If It Was Don Jr.’s Laptop Would the Media Care?

This just in.

President Donald Trump was in line to take a kickback from a foreign government!

His son, Donald Trump Jr., who runs the family’s real estate empire and does not serve in government, was found to be trading on the family name during multimillion-dollar negotiations with said foreign country. The plan was for his father to get 10% of the final deal.

Trump Jr. has no experience in the field in which he was negotiating. It is clear foreign operatives were looking for a quid pro quo: make the son of a powerful man rich and happy and expect favors in return.

Meanwhile, other Trump family members, also not serving in government but certainly cashing in on their famous relative’s name, have been enriching themselves in questionable ways and have reaped millions of dollars.

If Trump Jr’s Laptop Held Incriminating Evidence Would Media Care?

None of this is true, of course, but don’t you know if it were there would certainly be multiple investigations launched and politicians like Congressman Adam Schiff, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senator Chuck Schumer posturing before cameras shouting about the need to get to the truth! Impeachment would be back on the table.

But the shoe is now on the other political foot. The facts listed above are allegations about former Vice President Joe Biden and his troubled son, Hunter. Charges that stem from information that was found on an abandoned laptop, left at a Delaware repair shop with Hunter’s cell phone number as the callback contact.

Biden’s surviving son has long had problems with addiction, fidelity and finding a job that matched his unknown skills. In the inebriated blur that has been his life Hunter has been photographed in very unsober and undressed states and he fathered a child with a stripper from Arkansas. He was dating his brother’s widow at the time. Hunter denied paternity but a DNA test proved he lied.

Hunter Biden Has Led a Troubled Life – wikimedia

As the sins of the father should not be visited on a son the same should hold true the other way. Children often disappoint their parents and Hunter’s reckless behavior should not be heaped on Joe Biden’s shoulders. However, the former Vice President should be held to his word. He has repeatedly said, “I’ve never discussed business” with Hunter. Really? Then why was the senior Biden apparently in line – according to emails on that laptop – for a 10% windfall on Hunter’s deal with a Chinese firm? What about Hunter introducing his VP Dad to a Ukrainian businessman with whom he had lucrative dealings? Why did the supremely unqualified Hunter get $3.5 million dollars from the richest woman in Russia while his father served as Vice President? What were the expected quid pro quos?

I write about this now because so many “legitimate” news organizations are not. The public should be outraged about the inequity of media coverage. All presidential candidates should be investigated with equal vigor. Where are the Investigative reporters for the New York Times, Washington Post, NBC, ABC, CBS or CNN? Nowhere, that’s where.

If Joe Biden wins the presidency will Hunter have a role in government? If he remains in the private sector who will police his activities to make sure shady deals with foreign entities don’t continue?

There have been reports that as many as five members of the Biden family have cashed in on their ties to the former Senator turned Vice President, including another brother, a sister and a son-in-law. Joe Biden says he’s never discussed business with any of his relatives. Really?

A Free Press Must Be Fair to All – courtesy: Poynter Institute

Last year Politico published an eye-opening investigative report about younger brother James Biden’s takeover of a New York based global hedge fund and his boast that, “We’ve got people all around the world who want to invest in Joe Biden.” The Veep’s brother was confident that since wealthy foreigners could not legally donate to Joe Biden’s campaign they would be “in a line of 747’s filled with cash ready to invest in this company.” What was the expected quid pro quo there?

Mainly it is the New York Post and FOX News digging into the laptop story, reporting that the FBI has possession of the computer and is, apparently, investigating. Senate committees plan to hold hearings. With the election looming why isn’t the mainstream media jumping on this story? I smell a quid pro quo.

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24 Comments

  1. Diane Dimond on October 26, 2020 at 12:36 pm

    KEVIN B PARK writes:

    Finally, a story from a real news journalist! Only one correction needed. Replace the word “legitimate” with “legacy” and I think you’ll have it.

