Hunter Biden's Laptop From Hell

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Report: Hunter Biden Laptop Reveals He Frequently Met with Joe Biden After Foreign Business Meetings


ETHAN LETKEMAN
16 Jul 2022

Hunter Biden would frequently meet with his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, following his personal business meetings with foreign government officials and clients, the New York Post reported.



The meetings were revealed after an examination of Hunter Biden’s personal calendar from the infamous “laptop from hell.”



The calendar reveals that Hunter Biden met with Joe Biden approximately 30 times at either the White House or the vice president’s residences at the Naval Observatory from 2008 to 2016. The meetings would take place days – even within an hour – after Hunter Biden would return home from a foreign business trip or a meeting with a client in Washington D.C.



The Post’s report also reveals that Hunter Biden’s business partner, Eric Schwerin, was named as an invite receipt on 21 of the 30 meetings with the then-vice president.



Schwerin was the president of Hunter Biden’s now-dissolved investment fund Rosemont Seneca Partners and reportedly had access to Joe Biden’s personal financial information. He was recently revealed to have been welcomed at the White House over 19 times before meetings, including once with the then-Vice President in November 2010, according to White House visitor logs.



As reported by the Post:



Hunter Biden met Daniel Kablan Duncan, the Prime Minister of Côte d’Ivoire, on April 15, 2016 in Washington D.C., his calendar shows. The 8:15 a.m. sitdown was quickly followed by a 9 a.m. confab with Vice President Biden at the Naval Observatory. The purpose of his meeting with Kablan is unclear.



Between Feb. 15-18, 2012, Hunter Biden was wined and dined by billionaire oligarchs in Moscow, including one now wanted for murder. Four days after his return, Hunter Biden met with Vice President Biden, again at the Naval Observatory.



On Nov 14. 2015, Hunter Biden met with Romanian ambassador to the United States George Maior, before heading off for meetings in that country. He returned Nov. 17, and had breakfast with his father at the Naval Observatory two days later. Just months after the trip, he teamed up with former FBI Director Louis Freeh to help Romanian businessman Gabriel Popoviciu avoid jail time.



The report also revealed that Hunter Biden had set up a meeting between Joe Biden and former Colombian President Andrés Pastrana Arango on March 2, 2012.



About eight months prior to that meeting, Hunter Biden, Schwerin, and Rosemont Seneca were allegedly pursuing business with Brazilian Construction company OAS, which was “interested” in four major projects in Colombia at the time. Among them were two watershed treatment plants worth approximately $380 million and $350 million, a hydroelectric power plant worth $1.8 billion, and renovations to the Bogota Subway System worth $3 billion.



Schwerin believed – if the OAS deals worked out in Colombia – that the one billion dollar project would pay Rosemont Seneca $5.6 million off of a one percent “success fee.”



Emails also revealed that Rosemont Seneca was on retainer for $25,000 per month from the Brazilian construction company. OAS was later entangled in Brazil’s largest government corruption scandal, commonly known as “Operation Car Wash.”



Hunter Biden flew to Bogata in November 2011 to meet with Pastrana, where calendar notes also indicate that Colombia’s minister for mines and energy was included in the meeting. Hunter Biden also met with a counselor to Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos later that day, the Post noted.



In February 2012, the personal calendar revealed that Hunter Biden asked Pastrana to meet up while he was visiting Washington D.C.



A month later, the former Colombian President allegedly met with Joe Biden at the Naval Observatory, where Schwerin was listed as an invite to the meeting. Hunter Biden met with Pastrana, along with a Colombia coffee executive, at a coffee shop later that day.



The Post noted that Hunter Biden was setting up other meetings for Pastrana, including one with Cesar Uzeda, international chairman of OAS.



This revelation comes after Hunter Biden’s personal iCloud account was allegedly hacked by users, leading GOP officials to call the president’s son a “national security” threat while demanding an investigation, Breitbart News reported.

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Chuck Grassley: ‘Highly Credible’ Whistleblowers Say FBI, DoJ Downplay Negative Hunter Biden Information



PAUL BOIS25 Jul 2022
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Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) claimed that “highly credible” whistleblowers informed him of efforts within the FBI and the Justice Department to downplay or dismiss negative information about Hunter Biden.



According to letters reviewed by CBS News, Grassley, the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, wrote FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland alleging that sources within the FBI presented to him evidence of attempts to downplay or discredit information about Hunter Biden.



“The information provided to my office involves concerns about the FBI’s receipt and use of derogatory information relating to Hunter Biden, and the FBI’s false portrayal of acquired evidence as disinformation. The volume and consistency of these allegations substantiate their credibility and necessitate this letter,” wrote Grassley.



“First, it’s been alleged that the FBI developed information in 2020 about Hunter Biden’s criminal financial and related activity,” he continued. “It is further alleged that in August 2020, FBI Supervisory Intelligence Analyst Brian Auten opened an assessment which was used by an FBI Headquarters (“FBI HQ”) team to improperly discredit negative Hunter Biden information as disinformation and caused investigative activity to cease.”



Grassley’s letter further alleged that just one month before the 2020 election, “an avenue of derogatory Hunter Biden reporting was ordered closed” by a senior FBI agent at the bureau’s Washington Field office.



“The allegations provided to my office appear to indicate that there was a scheme in place among certain FBI officials to undermine derogatory information connected to Hunter Biden by falsely suggesting it was disinformation,” wrote Grassley.



U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, center, buys an ice-cream at a shop as he tours a Hutong alley with his granddaughter Finnegan Biden, right, and son Hunter Biden, left, in Beijing, China Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, Pool)

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, center, buys an ice cream at a shop as he tours a Hutong alley with his granddaughter Finnegan Biden, right, and son Hunter Biden, left, in Beijing, China Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, Pool)



CBS News noted that “more than 150 financial transactions involving either Hunter or James Biden’s global business affairs were flagged as concerning by U.S. banks for further review.”



Delaware U.S. attorney David Weiss, whose office has been investigating potential tax fraud, money laundering, and foreign influence peddling, declined to comment on whether his office was aware of the FBI allegedly labeling accusations against Hunter Biden disinformation or if it had influenced his probe.



In a previous letter dated May 31, Grassley also accused Timothy Thibault, the senior FBI agent at the bureau’s Washington Field Office, of possibly violating “[f]ederal laws, regulations and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) guidelines.”



“Whistleblowers have reported to me, that although the FBI and Justice Department maintain policies dictating specific standards requiring substantial factual predication to initiate an investigation, Thibault and other Justice Department and FBI employees failed to comply with these requirements,” wrote Grassley.



“In light of these allegations, I remain very concerned that political bias by a select group of Justice Department and FBI officials has infected the Justice Department’s and FBI’s usual process and procedure to open and pursue high-profile and politically charged investigations,” Grassley continued.



Grassley concluded by requesting records from the FBI and Justice Department by August 8 while alleging that Garland and Wray “have systemic and existential problems within” their respective agencies.



In addition to requesting records from the FBI and the Justice Department by Aug. 8, Grassley complained about the way the bureau and department are being run.



“You have an obligation to the country to take these allegations seriously, immediately investigate,” he concluded.



As Breitbart News recently reported, Hunter Biden could potentially face criminal charges for not registering as a foreign agent while doing business deals overseas.



In 2018 and 2020, Breitbart senior contributor and Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer published Secret Empires and Profiles in Corruption. Each book hit #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and exposed how Hunter Biden and Joe Biden flew aboard Air Force Two in 2013 to China ten days before Hunter’s firm inked a $1.5 billion deal with a subsidiary of the Chinese government’s Bank of China. Schweizer’s work also uncovered the Biden family’s other vast and lucrative foreign deals and cronyism.



Breitbart political editor Emma-Jo Morris’s investigative work on the Hunter Biden “laptop from hell” also captured international headlines when she, along with Miranda Devine, revealed Joe Biden was intimately involved in Hunter’s businesses, appearing to even have a ten percent stake in a company the scion formed with officials at the highest levels of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).


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Nolte: CNN Finally Reports on Hunter’s Laptop It Once Called ‘Breitbart Rabbit Hole’


JOHN NOLTE
29 Jul 2022

More than 18 months after describing Hunter Biden’s laptop as a “Breitbart rabbit hole,” far-left CNN has begun to report on it.



Yes, when you absolutely, positively need your news more than a year later, you can always count on CNNLOL.



Here’s the former, disgraced, and then-CNN chief Jeff Zucker in late 2020 explaining why his fake news network refused to cover and outright buried a legitimate and explosive story about the Biden family’s jaw-dropping corruption:



I do think, on the Breitbart, New York Post, Fox News rabbit hole of Hunter Biden which I don’t think anybody outside of that world understood. Last night, the Wall Street Journal reported that their review of all corporate records, showed no role for Joe Biden on the Chinese deal. And yes, I do put more credibility in the Wall Street Journal than I do in The New York Post.



If you read between the lines, Zucker really said this:



Obviously, the Biden laptop story is accurate and extremely troubling, but CNN doesn’t care about such things. We are here to further the left’s fascist agenda. That’s it. That’s the only reason we exist. That’s who we are and what we do. Truth doesn’t matter to us. Facts don’t matter to us. This kind of scandal and corruption doesn’t matter to us. Our pride and integrity do not matter to us. We are bent over in service to leftism. Period.



Oh, but now that Biden is damaged goods… Now that the left wants Biden not to seek reelection… Now the Breitbart rabbit hole is not so much of a rabbit hole.



Now that the Breitbart rabbit hole is useful to the left in holding on to the presidency in 2024 with a different nominee than Biden, CNNLOL is all up in that rabbit hole reporting on the laptop.


Over and over and over again, fake news outlets like CNN are humiliated by upstart reporters like Breitbart’s Emma-Jo Morris and the New York Post’s Miranda Devine. Not to take anything away from them or their extraordinary work on reporting out the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop with 100 percent accuracy, but that’s how easy it is to humiliate the corporate media nowadays…



All you have to do is seek the truth, report the truth, and aim for accuracy.



Doing the right thing humiliates the likes of a CNN.



It really is that simple.

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Whistleblowers: FBI Forbade Agents from Probing Hunter’s Laptop Until After 2020 Election


WENDELL HUSEBØ
25 Aug 2022

The leadership of the FBI forbade agents from investigating Hunter Biden’s laptop until after the 2020 election was decided, according to whistleblowers that came forward to Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI).



The FBI postponed investigating Hunter’s laptop because the agency was “not going to change the outcome of the election again,” the senator revealed whistleblowers’ statement on Wednesday in a letter written to Justice Department (DOJ) Inspector General Michael Horowitz.



According to the letter, the whistleblowers said the FBI did not want to investigate the laptop because it was afraid public disclosure would alter the outcome of the 2020 election:



After the FBI obtained the Hunter Biden laptop from the Wilmington, DE computer shop, these whistleblowers stated that local FBI leadership told employees, “you will not look at that Hunter Biden laptop” and that the FBI is “not going to change the outcome of the election again.” Further, these whistleblowers allege that the FBI did not begin to examine the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop until after the 2020 presidential election—potentially a year after the FBI obtained the laptop in December 2019.

Johnson noted “the FBI cannot be trusted” to investigate Hunter’s laptop and that the FBI’s actions that led to the delay in probing the laptop should itself be investigated.



“I call on you to immediately investigate the FBI’s handling of Hunter Biden’s laptop and begin by obtaining the history of the investigative actions taken by the FBI on Hunter Biden’s laptop which should be available on the FBI’s case management system, Sentinel,” Johnson wrote. “This case file should provide valuable information about the steps the FBI took to examine the laptop.”



The FBI’s leadership decision to “undermine” the investigation into the laptop likely impacted the establishment media’s decision to call Hunter’s laptop Russian disinformation during the presidential election.



