New York Times Stalled for More Than 500 Days Before Reporting It Authenticated Emails from Hunter Biden Laptop

Conservative News DailyFebruary 3, 2023

The New York Times, self-proclaimed “paper of record,” waited more than 500 days before finally reporting it had authenticated critical emails from now-President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop.

The Times This false narrative suggested that Hunter Biden’s laptop had been somehow stolen. “Russian disinformation” Breitbart News exclusively obtained emails that show the contrary. However, it was able to penetrate the public discourse for over a decade.

Breitbart News received one email. Times Ken Vogel, reporter, sent Tony Bobulinski an email on October 15, 2020 at 5:20 PM PT. Vogel wanted to confirm the authenticity of the emails. New York Post Bobulinski was cited.

“Sorry to drop unannounced into your inboxes during this hectic time,” Vogel reached out to many attorneys in Bobulinski. “I am attempting to assess the authenticity of emails cited in The New York Post that include your client, Tony Bobulinksi, as a recipient and an ostensible participant in a business venture in China with Hunter Biden.”

Vogel requests the attorneys to speak with him about his background in order to confirm the authenticity and explain the process. New York Post These were published and obtained.

The New York Post Had earlier that morning, Oct. 15, 2020. Published the bombshell report from Emma-Jo Morris—now the politics editor at Breitbart News— that revealed emails from Hunter Biden’s laptop discussed a potential business deal with Chinese executives, which referred to “the big guy” taking ten percent equity.

Seventy-one percent of Americans believe accurate reporting of Hunter Biden’s “Laptop from Hell” TIPP Insights polling Monday revealed that the 2020 presidential election could have been influenced by these factors. https://t.co/gpzr69jURY

— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) December 13, 2022

“Hunter Biden pursued lucrative deals involving China’s largest private energy company — including one that he said would be “interesting for me and my family,” emails obtained by The Post show,” Morris wrote in the Oct. 15, 2020, article. “One email sent to Biden on May 13, 2017, with the subject line ‘Expectations,’ included details of “remuneration packages” For six people involved in an unknown business venture. Biden was identified. ‘Chair / Vice Chair depending on agreement with CEFC,’ An apparent reference to former Shanghai-based conglomerate CEFC China Energy Co. ‘850’ The email also stated that ‘Hunter has some office expectations he will elaborate.’ The email also outlined the following: ‘provisional agreement’ Below 80 percent ‘equity,’ Or shares in the company’s new venture, would be split equally between four people whose initials match the sender, and three recipients. ‘H’ Biden is apparently being referenced. The deal also listed ’10 Jim’ and ’10 held by H for the big guy?’ Neither Jim nor the ‘big guy’ was identified further.”

The Post report, that Vogel asked Bobulinski’s attorneys about, also explicitly states that the email came from Hunter Biden’s laptop.

“The email is contained in a trove of data that the owner of a computer repair shop in Delaware said was recovered from a MacBook Pro laptop that was dropped off in April 2019 and never retrieved,” Morris wrote.

Bobulinski said to Breitbart News, that Vogel’s inquiry was received by his lawyers on Monday morning. He called Vogel and confirmed that the emails were authentic. New York Times reporter. He claimed he did. “on background,” This means that it is anonymous, but that you are the recipient of the email.

“It was the craziest thing. It seemed like the entire political world was debating whether the ’10% for the Big Guy’ email was authentic and if so, who the Big Guy was,” Bobulinski told Breitbart News. “Ken Vogel, a reporter for the storied New York Times is told that the email is indeed authentic, that Joe Biden is indeed the ‘Big Guy,’ and that he can attribute that information to a recipient of the email. You’d think that’s a pretty big scoop. Nope. Vogel just sat on it. Remember, he reached out to me so he damn well knew that the information was newsworthy. I had literally hundreds of reporters reaching out to me. I responded to him and trusted that he would do something with that information because I was told that he shoots straight on his Biden coverage. Nothing could be further from the truth. He was taking sides, not reporting the news — and he did so to the detriment of American voters. All the news that’s fit to print? What an absolute joke.”

Vogel and the Times would not, until March 2022—more than 500 days after that phone call with Bobulinski—Write a story saying that the newspaper had authenticated emails from Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop. The following story was published on March 16, 2022. Times Finally, they said it had “authenticated” Emails sent from the laptop that refer to other emails than the Bobulinski emails.

The New York Times falsely claimed Sunday that Hunter Biden’s laptop was “stolen,” It was actually abandoned at the computer shop where he had taken it. https://t.co/oPnMDHo6Zh

— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) December 5, 2022

“People familiar with the investigation said prosecutors had examined emails between [Hunter] Biden, [Devon] Archer and others about Burisma and other foreign business activity,” Vogel and fellow Times Reporters Katie Benner, and Michael Schmidt contributed to the story on March 16, 2022. The New York Times obtained those emails from a cache that appeared to have been taken from a laptop left behind by President Biden at a Delaware repair shop. The email and others in the cache were authenticated by people familiar with them and with the investigation.”

