Legacy Media Scrambles to Catch Up on Scandals GOP Called Out Years Ago [WATCH]

As the dust settles from last November’s election, legacy media outlets are revisiting scandals that Republicans have long highlighted, including allegations of corruption tied to Hunter Biden, the origins of COVID-19, and Joe Biden’s mental decline.

These developments, now gaining traction in mainstream reporting, have fueled criticism from conservative circles that such stories were overlooked or downplayed until their political relevance waned.

The New York Post’s editorial board took aim at The New York Times last week, accusing the outlet of belatedly addressing Hunter Biden’s alleged influence-peddling.

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“A full 4½ 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 board wrote.

“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.”

The New York Times published an article on Friday detailing how Hunter Biden “sought support from the State Department” to assist Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company, during his father’s tenure as vice president.

Hunter joined Burisma as legal counsel in spring 2014, later ascending to its board, where he earned millions.

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Republicans have long alleged that Hunter and Joe Biden pressured Burisma’s CEO into paying them millions to secure the firing of a Ukrainian prosecutor investigating the company.

Joe Biden has consistently denied involvement in his son’s business dealings.

In January, before leaving office, he issued Hunter a broad pardon covering potential offenses from January 1, 2014, to December 1, 2024.

Jonathan Turley, a Fox News contributor and George Washington University law professor, addressed the Times’ report in a Sunday op-ed for Fox News Digital.

“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,” Turley wrote.

Beyond the Biden family, legacy outlets have also turned attention to the origins of COVID-19.

The New York Times ran a column on March 16 by Zeynep Tufekci, a Princeton sociology professor, titled “We Were Badly Misled About the Event That Changed Our Lives.”

Tufekci argued that the scientific community “hid or understated crucial facts” to suppress the theory that COVID-19 originated in a Wuhan lab, despite suspecting it early on.

“We have since learned, however, that to promote the appearance of consensus, some officials and scientists 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 communications in order to keep the public from hearing the whole story,” she wrote.

The Trump administration’s CIA reported earlier this year that the lab leak was the likely source, a theory once dismissed by many as a conspiracy.

A New York Times spokesperson defended their coverage to Fox News Digital, stating, “The New York Times has intensely pursued every theory and lead on the origins of Covid-19, documented the political debate, funding, influence, and shifts in thinking among the scientific community, and reported on China’s censorship campaign that has stifled the search for truth.”

Meanwhile, a new book by veteran D.C. reporters Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes, “Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House,” examines Joe Biden’s mental decline before the election.

Parnes told Vanity Fair, “All of them,” when asked who in Biden’s circle concealed his condition, adding, “He was a shell of himself.”

Allen noted, “We’d been watching Biden’s decline for a long period of time and, honestly, thought he had lost his fastball some when he was running in 2020.”

Conservatives had raised concerns about Biden’s acuity since before 2020, with scrutiny intensifying after Special Counsel Robert Hur’s February 2024 report described him as “a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”

Biden’s faltering debate performance in June 2024 prompted even allies to question his fitness, leading to his July exit from the race and endorsement of Kamala Harris, who lost to Donald Trump in November.

CNN anchor Jake Tapper’s forthcoming book, “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again,” is also expected to explore these themes, further spotlighting what conservatives view as long-ignored Democratic vulnerabilities.

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