Posted on 03/18/2022 3:43:38 PM PDT by blam
Former Attorney General Bill Barr proclaimed that the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story by legacy media and big tech corporations “definitely” had an effect on the 2020 presidential election.
Barr recalled when a letter signed by more than 50 former senior U.S. intelligence officials – including former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper — claimed the allegations regarding a laptop purportedly owned by President Joe Biden’s son “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation” was released in October 2020.
“As soon as this letter came out from the so-called intelligence specialists, the DNI, John Radcliffe at the time, and the FBI – which worked for me – both came out and said this was not the result of Russian disinformation,” Barr said during a Thursday appearance on “Jesse Watters Primetime.” “The media ignored that completely just kept on going with the disinformation lie.”
On Oct. 19, 2020, then-Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe proclaimed that the story about Hunter Biden’s missing laptop is “not part of some Russian disinformation campaign.”
“Let me be clear, the intelligence community doesn’t believe that, because there’s no intelligence that supports that, and we have shared no intelligence with Chairman Schiff or any other member of Congress that Hunter Biden’s laptop is part of some Russian disinformation campaign — it’s simply not true,” Ratcliffe declared at the time.
Host Jesse Watters asked Barr, “I mean, that’s pretty egregious. I mean, would you say that there was a conspiracy between big tech, former intelligence officials, the media, the Democrats, to, I don’t know, let’s just use the word – rig an election?”
Barr responded, “Definitely. Yes. That definitely made an impact on the election – the suppressing that news.”
“And it’s not a question of whether it was criminal or not, right,” Barr added. “Just the facts alone were shameful. And most Americans would immediately see what was going on and how repulsive it was, and it would have had an effect.”
Barr – who served as attorney general during the Trump and George H. W. Bush administrations – noted that the “issue of criminality” regarding the Crackhead Hunter Biden laptop story is a “different issue.”
In his upcoming book, Barr wrote that he engaged in a heated exchange with then-President Donald Trump before the 2020 election pertaining to the “laptop from hell.”
According to Barr’s book, “One Damn Thing After Another,” Trump asked the attorney general, “You know this stuff from Hunter Biden’s laptop?”
Barr “sharply” responded, “Mr. President, I can’t talk about that, and I am not going to.”
Barr noted that Joe Biden’s son was already being investigated, and he wasn’t going to discuss the case with Trump. Starting in 2018, the Justice Department investigated Hunter Biden’s taxes and Chinese business dealings.
The book claims that Trump did not like Barr’s tone, and the two men didn’t speak for two weeks after the tiff.
Then-President Trump used the press to attempt to get Barr to investigate the allegations revolving around the laptop.
“We’ve got to get the attorney general to act. He’s got to act, and he’s got to act fast,” Trump said after the accusations against Crackhead Hunter Biden were published. “He’s got to appoint somebody, this is major corruption, and this has to be known about before the election.”
In October 2020, the New York Post published a story about a laptop abandoned at a Delaware computer repair shop that allegedly belonged to Hunter Biden. Social media behemoths Twitter and Facebook suppressed the laptop story on their platforms. The official Fascist Twitter account for the New York Post – a newspaper that was founded by Alexander Hamilton more than 220 years ago – was locked for 16 days.
The New York Post stated, “This paper’s scoops on Hunter Biden’s laptop in 2020 were labeled ‘Russian misinformation’ (Politico), a ‘hoax’ (Steven Brill of ‘fact-check’ site NewsGuard), discredited by ‘many, many red flags’ (NPR) and a ‘hack and leak’ operation that had to be throttled (Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg).”
However, the New York Times admitted this week that key elements of the Crackhead Hunter Biden laptop scandal are real. The New York Times authenticated laptop emails that reveal that then-Vice Illegitimate President Biden attended a meeting in 2015 where a Burisma executive was scheduled to attend.
Despite previously suggesting that the laptop story was Russian disinformation, the New York Times now acknowledges, “No concrete evidence has emerged that the laptop contains Russian disinformation.”
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“As soon as this letter came out from the so-called intelligence specialists, the DNI, John Radcliffe at the time, and the FBI – which worked for me – both came out and said this was not the result of Russian disinformation,” Barr said...”
What did you do about it you steaming turd?
Of course it did and Barr was complicit in suppressing it. He has the ethics, character and honesty of a slug. Sorry slugs, don’t mean to inslut you.
I disagree that it had no impact. The steal certainly made the difference but even that has a margin to it, they can only falsify so many ballots. If the laptop story hadn't been suppressed it probably would have turned so many voters away from Biden that they wouldn't have been able to overcome Trump's margin of victory with fraudulent tallies.
I think the left have decided Biden must go. Probably planned it two years ago.
So, Bill, just what did the DOJ do about it?
Barr and his subordinate bureau the FBI sat on it for an entire year before it became public for tech to suppress. Idiot friend of Mueller and Epstein.
That was direct insubordination. The Attorney General reports directly to the president. When asked directly asked whether or not there was an investigation, and he refused to answer, he should have been fired on the spot. They keep proclaiming that the AG and DOJ are independent.
They are absolutely not and are full members of the executive branch.
“Bill Barr Says Suppressing Crackhead Hunter Biden Laptop Story ‘Definitely Made An Impact On The Election’”
OF COURSE it did you blithering idiot! That was the POINT! These people more than any are super annoying. He pretends like he didnt know!
Captain Barr Renault says “I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!” he said scampering with his winnings.
Fat ass was part of the cover up of crackheads computer. He’s a bigger scumbag then the media shills.
So Democrat President can ask AG and DOJ to investigate Republicans and that’s ok. That’s not crossing an illegal line. But Republican Presidents can’t ask an AG to investigate a former VP son’s illegal involvement with a foreign country, possible bribery, etc.
House wants to pass a bill making it illegal going forward for anyone to question the legality of future elections under threat of charges, jail time, etc.
Someone or many someones should hang over this fraud of an election.
I can think of a few…
Oh reeeeeeeeeeeeeally, Billy boy???? So did all the ignored fraud.
Bill Bart’s DOJ and FBI had been notified a YEAR before the election about the laptop. They went and picked it up, and never entered into evidence. Now Bill Barr admits that it was lied about and suppressed…but takes no responsibility for HIS DOJ and FBI breaking protocol and not prosecuting or following the evidence.
Just how many people did the FBI and DOJ have investigating Trump for garbage like Russian collusion again…..
Buck up Bill Barr and admit your deep state like the rest, and the entire thing is corrupt.
Shyster Barr had the opportunity to Criminally Prosecute the Fake News Media complex for the Felonious Illegal In Kind political contributions they made, and he did NOTHING.
Dan bongino thinks Bill Barr is a hero.
“””Former Attorney General Bill Barr proclaimed that the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story by legacy media and big tech corporations “definitely” had an effect on the 2020 presidential election”””
Bill Barr must have dementia. He was in charge of the FBI and DOJ and they did nothing to investigate.
FUBarr
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He is worse than Pence.
I used to say that Bill Clinton could use a shotgun to murder a dozen nuns praying on the White House lawn while he was high on tequila and cocaine, in front of every news camera in America, and you’d never hear a word of it from the MSM
Someday the DNC will fall from grace.
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