It was hidden 24 paragraphs deep in the article. This marked the first time that the newspaper of record in America had revealed it. “authenticated” Emails from the laptop were left behind by the son of the President of the United States in a Delaware computer shop years before. This March 2022 story is silent on the Bobulinski emails and other material. However, the fact that there is a Times Finally, it said that at least some of the material had been authenticated. This was a far cry from the fake and whimsical narratives that ex-intelligence community officials had been promoting for more than a year between the 2020 election and now. That the laptop and its contents were somehow stolen. “Russian disinformation.”

Vogel and the Times Actually Published a story before the 2020 election—on Oct. 25, 2020, nine days after that Oct. 16 phone call with Bobulinski—that references the “the big guy” email and other materials. The headline for that Times piece was from Vogel, Maggie Haberman and Eric Lipton. “Questions and Answers About the Bidens and a Deal in China.”

The word “laptop” It is not mentioned in the story. The article also does not mention that the laptop had these emails. The article instead mentions the Times report from that day frames the effort to expose the Biden family’s business dealings with the Chinese as something that then-President Donald Trump “and his allies” They were behind, calling the incident a “last-ditch effort” Before the election.

This piece refers to the famous “the big buy” email, and that it was part of “records produced by Mr. Bobulinski.”

“The Bobulinski records include emails, contracts, business plan documents and photographs of encrypted messages among the American partners,” Vogel, Haberman and Lipton wrote. “The Times could not independently authenticate all of the records, but the records referred to in this article are consistent with interviews and previous reporting by The Times. The Biden campaign did not dispute that Hunter and James Biden participated in negotiating the deal with the Chinese company.”

Again, this article does not make clear that these emails also appeared on the laptop—as reported by the New York PostVogel refers to this in his initial inquiry with the Bobulinski attorneys.

Vogel and the Times This article was not commented on by you.

For what it’s worth, the Times actually did not—according to a source familiar with the matter—obtain a copy of the Hunter Biden laptop until nearly a year later, in August 2021. It is difficult to believe that this happened considering the fact that copies of the Hunter Biden laptop were easily available in public for journalists who requested them. Nonetheless, it also begs the question why the newspaper waited from August 2021 until March 2022—a period of several months during which Hunter Biden’s father was President of the United States—to report that it had authenticated at least some emails from the laptop, which, as the Bobulinski-Vogel call from October 2020 confirms, the newspaper had done long before it got a copy of the laptop.

New York Times Admits Hunter’s Laptop is Real! Watch The Media When the Story First Broke… pic.twitter.com/mGSfXMz1zl

— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) March 18, 2022

The reason is Times It is important to withhold reporting on authentication of Hunter Biden laptop email accounts. This is due to the fact that many powerful Americans were spreading disinformation by claiming the Hunter Biden notebook was disinformation promoted by Russians.

On Oct. 19, 2020—after Vogel had spoken to Bobulinski but before the New York Times published that story from him, Haberman, and Lipton—Politico’s Natasha Bertrand Published this headline: “Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say.”

Bertrand wrote a letter about claims in which she has since moved to CNN. “the arrival on the US political scene of emails purportedly belonging to Vice President Biden’s son Hunter, much of it related to his time serving on the Board of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma, has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.”

That Let me know It was signed several powerful individuals, including James Clapper (ex-Director of National Intelligence), Mike Hayden (ex-CIA Director), Leon Panetta (ex-Defense Secretary), John Brennan (ex CIA director), and many other senior intelligence community officials.

Vogel himself is on the byline of a story from October 2020 that loosely attempts to connect the Hunter Biden laptop to some kind of Russian disinformation plot—but not nearly as aggressively as those former intelligence community officials had.

The Oct. 31, 2020 Times PieceVogel, Haberman, Jim Rutenberg, report on how Rudy Giuliani (former mayor of New York City) was an integral figure in delivering Hunter Biden’s laptop to the New York Post The newspaper in fall 2020. This story states that “intelligence officials warned the White House last year that Russian agents were using him as a conduit for anti-Biden disinformation.”

This link takes you to a Previous Times piece, from reporters Haberman, Eric Schmitt, and Julian Barnes, that was published on Oct. 15, 2020—the same day that the New York Post published the Bobulinski emails from the Hunter Biden laptop and that Vogel reached out to Bobulinski’s attorneys—that says in the headline: “Trump Said to Be Warned That Giuliani Was Conveying Russian Disinformation.” The reported warning apparently came nearly a year earlier in late 2019, warning that Giuliani’s work with Ukrainian politician Andriy Derkach was concerning.

Haberman, Schmitt and Barnes wrote deep in the piece that the Times “has not been able to verify the information that Mr. Giuliani furnished to The Post, which he said came from a laptop left at a Delaware repair shop.”

“The owner of the shop has given conflicting accounts to reporters, and Mr. Giuliani’s acquisition of the laptop has raised questions about the material on it,” They wrote. “Some former officials who have not reviewed the material suspect it could be Russian disinformation and noted Mr. Giuliani’s work with Mr. Derkach. The intelligence warning to Mr. Trump in December had nothing to do with the laptop, a former official said.”

This timeline also includes a separate piece that the Times PubliziertOn Oct. 22, 2020, Adam Goldman, a reporter, raised concerns about the possibility that the laptop could be Russian disinformation. He then explicitly stated: “No concrete evidence has emerged that the laptop contains Russian disinformation.” Goldman’s piece also quotes then-Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe as saying it was not Russian disinformation.