The Washington Post Finally Gets Around to Confirming the Hunter Biden Laptop Story

On Wednesday, the Washington Post published two articles confirming key details of the Hunter Biden laptop story. Their inquiry into the matter comes just a year and a half after the existence of the laptop and its contents was first reported by the New York Post, and after the authenticity of the emails found on the laptop had been confirmed by most of the paper’s competitors.

The first of the twin Washington Post articles stated that “two experts confirm the veracity of thousands of emails,” while the second explains how the emails shed light on a lucrative deal with CEFC China Energy that the president’s son helped broker.

A Daily Caller analysis performed by a forensic expert in October 2020 — the same month that the laptop story first broke — came to the same conclusion as the Post close to a year-and-a-half ago. Robert Graham, who has been called a cybersecurity expert by the Washington Post and Associated Press, told the Caller that the emails on the laptop could be verified without much trouble by identifying a “cryptographic signature” in their metadata.

The Post explains its delay in addressing the validity of the emails by noting that “after the New York Post began publishing reports on the contents of the laptop in October 2020, The Washington Post repeatedly asked Giuliani and Republican strategist Stephen K. Bannon for a copy of the data to review before the election, but the requests were rebuffed or ignored.”