by Jordan Boyd at The Federalist
After The New York Times quietly admitted this week that Hunter Biden’s laptop is legitimate — something the corrupt media baselessly called “disinformation” in the run-up to the 2020 election to conceal Biden family corruption — it’s worth contrasting how so-called journalists covered that story versus the Russia collusion hoax to take down Donald Trump.
When it came to the legitimate Hunter Biden laptop story just one month before the November 2020 election, Big Tech, the fake news media, and Democrats blew it off and nuked mentions of Biden family corruption from the internet. False and ostentatious claims about the discredited Steele dossier and Trump’s alleged sexual activities in Moscow, however, were given years of coverage that assumed he was guilty before ever seeing proof.
There wasn’t any hard evidence that this happened. Any mention of “golden showers” by Christopher Steele — a guy hired by a firm hired by Trump’s 2016 rival Hillary Clinton — came through secondhand accounts, but the corporate media treated it as fact, not disinformation. Yet when it came to Hunter’s laptop, former intelligence heads wrote an open letter claiming without evidence that Russians orchestrated the story, and the media ran with the “Russian disinformation” narrative. The contrast in the media’s treatment is glaring.