The seed was planted in January.
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The campaign to delegitimize newly surfaced emails that implicate the Biden family in a massive foreign corruption scheme was a year in the making, and the seed for Team Biden’s “Russian disinformation” rebuttal was first planted in The New York Times.
Last week, the New York Post released a series of bombshell articles highlighting Hunter Biden’s corrupt business practices and dealings with America’s greatest adversaries. Hunter Biden’s emails, which were acquired by The Post, appeared to reveal that he was leveraging his father’s political prestige to acquire financial riches for his family from adversarial regimes in China, shadowy companies in Eastern Europe, and elsewhere around the world. The emails also reference the possibility that Joe Biden, who appears to be referred to as “the big guy” and other monikers, was personally aware of Hunter’s activities, and even took a cut of the money.
Almost immediately after the emails surfaced, countless legacy media outlets and democrat surrogates suggested that the emails were not authentic. Twitter and Facebook blocked the stories from getting out. We were told that this was not the work of terrific research and reporting, but instead, a “Russian disinformation” campaign.
The New York Times published a piece claiming that “United States intelligence analysts” had “picked up chatter that stolen Burisma emails would be leaked in the form of an ‘October surprise,’” claiming the Biden emails may have been the result of a previous hack of Burisma, a Ukraine-based gas company that gave Hunter Biden a seat on their board, until he resigned in April of 2019.
This was enough for the rest of the legacy media to run wild with the story. Countless publications were citing The New York Times piece, in bolstering the claim that the Biden emails were in fact part of a sophisticated Russian disinformation.
There is one major problem with this origin story involving Russian hacking. There’s no proof any of it ever happened.
On January 13, 2020 (less than a month after the FBI took possession of Hunter Biden’s emails), The New York Times reported that Burisma was hacked by the Russians. The story was reported as fact, but there is no reported evidence for the story, which cites “security experts” (they only cited a single democrat-tied security firm) in making the authoritative claim.
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