How fact-checkers first reported on Biden's family business

Now that Hunter Biden's business partner Devon Archer has reportedly told Congress that the first son put then-Vice President Joe Biden on the phone with businessmen across the globe at least 20 times, it is a good time to revisit what some fact-checkers first said about the Biden family business when the story first became prominent in 2019.

The Washington Post, for example, had a September 2019 “fact check” defending the Biden family from “Trump’s false claims” about foreign ties. Every one of the paper's rebuttals have fallen apart in light of newer information.

The paper declared it false that Biden, as vice president, “pushed out” a prosecutor for investigating the Ukrainian company his son belonged to. It even said the prosecutor was not investigating the company at all. "Biden was among the many Western officials who pressed for the removal of Shokin because he actually was not investigating the corruption endemic to the country," it said.