Right-wing media outlets are now waging an assault against this week’s reporting in The New York Times and The Washington Post that Russian hackers had successfully targeted Ukrainian energy company Burisma -- an apparent effort to dig up (and eventually disseminate) dirt on Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son Hunter, who previously served on the board of Burisma, in the same manner as Russia had targeted Hillary Clinton through hacks of her campaign and the Democratic National Committee back in 2016.

In an opinion piece, the Washington Examiner’s Eddie Scarry wrote a supposed debunking of the story, hanging it largely on just one fact: Oren Falkowitz, the founder of security firm Area 1, which reported the hacking, “is a Democrat” who has donated to the presidential campaigns of Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Cory Booker (D-NJ), and the firm has done security work for Democrats. (Scarry also noted that Falkowitz has donated to Republicans Rep. Will Hurd (R-TX) and former Ohio Gov. John Kasich.)

On the January 14 edition of Fox News’ The Ingraham Angle, host Laura Ingraham ran with Scarry’s write-up and bluntly declared that she didn’t believe the hack really happened as reported — but if it did happen, then it’s Hunter Biden’s own fault.