  2. Diane Dimond on October 26, 2020 at 12:37 pm

    Dear Diane,

    Thank you so much for your article published in the Albuquerque Journal today. You are spot on, and I am so disturbed that the American media is no longer reporting all of the news. We are becoming like many foreign countries where only one side is reported and much of it is propaganda. The American people can no longer believe what we hear or read.

    Do you have any suggestions on how we might get involved to stop this terribly dangerous trend?

    Thank you very much!

    Jan Stephens Wilson

  3. Diane Dimond on October 26, 2020 at 12:37 pm

    Richard Gonzalez writes:

    Are you an idiot? You actually believe that Hunter Biden would travel from California to the East Coast to leave his laptop with a two bit computer repairman? You have written some stupid articles before, but this one shows your ignorance like no other.

  4. Diane Dimond on October 26, 2020 at 12:38 pm

    V. Cordaro writes:

    Thank you Diane for such an excellent and well written article on the lap top sandal and the main media ignoring it. I strongly believe it is an organized decision on their parts to ignore this story. No coincidence that they All refused to publish about it. anybody’s guess how they reached the consensus but it is organized.

    V cordaro, Abq.

  5. Diane Dimond on October 26, 2020 at 12:39 pm

    Jackie McDowell writes:

    GREAT ARTICLE – Thank you, thank you, thank you!

    Jackie S. McDowell, PE

  6. Diane Dimond on October 26, 2020 at 12:39 pm

    Jan Hayes writes:

    Dear Diane,

    I wanted to write to thank you for your article on the Biden familie’s
    abuse of power.

    After seeing how most of the media have ignored this expose of the
    Biden crime family along with Twitter and Facebook closing down any
    attempt to get this information out to the public, I’m most appreciative
    for you doing the right thing to report on this. I also appreciate the
    Albuq. Journal for printing it.

    I along with many Americans are really afraid that our right to free
    speech is being destroyed. The Left has always tried to find its way
    around our Constitution…now, they are outting themselves in their
    pursuit to destroy it.

    Please continue to be unafraid to report the truth…there are so few
    of you out there.

    Regards,
    Jan Hayes
    Tijeras, New Mexico

  7. Diane Dimond on October 26, 2020 at 12:40 pm

    Viola Conrad writes:

    Dear Ms. Dimond,

    I have always enjoyed your column so I wanted to thank you for today’s column. Thank You for reporting the truth, I only wish more columnists and reporters had your ethics.
    And I wish your column was on the front page – above the fold.

    Sincerely,
    Viola Conrad

  8. Diane Dimond on October 26, 2020 at 12:41 pm

    leebumgarner writes:

    Much of what you wrote in your latest article is not true, but even if it were, it would be a drop in the bucket compared to all the crooked transactions Trump and his family have engaged in. Biased is an understatement here. Won’t be reading your article anymore…

  9. Diane Dimond on October 26, 2020 at 12:43 pm

    Wallace Miller writes:

    Ms. Dimond,

    Re; subject – I have come too rely on the Media Bias Chart in these hyper divisive political times.

    Some of the non-reporting outlets you mentioned – The New York Times, Washington Post, NBC, ABC – fall in the “Neutral” bias and “Most Reliable” area of said chart whereas the The NY Post and Fox News fall in the “Hyper Partisan” and “Somewhat Unreliable range of the chart. I smell a partisan and unreliable op-ed in yours.

    Just sayin’
    Wallace Miller

  10. Diane Dimond on October 26, 2020 at 12:44 pm

    Valerie Wood writes:

    Ms. Dimond:

    I read you columns with interest and usually satisfaction. I was a little surprised to read your column in the October 24, 2020 Albuquerque Journal about the laptop alleged to have belonged to Hunter Biden.

    Although I will admit that I haven’t seen every detail about this situation, the ones I have seen reek of a scam. The timing, in particular: just enough for the details to get out, but not enough to investigate or verify any facts; the logistics: Hunter Biden lives nowhere near where the laptop was found and the laptop was apparently abandoned; the individuals involved: Rudy Guiliani and Steven Bannon, two individuals for whom the truth is mostly an abstraction to be discarded at need; and the strange trail of connections that supposedly led to its discovery.

