Washington Post Fact-Checker’s New Approach to Suggest Hunter Biden Laptop Disinformation: Ignoring Key DocumentsPeter Schweizer and Jacob McLeod 15 Apr 2022
The media’s recent embrace the Hunter Biden laptop as a legitimate source of news is a major win for accountability reporting. Unfortunately, that has not meant an end to media gatekeeping about which lines of inquiry can be considered legitimate news.
In his latest dispatch, for instance, Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler takes issue with former President Donald Trump’s (characteristically sloppy) allegations about a mysterious $3.5 million wire transfer from Yelena Baturina, a Russian billionaire, to a company connected to Hunter Biden. “He brought it up yet again recently, prompting us to finally resolve what’s going on here,” Kessler announced on Twitter.
https://twitter.com/GlennKesslerWP/status/1512411479705849866Instead of fully leveraging the Washington Post’s access to original documents, Kessler’s analysis relies on the word of anonymous sources, some with ties to the businesses under scrutiny.
A little backstory: In December 2013, Hunter Biden helped start a Chinese private equity fund called Bohai Harvest RST (BHR). The American partners held their interests in the company through a shell company called Rosemont Seneca Thornton. Senate investigators later revealed that Yelena Baturina, the billionaire ex-wife of Moscow’s longtime mayor, transferred $3.5 million to Rosemont Seneca Thornton on February 14, 2014, raising concerns about Hunter Biden’s possible relationship with the Russian oligarch.
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