I feel like we are seeing a rather transparent attempt by the post to claim something not in evidence.
Uh oh...
The New York Times Belatedly Admits the Emails on Hunter Biden's Abandoned Laptop Are Real and Newsworthy
Yesterday
The New York Times published a
story that quotes emails from a laptop that Hunter Biden, President Joe Biden's son, abandoned at a computer repair shop in Delaware.
The messages reinforce the impression that Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company that reportedly paid the younger Biden $50,000 a month to serve on its board, expected him to use his influence with his father for the company's benefit—an allegation that figured prominently in the scandal that led to Donald Trump's
impeachment for pressuring the Ukrainian government to announce a Biden-Burisma corruption investigation. The messages include evidence that Hunter Biden arranged an April 2015 meeting between his father, then the vice president, and a Burisma executive.
Looking at that bolded part - the recent Times story seems ot say nothing of the kind.
The Justice Department inquiry into the business dealings of the president’s son has remained active, with a grand jury seeking information about payments from around the world.
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Current actual NYT story said:
In one email to Mr. Archer in April 2014, Mr. Biden outlined his vision for working with Burisma. In the email, Hunter Biden indicated that the forthcoming announcement of a trip to Ukraine by Vice President Biden — who is referred to in the email as “my guy,” but not by name — should “be characterized as part of our advice and thinking — but what he will say and do is out of our hands.”
The announcement “could be a really good thing or it could end up creating too great an expectation. We need to temper expectations regarding that visit,” Hunter Biden wrote.
Vice President Biden traveled to Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, about a week after the email.
In the same April 2014 email, Hunter Biden indicated that Burisma’s officials “need to know in no uncertain terms that we will not and cannot intervene directly with domestic policymakers, and that we need to abide by FARA and any other U.S. laws in the strictest sense across the board.”
He suggested enlisting the law firm where he worked at the time, Boies Schiller Flexner, to help Burisma through “direct discussions at state, energy and NSC,” referring to two cabinet departments and the National Security Council at the White House.
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The firm “can devise a media plan and arrange for legal protections and mitigate U.S. domestic negative press regarding the current leadership if need be,” Mr. Biden wrote in the email.
Mr. Biden, Mr. Archer, Boies Schiller Flexner and Blue Star Strategies did not register under FARA on behalf of Burisma.
In another set of emails examined by prosecutors, Hunter Biden and Mr. Archer discussed inviting foreign business associates, including a Burisma executive, to a dinner in April 2015 at a Washington restaurant where Vice President Biden would stop by. It is not clear whether the Burisma executive attended the dinner, although the vice president did make an appearance, according to people familiar with the event.
So, no, the story does not “ include evidence that Hunter Biden arranged an April 2015 meeting between his father, then the vice president, and a Burisma executive.”
He does not arrange a meeting between, he tells the executive where his father is going to be. If I told a criminal that you had plans to be at a certain restaurant, does that mean I’ve “arranged a meeting between you”?
Come on.
But that was then. A year and a half later, the Times thinks the emails it viewed as suspect before Joe Biden's election are now newsworthy.
Again, no.
It is doing a story on the tax question that is legitimately in the news because of legal dates, and is including the background.
Come on, “they now think it is newsworthy?”
No, they did not change their minds, they are reporting it exactly the same way they did before.
"People familiar" with a federal investigation of Hunter Biden, it
reports, "said prosecutors had examined emails" between him, his former business partner Devon Archer, "and others" regarding "Burisma and other foreign business activity." Those emails "were obtained by The New York Times from a cache of files that appears to have come from a laptop abandoned by Mr. Biden in a Delaware repair shop." The messages "were authenticated by people familiar with them and with the investigation."
Reading through this thread, it seems some people here might be eating crow with a side of mashed potatoes for dinner tonight.
It seems like you might want to pick up a fork for that crow pie.
Your premise that the NYT “now thinks it’s newsworthy” is bunk.
Your premise that the emails “show Hunter arranging a meeting” is bunk.
It looks exactly as it did before. A connected kid trying to make money off his connections, and having nothing but his own promises to sell. He even explicitly says he can’t promise Joe’s cooperation. None of these show that Hunter was successful at it, or that Joe Biden cooperated in any way.
Just as unfounded and dumb as it was 18 months ago. And just as unfounded and dumb to say that either the NYT changed its mind or that we should.
I saw that as it was first aired and laughed my ass off. What conundrum! But I'm sure the evidence will eventually come to light about that and about Hunter Biden's association with the Klingons, who everybody knows funneled $7 quadrillion to Hillary Clinton's human trafficking scheme. You just gotta have faith!