Bill Maher tore into the 'left-wing media' for burying the laptop scandal because it 'wasn't part of their narrative'.

The star made the claim during Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday night after the Washington Post finally Buy Verified PayPal Account - SupportVCC.Com the laptop this week - more than a year after the New York Post and DailyMail.com first covered the story.

The New York Post had cyber forensics experts validate material on the abandoned laptop hard drive, using similar methods that experts hired by DailyMail.com used back in March 2021. 

After months of publishing articles suggesting the laptop could be Russian disinformation, the analysis published by the newspaper on Wednesday marks a startling U-turn. 

Its admission also follows the New York Times, which quietly noted 1,200 words into a long story published earlier this month that it had also validated material from the laptop.

Neither newspaper acknowledged that DailyMail.com had authenticated its contents with a forensic analysis by top cyber experts a year earlier, and has been regularly publishing revelations based on that material ever since. 

'It looks like the left-wing media has buried the story because it wasn't part of their narrative and that's why people don't trust the media,' Maher said on his Friday show. 

He added that in 'John Adams day,' the country had 'different newspapers for different parties.' 

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Bill Maher, pictured, tore into the 'left-wing media' for burying the Hunter Biden scandal because it 'wasn't part of the narrative' during his panel discussing on Friday night

The now-infamous photo of Hunter lying in bed with a crackpipe in his mouth was among the files found on his device

The New York Post had published excerpts of emails and photos from the laptop ahead of the 2020 election, but without authentication they were widely dismissed as fake or 'Russian disinformation'.

Pictured: Photos recovered from the computer

Maher said: 'I remember reading about this a couple of years ago, the New York Post came across… Hunter Biden's computer, which he apparently left at a computer repair store.

I didn't even know they existed.'

'And if anyone should not leave his computer with other people, it would be Hunter Biden just for the personal stuff.' 

'But it also had stuff about how, you know, c'mon, he's a ne'er-do-well.
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Photos obtained from Hunter Biden's laptop showed him using drugs and other unsavory images, along with financial records which linked him to various international entities.

In its Wednesday piece, the Washington Post claimed it tried to get hold of a copy of the laptop contents in October 2020 but failed, and didn't get its hands on the laptop drive until June 2021, when Jack Maxey gave them a copy.

United States vice-president Joe Biden (L) and his son Hunter Biden (R) attend a women's ice hockey preliminary game between United States and China on February 14, 2010 in Vancouver

The Macbook Pro fell into the hands of news organizations in October 2020 after the president's son left the device at a repair shop in Wilmington, Delaware in April 2019 and never returned for it

Jack Maxey, a political activist and former Steve Bannon podcast co-host, who gave DailyMail.com the laptop, said he also provided the Washington Post with a copy last summer

DailyMail.com previously reported Hunter's was paid a $1million retainer in 2017 to represent his business partner Patrick Ho, who was being prosecuted by the US government

A $100,000 wire transfer from Chinese company CEFC to Hunter's firm Hudson West in 2017

Maxey, a former co-host of ex-Donald Trump advisor Steve Bannon's podcast the War Room, also gave DailyMail.com a copy in February last year - and has been doggedly trying to get the US's two most prestigious papers to investigate its contents ever since.

The Washington Post accidentally deleted their first copy and had to get Maxey to fly out to their Washington DC office with a new one in October last year, he said.

'I'm not going to disclose the details of our conversations, but I gave them a copy of it in June.

I personally delivered it to their offices and met with senior editors,' Maxey told DailyMail.com 

'I had to go a second time in October because they broke the first copy.'

'They haven't done anything [until now].
They're not just late to the party, they didn't even show up.'

Photos provided by Maxey show him at the newspaper's offices, and a copy of the laptop hard drive lying on the Washington Post's boardroom table.

The Washington Post spent months ignoring stories arising from the laptop and prominently reporting claims that it was 'Russian disinformation'.