People will try to hand-wave Hunter Biden’s laptop away as just a story about pictures but remember: these emails implicate not just Hunter but also President Biden in a bribery/illegal pay-to-play scheme involving a hostile foreign power. https://t.co/9uOxkSFmPg
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) March 17, 2022
Thread via Drew Holden
I don’t know if folks remember how bad the smear campaign was about NY Post’s Hunter Biden laptop reporting was, so quick trip back down memory lane.
Beyond the full-court press from Twitter & Facebook, the media & Dems worked overtime to shut down the story. Look ⤵️
It’s worth starting with @CNN. They brought on James Clapper to call the scoop – confirmed today by Politico – “textbook Soviet Russian tradecraft.” @brianstelter had a program about how it was obviously fake. @apbenven had an “anatomy” of it.
Where’s the follow up, guys?
I mean, for crying out loud, @NPR went through the trouble of explaining why they weren’t going to report on the story!
Can we revisit that?
@MSNBC went all in on this. They had a member of Congress, @CongressmanRaja, on to spread misinformation about it being a “Russian influence operation.”
@JoyAnnReid called it a “Russian hatchet-job”
@kylegriffin1 said it “appears to contain disinformation”
All lies.
A lot of the original narrative was framed up by @politico, who ran a story that a bunch of former intel types disputed the findings (without seeing them, of course).
Today Politico announced that they had confirmed two of the key underlying details.
Might be a good time to update this fact check, @washingtonpost
There were a bunch of elected officials who repeated this bogus allegation. Here are just a few.
Obviously we had chief Russia conspiracy theorist @RepAdamSchiff. But we also had @davidcicilline, @BillPascrell and @ChrisMurphyCT, among others.
Where’s the accountability?
I want to pause to drive a point home: in the weeks leading up to an election, big tech, the Democrats and the corporate press worked together to bury a damaging story about one of the candidates, and they succeeded.
If you can shrug that off, I don’t know what’s wrong with you.
There were a ton of the usual suspects pushing this false narrative. I don’t have room for all of them but I wanted to point out some of the more egregious ones.
@joelockhart and @ThePlumLineGS, anything more from you guys? Still convinced it’s Russian disinformation?
How about from @EvanMcMullin and @DavidCornDC? Care to follow up?
Never change, @brhodes
And you, @McFaul? Do you still stand by your belief that this is a “hit piece so false that Twitter won’t even post it”? Or might there be something else afoot?
And I suspect @tvietor08 is right that folks haven’t learned the lessons of 2016, just wrong about what the lesson is.
Wherever Russian conspiracy theories go, the Never Trump crowd is rarely far behind.
This was the case here as ever. @davidfrum @MaxBoot
And this from @kurteichenwald is unhinged, even for him.
So, where is the follow up? Where are the fact checkers? Where are the social media warnings about these lies being disinformation?
Not a peep.
A fundamentally shameful episode. And one we aren’t likely to see any of the perpetrators of it revisit.
There are a lot more examples from a thread I did back when the story first broke, linked here:
🧵THREAD🧵
Another Russian-related lie was exposed today, this time the allegation that @nypost’s Biden coverage was “Russian disinformation,” something that every corner of the media & Democratic Party assured us was the case.
Don’t believe me? Well, take a look👇 pic.twitter.com/qqkAEImwFq
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) October 19, 2020
Also worth pointing out: the smear here worked in both directions. Not only was Biden the blameless victim of supposed disinformation, but Trump was the reported bad guy pushing the (supposed) conspiracy theory.
Days before the presidential election between the two.
Then // now pic.twitter.com/RuCIsOLjK3
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) March 17, 2022
When Miranda Devine and the writers at the NY post released the story the democrat media went to Defcon 1. Polling suggests among registered biden voters, knowledge of the lap top pre-election would have altered their vote as biden voters.
Juxtapose that with what we now know regarding the amount of manufactured fraud that was necessary to prevail over the 75 million votes for President Trump. By that I mean had this story dominated the news cycle up to and including the day of election, the results of the election as we now know them to be would have been in serious question then.
The democrat news media had to lie and lie again and again. Big tech censored anyone who promoted the lap top story. It was a full-on assault to cover up the truth and knowingly lie to the American people.
The American people have been deceived by the Constitutional freedoms intended to protect us from the types of people who are not virtuous.
It appears that the biden doj considers the computer store owner to also be a political prisoner of the corrupt regime…
Reality bytes: Hunter Biden’s laptop repairman harassed, nearly bankrupt
Tucker Carlson takes a look back at how the left tried to cover up the Hunter Biden laptop scandal (rumble.com)
Christiane Amanpour Mocks Liz Harrington: Ick, You Sound Like Fox News
https://youtu.be/OPVYt7g6Tv0
The Follow-up (below) is when it gets heated.
https://youtu.be/5KUMqMWqL7w
Hands down I thought the most disgusting response to this issue was from taxpayer funded NPR:
NPR Public Editor
@NPRpubliceditor
Why haven’t you seen any stories from NPR about the NY Post’s Hunter Biden story? Read more in this week’s newsletter
https://tinyurl.com/y67vlzj2
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ek75yADW0AE6kaT?format=jpg&name=small
That look on Zelensky’s face…
There’s no reason for taxpayers to fund a Democrat propaganda organ. Let the Democrats do that. NPR needs to be defunded.
What do you expect them to do? IT WORKED! There wasn’t a one of them that didn’t at least suspect this was true, if not knew it outright. They actively ran cover for idiot Biden to get the guy that put America and Americans first before all.
How does anyone know from the instant it is revealed that it is “disinformation”? Obviously, they didn’t, they just knew it was damaging information for idiot Biden and must be suppressed. Now, idiot Biden’s incompetence is destroying the Democrat party (gee, what a shock) and it may be time to get rid of him… so report the facts that were declared lies are, in fact, facts. Time to throw the idiot out with the diapers.
It was shown that idiot Biden would have lost 17% of his vote, which would have either cost him the election or required 18% more election fraud, which may have made it so pervasive that even the media might have had to admit it existed.
Why does our intelligence community fail so many times? Because they are an ideological cult that worries more about domestic politics than doing their job.
Excellent and spot on. As I said this should dominate the news cycle. Democrats are toxic and the mid-terms will be a shellacking. They know with an America first House of Representatives there will be articles of impeachment filed as soon as they vote President Trump in as speaker.
Then there will be a deep dive into the laptop from hell.
It is more than likely that Zelensky or Putin or both have told idiot biden they are prepared to release the kracken on the corruption verified in the laptop from hell.
If you are the WH it would make sense they along with cooperation from the democrat media, to get out in front of this.
However it might play, this should crater biden even more. The American people have been lied to with impunity and the consequences of the stolen election risk catastrophic results for everyday Americans.
FJB