By Josh Boswell For Dailymail.com
- The Washington Post finally admitted Hunter Biden’s laptop is real, nine months after first receiving a copy of the hard drive
- The newspaper made a u-turn in an piece published Wednesday, after months of publishing articles suggesting the laptop could be Russian disinformation
- The Post said it had cyber forensics experts validate its material, using similar methods experts hired by DailyMail.com used back in March 2021
- Hunter’s Macbook Pro was recovered in October 2020 after he left it at a repair shop in Wilmington, Delaware in April 2019 and never returned for it
- Earlier this month, DailyMail.com revealed that the Post received a copy of the laptop from political activist Jack Maxey last June and again in October but ignored it
- ‘They haven’t done anything. They’re not just late to the party, they didn’t even show up,’ said Maxey, who gave DailyMail.com the laptop last spring
- The Post’s admission also follows the New York Times, which quietly noted 1,200 words into a long story this month that it had also validated the device’s material
The Washington Post has finally admitted Hunter Biden‘s laptop is real, nine months after first receiving a copy and a full year after DailyMail.com authenticated it.
The Post had cyber forensics experts validate material on the abandoned laptop hard drive, using similar methods that experts hired by DailyMail.com used back in March 2021.
After months of publishing articles suggesting the laptop could be Russian disinformation, the analysis published by the newspaper on Wednesday marks a startling u-turn.
