Joe Biden and his family have been involved in a multitude of scandals. But this is something no one expected.
And a shocking exposé reveals something truly sinister about the Biden crime family.
In October 2020, just before The New York Post broke its story on Hunter Biden’s laptop, the FBI had reportedly warned major U.S. tech companies that Russian agents might be planning to release damaging information in a similar manner. As this report gained traction, internal communications reveal that Facebook executives debated censorship strategies, seemingly aiming to curry favor with an anticipated Biden-Harris administration, according to findings from a recent House Judiciary Committee investigation.
The investigation, conducted by the House Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on the weaponization of government, shines new light on these interactions as former President Donald Trump emerges as the leading candidate for the upcoming November 5 election. Meanwhile, Trump supporters advocate for reforms within the FBI and regulatory measures targeting tech giants like Facebook.
An internal Microsoft communication dated October 14, 2020, the day The Post published the first piece in its Hunter Biden series, reveals, “FBI tipped us all off last week that this Burisma story was likely to emerge.”
In a chat log released by Congress, Facebook employees appeared to quickly discount the reporting, remarking it was the “exact content expected for hack and leak.” Another employee added, “Right on schedule.” Nick Clegg, then Facebook’s vice president of global affairs, also communicated his concern, writing that their approach to handling the news could “colour [sic] the way an incoming Biden administration views us more than almost anything else.”
The Post asserts it spent a month verifying the laptop files before publication, although it remains unclear how much of that process was known to the FBI when it issued its initial warnings. Importantly, the FBI had been in possession of Hunter Biden’s laptop since December 2019, aware that the files referenced in The Post story were sourced from a Delaware repair shop, not Russia. Nonetheless, the FBI stayed silent as 51 former intelligence officials speculated — and Joe Biden himself suggested — that the story could be Russian misinformation.
The Post series highlighted interactions Biden had, while vice president, with business contacts of his son and brother, James Biden, including in regions where U.S. foreign policy was at stake, like China and Ukraine.
Other outlets eventually corroborated these reports and federal prosecutors even presented some of the files in court. However, these events transpired after Biden’s narrow victory over Trump, leaving some Republicans to argue that doubts surrounding the laptop story may have influenced the election outcome.
In December 2019, computer repairman and whistleblower John Paul Mac Isaac had handed the laptop to the FBI, suspecting it contained key information about potential corruption. Later, he gave copies of the data to The Post.
Congressional Republicans now claim that the FBI, together with social media platforms, might have acted in coordination to affect the 2020 election outcome.
“[W]hen we get hauled up to [Capitol] [H]ill to testify on why we influenced the 2020 elections we can say we have been meeting for YEARS with USG [the US Government] to plan for it,” noted one Facebook employee in a July 2020 message cited in the congressional report.
Though the FBI reportedly informed some Twitter employees on the day of The Post story’s release that the laptop was genuine, this information does not appear to have been widely shared internally, nor was a similar disclosure made to Facebook.
“[I]f the FBI’s intent was truly to help social media companies combat actual foreign influence operations, the FBI should have shared the single most important fact: the influence-peddling allegations in the Post story were based off of real, credible information, including information in the FBI’s possession,” asserts the report.
It continues, “The FBI failed to do so. While the FBI eventually conceded that it had no indication that the allegations in the Post story were Russian disinformation — only after an FBI agent mistakenly revealed to Twitter that the laptop was ‘real’ — the FBI still withheld the fact that it had seized and authenticated Hunter Biden’s laptop months prior.”
Due to this withheld information, Twitter (now known as X) and Facebook continued to limit the reach of the laptop story, in what the report calls an advantage to the Biden-Harris campaign.
The report criticizes the FBI, led by Director Christopher Wray, for its actions — and Congressional Republicans have voiced further concerns about the bureau’s handling of suspected Iranian interference in Trump’s current campaign.
House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R-NY) recently condemned “the FBI’s deep corruption regarding foreign election interference from Iran targeting President Trump,” calling it “a corrupt coverup,” a statement retweeted by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.).
Meanwhile, Trump supporters remain outraged over the FBI’s previous investigation into alleged Russian collusion with Trump’s 2016 campaign, which ultimately found no evidence of conspiracy, yet took up a significant portion of Trump’s presidency. The FBI is also under scrutiny for its role in two unprecedented criminal cases against Trump involving national security documents and his actions following his 2020 loss to Biden.
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