If there is a definition of irony, it is this: The Washington Post, which once doubted Hunter Biden’s laptop, is now quoting Hunter Biden’s laptop — in defense of Hunter Biden.

When The Better Post first revealed the laptop in October 2020, The Lesser Post dismissed it as “not able to verify or authenticate,” and “not a story.” It suggested it could all be a Russian plot.

Then the evidence became too much ignore, and so DC’s most boring broadsheet enlisted two security experts “to validate nearly 22,000 emails” from the laptop.

In a sign of just how insufferable they are, the writers said there was still the possibility there may be, could be, possibly be something not true on the laptop.

All that hedging flew out the window Monday, though, when Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) revealed a series of monthly checks sent from Hunter Biden’s law firm to Joe Biden. There’s not a trace of doubt when the Minor Post writes, “Comer mischaracterizes Hunter Biden car payment reimbursement to his dad.”

In “an email verified by a Washington Post forensic analysis” from the laptop, the paper reports, “the three payments were actually for a 2018 Ford Raptor truck Joe Biden had purchased that Hunter Biden was using.”

To be clear, we don’t doubt this email is authentic. We have interviewed many people who all confirm messages from the laptop. Hunter Biden has never denied it’s his laptop. We have reported, many times, about how the Bidens co-mingled funds, with emails about Hunter paying for Biden family bills. And there is a message on the laptop noting a $1,380 payment to “JRB” in relation to a Ford Raptor.

But isn’t it beyond gall that a media outlet that has dismissed and made excuses for every Biden action is willing to use the laptop it disparaged because it may help Hunter?

Or course, as usual, the Petty Post misses the forest for the forensically authenticated trees. Hunter probably was paying back his dad for a truck — using money he “earned” selling the Biden name to foreign companies. The scandal is not what the cash was for. It’s where it came from.

What was Hunter Biden selling? The joy of having the son of one of the most powerful figures in America on speed dial. What did Hunter promise them in exchange? The ability to get his dad on the phone? To invite him into a meeting? We know that both those things happened. The Other Post knows these things happened, too, they just take Joe Biden’s insistence that he did nothing wrong at face value.

If this were a Republican, perhaps the Washington Post would care more about the ethical implications. But no. If there wasn’t an actual envelope full of cash handed to Joe, or a closet full of gold bars, it isn’t a scandal.

Even if there was, you can still serve in the Senate. And that’s the definition of shameless.