Coverup: The FBI & Hunter Biden’s Laptop | 4.6.25
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What new details have emerged about the Hunter Biden laptop scandal?
New details have emerged about one of the most egregious and high-profile censorship scandals in modern history, one that potentially altered the outcome of the 2020 election.
How did the FBI respond to the Hunter Biden laptop story?
Just weeks before the election, the New York Post published a report on the infamous Hunter Biden laptop. But as we've now learned, within hours, the FBI was working to discredit the story and even spin a narrative that the laptop was the product of a Russian disinformation campaign.
In this episode, we sit down with a journalist who was at the post when the laptop story dropped and the cover-up and smear operation against the outlet began. I'm Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley with Georgia Howe. It's Sunday, April 6th, and this is a weekend edition of Morning Wire. Joining us now to discuss new revelations about the Hunter Biden cover-up scandal is John Levine, formerly with the New York Post and now with the Free Beacon. John, thank you so much for coming on. Thank you for having me. Look, you were a reporter at the New York Post when that newspaper broke the Hunter Biden laptop story, a major moment. Your outlet was immediately throttled by social media, even kicked off of what was then Twitter, which was really remarkable. Now we're learning from the House Judiciary Committee that the day the New York Post actually first reported on that story,
The FBI told employees, do not discuss the Biden matter and imposed a gag order on an analyst who tried to confirm the story's veracity. This is a new detail we hadn't heard before. What do you know about this? Well, I will tell you, I just learned what you just said as well about the gag order. And if you believe, Catherine Herridge reported on X that an FBI employee did actually confirm the authenticity of the hard drive in a call that same day before the gag order was instituted. And we already kind of knew the FBI knew it was real, but the sort of real-time details, like on the very same day they knew it was real, that's new. And it's extra insidious because... If you go back to that time, which is now five years ago, the FBI was running around that same week saying, well, we're looking into this being a Russian information dump.
So on the same week, the same day, they knew it was real. They were counter-programming the narrative, and they did it in this way. You can look up the AP story, FBI reviewing if it's Russian disinformation, person familiar with matter tells AP. And that's how they do stuff. They always do it as person familiar, but it's just them.
What was the experience of journalists during the censorship of the Hunter Biden story?
And I've been a journalist long enough to know how that game works. And that's how when you see person familiar, it's usually the person, but they don't want to say it's themselves. And they were actively casting doubt on it when they knew it was real. And it's inescapable now that it was clearly so they could help steer the election towards Joe Biden, which is actually what happened. Yeah, I mean, look, if you tried to defend the FBI with the DOJ, a lot of times they try to stay out of political matters right before an election. This would be your rationale for saying, well, they might not want to talk about this in public. But that's not actually what happened. We saw a proactive effort to actually discredit this report, correct?
No, I mean, if the FBI had just been like, look, you know, we're looking into this, but we're not going to comment, that would, I mean, we wouldn't be having this discussion right now. It was their active effort to not just discredit, but to discredit when they were actually the ones who were speaking the falsehoods. We were trying to tell the truth. They essentially ran an information operation on the American people. They spread us a bunch of BS because the truth was detrimental to Joe Biden. They didn't want it out. I'm just curious, a little behind-the-scenes look. What was it like at The Post during this time? This must have been a tumultuous, chaotic moment for you guys. What was it like?
Yeah, I mean, it was a crazy time. And it's almost like lore. It's like canon now. But, you know, this was a weird thing that Rudy Giuliani and Steve Bannon brought up in October before the election. And it's like, hey, guys, there's a laptop and the son left it at the repair shop. And, oh, the computer repairman's blind. And it's like it was just it was so crazy.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What new details have emerged about the Hunter Biden laptop scandal?
0:03–0:13
2
How did the FBI respond to the Hunter Biden laptop story?
0:13–2:29
3
What was the experience of journalists during the censorship of the Hunter Biden story?
2:29–7:24
4
How did the Foreign Influence Task Force influence social media censorship?
7:24–12:21
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