which Biden’s laptop has been authenticated. Not a single relevant fact supported President Biden’s disparagement of the laptop. Indeed, having been personally involved with incidents documented on the laptop hard drive, Joe Biden chose to lie about his knowledge. This isn’t going to happen:

Now that the laptop has been entered into the official record as government Exhibit 16 in the Delaware District Court, verified by the FBI as belonging to his son, and used for key evidence that convicted Hunter of three felony gun charges this week, Biden should be forced to come clean about his corrupt involvement in his family’s global influence-peddling scheme.

Not when we have the Democrats’ media adjunct on the case:

To this day, the liberal media, with egg on their face for naively toeing the party line, still can’t bring themselves to confirm the laptop.

Even after the ruling, the New York Times doubted the laptop’s veracity by declaring its contents are “unproven.”

It falsely claims that the FBI’s only authentication effort to confirm that the laptop was Hunter’s was by matching the serial number with his iCloud account.

Hunter and his lawyers are still pretending that computer repair shop owner John Paul Mac Isaac or Rudy Giuliani or somebody “tampered” with the contents of the laptop.

But as IRS whistleblower Supervisory Special Agent Gary Shapley told Congress, in the weeks after the FBI took possession of the laptop on Dec. 9, 2019, the bureau’s computer forensics experts performed a specific technical review of all the files on the computer.

Using metadata analysis, they found that the laptop “was not manipulated in any way” and therefore was eligible to be used as evidence in court, according to Shapley.

The experts were able to determine precisely when each file on the laptop was created, and whether anything had been added to or subtracted from the data.

They verified that it had not been modified or “tampered with” in the six months since Hunter had abandoned it.

But that’s not all….

Devine and the Post also authenticated the contents of the laptop back in 2020. Devine puts it this way:

The due diligence we performed on the contents of Hunter’s laptop is far superior to whatever rudimentary scrutiny was applied to the bogus Steele dossier by the New York Times or any of the august media organs that won Pulitzers for their sloppy work.

We aren’t holding our breath for the award of Pulitzers to Devine and the Post for doing the work the mainstream press refused to do. Yet they deserved them for their work exposing the Biden family business, and not just by contrast with the euphemistic “sloppy work” of the Times and the Post on the Russia hoax.

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