Posted on 03/20/2022 9:37:24 AM PDT by blam
It turns out that the party who spent four years accusing President Trump of Russian collusion performed a massive cover-up for Joe and Hunter Biden heading into the 2020 election that they have yet to be held accountable for. Go figure.
I remember speaking to my father around the time of the election about the Hunter Biden laptop story, where presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son’s laptop was found to contain proof that the former Biden sold his influence to China while his father, the latter Biden, was Vice President of the United States.
And in the midst of an ongoing media cover up of that story, I also remember talking to my father about former Hunter Biden business partner Tony Bobulinski coming forward and blowing the whistle on the Bidens in an effort to get the public to take notice.
Instead, Bobulinski was only given airtime by Fox News’ Tucker Carlson and was otherwise shunned and ignored by the rest of the left-leaning media.
Source: Fox News
We both had watched Bobulinski’s interview and found him to be extremely credible.
I remember my father saying that the censorship of the story and the story itself could, combined, be the biggest political scandal of all time. This caught me by surprise because my father, who has voted both Democrat and Republican over the last handful of elections, has lived through quite a few scandals.
But now I understand what he was getting at. Selling your influence to China while running for President is a big deal. The media covering up that story completely in the United States in the midst of the election? An even bigger deal.
Source: NBC News
Because when you step back and objectively examine the issue of Joe Biden’s business dealings in China, it appeared that he was actually engaged in the types of conflict of interest that his party spent four years accusing President Trump of. Again, go figure.
And then there was the laptop. After the New York Post broke what should have been a Pulitzer worthy story that Biden’s son had a laptop filled with incriminating evidence (in addition to dick pics taken while smoking crack with hookers), the story was promptly blackballed in the mainstream media and was talked about nowhere other than conservative news outlets.
In fact, the mainstream media didn’t even give the story one shred of an objective chance. Half of the liberal media organizations covered the story as Russian disinformation, while the others didn’t carry it at all.
Here’s what coverage at the time looked like:
The story was literally laughed off of TV and television as some kind of conspiracy theory.
Even social media companies were censoring posts about the issue, despite being reported as national news by the New York Post.
Source: NPR
And then a funny thing happened when the nation didn’t have access to what would turn out to be highly credible information: Joe Biden got elected president and, several months later, Politico reported that some parts of the laptop, including emails at the “center” of the controversy, were credible – a far cry from writing off the laptop as Russian disinformation.
Source: Politico
In March 2022, the New York Times also admitted that the laptop story was authentic.
Casually linking back to its October 2020 story casting doubt on the laptop, in a new, 2022 story about the Justice Department’s ongoing inquiry into Hunter Biden, the New York Times wrote:
People familiar with the investigation said prosecutors had examined emails between Mr. Biden, Mr. Archer and others about Burisma and other foreign business activity. Those emails were obtained by The New York Times from a cache of files that appears to have come from a laptop abandoned by Mr. Biden in a Delaware repair shop. The email and others in the cache were authenticated by people familiar with them and with the investigation.
For a party that is always crowing about transparency and democracy – and a party that constantly labored on about the importance of freedom of press during the entire Trump administration – the liberal media did an abhorrent job of missing what would have objectively been an earth shattering story ahead of a presidential election.
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And that tells you everything you need to know about the journalistic integrity of large media outlets in this country right now. As my mom would rightfully say, “Every station has an agenda – the left-wing ones and the right wing ones.”
But perhaps this “agenda” could have just meant that MSNBC or CNN actually covering the laptop story with a bit more of a favorable spin for Biden; it shouldn’t mean totally ignoring the story ahead of an election and pretending like the events in question simply never happened, right?
The worst part is this type of behavior from media isn’t just this one story. We’re seeing all types of narratives being protected and facts being ignored when it comes to the pandemic. For instance, look at what an absolutely batshit crazy job the hysterical media did covering ivermectin after Joe Rogan got Covid. People were banned from social media and scorned for suggesting the virus may have come from a lab. Now, it’s the media’s leading hypothesis.
The point is that the laptop story was objectively a material story, no matter what party you belong to. At some point, one would hope that the story’s merits would move the needle far enough that even left-wing news organizations would have given it perfunctory coverage.
Instead, they did something nefarious: they covered it up.
And while anybody with common sense at the time would’ve told you that the laptop story was likely true (who is going to fake 200 photos of a presidential candidate’s son smoking meth in his underwear?), admitting it now after the fact, as the President’s son parades around selling his “art” for $500,000 a clip, is both insulting to our intelligence and embarrassing for your respective news organizations.
