Monday, April 5, 2021

NPR issues stunning mea culpa after claiming Hunter Biden laptop story was ‘discredited' by intelligence

National Public Radio has corrected an online article that falsely asserted that documents from first son Hunter Biden's laptop had been "Discredited by U.S. intelligence."

"The laptop story was discredited by US intelligence and independent investigations by news organizations," the book review by Ron Elving, senior editor of the publicly funded media organization, initially claimed.

The correction on the Thursday article now says, "A previous version of this story said US intelligence had discredited the laptop story. US intelligence officials have not made a statement to that effect."

Although some Democrats claimed that the laptop may have been "Russian disinformation," President Biden's campaign, the White House and Hunter Biden have not denied the laptop belonged to Hunter.

In a new interview set to air in full Sunday on CBS, Hunter Biden admits that the laptop "Certainly" could be his.

A Delaware computer repairman, who has since publicly identified himself, says Hunter Biden never came to pick up his laptop after dropping it off.

Among the laptop's contents, a 2017 email chain involving Hunter Biden and associates brokering a proposed business deal with a Chinese energy company described a 10 percent set-aside for the "Big guy." Former Hunter Biden business partner Tony Bobulinski publicly identified Joe Biden as the "Big guy."
 

https://nypost.com/2021/04/02/npr-issues-correction-after-claiming-hunter-biden-laptop-story-was-discredited-by-intelligence/ 

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