After a decade of running interference for the Biden Crime Family, the New York Times finally feels it is sufficiently safe to do real journalism. Friday, the New York Times reported on a recently released letter from Hunter Biden to the US ambassador in Italy requesting “support and guidance” on how to help the Ukrainian energy company Burisma get relief from regulatory hurdles to its operations in Italy.

The key points here are that Hunter Biden, in between episodes of knocking up strippers, used the US government to facilitate his personal business ventures. That would be bad enough if he had acted on behalf of a US company, but in this case, he had been acting on behalf of a foreign company and should have registered as an agent of that company.

His actions — "representing the interests of the foreign principal before U.S. Government officials or agencies" — are clearly a violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act, and they took place when, according to Jonathan Turley, "Special Counsel Robert Mueller seemed to charge by the gross under the act." As Turley notes, Mueller hit just about all of Trump's close associates with FARA violation indictments: "He hit a line of Trump associates with such allegations from Manafort to Michael Flynn to George Papadopoulos to Rick Gates. The Justice Department used FARA to conduct searches on the homes and files of former Trump counsel Rudy Giuliani, Republican attorney Victoria Toensing and others."

Yet, while that was going on, Trump's and later Biden's State Departments resisted releasing the letter to our ambassador in Rome.

It is too early to tell if this represents an editorial sea change in the paper that repeatedly "debunked" Hunter-related misconduct like that revealed on his laptop. As late as June 2024, the New York Times still denied that all of the contents of that laptop had been validated.

Maybe, after the debacle of the Times going all-in on Karine Jean-Pierre's "cheap fake" lies to excuse Joe Biden's obvious decrepitude (see Biden Battles Age Doubts and a Trail of Misleading Videos - The New York Times), they realize a new generation of political leaders are taking the reins, so there is no reason to protect Obama and Biden any longer. Maybe they realize that with social media not controlled by a friendly government agency, there is no way for them to suppress the truth. Maybe they are trying to become a credible news source.

The reason doesn't matter so much as the fact that they are at least validating the reporting done by more honest outlets years ago and correcting what had been a very distorted media picture of what was known and who knew it.

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