The NeverTrump movement lost whatever credibility it had left four years ago when the campaign’s chief crusaders peddled a far-left hoax that dismissed Hunter Biden’s laptop as a vehicle of foreign interference.
Thursday marks the four-year anniversary of Jonah Goldberg (the founder of a commentary outlet that is home to many NeverTrumpists) writing off the first Hunter Biden laptop stories in the New York Post as election-year conspiracies. On X, then known as Twitter, Goldberg was incredulous that anyone could believe President Joe Biden’s crack-addicted son would forget a laptop at a Delaware repair shop and allow it to fall into the public domain.
“Wait you believe the computer repair shop story? Like at face value?” Goldberg wrote.
Wait you believe the computer repair shop story? Like at face value?
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) October 17, 2020
The hard drive was picked up by former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who shared a copy with the New York Post. On Oct. 14, 2020, the Post published the first exposé from the laptop, which showed that former Vice President Joe Biden had met with Hunter’s corporate partners, despite the Democrat nominee’s repeated denials of ever speaking about business with his son, “or with anyone else.” Joe Biden had even fat-shamed an Iowa voter during the presidential primary that previous winter when the voter pressed the issue at a town hall.
The New York Post published the second bombshell from the laptop on Oct. 15, 2020. Emails showed Joe Biden
