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.”
Exactly.
It was a coup d’état.
Barr is a POS.
"It was once routine that damning reports about the president published by The New York Times would lead nearly every news program. That is no longer the case, at least under President Biden. "
Backstabbing traitor can go f*** himself.
*He* needs to get prosecuted when Trump gets back in power.
(malfeasance in office.)
In the immortal words of Harry Reid, “Well, it worked, didn’t it?”.
THE MEDIA? THE MEDIA?!..
Barr you big fat tub of lard...you were the Attorney General...where the HELL were you?
It had the exact impact he planned it would have when he buried the story and investigation. I can’t wait to pop the champagne when this lowlife Judas traitor is frying in hell.
Bill Barr needs to go to prison for covering up voter fraud and failing to prosecute criminal acts.
So why did you suppress it Bill??
As AG, Barr was in a position to do something about it.
But he didn’t.
So, he’s got nothing of interest to say to me.
Leave it to Barr to boast about what could be seen as election fraud.
IF Barr had done anything they would have just printed more ballots.
“the New York Times now acknowledges’
Little late now traitors.
“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.”
"So as you can see, I had no choice but to provide cover for the Democrats. I couldn't let the American people know the laptop was the real deal".
Barr was useless as teats on a bull.
The great part of the 50 signers were either D or R neocons, Hillary lovers and a lot of nobodies masquerading as somebodies. There were, however, 4 or 5 somewhat senior intel people in the Trump Admin. who were signers. My biggest problem with Trump was personnel - lying scum such as this should have been screened out of jobs in his Administration.
What did Barr conceal or table?
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