Former President Donald Trump shot the New York Times at a rally Saturday, after the newspaper “finally admitted” the existence of Hunter Biden’s laptop.
The Times confirmed the laptop and emails with Ukrainian partners in an article on the federal investigation into the first son’s tax returns, which was published exclusively by Post in October 2020.
Just last week, the failed New York Times finally admitted that Hunter Biden’s laptop was real. Remember when they said Russia did it? Trump told a crowd of his business supporters outside Atlanta.
Putin has bigger problems at the moment, but he must have thought we were crazy.”
The 45th president criticized the Times for waiting to release the report “until after the election and long before the next election because it’s so bad, and what they did is so bad – and possibly illegal.”
Trump said President Joe Biden should “stand down on anything about Ukraine,” and called on Republicans to investigate those who rejected the reports.
He declared that, “As soon as Republicans have the opportunity, they should immediately investigate significant media interference in the elections … the tech giants and intelligence officials who have claimed it was disinformation from Russia.”
The Post’s original report on the laptop, which it delivered at a Delaware repair shop in April 2019, indicated that the hard drive contained emails, text messages, photos and financial documents between Hunter Biden, his family and associates.
The correspondence included emails with a senior executive of Burisma – a Ukrainian energy company whose board of directors is Hunter Biden with a salary of up to $50,000 a month.
Emails showed Hunter Biden introduced his father as CEO in 2015 when he was vice president at the time, less than a year before the elder Biden lobbied Ukrainian government officials to fire the attorney general who was investigating the company.
Other emails reviewed by The Post revealed that Hunter Biden played a role in helping a California defense contractor analyze deadly diseases and biological weapons in Ukraine. Moscow claimed that secret US biological warfare laboratories in Ukraine justified its invasion of Ukraine last month. The Kremlin doubled down on its accusation Thursday, saying the labs were producing biochemical weapons at the request of the Bidens.
Last week, Trump filed a $24 million federal lawsuit alleging that Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee conspired to smear him and his campaign on charges of Russian collusion.
Trump has long accused Democrats and the Clinton campaign of plotting to link him to alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election — the subject of Trump’s failed impeachment process while he was in office.
A heavily revised report released in August 2020 by the Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee concluded that Russia was behind a plot to subvert the integrity of the 2016 election, an attempt that “represents” one of the most serious anti-American intelligence threats. citizens. Security in the modern era.
