Media needs to question if Biden is actually clueless about son’s deals

The walls evidently aren’t closing in on President Joe Biden. 

Despite the mainstream press finally taking up the sleazy business dealings discussed in e-mails found on Hunter Biden’s laptop, the media’s lack of interest in Joe Biden’s knowledge or involvement in this lucrative part of the family business is palpable. 

If President Donald Trump were caught up in similar circumstances, he’d be hounded at every press conference and during every walk to Marine One with the questions: What did he know and when did he know it? It’d dominate cable news and the Sunday shows, newspaper editorials and op-ed pages.

While it’s nice that the laptop once dismissed as Russian disinformation is finally considered a legitimate source of news by what are supposed to be news outlets, the reporting comes a year-and-a-half late and doesn’t add new information commensurate with the delay. 

At this rate, the press will develop a keen interest in the Joe Biden angle to the story — the most interesting and consequential angle — sometime in late 2023.