Liberal media outlets MSNBC, CNN and CBS repeatedly disregarded the Hunter Biden laptop story in the month leading up to the 2020 presidential election, calling it 'Russian disinformation,' among other things.
were also critical of the laptop story. Tapper feigned disgust during an October CNN segment, announcing that right-wingers were going"crazy" with allegations about Hunter and Joe Biden"too disgusting to even repeat."Then-President Trump sat down with CBS anchor Lesley Stahl in October 202, where the two had a contentious exchange over Hunter Biden's laptop.
"Excuse me, they found the laptop. Lesley. Listen," Trump said, as Stahl repeatedly interjected that the laptop could not be verified. "Why do you say that?" the former president responded, before further arguing the laptop had to be legitimate.
The same day, The New York Times ran a report sounding the alarm about"Russian disinformation," claiming then-President Trump was warned that Russians were"using" his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, who was given the laptop before providing its contents to the press, to spread false claims about the Bidens.
The letter, which was parroted by much of the media, suggested, without evidence, that the emails were hacked and could have been tampered with by the Kremlin in order to make its contents look incriminating.
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