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Now they tell us: NY Times finally admits Hunter Biden’s foreign influence peddling

April 7, 2025 | | Print Article

The Gray Lady garnered new criticism after the newspaper’s latest admission on Hunter Biden came, “now that it doesn’t remotely matter anymore.”

Distrust and corporate media have become increasingly synonymous in recent years, particularly in the case of the New York Times, which had long boasted of containing “All the news that’s fit to print.” After a follow-up further detailed the former first son’s alleged foreign influence-peddling, criticism was rampant against the Times over selective coverage that instead boiled down to what “fit” a preferred narrative.

Leading the critics, after the newspaper published a letter between Hunter Biden and the Obama administration’s ambassador to Italy, John R. Phillips, was the editorial board of the New York Post that wrote in part, “A full 4 1/2 years after The Post’s bombshell series on Hunter Biden’s influence-peddling schemes, The New York Times has deigned to take an interest in the former First Son’s corruption.”

The Times highlighted what they described as a “previously unpublished June 2016 letter” transmitted to Phillips on Burisma letterhead that sought “support and guidance” in a meeting with an Italian official in the Ukrainian energy firm’s pursuit of projects in the Tuscany region.

As had been previously covered, the Gray Lady reported on the content of the letter in August 2024 while making note of nearly 19,000 Freedom of Information Act requests that were backlogged at the Biden administration’s State Department.

Criticism of the outlet included references to the Times’ confirmation of the Hunter Biden laptop story two years after the 2020 election, an admission that the White House had covered up then-President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline with hours remaining in his term, and their five-year anniversary coverage of COVID that pointed out what many had been aware of — and suppressed for saying — all along.

“We’d say the Times’ willingness to at long last cover this comes better late than never, but it only published the story now that it doesn’t remotely matter anymore,” asserted the Post’s editorial board.

George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley noted in his own article on the Times’ report, “Even the New York Times, which can be credited with pursuing the FOIA information, did comparably little with the ample evidence of corruption by the Bidens in securing millions through influence peddling.”

“For years, some of us have written about the Biden family’s multimillion-dollar influence-peddling operation and the Justice Department’s refusal to charge Hunter Biden with being an unregistered foreign agent. Now, years later, the New York Times has found evidence suggesting that the former president’s son was acting as a foreign agent as early as the Obama administration, when his father was vice president,” he explained.

Heading into the holiday weekend that would be capped off with the second inauguration of President Donald Trump, the Times was slammed for their “tell-all piece on the coverup” of Biden’s decline that blamed the outgoing leader’s “inner circle” while “taking zero responsibility themselves.”

Likewise, the Times had published a piece in March about COVID that expressed, “We have since learned, however, that to promote the appearance of consensus, some officials and scientist hid or understated crucial facts, misled at least one reporter, orchestrated campaigns of supposedly independent voices and even compared notes about how to hide their communication in order to keep the public from hearing the whole story.”

Megyn Kelly reacted to the story, ripping into the self-serving nature of the reporting, “Now the New York Times has to try to whitewash what it did. So you’ll believe it when it tells you that [Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.] Kennedy’s evil and you need to trust them, [you] need to trust the Times.”

“At this point,” added the Post of the recent report from the Times well after Biden had issued a blanket pardon to his son spanning a decade, “the [Gray] Lady isn’t exposing anything, just (at best) trying to patch its own reputation: See? We cover Democrats’ scandals, too! Pretty embarrassing, if any decision-makers at the Times can still feel any shame at serving as a PR firm for the Democrats.”

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