    The “proof,” in the form of a letter and the suggestion of an inappropriate meeting with Hunter Biden as the go between, is apparently a xeroxed copy that lacks “metadata,” which is the way back to the identity of the sender.

    Steven Bannon’s schemes depend on his getting his conspiracies out of the conservative bubble of websites and blogs and out into the mainstream media. For him and Rudy Guiliani, it’s enough if the keywords Biden-laptop-emails-(Hillary)-emails get out to the mainstream.

    I am a retired English and AP Language teacher. To me, this looks like a crude attempt to broadcast a set of carefully engineered allegations at a crucial time in what is probably the most important election in the last 100 years. The mainstream media won’t touch this because there is no way to find out if any of it is true. Without the metadata, you have a xeroxed copy of a letter anyone could have written and a conspiracy theory treasure hunt tailored to cast just enough doubt into an election that is rife with strong opinions and controversial outcomes.

    Should the mainstream media find some credible proof of where the email letter came from, they would have a responsibility to pursue all the angles of the story. Until they can verify the origin of the letter, they have an even stronger responsibility to withhold publishing any information about it. The same applies to the rest of the “reports” of other activities by members of the Biden family. In these times of instant news, allegations get out faster and keywords are all that the public remembers.

    Authentic attribution, not just noting that something was published in another publication, takes time. The New York Post and Fox News are not sources. You appear to be giving them far more credibility than they deserve.

    Sincerely,

    Valerie Wood

  11. Diane Dimond on October 26, 2020 at 12:45 pm

    Jane Durkee writes:

    Dear Diane,

    Thank you! Thank You! Thank you! I was absolutely shocked and happy that your 10/24/2020 OP/ED was printed. Until it, the “ABQ Journal” had suppressed the Biden scandal. I heard on Newsmax, I believe, that reporters on the “Washington Post” are afraid to write about what’s on that laptop. BUT YOU AREN’T! I’m waiting to see if the “ABQ Journal” has the guts to endorse Pres. Trump. I am among the many who are genuinely afraid of what will happen to our country if the Socialist Democrats win this election.

    Sincerely,
    Jane Durkee

  12. Diane Dimond on October 26, 2020 at 12:45 pm

    Rebecca Monette writes:

    Dear Ms. Dimond,

    Thank you for having the courage to write your crime and justice piece, ” If the computer were Don Jr’s, would media care?” that appeared in the Albuquerque Journal today. This is a very important story that exposes Joe Biden and his family for what many of us believe them to be!
    I almost exclusively only watch Fox news because of the blatantly biased mainstream media. I have (until) today even considered dropping the Albuquerque Journal because they have not covered this important story either (until today). So thanks to the Albuquerque Journal for publishing it! Please follow up on this story and continue to expose the rest of what is on that computer.
    The country needs to know when news of this magnitude happens, ESPECIALLY before a Presidential election!
    Thank you for being a responsible journalist! Keep up the great work!
    Best,

    Rebecca Monette

  13. Diane Dimond on October 26, 2020 at 12:46 pm

    vaneldredge writes:

    Ms Dimond,

    I applaud your bravery for drafting this opinion piece as well as any of the publications which print it.
    Thank you for your ongoing coverage of this and other controversial issues.

    Van Eldredge
    Albuquerque

  14. Diane Dimond on October 26, 2020 at 12:46 pm

    Gordon Hodge writes:

    Ms Diamond

    Thank you for writing this story and a big thank you to the publisher for airing it.

    Which is worse, Hunter Biden’s deeds (which may or may not include child rape and Joe Biden’s knowledge), or the mainstream media’s refusal to investigate or cover it? Both are hideous examples of a state that would make George Orwell shiver.

    I am interested in the repercussions on your career that this article will generate. Hopefully, after the election (and the liberal establishment goes after Biden so as to promote one of their own) the establishment will relegate this article as foresight rather than heresy.