As many as 15 media personalities claimed Hunter’s laptop emails were likely Russian disinformation. Moreover, many media outlets used Politico’s now-debunked infamous article that detailed 51 intel officials’ belief the laptop was Russian propaganda. Yet the intel letter Politico reported actually suggested the opposite:



We want to emphasize that we do not know if the emails, provided to the New York Post by President Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, are genuine or not and that we do not have evidence of Russian involvement — just that our experience makes us deeply suspicious that the Russian government played a significant role in this case. (emphasis added)



It took CNN 532 days to admit Hunter’s “laptop from hell” was authentic after the initial story broke on October 24, 2020 — notably calling it “Russian disinformation” and “made up” at the time. CNN’s former president Jeff Zucker also labeled Hunter’s laptop story as a “Breitbart… rabbit hole” and unworthy of coverage.



The assistant attorney general for the DOJ’s National Security Division, Matthew Olsen, has since confirmed to Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) in a congressional hearing the agency is investigating Hunter. According to a CNN report in July, Trump-appointed United States prosecutor David Weiss is deliberating whether Hunter and associates “violated money laundering, campaign finance, tax and foreign lobbying laws, as well as whether Hunter Biden broke federal firearm and other regulations,” multiple CNN sources said.


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Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook restricted Hunter Biden laptop story because of FBI warning on election disinformation

August 25, 2022i
Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook restricted Hunter Biden laptop story because of FBI warning on election disinformation


Mark Zuckerberg says that Facebook restricted the spread of the Hunter Biden laptop story because of a warning from the FBI against the spread of election disinformation.



Zuckerberg made the comments while appearing on Joe Rogan’s podcast released Thursday. Rogan asked him specifically about the censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop story.



“Basically, the background here is the FBI, I think, basically came to us,” Zuckerberg explained, “some folks on our team, and was like, ‘Hey, just so you know, like, you should be on high alert, there was, we thought that there was a lot of Russian propaganda in the 2016 election. We have it on notice that, basically, there’s about to be some kind of dump of that’s similar to that. So just be vigilant.’”



He went on to add that Facebook allowed the story to be shared, unlike Twitter that completely shut down the sharing of the story on its platform. Zuckerberg said that for about a week the distribution of the story on Facebook was decreased by ranking it lower on the platform’s news feed.



“Fewer people saw it than would have otherwise,” Zuckerberg said.



“By what percentage?” Rogan asked.



“I don’t know off the top of my head, but it’s, it’s meaningful,” Zuckerberg replied.



“But we weren’t sort of as black and white about it as Twitter,” he continued. “We just kind of thought hey look, if the FBI, which I still view is a legitimate institution in this country, it’s a very professional law enforcement- they come to us and tell us that we need to be on guard about something then I want to take that seriously.”



Zuckerberg said he didn’t remember if the FBI specifically targeted that story, but said the laptop story fit the pattern of the warning that was given by the FBI.



Elsewhere in the interview, Zuckerberg said his philosophy was that there was no perfect algorithm to weed out bad actors and stories. He explained that the restrictions have tradeoffs whether they are too tight or too loose.



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MAJOR UPDATE: Missouri AG Schmitt’s Lawsuit FORCES Zuckerberg to ADMIT the FBI TOLD FACEBOOK TO CENSOR THE BIDEN LAPTOP During the 2020 Election

By Jim Hoft

Published August 26, 2022 at 8:00am


Mark Zuckerberg admits to Joe Rogan FBI requested Facebook censor Hunter Biden laptop story.



This is a MASSIVE win for Free Speech and against Big Tech Censorship.



The Gateway Pundit previously reported in May that Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, along with Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, filed a lawsuit (Missouri v. Biden) against the Biden Administration, including Biden himself, Anthony Fauci, the Department of Homeland Security, and nearly a dozen federal agencies and Secretaries.



The suit alleges a massive coordinated effort by the Deep State to work with Big Tech to censor and manipulate Americans – from average citizens to news outlets – on issues including the Hunter Biden Laptop from Hell, 2020 Election Integrity, COVID-19 origin and extent skepticism, COVID-19 vaccine skepticism, among other issues.



Here’s a copy of the First Amended Complaint below:



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The plantiffs in the case include:



STATE OF MISSOURI ex rel. ERIC S.

SCHMITT, Attorney General,



STATE OF LOUISIANA ex rel. JEFFREY

M. LANDRY, Attorney General,



DR. JAYANTA BHATTACHARYA,


JILL HINES,



JIM HOFT,



DR. AARON KHERIATY, and



DR. MARTIN KULLDORFF



The defendants in the case include:



JOSEPH R. BIDEN, JR., in his official

capacity as President of the United States;



KARINE JEAN-PIERRE, in her official

capacity as White House Press Secretary;



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VIVEK H. MURTHY, in his official

capacity of Surgeon General of the United

States;



XAVIER BECERRA, in his official

capacity as Secretary of the Department of

Health and Human Services;



DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES;



DR. ANTHONY FAUCI, in his official

capacity as Director of the National Institute

of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and as

Chief Medical Advisor to the President;



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NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY

AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES;



CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL

AND PREVENTION;



CAROL Y. CRAWFORD, in her official

capacity as Chief of the Digital Media

Branch of the Division of Public Affairs

within the Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention;



UNITED STATES CENSUS BUREAU,

a.k.a. BUREAU OF THE CENSUS;

JENNIFER SHOPKORN, in her official

capacity as Senior Advisor for

Communications with the U.S. Census

Bureau;



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE;



ALEJANDRO MAYORKAS, in his official

capacity as Secretary of the Department of

Homeland Security;



ROBERT SILVERS, in his official capacity

as Under Secretary of the Office of

Strategy, Policy, and Plans, within DHS;



SAMANTHA VINOGRAD, in her official

capacity as Senior Counselor for National

Security in the Office of the Secretary for

DHS;



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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND

SECURITY;



JEN EASTERLY, in her official capacity as

Director of the Cybersecurity and

Infrastructure Security Agency;



CYBERSECURITY AND

INFRASTRUCTURE SECURITY

AGENCY;



GINA McCARTHY, in her official capacity

as White House National Climate

Advisor,and



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NINA JANKOWICZ, in her official

capacity as director of the so-called

“Disinformation Governance Board” within

the Department of Homeland Security,



First Amended Complaint States of Missouri, Louisiana, Bhattacharya, Hines, Hoft, Kheriaty, and Kulldorff by Jim Hoft on Scribd



In June, The Gateway Pundit began assisting Missouri AG Schmitt’s team and providing critical evidence of Facebook and Twitter censorship of the Gateway Pundit on all of these issues.



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This evidence was submitted to the Louisiana Federal Court. See it here:

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Mark Zuckerberg makes stunning admission, says Facebook downgraded reports about Hunter Biden’s laptop, changing course of 2020 election

Tuesday, August 30, 2022 by: JD Heyes

Tags: 2020 election, bias, Big Tech, Censorship, Collusion, conspiracy, corruption, Donald Trump, election interference, Facebook, FBI, Hunter Biden, interview, Joe Rogan, laptop, mark zuckerberg, podcast, Social media, Suppressed, technocrats, Twitter, vote fraud



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(Natural News) Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg essentially admitted his social media platform engaged in outright election interference ahead of the 2020 election to help turn the tide in favor of Joe Biden.



And what’s more, just a few days later, the hyper-politicized FBI admitted that the bureau regularly interferes in political outcomes.



In an interview last week on “The Joe Rogan Experience,” Zuckerberg was asked how Facebook handles certain information and specifically about corruption revelations stemming from Hunter Biden’s scandalous laptop that were reported first by the New York Post in mid-October, then ignored by ‘mainstream’ media and censored by most big tech platforms after the FBI claimed it was all “Russia disinformation.”



The Daily Wire reported:



Zuckerberg told podcast king Joe Rogan that the FBI, which by then had been in possession of the laptop for nearly a year, contacted top Facebook officials weeks before the election to warn them that a major dump of Russian disinformation was coming. When the New York Post broke the story, Twitter kicked the news site off its platform, and Facebook, Zuckerberg said, downranked the story for over a week to dampen its impact.



“We just kind of thought, hey, look, if the FBI, which I still view as a legitimate institution in this country, it’s like very professional law enforcement, they come to us and tell us that we need to be on guard about something, then I want to take that seriously,” Zuckerberg told the podcast host.



“Our protocol is different from Twitter’s,” Zuckerberg added. “What Twitter did is they said ‘You can’t share this at all.’ We didn’t do that.”


Zuckerberg went on to say that for between five and seven days while the laptop story was being ‘fact-checked’ Facebook decreased the reach of stories related to it.



“You could still share it, you could still consume it,” but, “the ranking in Newsfeed was a little bit less, so fewer people saw it than otherwise.”



“By what percentage?” Rogan asked. “I don’t know off the top of my head, but it’s meaningful,” Zuckerberg replied. Several people opined that the actions of Twitter and Facebook — two of the country’s biggest social media platforms — at the direction of the lying FBI purposefully rigged the 2020 election. “So the FBI preemptively warned Facebook off Hunter Biden laptop reporting,” Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) tweeted. “This same agency effectively laundered Russian disinfo in the 2016 election in the form of Steele dossier. And later lied to a court to get wiretaps.”



The Federalist legal correspondent Margot Cleveland added: “Hunter’s laptop was and is a national security risk yet FBI prioritizes Biden’s election over national security.”


A few days later, Meta — the company that owns Facebook — responded to Zuckerberg’s revelations.



“None of this is new. Mark testified before the Senate nearly two years ago that in the lead up to the 2020 election, the FBI warned about the threat of foreign hack and leak operations,” the company’s public relations team noted on Twitter.


“[W]e didn’t block the New York Post story, we temporarily reduced its distribution to give fact-checking partners time to review it,” the company’s communication team insisted.



The FBI also tacitly admitted to the interference.



“The FBI routinely notifies U.S. private sector entities, including social media providers, of potential threat information, so that they can decide how to better defend against threats,” the bureau said in a statement Friday night, claiming that it “cannot ask, or direct, companies to take action on information received.”



No, but intimidation works pretty well.



The 2020 election was stolen. The big tech platforms were in on it as was the FBI. That much is obvious.

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Nearly three-fourths of Democrats would have ‘likely’ voted differently if they knew about Hunter Biden’s laptop

Thursday, September 01, 2022 by: JD Heyes

Tags: 2020 election, Censorship, Collapse, conspiracy, corruption, deception, deep state, Democrat voters, election interference, election outcome, Facebook, FBI corruption, Hunter Biden, Hunter Biden Laptop, Joe Biden, laptop, Twitter, White House



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(Natural News) Members of the FBI, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey would all be arrested and stand trial for election interference and meddling if we had a functional justice system.



According to a just-released survey, nearly three-quarters of Democrat voters — 71 percent — would “likely” not have voted for dementia Joe Biden if they were allowed to see the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop, which reveals massive debauchery and corruption within the Biden family.



Lifesite News has additional details:



Seventy-one percent of Democrats would have voted differently in the 2020 presidential election if they knew that the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop were accurate and not “Russian disinformation” as media outlets and pundits claimed, according to a recent poll.



The contents of the laptop include thousands of emails detailing how Hunter Biden and his associates made money through connections with investors in China and Ukraine. The emails also discussed President Joe Biden’s involvement in the deals, with one email alluding to 10 percent of the cut from a deal going to the “big guy,” believed to be the current president.



In the weeks prior to the 2020 election, the New York Post exclusively published contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop indicating shady business deals with Ukrainian, Russian, and Chinese figures, many of them tied to their respective governments. In addition, emails and other documents found on the laptop indicate that Joe Biden — “the big guy” — was receiving a cut of the influence his son was selling to land the business deals.



