[mrsmith]

This didn’t come from the laptop.
But your comparison to the treatment of Steele’s garbage by the media is very apt.

[monkeyshine]

OK, so this particular story didn’t come from the laptop. Seems to me then this is a red herring smokescreen story, i.e. they say “this story is unverified” as a means of explaining bass-akwardly why they have written off the other stories.

[Dave Wright]

Here's a paragraph from the actual report that Balding did. The total funds that Hunter was involved in was not the $1.5B but over $6B according to the financial records that were compiled.

Why didn't NBC just go to these sources and actually do some reporting instead of trying to con the American people.

The difficulty in eluding these concerns is their documentability by anyone who cares to look.  There is no potential for hacking because it is all public record in China. Any journalist who wishes to look can go review IPO prospectuses, news reports, or corporate records. There is no secret method for discovering this data other than actually looking. There is simply no way to avoid the reality that Hunter Biden was granted a 10% stake worth far in excess of what he paid for a firm that is literally operated and owned by the Chinese state.