Finally, remember every time the left tries to lecture you on the importance of journalism and accountability, maybe you can kindly ask them to start by examining the organizations who were never held accountable for ignoring what my dad rightfully referred to as “one of the biggest political scandals of all time”.
It’s a great time for the media that spent four straight years focused on pointing the finger at former President Trump for anything and everything to realize that three more fingers are pointing back at them.
Like many on the left, they’ve become what they claim to hate.
The FBI needs to be 100% shuttered.
The Hunter Biden laptop story isn’t going anywhere it would mean Joey could be charged for crimes and they fear Harris would have to step in and it would be a OH SHIT moment.
Another media carrot on a stick story to cover something else up.
The kayos party never sleeps.
“The FBI needs to be 100% shuttered”
It’s not just the FBI. The entire DOJ is in on it. The had actionable and verifiable data of criminal activity and have done nothing. They knew that another incriminating laptop was held by the Russians, lost by Hunter with prostitutes in Moscow, and what that means for compromise of the POTUS if elected. Still nothing from the DOJ and FBI. They knew that Biden was taking at least 10% from the influence peddling while he was VP, and still they did nothing.
“[N]o Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them [i.e., the United States], shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.“
Taking 10% of the money from the family jobs, or having them pay for expenses with foreign money, should have been cleared by Congress first. All the DOJ had to do was follow the money, and the arrows were on the laptop. Yet, the DOJ had a roomful of lawyers and the FBI had a roomful of agents investigating Trump for crimes the Democrats had already committed.
Now, some 2.5 years after taking the laptop in custody……still crickets. Why you should ask? The answer is obvious. The government is of the government, by the government, for the government and they want your money and not your opinions. They will conspire to resist your votes, by any means possible, then pay the media to gaslight you and Dept of Homeland security to investigate you if you don’t agree.
Notice I didn’t even mention the pedophile stuff supposedly on the laptop that got it turned in in the first place…….that’s a whole other can of worms.
This suppression was an act of treason against the nation.
I’m actually thinking that if the story REALLY came out, some might believe that it might cause what we will delicately call “turmoil”, so, they think that they are doing “the right thing” to suppress it.
No one will ever be held accountable. What people do not understand yet, although the lawlessness we are experiencing is just the start, is three forms of accountability exist.
One is for the lawful citizen for whom laws mean a civil society and cooperation in creating a civil society.
Two is for those who are favored in society and used to promote a specific agenda: bail reform which is nothing but a get out jail card free, cancellation of just debts, but only for those favored, and other actions which are considered by the lawful citizen to be lawless.
Third is for the elite, those in power, the rich (not you with your million), and those who service the powerful.
This is our civilization. It is no different from any other throughout time. Only during that brief shining moment from 1776 for a short while was humanity different.
Humans cannot change.
Well, IIRC the shop owner is nearly bankrupt so there is that.
You are 100% correct. Going back to the Clintons (and before), Democrats were not held accountable. Ted Kennedy kills a woman and runs for POTUS.
It has progressively gotten worse. The media was trying to bury the Monica Lewinski story, but were not prepared for alternative news sources.
Now they just discredit alternative news and call stories fake to suppress them.
Now stories will be banned and accounts locked.
In the near term, people will go to prison or be killed for disseminating stories the communists do not want. Look at what they are doing to Jan 6 protesters...that is where we are heading, folks for simply opposing their lies and corruption.
No one could be more disinterested than our GOP “representatives”.
Maybe they’ll pretend to care a little bit, now that it will help them in the midterms, and Biden has been safely installed.
Democrats stab us in the front. Republicans stab us in the back with even more viciousness.
While You Weren’t Paying Attention, The Hunter Biden Laptop Story Turned Out To Be True & No One *WILL* Be Held Accountable
Now it’s more accurate.
no one has been held accountable for the thousands of lies told just over the last 7 years, not even counting the lies told prior to that. It’s because there is NO ONE demanding that the purveyors of the lies be held accountable because EVERYONE in power has found a way to benefit themselves from the lies.
If this is really Hunter, who too the pic and why? Must be one of those moments when a couple in an intimate relationship evolved into blackmail.
They don’t dump the drive because it has images that illegal for people to have, that’s my ‘guess’.
People have already forgotten that the FBI had Seth Rich laptop for almost 5 years and denied it. I wonder what it proves?
It’s corruption and disinformation. That leads us to the other agency involved in the Shenanigans. The one the “State department Whistleblower that Vindman worked with” and the one that the male ‘love bird’ to the DOJ employee over the Trump collusion process had payroll.
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