there was good reason to believe Hunter Biden's laptop, dropped off by Trump's campaign lawyer, Giuliani, to the NYPost, at October surprise timing, was nefarious or Russian related, because the same time period in the 2016 election, the Russian hacked emails of Hillary's campaign manager dropped....and Trump used them daily, at his rallies.....
Along with the fact that Rudy Giuliani had been working with Russian Ukrainian operatives and Russian operatives to get dirt on Hunter for the past few years prior to the election.... A verified, known fact.
So yeah, we in the public had every reason to think such....you would have, if the situation was reversed.