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In the 18 months since the election, naturally, the ‘mainstream media’ have all now reported that, gosh, they were wrong and the Post was right — the laptop contents were real and accurate all along. To that point, both The New York Times and The Washington Post in March confirmed that emails and other documents gleaned from the first son’s laptop were genuine, but those painful admissions came months after conservative media and cybersecurity experts had already verified them as real.



“The poll by TIPP Insights surveyed over 1,000 voters, including 437 who were following the story of the laptop. Seventy-one percent of Democrat respondents said that knowing the contents were real would have ‘very likely’ or ‘somewhat likely’ changed their vote,” LifeSite News reported, citing the survey’s results.



“Meanwhile 75 percent of Democrats following the story agreed that a ‘truthful interpretation of the laptop’ would have likely changed the 2020 election,” the outlet continued, citing the survey.



Just imagine how many more votes the Democratic machine would have had to steal if the laptop’s contents had been revealed. But then again, by working to hide the contents, that was a form of election meddling — which Facebook and the FBI engaged in.



The FBI under Trump went to Facebook executives with a huge lie — the contents of the laptop ‘could be Russian disinformation,’ because it sure looks like stuff the Russians would put out, so Mark Zuckerberg’s platform dutifully took the ‘hint’ and censored or downgraded reports on the laptop, another form of election meddling.



Meanwhile, Twitter blocked the story entirely and also locked the New York Post — the first outlet to report on the contents — out of its account for weeks.



“We just kind of thought, Hey look, if the FBI which, you know, I still view as a legitimate institution in this country, it’s a very professional law enforcement,” Zuckerberg told top podcaster Joe Rogan in an interview that was posted last week. “They come to us and tell us that we need to be on guard about something. Then I wanna take that seriously.”



Meanwhile, atheist liberal commentator Sam Harris was just fine with the intentional suppression of the story because it hurt Trump and helped Joe Biden, no matter what it did to the media’s already tanking reputations.



“Whatever the scope of what Joe Biden’s corruption is – we can just go down that rabbit hole endlessly and understand that he’s getting kickbacks from Hunter Biden’s deals in Ukraine or wherever else, or China – it is infinitesimal compared to the corruption we know Trump is involved in. It’s like a firefly to the sun,” Harris lied during a “Triggernometry” podcast last week. “It doesn’t even stack up against Trump University.”



These people are destroying our cherished institution of free and fair elections, and they are celebrating it.

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Hunter Biden Laptop Whistleblower Speaks Out 2 Years Later


TUESDAY, OCT 04, 2022 - 10:05 PM

Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times 


Tony Bobulinski, the former Hunter Biden associate who came forward in 2020 about messages on the younger Biden’s laptop, said the FBI never followed up with him despite promising to.





Tony Bobulinski, a former associate of Hunter Biden, speaks to reporters at a hotel in Nashville, Tenn., on Oct. 22, 2020. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)

During an interview with Fox News’s Tucker Carlson on Monday, Bobulinski asserted that former FBI agent Timothy Thibault—who was accused by GOP senators of having an animus against Trump and slow-walking the Hunter Biden investigation—never got back to him when Bobulinski came forward with the information ahead of the 2020 election.



“Tim Thibault, in his last discussion with my legal counsel, said, ‘Listen, we know Tony’s cooperating. We appreciate all the information he’s provided. We will follow up with you. We are definitely going to have him come in for a follow-up interview, or spend some more time on this,’” Bobulinski told Carlson. “And I haven’t heard from him since. Nor have my lawyers.”



Bobulinski in the interview again asserted that President Joe Biden was highly involved in his son’s overseas business operations. The president has denied that he had knowledge of Hunter Biden’s finances or deals.

“There are hundreds of data points that Joe Biden was acting in—in a capitalistic term, I would say the chairman,” Bobulinski told Carlson.



In October 2020, Bobulinski came forward to the media and revealed Joe Biden’s involvement in his son’s business, including with a Chinese energy company CEFC.



In one email sourced from the infamous laptop, the elder Biden was named as the “big guy” by Hunter Biden because of the 10 percent cut he allegedly received from CEFC. Bobulinski corroborated the authenticity of those emails and messages.



Bobulinski accused the Biden family of being “compromised” by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials due to their business deals with individuals and companies connected to the CCP, adding that it’s impossible Joe Biden “can’t be influenced in some manner based on the history that they have with CEFC.”


“The chairman of JPMorgan doesn’t take eight meetings down with the people, you know, analyzing companies. The chairman serves a purpose, right? He’s a figurehead,” Bobulinski told Carlson. “He shows up in meetings, shakes hands, advises, you know, has faith in his team. Effectively, that was Joe Biden’s role in the Biden family business ventures and around the world. And not just my venture.”



Bobulinski noted that President Biden “was adamant to the American people that he had no knowledge of his family’s business deals” but asked: “How, if he had zero knowledge of that, could he be telling his son that he’s in the clear” regarding an article from the New York Times on Hunter Biden’s work with a Chinese company.



He was referring to a voicemail that Biden left his son regarding the NY Times report in 2018, telling him: “I think you’re clear.” That story delved into Hunter Biden’s deals with a Chinese oil tycoon, Ye Jianming.



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In August, Thibault left the FBI following several letters sent to FBI leaders by Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.). The lawmakers have publicly accused Thibault of meddling in the Hunter Biden investigation and said that whistleblowers came forward with those claims.


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Letter on Hunter Biden’s Laptop Shows 2017 Deal with Qatar Undermining Trump Administration


EMMA-JO MORRIS
7 Oct 2022
New York, NY

A letter on Hunter Biden’s infamous abandoned laptop shows the Biden family pursuing a deal with Qatar, undermining the Trump Administration and appearing like an effort at a shadow foreign policy.



The letter — retrieved from the “Laptop from Hell” by Congressman Darrell Issa’s (R-CA) office after being in a previously unreadable format — shows James Biden, President Biden’s brother, making an overture to an associate of Qatari Sheikh Abdulla Bin Mohammed Al Thani.



They say, “my family could provide a wealth of introductions and business opportunities at the highest levels,” despite unfavorable policies of the “fractured” and “beleaguered” then-Trump administration for Qatar.



The letter, dated August 1, 2017, to be relayed to the Sheikh, criticizes the Trump administration as having a “fractured nature” and as being “beleaguered by major issues that are not soon to be resolved” — offering to help in “effectuating the vision” of the Sheikh.



“I would be honored to assist in effectuating the vision of His Excellency but would be remiss in not pointing out the fractured nature of our current administration,” the missive begins.



“This administration is beleaguered by major issues that are not soon to be resolved,” the now-president’s brother also says of the Trump White House.



Through his family’s “deep and wide” relationships, which he boasts have “lasted through many years and many administrations,” Biden proposes partnership for a “different vision” than the Trump government’s of American interest and U.S.-Qatari relations.

James Biden adds, “we continue to forge ahead in forward thinking endeavors that create real value both here in the United States and abroad.”



“Our relationships are deep and wide and have lasted through many years and many administrations. We are not particularly close to this administration and have a different vision,” he writes. “In the meantime, we continue to forge ahead in forward thinking endeavors that create real value both here in the United States and abroad. Our primary interest is and always has been to advance the interests of the United States through productive collaborations with partners home and abroad.”



“If this is in keeping with the vision of His Excellency, on behalf of the Biden family, I welcome your interest here.”



It is not clear whether the letter was ever delivered, or if it is a draft.



James Biden oddly notes in the middle of the letter that “we are not, however, lobbyists and do not operate in that arena,” despite spending the missive before and after that statement describing what some critics might say looks like a lobbying pitch.



The full letter reads:



Dear Mr. Khaled Sultan Al Rabban:



Thank you for the communication with my friend and associate Dr. Amer Rustom regarding the recent visit of His Excellency Sheikh Abdullah Bin Mohammed Al Thani to the United States and his vision to promote the business interests of the nation of Qatar.

I would be honored to assist in effectuating the vision of His Excellency but would be remiss in not pointing out the fractured nature of our current administration. My family could provide a wealth of introductions and business opportunities at the highest levels that I believe would be worthy of the interest of His Excellency. We are not, however, lobbyists and do not operate in that arena. Our relationships are deep and wide and have lasted through many years and many administrations. We are not particularly close to this administration and have a different vision. This administration is beleaguered by major issues that are not soon to be resolved. In the meantime, we continue to forge ahead in forward thinking endeavors that create real value both here in the United States and abroad. Our primary interest is and always has been to advance the interests of the United States through productive collaborations with partners home and abroad.

If this is in keeping with the vision of His Excellency, on behalf of the Biden family, I welcome your interest here. I recommend Dr. Rustom arrange a conference call to discuss the way moving forward and perhaps a face to face meeting in New York or Qatar with you and His Excellency. Please contact Dr. Rustom at [redacted phone number] at your earliest convenience.

Best regards,



James B. Biden, Sr.



Khaled Sultan Al Rabban is Director of the Office of the CEO of Qatar Investment Authority, a sovereign wealth fund in the Gulf nation.



Sheikh Abdullah Bin Mohammed Al Thani is a member of the ruling family of Qatar.



The summer of 2017 was a tense time in U.S.-Qatari relations, as Saudi Arabia and Qatar were in a diplomatic crisis, while the Trump administration worked on a number of deals with the Saudi Kingdom. In June of 2017, the Trump administration offered to mediate talks between the two Gulf nations, but the gesture was turned down. In the months to follow, hostilities escalated, with Saudi Arabia attempting to economically isolate Qatar, and even geographically isolate Qatar with a proposed plan to build a canal along its border.



Should the Republicans take a majority in the upcoming midterm elections, multiple House investigations of Hunter Biden and the Biden family businesses have been promised amid mounting evidence pointing to corruption.


“This window into the state of mind of Biden family corruption is why the next Congress must not stop until it gets at the truth,” Rep. Issa told Breitbart News. “Of all the lies told to advance the Bidens’ selling of access, the worst may have been ‘we are not lobbyists’.”



Issa has submitted document preservation notices in March to twelve individuals from the intelligence community, White House, Facebook, and Twitter, in preparation for investigating election interference with regard to the suppression of the New York Post’s “Laptop From Hell” series in October 2020.



House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has already spoken with top House Republicans about coordinating investigations of Hunter and the Biden family’s business across committees, should the GOP take the House, according to a report in the Washington Post.

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FBI Officials Who Warned Facebook of ‘Russian Disinfo’ Before Hunter Laptop Bombshell Are Democrat Donors
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11 Oct 2022

Two FBI officials who had knowledge of the Hunter Biden laptop in 2020 and who alerted Facebook to potential Russian disinformation are Democrat donors, court filings and campaign finance records show.



The unit chief for the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force, Laura Dehmlow, and the head of the FBI’s San Francisco cyber division, Elvis Chan, were likely engaged in suppressing Facebook’s distribution of the story on the platform, the Washington Free Beacon reported from court filings.



Dehmlow contributed $60 to the Democrat Neonatal Committee in 2020, while Chan gave $50 to Democrat Sens. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) and Raphael Warnock (D-GA) during their 2020 Senate races, campaign finance records show.



The donations raise questions as to whether the FBI officials were working in an official capacity with partisan intentions during the 2020 election cycle when Breitbart News’s Emma-Jo Morris first reported the authenticated, verified, and confirmed “Laptop from Hell” story in the New York Post.



The FBI was in possession of the laptop for over a year before the Post published the story.



Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged in August that Facebook had reduced the distribution of the story on his platform. Zuckerberg admitted the FBI had told the company to be aware of potential Russian disinformation that would hurt President Joe Biden’s presidential campaign.



In 2017, FBI director Christopher Wray established the Foreign Influence Task Force “to identify and counteract malign foreign influence operations targeting the United States.” Dehmlow, a member of the task force, could have directly used her position to discredit the “Laptop from Hell” story while making a political contribution to the Democrat Party, which supported Biden’s candidacy.



The “Laptop from Hell” story has since raised questions as to Joe Biden’s involvement with the family business detailed on Hunter’s laptop. Though Hunter is reportedly under criminal investigation for tax and gun related misdeeds, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, believes any investigation into the potential evidence on the laptop has been shut down by the FBI.



In September, Grassley demanded that former FBI agent Tim Thibault answer questions before the Senate about allegedly shutting down the FBI’s 2020 probe into Hunter’s laptop. Grassley believes Thibault “shut down” a totally separate probe that is likely unrelated to the ongoing criminal probe concerning reported tax fraud by the president’s son.



“It also calls into question what the FBI’s Baltimore field office is reviewing and whether it’s the full scope of evidence,” Grassley said in relation to the tax fraud probe. “How can the American people trust the results of the investigation?”



Joe Biden’s Justice Department has reportedly delayed its “final decision” on whether Hunter will be charged for alleged tax and gun-related violations due to Hunter’s drug abuse. People familiar with the matter told the Wall Street Journal Hunter’s drug abuse could be a scapegoat the defense could successfully use to defend the president’s son against potential charges.

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Hunter Biden’s Laptop Documents At Least 459 Legal Violations, Watchdog Group Says

By Luke Rosiak

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Oct 20, 2022 DailyWire.com


A year-long exploration of Hunter Biden’s laptop has yielded a 630-page report that its authors say document 459 violations of state and federal laws and regulations by President Joe Biden’s son and his business partners.



Marco Polo, a nonprofit formed by a one-time aide to former President Trump to enable a team of cyber gumshoes to take a deep dive into the laptop that the crack-addled Biden left at a Delaware repair store, claims the report is a road map for local, state, or federal prosecutors to pursue charges. The group also sent its report to each member of Congress.



The timing of the report’s release, coming two weeks before the midterm elections, has a certain symmetry to the laptop’s initial introduction to the public. In 2020, days before the election, the New York Post published news of the laptop’s existence, as well as bombshells from it, but social media suppressed the story after the FBI had warned companies of so-called misinformation.



This time around, the timing is similar, but other factors are reversed. Legacy outlets have acknowledged that the laptop’s files are authentic, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey admitted that censoring the laptop was a mistake, and the social media platform is being sold to free-speech advocate Elon Musk.



The team put together by Garrett Ziegler, Marco Polo’s 26-year-old founder, has mined the laptop with digital savvy, and produced a thorough report that is anything but vague or superficial, weighing in at 1 gigabyte because of the number of screenshots from the laptop.



“I’ve been focusing on this for 13 months,” Ziegler told The Daily Wire. “It was really a thing of necessity. I recognized how rich the material was. It requires utter focus. It is so hard to write something comprehensive about it and do anything else on the side.”



“There’s been some phenomenal writing so far on the sex and degeneracy,” he added, but “The focus of the report is on crimes … I had a compulsion to log every crime, even the state-level statutes. The mission is simple: Hold Republicans’ feet to the fire. We don’t want to hear that Republicans need another year to do an investigation. I’ve done that here.”



The report, which reviewed the laptop’s emails, videos, calendar items, photographs, phone records, financial documents and more, but also provided context and explanation, serves as a “Rosetta Stone of white- and blue-collar crime under the patina of ‘the Delaware Way,’” the report says. “We were able to illuminate previously convoluted network webs of the people leading the charge for global governance,” cutting through shell companies and middlemen.”



Crimes Hunter Biden allegedly committed include serving as an agent for foreign entities without disclosing it, tax fraud, and falsifying business documents. The alleged crimes also include prostitution, non-consensual pornography, and distribution of narcotics.






A portion of a multi-page chart of alleged crimes by Hunter Biden. / Marco Polo



“This Report would not have been necessary if law enforcement had done its job,” the report’s introduction said.



Marco Polo — which previously put 128,000 emails from Hunter’s laptop online in searchable format for anyone to peruse — also unlocked new data located inside in iPhone backup file on the hard drive.



A U.S. Attorney in Delaware is considering charging Hunter Biden with crimes, and if he is not charged, the report could lay bare to what extent evidence was not acted upon.

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Watchdog group identifies hundreds of crimes allegedly committed by Hunter Biden gleaned from his laptop

Monday, October 24, 2022 by: JD Heyes

Tags: conspiracy, corruption, crime, criminal activity, deception, FBI corruption, Hunter Biden, Jim Biden, Joe Biden, Marco Polo, report, Republicans



This article may contain statements that reflect the opinion of the author




(Natural News) A watchdog organization has identified hundreds of instances of alleged illegal behavior committed by Hunter Biden gleaned from content found on the laptop he abandoned in 2019 at a computer repair shop in Delaware.



The group, Marco Polo, headed up by a one-time aide to former President Donald Trump, said that it found 459 violations of state and federal laws and regulations and that a final report documenting the allegations serves as a legal road map for state and federal authorities, should anyone chose to pursue them.



“The timing of the report’s release, coming two weeks before the midterm elections, has a certain symmetry to the laptop’s initial introduction to the public,” the Daily Wire reported earlier this week. “In 2020, days before the election, the New York Post published news of the laptop’s existence, as well as bombshells from it, but social media suppressed the story after the FBI had warned companies of so-called misinformation.”



Garrett Ziegler, Marco Polo’s 26-year-old founder, said that the team of cyber sleuths he put together were thorough, producing a report that is ‘heavy’ at nearly 1 gigabyte in large part due to all of the screenshots contained in it.



“I’ve been focusing on this for 13 months,” Ziegler told The Daily Wire. “It was really a thing of necessity. I recognized how rich the material was. It requires utter focus. It is so hard to write something comprehensive about it and do anything else on the side.”



“There’s been some phenomenal writing so far on the sex and degeneracy,” he added, however: “The focus of the report is on crimes … I had a compulsion to log every crime, even the state-level statutes. The mission is simple: Hold Republicans’ feet to the fire. We don’t want to hear that Republicans need another year to do an investigation. I’ve done that here.”



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“Our number one goal is to ensure that Republicans don’t waste time. The investigation has been done. This report is a simple but extremely thorough roadmap for who needs to be subpoenaed for which timeframes and for what types of crimes.” he continued, according to The U.S. Sun, noting that the report includes 140 alleged business-related crimes, 191 sex-related offenses and 128 drug-related crimes.



“Right now people still don’t know the entirety of what’s on the laptop in terms of crimes, which is what my non-profit cares about. This report finally answers that question, so Republicans can’t go back and say they still need to look at what’s on the laptop. All we’re seeking is the equal application of the law,” Ziegler continued in his interview with The U.S. Sun.



“So far, this saga has been one of the greatest examples of double standards in American legal history. People have gone to prison for decades based on Joe’s own policies for doing exactly what Hunter did. Meanwhile, Hunter is living at a beachside estate in Malibu,” he added.



When the New York Post first reported on the laptop’s contents, those details were scandalous enough. But it appears as though they were just the tip of the iceberg.



In the opening summary of the Marco Polo report, the group blames the politicized Justice Department and FBI — including under then-President Trump — for failing to do anything with the evidence on the laptop in order to protect a Democrat top officials likely knew was going to become the next president.



“The Department of Justice (DOJ), specifically the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), took possession of an Apple laptop previously used by Hunter Biden (Hunter) on 12/09/2019, following months of back-and-forth with a computer repair shop owner named John Paul Mac Isaac,” the summary states.



“This Report would not have been necessary if law enforcement had done its job. Dereliction of duty is nothing new for the FBI, as its government-sponsored cover-up occurred with Anthony Weiner’s devices. Additionally, besides a few notable exceptions, news outlets and think tanks in America have been unwilling to investigate and expose the hundreds of crimes and conflicts of interest on the Biden Laptop which—as you will read—definitively implicate the sitting president, Joe Biden,” it adds.



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Hunter Biden DID help secure millions in funding for US contractor in Ukraine specializing in deadly pathogen research, laptop emails reveal, raising more questions about the disgraced son of then vice president


The Russian government held a press conference Thursday claiming that Hunter Biden helped finance a US military 'bioweapons' research program in Ukraine

However the allegations were branded a brazen propaganda ploy to justify president Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine and sow discord in the US

But emails and correspondence obtained by DailyMail.com from Hunter's abandoned laptop show the claims may well be true

The emails show Hunter helped secure millions of dollars of funding for Metabiota, a Department of Defense contractor specializing in research on pandemic-causing diseases

He also introduced Metabiota to an allegedly corrupt Ukrainian gas firm, Burisma, for a 'science project' involving high biosecurity level labs in Ukraine

The president's son and his colleagues invested $500,000 in Metabiota through their firm Rosemont Seneca Technology Partners

They raised several million dollars of funding for the company from investment giants including Goldman Sachs

By JOSH BOSWELL FOR DAILYMAIL.COM



PUBLISHED: 15:15 EDT, 25 March 2022 | UPDATED: 15:46 EDT, 27 March 2022


Moscow’s claim that Hunter Biden helped finance a US military 'bioweapons' research program in Ukraine is at least partially true, according to new emails obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com.



The commander of the Russian Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Forces, claimed there was a 'scheme of interaction between US government agencies and Ukrainian biological objects' and pointed to the 'financing of such activities by structures close to the current US leadership, in particular the investment fund Rosemont Seneca, which is headed by Hunter Biden.'



Intelligence experts say the Russian military leader's allegations were a brazen propaganda ploy to justify president Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine and sow discord in the US.



But emails from Hunter's abandoned laptop show he helped secure millions of dollars of funding for Metabiota, a Department of Defense contractor specializing in research on pandemic-causing diseases that could be used as bioweapons.



He also introduced Metabiota to an allegedly corrupt Ukrainian gas firm, Burisma, for a 'science project' involving high biosecurity level labs in Ukraine.



And although Metabiota is ostensibly a medical data company, its vice president emailed Hunter in 2014 describing how they could 'assert Ukraine's cultural and economic independence from Russia' – an unusual goal for a biotech firm.


Metabiota is a Department of Defense contractor specializing in research on pandemic-causing diseases that could be used as bioweapons


Four days after Guttieri's April 2014 email, Burisma executive Vadym Pozharskyi wrote to Hunter revealing that the then-Vice President's son had pitched a 'science project' involving Burisma and Metabiota in Ukraine. 'Please find few initial points to be discussed for the purposes of analyzing the potential of this as you called, 'Science Ukraine' project,' Pozharskyi wrote


Government spending records show the Department of Defense awarded an $18.4million contract to Metabiota between February 2014 and November 2016, with $307,091 earmarked for 'Ukraine research projects'



Emails and defense contract data reviewed by DailyMail.com suggest that Hunter had a prominent role in making sure Metabiota was able to conduct its pathogen research just a few hundred miles from the border with Russia.


The project turned into a national security liability for Ukraine when Russian forces invaded the country last month.



Metabiota has worked in Ukraine for Black & Veatch, a US defense contractor with deep ties to military intelligence agencies, which built secure labs in Ukraine that analyzed killer diseases and bioweapons.



Earlier this month US officials warned congress that 'Russian forces may be seeking to gain control' of these 'biological research facilities', prompting fears that deadly and even engineered pathogens could fall into Russian hands.