    Best of luck,
    Gordon Hodge

  15. Diane Dimond on October 26, 2020 at 12:47 pm

    Gunhild Vetter writes:

    That was a thumbs up, the only reporter I have seen with enough backbone to say it like it really is. We need more reporters like you who are still being real journalists. Thank you.

    Gunhild Vetter

  16. Diane Dimond on October 26, 2020 at 12:48 pm

    Roger Elkins writes:

    I had my suspicions from a previous op-ed, but this one was the convincing piece. I expect my opinion articles to at least pretend to follow facts and maybe do a little investigating before writing a column. That’s not true here, it reads as if Tucker Carlson or Sean Hannity co wrote the column. I guess you missed the part about the furor at the Wall Street Journal over this issue, and maybe the fact that the New York Post had to import someone from Fox to put a byline on the story because none of their inhouse people would! I will probably gently suggest to my local newspaper that maybe they should look for an op-ed columnist who is a little more centrist!

    Roger Elkins

  17. Pat Ramsey Neumann on October 26, 2020 at 9:08 pm

    This is a great article. The media ignoring this story and the American cannot believe what they read. It is a sad situation.

  18. Diane Dimond on October 27, 2020 at 2:52 pm

    ab2526135 writes:

    After the Bidens are investigated, all news sources (main stream media) except fox, and ny post need to be investigated.

    • Diane Dimond on October 27, 2020 at 2:53 pm

      NavyVet replies to ab2526135:

      Investigated my ass, they need to be prosecuted.
      Everyone understands that discrimination is wrong and illegal, but viewpoint discrimination – which is destructive to our very republic – is celebrated by the democrat media monopoly. We need to protect differing viewpoints in media hiring, staffing, promotion, and exposure with the same zeal as skin color.

  19. Diane Dimond on October 27, 2020 at 2:55 pm

    Passive Aggressive writes:

    I watch Fox and I watch others. I read Epoch and I read others. I can also think for my self and I have enough patience to wait for more details. For the most part I think I can tell what’s fake or not or what’s biased or not. The main thing is to think and don’t jump to conclusions.

  20. Diane Dimond on October 27, 2020 at 2:57 pm

    Larry Smith writes:

    Perfect illustration of the hypocrisy of the left and their public relations forum, the MSM.

  21. Diane Dimond on October 27, 2020 at 2:59 pm

    Steve Romeo writes:

    See the documentary film, “Ride the Dragon” on You Tube for a full account of the Biden family’s total sellout of America to the CCP. Even worse, go find the book, “Clinton Cash” documenting how the Clintons did the same things, only with Russia. The Clintons make the Bidens look like amateurs!

  22. Diane Dimond on October 27, 2020 at 3:07 pm

    Scott Daughtry writes:

    Thank you Diane (and this newspaper, ABQ. Journal) for having the guts to speak on a topic that the leftist media has refused to acknowledge. The double standard being exhibited in the Hunter Biden computer investigation by our media is a new low (even for them, who gave top cover to Hillary and her email scandal for years). There are several videos posted of Guiliani and the former NYC Commissioner who are reviewing the hard drive clone given to them by the repair shop owner which provides jaw dropping information about what they’ve found thus far (not even 50% of the content reviewed yet). Pay for Play has plagued our state via Bill Richardson; the Hunter Biden scandal, which bleeds into his uncle and his dad, could become the benchmark 21st century scandal. We all know politicians are narcissists and power hungry people by nature – the question is how can the American people remove their ability to make hundreds of millions of dollars on the side at our expense? That is what we must fix..

  23. Diane Dimond on October 27, 2020 at 3:08 pm

    VALERIE WROBLEWSKI writes:

    Dear Diane,

    Thank you for your piece ‘If the computer were Don Jr.’s, would the media care? I wholeheartedly agree with you and am angry that our media has become so corrupt and biased.
    What a disappointment they are.
    I appreciate your efforts to point this out. Keep up your good work.
    Valerie Wroblewski DDS
    Placitas, NM

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