Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) on April 3 claimed that some major media outlets have been “caught in a coverup” regarding the Hunter Biden laptop story. Johnson’s remarks come shortly after The Washington Post and The New York Times published articles verifying and acknowledging the authenticity of Hunter Biden’s laptop, nearly two years after it was first reported by the New York Post shortly before the 2020 election. The New York Post’s reporting of the scandal was promptly suppressed by social media sites including Facebook and Twitter, the latter of which also locked the newspaper’s account for more than two weeks, citing the outlet’s alleged publication of “hacked material” as its justification. In an editorial, titled “The Hunter Biden story is an opportunity for a reckoning,” The Washington Post blamed the reluctance among some media to publish the story on the possibility of it being one of the “unwitting tools of a Russian influence campaign in 2016,” among other things. …