Rather, it is social media where readers can see videos of leading media claiming that the laptop is the work of Russian intelligence.
In 2020, CBS News' Lesley Stahl literally laughed mockingly at then-President Donald Trump when he raised the Hunter Biden laptop and what it revealed about the Bidens.
Figures like former Chief of Staff at the CIA and Department of Defense Jeremy Bash, who told MSNBC that the laptop "Looked like Russian intelligence" and "Walked like Russian intelligence." He dismissed the relevance of the laptop before the election by declaring that "This effort by Rudy Giuliani and the New York Post and Steve Bannon to cook up supposed dirt on Joe Biden looks like a classic, Russian playbook disinformation campaign."
In 2021, when media organizations were finally admitting that the laptop was authentic, Bump was still declaring that it was a "Conspiracy theory." Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, Bump continued to suggest that "The laptop was seeded by Russian intelligence."
This long-debunked claim was even recently repeated in Congress by Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., who claimed that the laptop could not be authenticated even though it was just authenticated and introduced in a federal prosecution.
The Hunter Biden laptop disappeared from the stage like Houdini's elephant because the media wanted it to disappear.
The reappearance of the laptop in a Delaware courtroom might be awkward for most people, but not the media or intelligence officials or politicians who pushed the conspiracy theory.
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