Chicago City Wire

The Atlantic staff writer Anne Applebaum has a long history of bashing the family members of Republican politicians despite her supposition that the Hunter Biden scandal is "totally irrelevant." 

Jack Posobiec posted a medley of tweets by Applebaum in which he showed the behavior.  

"[T]his is why the president's son-in-law should be nowhere near the White House," Applebaum wrote on Twitter on March 28, 2017. 

In that tweet, Applebaum linked to a story noting alleged ties between former President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner. 

"What is this puff piece about lvanka Trump doing on the cover of @ftweekend magazine?" Applebaum wrote on Sept. 16, 2017. "With zero investigation of her conflicts of interest?" 

Applebaum also tweeted about corruption in the United States in 2019.

"Am getting tired of hearing about how ‘corrupt’ Ukraine is," she tweeted on Oct. 3, 2019. "You know which country is corrupt? The United States. We have a president who is using the White House to make money, presidential children who are using their father's prestige to make money."  

Despite her disdain for those associated with Trump, Applebaum has turned a blind eye to allegations of corruption in the Biden family related to Ukraine.  

"My problem with Hunter Biden's laptop is, I think it's totally irrelevant," Applebaum said in response to University of Chicago freshman Darren O’Schmidt’s question about the importance of the Biden laptop story. "I mean, it's not whether it's disinformation or I mean, I don't think the Hunter Biden's business relationships have anything to do with who should be president of the United States. So I didn't find, I don't find it to be interesting. I mean, that, that would be my problem with that is as a major news story."

Applebaum was questioned about the scandal in a session with Democrat strategist David Axelrod at the Disinformation and the Erosion of Democracy at the University of Chicago's Institute of Politics. 

Despite Applebaum's claim that she was uninterested in the topic, she argues against its significance in relation to Trump's conflicts of interest in an editorial quoted by O'Schmidt. 

"On the grand scale of misdeeds committed by politicians and their relatives, this kind of thing barely registers," Applebaum also wrote in 2020. 

After breaking the story based on a hard drive supplied to them by Trump's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, the New York Post stuck with it. The material was reduced just before the 2020 election. Seventeen months later, The New York Times revealed they are following the story after they were able to "authenticate" emails in the collection.