Hunter and his colleagues at his investment firm Rosemont Seneca Technology Partners (RSTP) routinely raised millions of dollars for technology companies, hoping the firms would take off and make them all fortunes.



Metabiota was one of those firms. Emails between Hunter and his colleagues excitedly discuss how the company's monitoring of medical data could become an essential tool for governments and companies looking to spot outbreaks of infectious diseases.



The president's son and his colleagues invested $500,000 in Metabiota through their firm Rosemont Seneca Technology Partners.



They raised several million dollars of funding for the company from investment giants including Goldman Sachs.



But emails show Hunter was also particularly involved in Metabiota's operations in Ukraine.



Hunter's pitches to investors claimed that they not only organized funding for the firm, they also helped it 'get new customers' including 'government agencies in case of Metabiota'.



He and his business partner Eric Schwerin even discussed subletting their office space to the firm in April 2014, their emails reveal.



That month, Metabiota vice president Mary Guttieri wrote a memo to Hunter outlining how they could 'assert Ukraine's cultural and economic independence from Russia'.



'Thanks so much for taking time out of your intense schedule to meet with Kathy [Dimeo, Metabiota executive] and I on Tuesday. We very much enjoyed our discussion,' Guttieri wrote.



'As promised, I've prepared the attached memo, which provides an overview of Metabiota, our engagement in Ukraine, and how we can potentially leverage our team, networks, and concepts to assert Ukraine's cultural and economic independence from Russia and continued integration into Western society.'



Former senior CIA officer Sam Faddis, who has reviewed emails on Hunter's laptop, told DailyMail.com that the offer to help assert Ukraine's independence was odd for a biotech executive.



'It raises the question, what is the real purpose of this venture? It's very odd,' he said.

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Nolte: Days After Major Election, CBS Finally Verifies Hunter Biden’s Laptop
JOHN NOLTE21 Nov 20222,772

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Wow, what a coincidence. More than two years later and just days after a major national election, far-left CBS News has verified that Hunter Biden’s laptop (aka The Laptop from Hell) is indeed Hunter Biden’s laptop.



This feels like a troll from a former news outlet that is now so corrupt it trolls its political enemies on the right with open and unbridled glee… Hey, we know there have been two national elections since the laptop hit the news. But we’re only going to verify it now that Republicans will be in charge of the House of Representatives. If they hadn’t won the House, we’d still be lying about being unable to verify it. How’s that for a finger in your racist, sexist, homophobic eyes, Magatards?



Here’s CBS’s Catherine Herridge making a public fool of herself with all her, Yeah, gee, wow. This is just breaking NOW. I mean, holy cow, just after the midterms. How about that *nervous laugh, slaps leg* Two years of hard work here at CBS News and it all just happened to come together TODAY! No, fer realsies. Stop laughing.

When she was working at the New York Post, Breitbart’s very own Emma-Jo Morris verified and reported on the laptop contents ALL THE WAY BACK IN 2020.



At the time, the corporate media’s response, including from CBS “News,” was to either ignore the bombshell news about the laptop or lie about it being Russian disinformation.



Hell, even the far-left New York Times wasn’t as shameless as CBS. They verified the laptop months ago.



Here’s a partial transcript from the — lol — CBS report:



CBS News has obtained [the laptop] data, not through a third party or political operative, but directly from the source, who told us they provided it to the FBI under subpoena. Then we commissioned an independent forensic review to determine its authenticity.



The source would be this guy, John Paul Mac Isaac, who would have provided the data to CBS whenever they asked for it. The decision to wait TWO YEARS, or however long these CBS frauds waited, was their own decision. Back to CBS “News”:



“The laptop data we analyzed showed no evidence it was faked or tampered with,” reports Herridge TWO YEARS AFTER IT MATTERS.



“You’re confident, based on your analysis, this is Hunter Biden’s data and that it’s real,” asks Herridge of a computer expert she could’ve hired TWO YEARS AGO.



“Yes,” the computer expert answers, an answer he could’ve given CBS and Herridge TWO YEARS AGO.



Herridge then interviews the lawyer for Mac Isaac because, as she says, she wanted to “cut through the [political] noise.” Well, she could have cut through that noise TWO YEARS AGO. She chose not to because she’s a political operative.



“There’s some reporting of folders being added,” Herridge says to the computer experts she could have talked to TWO YEARS AGO.



“We don’t see that,” said the computer experts TWO YEARS AFTER IT MATTERS.



CBS and the rest of the fake media sure weren’t going to report the truth about the laptop in the weeks leading up to the 2020 election. They sure weren’t going to report the truth after the election and immediately tie a new Democrat president’s hands up in a major scandal. They sure weren’t going to report the truth about the laptop before the midterm elections. Only now are they reporting the truth and doing so for two reasons: 1) The GOP is about to prove the laptop is real, and 2) we’re two full years away from the 2024 presidential election, which will allow CBS to call the laptop “old news” by then.

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Hunter Biden Laptop Repairman Reveals "Chilling" Warning From FBI Agent


MONDAY, NOV 21, 2022 - 09:00 PM

Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times,



John Paul Mac Isaac, the laptop repairman who allegedly found Hunter Biden’s laptop, revealed Monday that he is working with Republican lawmakers as they prepare to investigate the younger Biden after taking the House majority during this month’s midterms.


Mac Isaac alleged in a Monday interview with Fox News that an FBI agent gave him a “chilling” warning when he first interacted with the bureau after finding the laptop. The Delaware-based laptop repairman said he recalled telling one agent that he would change their names when he published his book.



“That’s when Agent Mike turned around and told me that, in their experience, nothing ever happens to people that don’t talk about these things,” Mac Isaac said, claiming that it was a veiled threat to keep silent.



“I have been dealing with retaliation from multiple fronts for the past two years when what I did was leaked to the country. I’m expecting it, and I’m going to expect it to continue,” he added to Fox News while promoting his book.



Republicans, he said, should hold “the FBI accountable for colluding with our mainstream and social media to block a story, a real story with real consequence,” and they should “get to the bottom of what the Biden family was up to when Joe Biden was vice president.”



On Monday, a lawyer for Hunter Biden, Chris Clark, told CBS News that Mac Isaac did not have Hunter’s “consent to access his computer data or share it with others.” Some analysts said that it may have been the first time one of Hunter Biden’s lawyers confirmed that he left the laptop at the Delaware computer repair shop.



Earlier this year, Mac Isaac recalled to the New York Post about how Hunter Biden arrived at his shop in Wilmington, Delaware, in April 2019.



“I’m glad you’re still open,” Hunter Biden allegedly told him. “I just came from the cigar bar, and they told me about your shop, but I had to hurry because you close at seven.”



“I need the data recovered off these, but they all have liquid damage and won’t turn on,” Mac Isaac recalled him saying.



Other Details

It came as CBS cited an independent expert as saying that the data sourced from Hunter Biden’s laptop is genuine, coming about two years after the NY Post and other news outlets, including The Epoch Times, reported on it. It’s not clear why CBS decided to publish its report Monday.


The Epoch Times has contacted the FBI’s press office for comment.



After Republicans recaptured the majority in the House, top GOP lawmakers indicated that they will investigate bank records and claims by whistleblowers that show connections between Hunter Biden and President Joe Biden.



With weeks to go before the 2020 General Election, the New York Post published information sourced from the laptop, showing what Republicans and other critics say are shady business deals between the Biden family and individuals linked to the Chinese Communist Party and Ukrainian energy firms. The younger Biden, in a 2019 interview, has denied that he did anything wrong but acknowledged that such deals created a negative outward impression.



Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), who is expected to chair the House Oversight and Reform Committee, told reporters last week that the committee will investigate not just Hunter Biden but also President Biden.



“I want to be clear. This is an investigation of Joe Biden. That’s where the committee will focus in this next Congress,” Comer told reporters.



“This committee will evaluate the status of Joe Biden’s relationship with his family’s foreign partners and whether he is a president who is compromised or swayed by foreign dollars and influence,” Comer said, adding that his committee has acquired suspicious activity reports filed by major banks.



In response, the White House said in a statement last week House Republicans are engaging in partisan attacks against Biden’s family members. The administration accused the GOP of trafficking in “long-debunked conspiracy theories,” without elaborating.



“President Biden is not going to let these political attacks distract him from focusing on Americans’ priorities,” Ian Sams, a spokesman for the White House Counsel’s office, told news outlets.



Weeks after the 2020 election, the younger Biden said that Delaware prosecutors were investigating his tax affairs, although he hasn’t been charged with a crime. Since then, few details have been publicly disclosed about that investigation.



As Republicans conduct their investigation, it’s not clear how many Americans will consider it a top priority.



Fewer than 30 percent of voters said in a recent poll that Hunter Biden should be a top priority for the next Congress, with about 52 percent of Republicans expressing an interest in investigating him. For months, other polls showed that President Biden’s approval rating has remained largely underwater amid high inflation, fears of a recession, and a surge of violent crime nationwide.

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Republicans vow to call all 51 intelligence community ‘pros’ who signed onto bogus letter claiming Hunter Biden laptop was ‘Russian disinformation’

Tuesday, November 22, 2022 by: JD Heyes

Tags: 2020 election, CBS News, conspiracy, corruption, deception, deep state, Hunter Biden, intelligence officials, Joe Biden, laptop, letter, lies, mainstream media, Republicans, Russian disinfo



This article may contain statements that reflect the opinion of the author


(Natural News) If the way Donald Trump was treated by our government before, during, and after his presidency doesn’t convince you that a) the deep state is real; and b) it protects Democrats and the political left — then nothing will.



Trump became the first presidential candidate in the history of the FBI to be spied on by that agency. As a sitting president, he was investigated by a special counsel and is being targeted again by another one, his third. He was impeached twice for things he literally did not do. And what’s more, the same deep state that targeted him is protecting his chief political rival, Joe Biden and Biden’s family, one of the most corrupt in recent memory.



But finally, there may be a ray of light at the end of a long, dark tunnel.



Republicans managed to eke out enough victories to take control of the House for the first time since 2018, and now they are pledging to get to the bottom of one of the biggest scandals to ever rock Washington: Hunter Biden and his incriminating laptop.



In the weeks before the 2020 election that Democrats and their deep state allies were well on their wait to steal, the New York Post published bombshell revelations regarding Hunter Biden’s corrupt business practices, which included evidence that Joe Biden was getting kickbacks from his son’s ‘business’ deals, most of which were made with foreign entities eager to get closer to the current president (probably because the steal was in years before 2020).



It was clear that the reporting was based on actual data found on an actual laptop that Hunter Biden had abandoned at a computer repair shop in Delaware, where the Bidens hail from. Photos and other materials on the laptop revealed by The Post were obviously genuine, and what’s more, the Bidens never even refuted the materials. Rather, they claimed that it was all “Russian disinformation,” and they got an assist with that lie from no fewer than 51 current and former U.S. intelligence officials who all signed a letter saying that, yeah, the info sure looked like a Russian disinformation operation.



The garbage mainstream media dutifully played its role and refused to report on the laptop materials, all citing the “intelligence officials’ assessment” of the information. So the story essentially died, and the deep state effectively killed off Trump’s chances of being reelected by suppressing votes in some parts of the country and stealing them in others.



In an interview with Newsmax TV on Monday, Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), said that Republicans will be hauling the 51 intelligence officials before various House committees to grill them over their false insinuation about the laptop materials.



“The Biden family has an unprecedented 150 bank violations. These are called suspicious activity reports. I have two in hand. Just from the two in hand that I have, I can tell you this is very serious and that’s why we’re pursuing an investigation of Joe Biden,” he said.



