This quite possibly is the biggest political coverup in history. Hunter Biden had a laptop with a boat load of incriminating emails and photos that is recovered weeks before the Presidential election. Had it been correctly reported on it could have easily sunk the Biden campaign. But the MSM not only deep-sixed the story, they all came out and laughed the story off as “Russian disinformation”. It’s now out that the story originally reported by the New York Post is all true! Let’s now see if the MSM spins how they could have been so wrong. Don’t hold your breath waiting for any apologies or admissions of “we were wrong and Trump was right”.
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And that tells you everything you need to know about the journalistic integrity of large media outlets in this country right now. As my mom would rightfully say, “Every station has an agenda - the left-wing ones and the right wing ones.”
But perhaps this “agenda” could have just meant that MSNBC or CNN actually covering the laptop story with a bit more of a favorable spin for Biden; it shouldn’t mean totally ignoring the story ahead of an election and pretending like the events in question simply never happened, right?
The worst part is this type of behavior from media isn’t just this one story. We’re seeing all types of narratives being protected and facts being ignored when it comes to the pandemic. For instance, look at what an absolutely batshit crazy job the hysterical media did covering ivermectin after Joe Rogan got Covid. People were banned from social media and scorned for suggesting the virus may have come from a lab. Now, it’s the media’s leading hypothesis. Would anyone be surprised to see a pivot on ivermectin now? I wouldn't.
The point is that the laptop story was objectively a material story, no matter what party you belong to. At some point, one would hope that the story’s merits would move the needle far enough that even left-wing news organizations would have given it perfunctory coverage.
Instead, they did something nefarious: they covered it up.
And while anybody with common sense at the time would’ve told you that the laptop story was likely true (who is going to fake 200 photos of a presidential candidate’s son smoking meth in his underwear?), admitting it now after the fact, as the President’s son parades around selling his “art” for $500,000 a clip, is both insulting to our intelligence and embarrassing for your respective news organizations.
Finally, remember every time the left tries to lecture you on the importance of journalism and accountability, maybe you can kindly ask them to start by examining the organizations who were never held accountable for ignoring what my dad rightfully referred to as “one of the biggest political scandals of all time”.
It’s a great time for the media that spent four straight years focused on pointing the finger at former President Trump for anything and everything to realize that three more fingers are pointing back at them.
Like many on the left, they’ve become what they claim to hate.
Here is another article on the same topic.
On April 12, 2019, Hunter Biden took his damaged laptop to a computer repair shop in Wilmington, Delaware. It was the beginning of a series of fateful events that would culminate in the New York Times finally admitting on March 17, 2022, that Biden’s laptop and its contents were real.
Previous reporting by the New York Post detailed emails that were found on Hunter Biden’s laptop that showed that then-presidential candidate Joe Biden, his brother James, and son Hunter Biden were all deeply entangled in various overseas business ventures, including Qatar, Ukraine, Russia, and China.
The emails also showed that Hunter Biden was directed by the head of a Ukrainian energy company’s board to find a way to stop the investigation into the company. While the authenticity of his laptop had been confirmed earlier, it unfortunately took verification by The New York Times to allow the story to enter the mainstream.
The intentionally delayed admission from the corporate media that Biden’s laptop is real raises many material questions, including those surrounding President Joe Biden’s fitness for office and his ability to direct our foreign policy, particularly in relation to the Ukraine-Russia conflict.
The existence of Hunter Biden’s laptop was first publicly disclosed on Oct. 14, 2020, when the New York Post ran a front page story detailing how emails found on the laptop tied his father to his Ukrainian business partners.
When the story first broke, a broad coalition comprising corporate media, intelligence officials, and Big Tech companies interfered in the 2020 election by censoring and suppressing the story, claiming that it was a Russian plot. Twitter first issued warnings regarding the Post’s story, and then suspended the account of the Post for running the story‚ along with those of reporters who were looking into the allegations. Facebook announced that it would be limiting distribution of the story on its platform while it supposedly fact-checked the story. That fact-check never came.
CNN political director David Chalian issued internal orders that CNN reporters not cover the story, telling his staff, “Obviously, we’re not going with the New York Post story right now on Hunter Biden. We’ll just continue to report out this is the very stuff that the president was impeached over … that Senate committees looked at and found nothing wrong in Joe Biden’s interactions with Ukrainians.”
PBS wrote on Twitter, “We don’t want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don’t want to waste our listeners’ and readers’ time on stories that are just pure distractions.”
Notably, the Biden administration, in direct violation of the First Amendment, has repeatedly admitted that it has been working directly with Big Tech companies to censor or eliminate what it deems to be disinformation.
Throughout the 2020 campaign, Joe Biden repeatedly denied any knowledge of Hunter Biden’s overseas business, stating, “I have never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings.” During the second presidential debate, Biden went further, claiming that stories about his son’s laptop were “a Russian plant.”
Biden was reciting a statement from a group of more than 50 former intelligence officials, including former CIA Director John Brennan and James Clapper, the former Director of National Intelligence, who all falsely claimed that the Hunter Biden laptop story was Russian disinformation. The intelligence officials issued their statement directly in front of the 2020 presidential election through a public letter on October 19, 2020, which stated that the Post’s story “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.”
The claim of a Russian plot was preposterous. Many of the emails on the laptop had already been verified by the Biden family’s one-time business partner, Tony Bobulinksi, who had matching copies of many of the same emails and text messages. Of greater importance, the FBI had taken possession of the laptop in Dec. 2019. Moreover, the FBI had opened an investigation into Hunter Biden for multiple offenses—including money laundering and possible violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act. But the corporate media ignored—or worse still, hid—these facts, choosing instead to push the Russian disinformation claim.
In the end, the media’s suppression tactics worked, and many Biden voters never found out about his son’s laptop or the fact that the Biden family was under FBI investigation. The impact from the media blackout on the Biden story had material ramifications for the outcome of the presidential election. A late 2020 poll showed that 45 percent of the Biden voters were completely unaware of the many allegations against Hunter and Joe Biden. That same poll also suggested that public knowledge of this information would have changed the outcome of the election.
Here; The Foreign Policy Ramifications of Hunter’s Emails (theepochtimes.com)
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