Mark MoorePeople should be “outraged” at the New York Times for only just confirming the authenticity of Hunter Biden’s laptop, Sen. Ron Johnson said Sunday, as he demanded apologies from the 51 former US intelligence experts who cast doubt on The Post’s reporting on the device.

“I am just amazed that the New York Times just now came to the conclusion that the Hunter Biden laptop was genuine,” Johnson, of Wisconsin, told ​host John Catsimatidis on WABC 770 AM’s “The Cats Roundtable.”

“Where have they been? That was pretty obvious within a week or two of the New York Post’s stories​.”

The senator was referring to The Post’s exclusive reports in October 2020 on the first son’s foreign business dealings and his connection to Ukrainian energy firm Burisma while his father, Joe Biden, was vice president.

“T​​he FBI had to know that. They wouldn’t tell us when we were offered the laptop. I couldn’t take it because I had to do my due diligence. The FBI knew,” Johnson said in the interview that aired Sunday.

“We reached out to the FBI. They wouldn’t tell us it was genuine. They should have. But they didn’t. People should be outraged,” he said.

The laptop, left at a Delaware computer repair shop by Hunter Biden, contained a trove of emails detailing his business relationships in Ukraine and China, which implicated his father.

Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, an attorney for then-President Donald Trump, obtained the laptop and turned it over to The Post, which authenticated its contents by interviewing the computer shop owner and Biden cronies whose emails were found on the hard drive.

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On Date March 20, 2022Peter Schweizer, author of Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win, joined FNC’s Maria Bartiromo to discuss what he learned from the Hunter Biden “laptop from hell” including business deals in Russia, China, and Ukraine.

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BARTIROMO: So, in other words while they were trying to impeach Donald Trump the FBI knew this existed, they knew about the laptop and they didn’t say anything while trump was accused of doing deals or having a bad phone call with the Ukraine president.

PETER SCHWEIZER: If you look at the three big flashpoints in American foreign policy today — Ukraine, Russia, and China. The Biden family has received funds, millions of dollars, in some cases and tens of millions of dollars from powerful individuals connected to the government in each of those countries. That’s the first factor.

The second factor is this is not just a Hunter Biden story. The “New York Times” tried to paint it that way the headline is even “Hunter Biden pays his back taxes but fraud investigation continues.”

They admit the laptop is real and what that reveals is Hunter Biden received these funds but the president of the United States, Joe Biden, was a recipient and beneficiary of those funds. Hunter Biden and Joe Biden had intermingled finances and Hunter Biden was paying monthly bills, paying for repairs on his home.

This is a story that goes straight to the president. Each of these countries, particularly China, has a policy of using commercial ties and financial ties as leverage over foreign elites and they clearly have that in this case with Joe Biden.

MARIA BARTIROMO: suddenly just because the “New York Times” says it’s real that now, we are supposed to say it’s real. The “New York Post” reported this a long time ago. The Post is the oldest newspaper in the country. They have done fantastic work and breaking news… where will be the accountability for the intelligence officials who signed their name to that document?

SCHWEIZER: First of all you are right about the New York Post. They did a fantastic job breaking that story and it’s important that people realize how the media has failed them. I would argue this is the most important story when it comes to corruption in Washington DC and if you read the “New York Times” and rely on that for your source of information you have no clue as to what’s actually going on.

As it relates to the $31 million, that comes from the laptop. Ths are the deals that are enunciated. There are e-mails in which foreign nationals are saying, ‘I just acquired $5 million into your account please confirm receipt,’ so it’s clear in black-and-white, but it’s important to point out in the case of China the $31 million came from four Chinese businessmen each one with links to the highest level of Chinese intelligence.

This is an intelligence operation.

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BARTIROMO: Give us your take on the FBI and Department of Justice investigation right now into all of this. Is the FBI investigating Hunter Biden and could that happen while Joe Biden is president?

SCHWEIZER: Yeah, in fact, I think this “New York Times” piece, the fact that they got cooperation from Team Biden and probably from the Hunter Biden legal team, is an indication that they are extremely concerned he’s going to be indicted. This grand jury has been meeting since 2018. They were suspended during Covid because of healthcare protocols. It’s back up and running and it’s very clear that when it comes to the issues related to the tax evasion and money laundering and the other issues wrapped up with it, they are extremely concerned Hunter Biden’s going to be indicted. And I think this article is an effort to frame the conversation in a way that could be the most favorable to them.