“Hunter Biden’s only source of income were from China and Russia, our adversaries,” the congressman said. “So, he’s taking money from China and Russia for influence apparently, there’s no other way to put it. And then, according to himself, in his text messages and emails, he’s then turning around and paying his father’s living expenses. That’s why we want the bank records. So, we’re looking at the bank records and bank violations.”



Meanwhile, some of the same garbage media outlets have since “confirmed” that the materials on Hunter Biden’s laptop — including photos of him allegedly engaging in illegal drug and sexual activities — were genuine, with CBS News being the latest.



“CBS News has obtained data from a laptop purported to have belonged to Hunter Biden. The data came directly from the source who said they provided it to the FBI under subpoena,” the outlet noted on Twitter along with a video report.

Pathetic.



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Elon Musk Says He’ll Make Public Internal Twitter Discussions About Decision To Censor Hunter Biden Laptop Story

By ProTrumpNews Staff

Published November 24, 2022 at 2:40pm




The truth about Twitter’s censoring of the Hunter Biden laptop story is coming out.



Elon Musk responded to a tweet calling for all internal discussions about the censoring of the New York Post’s Hunter Biden story to be made public by saying “this is necessary to restore public trust.”

Musk had previously called the suspension of the account “incredibly inappropriate.”

Twitter was a major player in censoring the Hunter Biden laptop story.



They suspended the New York Post’s Twitter account for tweeting out a link to the story showing possible shady business dealings with China and Ukraine involving the then-vice president.



Newsmax reported:



The Post in October 2020 reported that a laptop of then-presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son showed possible shady business dealings with China and Ukraine involving the then-vice president.



When the Post tweeted a link to the story, Twitter suspended its account, saying the story violated its rules against “hacked” materials. Facebook also limited sharing of the story.



The day after Twitter blocked the Post’s stories, then-CEO Jack Dorsey posted that “straight blocking of URLs was wrong, and we updated our policy and enforcement to fix.”



Still, the Post’s account remained locked for weeks, with Twitter demanding the Hunter Biden laptop tweets be deleted.



Even then Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey was forced to admit that the suspension was a “total mistake.”



New York Post reported:



Twitter doesn’t have a “censoring department” that blocked The Post from tweeting last fall, CEO Jack Dorsey said Thursday — but he wouldn’t reveal who was responsible for the blunder.



At a congressional hearing on misinformation and social media, Dorsey said Twitter made a “total mistake” by barring users from sharing The Post’s bombshell October report about Hunter Biden’s emails.



Twitter also locked The Post out of its account for more than two weeks over baseless charges that the exposé used hacked information — a decision Dorsey chalked up to a “process error.”



“It was literally just a process error. This was not against them in any particular way,” Dorsey told the House Energy and Commerce Committee.



This is great news.



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About to get wild’: Musk vows to release details of Twitter censoring Hunter Biden laptop story

by Kari Donovan

November 25, 2022

OPINION: This article contains commentary which may reflect the author’s opinion


The ‘Laptop From Hell’ is not going away; in fact, the American public is about to find out how and why the information on Hunter Biden’s laptop was being lied about by our top intelligence agencies and then censored by the FBI – and then by Big Tech- preventing Americans from talking about and learning about the massive corruption of the Democrat Presidential candidate Joe Biden.



Mark Zuckerberg, Meta CEO of Facebook, shook the news cycle mid Summer when he admitted that Facebook cracked down on users from posting about or reading about the laptop ahead of the 2020 election- he told media then that it was because the social media giant was instructed to do that by the FBI.



In August, Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) pushed for clarity about comments made by Zuckerberg in an interview when he indicated that Facebook took “meaningful” steps to decrease the distribution of the reports about Hunter Biden’s laptop in 2020 after Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) officials approached the company with warnings about disinformation, according to a press release from Grassley’s office.



So we know that suppression of the story, which likely changed the outcome of the 2020 election, was being investigated and Facebook was complying.



Grassley and Johnson demanded records relating to the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) and FBI’s contact with Facebook, Twitter, and other social media companies regarding the Biden family, Hunter Biden’s laptop, and Russian disinformation around the time of the election. The press release shows, they also ask for the names of the government and Facebook officials involved in these conversations.



“The FBI’s consistent efforts to falsely paint information relating to Biden Family misconduct as Russian disinformation continues to draw serious concerns, and those concerns are magnified by the FBI’s consistent failure to answer congressional inquiries,” the senators wrote in a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Chris Wray. “The FBI’s ill-conceived actions not only interfered in our congressional investigation by frustrating and obstructing our ability to advance the matters under review, it also interfered in the 2020 election.”



Grassley and Johnson are respectively the ranking members of the Senate Judiciary Committee and Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. For years, the duo has investigated Hunter Biden’s dubious foreign business entanglements, during which the FBI provided an unnecessary August 2020 briefing to the senators—which then provided a pretext for political opponents to falsely label the investigation as advancing disinformation.



Now Twitter will comply- according to updates by company leadership.



A tweet shared on Wednesday from new Twitter boss Elon Musk helps provide a better understanding of why the billionaire has met so much resistance from the left after taking the helm at the social media platform, American wire service reported, adding details:



In another tweet shared the same day, after apparently rummaging through the closets at Twitter’s headquarters, Musk shared a photo of stacks of “#StayWoke” t-shirts, but that’s not all that he has access to as the new owner. As he intimated later in the day, Musk also has access to all the inner workings at Twitter.



News personality Alex Lorusso posted a tweet asking followers to “raise your hand” if they think Musk “should make public all internal discussions about the decision to censor the @nypost’s story on Hunter Biden’s laptop.”Musk responded to the tweet to say, “This is necessary to restore public trust.”





“This is necessary to restore public trust,” Elon Musk (@elonmusk) posted on November 24, 2022.



Twitter joined with Facebook and other social media outlets to either censor entirely or otherwise limit the dissemination of the bombshell story involving Hunter Biden’s “laptop from hell” in the days leading up to the 2020 presidential election, while corporate media largely blackballed the story.



Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey would later admit they were wrong to intervene in the Hunter Biden story. In another bombshell report earlier this year, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said they suppressed the story during the election because the FBI warned Facebook about “Russian propaganda” just before the laptop story broke.



These collective actions had a key impact on the outcome of the election, according to later polling.



A survey conducted by Technometrica Institute of Policy and Politics found that 79% of respondents said it was “very” or “somewhat” likely that “a truthful interpretation of the laptop” would have resulted in former President Donald Trump being reelected. Among Republicans, 57% were strongly convinced Trump would have won, compared to 48% of independents and 44% of Democrats.



Biden’s laptop was in the news again this week when CBS News, a full two years later and then some, finally came around to acknowledge that it exists — this being the once venerable CBS News, home of Walter Cronkite.



Here’s a quick sampling of responses to Musk’s tease from Twitter:


“Major announcement from @elonmusk: Commits to exposing details of @twitter’s campaign intervention on behalf of Joe Biden against @realdonaldtrump,” Tom Fitton (@tomfitton) posted on Twitter on November 24, 2022.



“It is the proper commitment to make on Thanksgiving @elonmusk,” Viva Frei (@thevivafrei) posted on Twitter on November 24, 2022.





“I am loving the new Twitter.I rate this four popcorns out of four!” Peter Doran (@peterbdoran) posted on Twitter on November 24, 2022.



“Pay Per View streaming event with all the dirty secrets. $8 to watch. I’d be happy to moderate,” Carol Roth (@caroljsroth) posted on November 24, 2022.



“Curious if there was a request from the New York Times about it, due to the lawsuit. One way to stifle their defense would be to ensure they have no platform for which to speak,” Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) posted on Twitter on November 24, 2022.



“How about making public any conversations that happened between Twitter and the FBI or any other federal agency,” Dan Hollaway (@danhollaway) posted on Twitter on November 24, 2022.



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Elon Musk threatens to release Twitter’s emails related to the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story

Tuesday, November 29, 2022 by: Lance D Johnson

Tags: Biden crime family, big guy, Burisma, CCP, Censorship, Collusion, coverup, criminal conspiracy, deep state, Elon Musk, espionage, Exposed, Hunter Biden, Influence, Joe Biden, left cult, lies, national security, New York Post, power, traitors, treason, Twitter



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(Natural News) Elon Musk is now threatening to release Twitter’s internal communications related to the suppression of the Hunter Biden “Laptop from Hell.” When the story first broke in the lead-up to the 2020 election, Twitter and the rest of the Big Tech cabal suppressed the information and labeled it “harmful misinformation,” quashing bombshell evidence of crimes committed by the Biden family.



The Justice Department and the FBI have ignored the evidence thus far, as all pleadings for investigation into the Biden family have been quashed in the public square. Twitter’s former leadership not only conspired with the federal government to violate the Free Speech clause of the First Amendment in the US Constitution, but they also conspired to cover up evidence of high crimes and misdemeanors committed by a former Vice President and his son.



Elon Musk tries to restore public’s trust in Twitter

After taking over Twitter, Elon Musk has further exposed corruption and discrimination within the organization — corruption that the public had grown weary to. In order to restore the public’s trust in the platform, Elon Musk has branded himself as a purveyor of free speech. Musk has reinstated several high-profile accounts that were subjected to false accusations, character assassination, or were suspended based on the color of their ideas.



Twitter’s previous leadership used the platform to suppress and lie about matters of public importance. They used algorithms to conduct sweeping viewpoint discrimination, while covering up for crimes, and essentially interfering in elections.



“The more I learn, the worse it gets. The world should know the truth of what has been happening at Twitter,” said Musk. “Transparency will earn the trust of the people.”



Musk is threatening to release internal communications related to the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story because of Turning Point USA’s Alex Lorusso. As soon as Musk reinstated the account, Lorusso posed a question to his followers, “Raise your hand if you think @elonmusk should make public all internal discussions about the decision to censor the @nypost’s story on Hunter Biden’s laptop before the 2020 Election in the interest of Transparency.”



Musk responded, “This is necessary to restore public trust.”



Big Tech’s criminal coverup for the Bidens backfires

In October 2020, the New York Post published a bombshell story about Hunter Biden’s foreign business deals and Joe Biden’s knowledge of them. Hunter Biden’s emails paint a damning picture of the Biden family and reveal how they used the power and influence of the federal government to cash in personally with companies around the world, including a Ukrainian and a Chinese energy company. While working as a lobbyist for a Ukrainian energy company called Burisma, Hunter Biden arranged for his father (then vice president Joe Biden) to meet with an advisor the board of Burisma. Hunter Biden’s firm went on to sell billions of dollars in American real estate to a Chinese firm with deep ties to the CCP. Thanks to the Bidens, the CCP now controls a real estate portfolio that contains 33 properties encompassing 8 million square feet, with access in 13 US states.



Instead of allowing these stories of corruption and espionage to circulate, Twitter shut the stories down, and made sure than no one could criticize the Bidens in the lead-up to the election. Twitter quickly banned the New York Post’s account. Twitter also stopped all users from tweeting about the story and worked on behalf of the Democratic Party to suppress evidence of crimes. Twitter used every trick in the book, banning accounts, blocking links to the story, scaring users away by calling the story “dangerous” and using pages that read “this link may be unsafe.” Because the collusion occurred within one month of the 2020 presidential election, Twitter and the rest of the Big Tech cabal are guilty of interfering the 2020 election and conspiring to cover up high crimes and misdemeanors.

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Elon Musk Releases THE TWITTER FILES: How Twitter Collaborated With "The Biden Team" To Cover Up The Hunter Laptop Story

BY TYLER DURDEN

FRIDAY, DEC 02, 2022 - 07:05 PM


In a greatly anticipated Friday night drop of what has was expected to be a cache of information involving the censoring of Hunter Biden's notebook story days ahead of the 2020 presidential election, moments ago Elon Musk - who worked in collaboration with the notoriously independent gonzo journalist Matt Taibbi of "Vampire Squid" fame - has published the "Twitter Files."



