Psaki ducks New York Times, finally confirming Hunter Biden’s laptop is real: press secretary says the president’s son doesn’t work for the government and escalates questions to the Justice Department and his lawyers
- Psaki asked about the laptop after the Times said it checked emails from a cache of files that appeared to come from the laptop.
- Biden called the laptop story weeks before the election a “Russian factory.”
- Psaki herself called it Russian disinformation in 2020, when a group of former intelligence officers called it as such.
- When asked about new developments, she gave very brief statements.
- She directed journalists to the Justice Department and said that Hunter “does not work for the government.”
- A few months ago, asked computer experts to test the laptop.
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki dodged questions about new developments in Hunter Biden’s laptop saga on Thursday by forwarding inquiries to the Justice Department after the New York Times said investigators had confirmed the authenticity of emails that appeared to be sent from his infamous computer.
The question came hours after the Times referenced it in an article about how the president’s son settled his unpaid tax bill in a federal investigation.
The report mentions emails between Hunter Biden and former business partners that he says turned out to be from a “cache” of files that appeared to come from a laptop that was cited as the source of a series of damaging New York Post reports. published a few weeks before the election.
“Email and other data in the cache were confirmed by people familiar with them and with the investigation,” the newspaper said.
Asked at a White House press briefing on Thursday about the newspaper’s verification of the authenticity of the information a year and a half after the original report, Psaki replied: “I would point you to the DOJ and also Hunter Biden’s representatives – he does not work in the DOJ. government.’
“I would point you to the Justice Department and also Hunter Biden’s representatives – he doesn’t work for the government,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki responded after the New York Times reported that investigators had confirmed the authenticity of emails that allegedly came from Hunter Biden. abandoned laptop
She was asked Wednesday about the Times report, even though ‘s computer experts had checked the laptop months ago.
She did not answer ‘s question about her own life. marking laptop as Russian disinformation in October 2020.
“Again, I would like to point you to the representatives of the Department of Justice and Hunter Biden. I am the official representative of the United States. He does not work for the United States,” Psaki said.
Biden criticized reports of the laptop as “a bunch of junk.”
“There are 50 former national intelligence officials who said that what he accuses me of is a Russian plant,” he said, adding that “five former CIA leaders on both sides say that what he says is “It’s a pile of rubbish.”
Both Biden and Psaki cited a letter from 50 former senior intelligence officials that said the laptop stories had “all the classic hallmarks of a Russian information operation.”
The document was found to contain a “cache” of files that appeared to originate from the laptop and related to Hunter’s business operations.
The laptop contained a lot of awkward images.
President Joe Biden quoted family members at St. Patrick’s Day events Thursday.
Psaki tweeted about “Russian disinformation” a few weeks before the election
“If we are right, it is Russia that is trying to influence how Americans vote in this election, and we firmly believe that Americans should be aware of this,” officials wrote, four years after the intelligence community interfered in the 2016 election.
However, the Times story established that government investigators were confident in at least the information found on Hunter’s laptop, however bizarre the story of how the information surfaced.
The laptop led to numerous reports of Hunter Biden’s dealings and contained many embarrassing photographs.
The original Post article said that Hunter left his Mac at a computer repair shop in Wilmington, Delaware, but forgot to pick it up.
The Times has questioned the laptop’s origins in its own reports.
Prosecutors also reportedly examined emails between Biden and Devon Archer, one of his business partners at the Ukrainian energy company Burisma, citing sources familiar with the investigation.
had authenticated the laptop a year earlier and became the first and only news organization to publicly verify its contents through forensic analysis.
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