Shortly before their release, Matt Taibbi sent the following email to his substack subscribers:



Dear TK Readers:



Very shortly, I’m going to begin posting a long thread of information on Twitter, at my account, @mtaibbi. This material is likely to get a lot of attention. I will absolutely understand if subscribers are angry that it is not appearing here on Substack first. I’d be angry, too.



The last 96 hours have been among the most chaotic of my life, involving multiple trips back and forth across the country, with a debate in Canada in between. There’s a long story I hope to be able to tell soon, but can’t, not quite yet anyway. What I can say is that in exchange for the opportunity to cover a unique and explosive story, I had to agree to certain conditions.



Those of you who’ve been here for years know how seriously I take my obligation to this site’s subscribers. On this one occasion, I’m going to have to simply ask you to trust me. As it happens, there may be a few more big surprises coming, and those will be here on Substack. And there will be room here to to discuss this, too, in time. In any case, thanks for your support and your patience, and please hold me to a promise to make all this up to you, and then some.



Moments later Elon confirmed that he did, in fact, work with Taibbi:

And this is what Taibbi has been tweeting in the past few minutes (link here):



1. Thread: THE TWITTER FILES



2. What you’re about to read is the first installment in a series, based upon thousands of internal documents obtained by sources at Twitter.



3. The “Twitter Files” tell an incredible story from inside one of the world’s largest and most influential social media platforms. It is a Frankensteinian tale of a human-built mechanism grown out the control of its designer.



4. Twitter in its conception was a brilliant tool for enabling instant mass communication, making a true real-time global conversation possible for the first time.



5. In an early conception, Twitter more than lived up to its mission statement, giving people “the power to create and share ideas and information instantly, without barriers.”



6. As time progressed, however, the company was slowly forced to add those barriers. Some of the first tools for controlling speech were designed to combat the likes of spam and financial fraudsters.



7. Slowly, over time, Twitter staff and executives began to find more and more uses for these tools. Outsiders began petitioning the company to manipulate speech as well: first a little, then more often, then constantly.



8. By 2020, requests from connected actors to delete tweets were routine. One executive would write to another: “More to review from the Biden team.” The reply would come back: “Handled.”







9. Celebrities and unknowns alike could be removed or reviewed at the behest of a political party:







10.Both parties had access to these tools. For instance, in 2020, requests from both the Trump White House and the Biden campaign were received and honored. However:



11. This system wasn't balanced. It was based on contacts. Because Twitter was and is overwhelmingly staffed by people of one political orientation, there were more channels, more ways to complain, open to the left (well, Democrats) than the right.







12. The resulting slant in content moderation decisions is visible in the documents you’re about to read. However, it’s also the assessment of multiple current and former high-level executives.



... Okay, there was more throat-clearing about the process, but screw it, let's jump forward



16. The Twitter Files, Part One: How and Why Twitter Blocked the Hunter Biden Laptop Story



17. On October 14, 2020, the New York Post published BIDEN SECRET EMAILS, an expose based on the contents of Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop:







18. Twitter took extraordinary steps to suppress the story, removing links and posting warnings that it may be “unsafe.” They even blocked its transmission via direct message, a tool hitherto reserved for extreme cases, e.g. child pornography.



19. White House spokeswoman Kaleigh McEnany was locked out of her account for tweeting about the story, prompting a furious letter from Trump campaign staffer Mike Hahn, who seethed: “At least pretend to care for the next 20 days.”







20.This led public policy executive Caroline Strom to send out a polite WTF query. Several employees noted that there was tension between the comms/policy teams, who had little/less control over moderation, and the safety/trust teams:







21. Strom’s note returned the answer that the laptop story had been removed for violation of the company’s “hacked materials” policy: web.archive.org/web/20190717143909/https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/hacked-materials







22. Although several sources recalled hearing about a “general” warning from federal law enforcement that summer about possible foreign hacks, there’s no evidence - that I've seen - of any government involvement in the laptop story. In fact, that might have been the problem...



23. The decision was made at the highest levels of the company, but without the knowledge of CEO Jack Dorsey, with former head of legal, policy and trust Vijaya Gadde playing a key role.



24. “They just freelanced it,” is how one former employee characterized the decision. “Hacking was the excuse, but within a few hours, pretty much everyone realized that wasn’t going to hold. But no one had the guts to reverse it.”



25.You can see the confusion in the following lengthy exchange, which ends up including Gadde and former Trust and safety chief Yoel Roth. Comms official Trenton Kennedy writes, “I'm struggling to understand the policy basis for marking this as unsafe”:







26. By this point “everyone knew this was fucked,” said one former employee, but the response was essentially to err on the side of… continuing to err.







27. Former VP of Global Comms Brandon Borrman asks, “Can we truthfully claim that this is part of the policy?”







28. To which former Deputy General Counsel Jim Baker again seems to advise staying the non-course, because “caution is warranted”:







29. A fundamental problem with tech companies and content moderation: many people in charge of speech know/care little about speech, and have to be told the basics by outsiders. To wit:



30. In one humorous exchange on day 1, Democratic congressman Ro Khanna reaches out to Gadde to gently suggest she hop on the phone to talk about the “backlash re speech.” Khanna was the only Democratic official I could find in the files who expressed concern.







31. Gadde replies quickly, immediately diving into the weeds of Twitter policy, unaware Khanna is more worried about the Bill of Rights:







32.Khanna tries to reroute the conversation to the First Amendment, mention of which is generally hard to find in the files:







33.Within a day, head of Public Policy Lauren Culbertson receives a ghastly letter/report from Carl Szabo of the research firm NetChoice, which had already polled 12 members of congress – 9 Rs and 3 Democrats, from “the House Judiciary Committee to Rep. Judy Chu’s office.”







34.NetChoice lets Twitter know a “blood bath” awaits in upcoming Hill hearings, with members saying it's a "tipping point," complaining tech has “grown so big that they can’t even regulate themselves, so government may need to intervene.”







35.Szabo reports to Twitter that some Hill figures are characterizing the laptop story as “tech’s Access Hollywood moment”:







36.Twitter files continued: "THE FIRST AMENDMENT ISN’T ABSOLUTE”



Szabo’s letter contains chilling passages relaying Democratic lawmakers’ attitudes. They want “more” moderation, and as for the Bill of Rights, it's "not absolute"







37. An amazing subplot of the Twitter/Hunter Biden laptop affair was how much was done without the knowledge of CEO Jack Dorsey, and how long it took for the situation to get "unfucked" (as one ex-employee put it) even after Dorsey jumped in.



38. While reviewing Gadde's emails, I saw a familiar name - my own. Dorsey sent her a copy of my Substack article blasting the incident







39. There are multiple instances in the files of Dorsey intervening to question suspensions and other moderation actions, for accounts across the political spectrum



40. The problem with the "hacked materials" ruling, several sources said, was that this normally required an official/law enforcement finding of a hack. But such a finding never appears throughout what one executive describes as a "whirlwind" 24-hour, company-wide mess.







41. It's been a whirlwind 96 hours for me, too. There is much more to come, including answers to questions about issues like shadow-banning, boosting, follower counts, the fate of various individual accounts, and more. These issues are not limited to the political right.



42. Good night, everyone. Thanks to all those who picked up the phone in the last few days.



* * *



The release was telegraphed one week ago, when Musk acknowledged that revealing Twitter's internal discussions surrounding the censorship of the New York Post's Hunter Biden laptop story right before the 2020 US election is "necessary to restore public trust."

Recall that the Post had its Twitter account locked in October 2020 for reporting on the now-confirmed-to-be-real "laptop from hell," which contained still-unprosecuted evidence of foreign influence peddling through then-Vice President Joe Biden - including a 2015 meeting with an executive of Ukrainian gas giant Burisma.



Users who tried to share the link to the article were greeted with a message saying, “We can’t complete this request because this link has been identified by Twitter or our partners as being potentially harmful.”



Then, days after Musk's tweet, Twitter's former head of Trust and Safety, Yoel Roth, admitted it was a 'mistake' to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story.



In his first public appearance since becoming an ex-employee, Roth suggested that the Hunter Biden laptop story was simply 'too difficult' for Twitter to verify. Alternatively, the company could have perhaps simply trusted the Post, one of America's oldest publications that doesn't have a reputation for fabricating bombshell stories - like Twitter does with countless anonymous bombshells from other major publications.



“We didn’t know what to believe. We didn’t know what was true. There was smoke,” Roth said during an interview at the Knight Foundation conference, as noted by the Epoch Times. “And ultimately for me, it didn’t reach a place where I was comfortable removing this content from Twitter.”



“It set off every single one of my finely tuned APT28 ‘hack and leak campaign’ alarm bells,” he said, referring to a notorious team of cyberspies affiliated with Russian military intelligence. “Everything about it looked like a hack and leak.”



When asked whether if it was a mistake to censor the story, Roth replied, “In my opinion, yes.”



Would Roth have suppressed the story if it was a Don Jr. laptop full of incriminating evidence?



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Finally, it will be very interesting to see which "independent", "impartial" and "objective" members of the Mainstream Media cover the Twitter Files, which unlike all that Russia collusion bullshit, was a real and actionable attempt to interfere with US democracy by covering up one of the most explosive political stories of a generation, not to mention an event that would have swayed the 2020 presidential election.


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They're overlooking the fact that Trump WON - Puddingbrain only "won" through cheating and stealing the election! The only difference would have been Puddingbrain got even less votes. 

Poll: 71% Say Accurate Reporting of Hunter’s Laptop Could Have Altered 2020 Election


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12 Dec 2022

Seventy-one percent of Americans believe accurate reporting of Hunter Biden’s “Laptop from Hell” could have altered the 2020 presidential election, TIPP Insights polling revealed Monday.



Leading up to the election, many in the establishment media falsely claimed Hunter’s laptop was Russian disinformation. Those false claims were pushed by many in the intelligence community, who suggested in a now-debunked Politico story from 2020 that Hunter’s laptop was “Russian disinfo.”



The poll found over two-thirds of Americans believe the intelligence community intentionally lied to voters about the laptop by pushing big tech to censor the first report of Hunter’s laptop by Breitbart News’s Emma-Jo Morris.

The recent release of the “Twitter Files” confirms law enforcement colluded with Twitter to censor Hunter’s laptop story. Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg has admitted the FBI warned Facebook in 2020 ahead of the story’s publication about imminent Russian disinformation.



Now, more than two years after the election, nearly two-thirds of Americans believe the contents of Hunter’s laptop are authentic.



The Daily Mail reported additional findings from the poll:



An even wider margin — more than three quarters of respondents — said any collusion between senior Democrats, the FBI, intelligence chiefs and the Biden campaign on suppressing the story would have denied voters access to critical information in the run-up to the election.



Another half of respondents said they would have voted differently had they known the Hunter Biden’s laptop revelations were authentic. Interestingly, Republican and Democratic voters were more or less aligned on this question.



The poll sampled 1,351 Americans from December 7-9 with a 4.5 percent margin of error.



In December, the top Republican member of the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), demanded former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and former CIA Director John Brennan, two men who were an integral part of the 2020 Politico story, divulge information related to their attempt to discredit the Hunter laptop story. If the men refuse, Jordan will use his subpoena power in the new Congress to force the two men to comply with his requests.



In late November, Rep. James Comer (R-KY) announced the House would investigate the Biden family business and the contents found on Hunter’s laptop. Comer’s investigation will include nine potential violations, including wire fraud, tax evasion, and money laundering.



Polling shows 62 percent of voters approve of the investigation, including 42 percent who strongly approve. Thirty-four percent disapprove, 23 percent of these strongly disapproving.



In 2018 and 2020, Breitbart Senior Contributor and Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer published Secret Empires and Profiles in Corruption. Each book hit number one on the New York Times bestseller list and exposed how Hunter Biden and Joe Biden flew to China aboard Air Force Two in 2013 before Hunter’s firm inked a $1.5 billion deal with a subsidiary of the Chinese government’s Bank of China less than two weeks after the trip. Schweizer’s work also uncovered the Biden family’s other vast and lucrative foreign deals and cronyism.



Breitbart Political Editor Emma-Jo Morris’s investigative work at the New York Post on the Hunter Biden “laptop from hell” also captured international headlines when she, along with Miranda Devine, revealed that Joe Biden was intimately involved in Hunter’s businesses, appearing to even have a 10 percent stake in a company the scion formed with officials at the highest levels of the Chinese Communist Party.

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Rudy Giuliani to Newsmax: Mike Pompeo 'Also Buried' Biden Laptop Story

(Newsmax/"Saturday Report")

By Eric Mack | Saturday, 10 December 2022 11:46 AM EST


Even former Trump administration Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was involved in burying the story on Joe Biden, Russia, Ukraine, and Hunter Biden's laptop — which altered elections and skirted free speech and the law — former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani told Newsmax.



"I had this whole thing – let's say half of it; certainly enough to prosecute — in 2019," Giuliani told "Saturday Report," saying he was waking up every morning thinking about how to reveal it all to Americans, including sharing the information with TV host Sean Hannity, Just the News' John Solomon, and even Pompeo. "I gave it to Hannity in early 2019, then to John Solomon, then to Mike Pompeo, who also buried it.



"And you should know that now that he's running for president — and I will tell you the whole story about that at some point. I'll write it out."



Giuliani was former President Donald Trump's private attorney and was shocked to have learned Justice Department Attorney General Bill Barr had Hunter Biden's laptop in late 2019.



"And then Barr buried it in January of 2020, and I didn't know that Barr has the hard drive," Giuliani continued to host Rita Cosby. "He covered up the hard drive."



From the first allegations of Russian collusion to the Trump campaign to the presidential elections and now the deadly war in Ukraine, Americans could have known the truth in 2019, if they had just listened to Giuliani, he continued.



"I've been living with this for 3.5 years when I first put out the information about Biden's bribery in Ukraine, and I lived through that," Giuliani said. "I got up every morning from the first moment I got that hard drive, saying to myself, 'How can I get this to my fellow citizens? Because, you just read a just a little bit of that, you realize the candidate of the Democratic Party was a lifelong criminal, and I mean, there are 50-60 crimes outlined there and I'm not saying that lightly."


Giuliani, who Trump has hailed as the greatest America prosecutor in history, said he had the evidence that Joe Biden was the head of a crime family.



"There are several racketeering cases in which Joe Biden would be similar to the head of an organized crime family," Giuliani continued. "He took millions of dollars in bribes, millions. This is the biggest corruption case that I can find in the history of this country, and it was covered up by the major part of the media in this country, and they knew it."



Giuliani noted establishment forces in Washington, D.C., are pressuring people not to come clean with the American people.



"I know the pressure they put on you at the very end, and a lot of people have caved like Barr — Bill Barr caved like an empty suit on this one," Giuliani said.



It all began when the political outsider attempted to drain the swamp and continuing through today with the Jan. 6 "coup" against Trump, Giuliani said, calling out what he said is "a conspiracy to defraud the United States."



"It began to be criminal the day that Hillary Clinton paid for the misinformation regarding Russia," Giuliani said. "She paid a $1.1 million to develop a story to frame an innocent man. When that innocent man became the president, and they continued to pursue the story, including every one of those Jan. 6 committee member phonies — who are big parts of this, by the way. It's a joke to watch them put out a report on Jan. 6 when they should be in jail for trying to organize a coup against the president.



"Those are the people who floated the purchased, false story of Russian collusion. That's conspiracy to defraud the United States."



And the latest revelations of the "Twitter Files" only are further shining sunlight on the conspiracy against Trump, Giuliani said, including former Russiagate DOJ general counsel Jim Baker having recently been surreptitiously attempting to cover things up at Twitter, Giuliani said.



"You know this guy Baker, who organized this Twitter thing: He should have been in jail two years earlier, if Barr had the courage to prosecute him — if that guy up in Connecticut that takes 100 years to write out two paragraphs would have prosecuted him," Giuliani said, also adding "investigation of the investigators" special counsel John Durham to his ire.



Peter Strzok and fired FBI Director James Comey are at the root of it all, starting with the Christopher Steele "opposition research," according to Giuliani, leading the events to continue to unfold in the effort to damage Trump.



"Why were those FBI guys let go? Strzok, Comey — Comey committed out and out perjury four times," Giuliani alleged to Cosby. "Rita, they said they didn't, but it's proven that they did.



"It's not even speculation any longer. He lied about the entire Steele dossier. It's been proven that the Steele dossier is not only untrue; it was created and paid for.



"And it's proven that he knew it."



Ultimately, Giuliani has faith the Republican majority coming into Congress in January — along with Senate oversight GOP leaders Sens. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., and Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, can help Americans see the truth and the light.



"I believe they will," he said. "I have great regard for the Republicans in the House, particularly Jim Jordan and anybody associated with him. These are patriots.



"This is not the Senate. This is not the weak, frightened — except for Johnson and Grassley — Senate, who could have revealed this several years ago.


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MORE DEEP STATE LIES: FBI Hid Hunter Biden Laptop, Refused to Investigate It, Said They Lost It… And NOW SAY They Did Not Push Big Tech to Censor It

By Jim Hoft

Published December 22, 2022 at 9:45am


The FBI took possession of the Hunter Biden laptop from computer repair shop owner Jahn Paul Mac Isaac in December 2019.



John Paul Mac Isaac then never heard another word from the FBI. The elite investigative agency killed the story and refused to investigate the contents of the laptop. This was a conscious decision by the FBI to help their candidate Joe Biden in his race against President Donald Trump.



The FBI never disclosed ANYTHING to Congressional lawmakers or the Trump administration during the bogus impeachment trial. They had all the evidence to debunk the impeachment. They kept quiet instead.



John Paul Mac Isaac later gave a copy of the computer hard drive to Rudy Giuliani. The FBI was illegally tapping into Rudy’s calls and tracking his communications online. They knew Rudy had a copy of the laptop. They devised a plan and warned Big Tech about the story encouraging Twitter, Facebook, Google, etc. to kill the story.


The FBI later said they lost the laptop.


An FBI whistleblower claims FBI brass told employees NOT to look at Hunter Biden’s laptop from hell.



Chris Wray and the FBI later raided President Trump’s home while ignoring the reams of evidence of criminal conduct on the Hunter Biden laptop.


And now the FBI says they did not push Big Tech to kill the Hunter Biden story despite evidence produced to the contrary.



On Wednesday, in response to the publication of Elon Musk’s Twitter files, the FBI issued a statement in which it accused the journalists behind the Twitter files of being “conspiracy theorists” in order to ‘discredit the agency.’



The FBI has been making a concerted effort to exert control over Twitter, its users, and their information.



The FBI paid Twitter $3.4 million in tax dollars to censor, suspend and harass Twitter users who only wanted to share the truth.



On Wednesday’s episode of America Reports on Fox News, Sandra Smith read the statement from the FBI:



“The correspondence between the FBI and Twitter show nothing more than examples of our traditional, longstanding and ongoing federal government and private sector engagements, which involve numerous companies over multiple sectors and industries. As evidenced in the correspondence, the FBI provides critical information to the private sector in an effort to allow them to protect themselves and their customers. The men and women of the FBI work every day to protect the American public. It is unfortunate that conspiracy theorists and others are feeding the American public misinformation with the sole purpose of attempting to discredit the agency.”



Are we really supposed to believe this garbage?



Maybe it’s time to shut down this corrupt, dishonest organization.

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EXCLUSIVE: SECOND Hunter Biden Email from Laptop WITH CLASSIFIED INFORMATION Uncovered – Hunter Shared with Ukraine Business Colleagues – More Coming

By Joe Hoft

Published January 29, 2023 at 7:48pm


The Biden crime family made millions in Ukraine performing nefarious and criminal activities including espionage.



TGP reported on Thursday that the Bidens were using classified information to the benefit of the Hunter Biden family business.


Miranda Devine provided one email that appeared to include classified material from the US government.


Column’s up: A curiously well-informed email about Ukraine, Russia and the UK on Hunter Biden’s laptop is a thread that links the President’s classified documents scandal to the Delaware federal investigation into his son’s foreign business dealings. t.co/8hu5x5e6RU



— Miranda Devine (@mirandadevine) January 23, 2023



TGP determined that this information from the 22-point email came from the US State Department and it was classified. This email included this classified information and Hunter had no security clearance or reason to have this information.



This was not the first time Hunter Biden had access to classified information.



Today we have another email showing more Biden family crimes.



A second email on Hunter’s laptop shows that Hunter Biden had access to classified information and used it to the Biden family’s financial advantage.



Please Note: This email is original source data taken directly from the Hunter Biden laptop computer by the investigator working with John Paul Mac Isaac. This is the only source of the verifiable content for the Hunter Biden laptop. The chain of custody is known and complete. This is the only source that has chain of custody verification, has been authenticated and came from the original image from the Hunter Biden laptop.



The Biden’s were asked to obtain visas for Burisma executives to travel to the US in early November of 2015. In a response to the request, Hunter Biden and Devon Archer reached out to a friend with ties to the US Deep State, John Sandweg.



John Sandweg worked as the Acting Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from August 2013 to February 2014. Sandweg had a short tenure working in this role for the Obama administration.


Sandweg was happy when the Biden gany replaced the Trump administration and expressed his happiness that habitual liar Alejandro Mayorkas was taking over Homeland Security.



John Sandweg, a former Homeland Security Department official in the Obama administration, said his former colleagues still in government told him there is a hopeful atmosphere as Trump officials made way for their Biden replacements.



“I’ve never seen anything like it,” said Sandweg. “There is a very palpable sense of excitement that [DHS Secretary-designate Alejandro] Mayorkas is coming back. It’s not tied to policy or politics. It’s a management and leadership issue.”



In the email string below taken from the Hunter laptop, Sandweg emailed Eric Schwerin at Rosemont Seneca (Hunter Biden’s firm) on November 2, 2015. Sandveg relayed information on one of the individuals from Burisma for whom Hunter was trying to get a visa for was Mr. Zlochevskyi.



Sandweg in his email says that he obtained a search:


…from the Department of Homeland Security and Customs databases did not reveal any prohibitions on Mr. Zlochevskyi ability to enter the United States. Unfortunately, after receiving the initial report, I suspected that the individual I asked to run the search only queried DHS/Customs databases and not State Department databases. As such, I asked another individual to query both databases. This search revealed the cancellation of the visa and the legal basis for the cancellation.



Sandweg includes two attachments, one of which is labeled “Zlochevski Visa Denial”.







Schwerin shared this information with Burisma, Hunter, and Devon Archer.


Here are the problems with what was revealed in this email.

1.Sandweg worked for Homeland Security and Customs last in 2014 and this email was from November 2015.

2.Sandweg obtains information from the Department of Homeland Security and Customs databases which he should not have access to. He may have a security clearance but this would not grant him access to the systems. The information that he obtained on the visa application denial is classified.

3.Sandweg shares the classified visa information with Hunter’s firm which is not a government agency.

4.Hunter’s firm shares the classified information that he never should have had with Burisma, a foreign company – this is espionage.


See the email string here.

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