by R. Cort Kirkwood, The New American:
Two former reporters for Politico have confirmed that higher-ups at the far-left website ran interference for Joe Biden’s presidential campaign in 2019 by killing stories about Hunter Biden, notably those on his notorious laptop and a federal tax lien on unreported income.
Marc Caputo of Axios and Tara Palmeri of Puck detailed the unethical behavior at Politico on Palmeri’s podcast. Caputo noted that the website cooperated in the lie from 51 former intelligence officials that the laptop was Russian disinformation.
Politico editors deny they twisted coverage to back Biden.
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The latest on the media’s slavish devotion to Team Biden confirms a report in 2022 from a former intelligence official, Cliff Sims, then deputy director of national intelligence for strategy and communications. He told Natasha Bertrand, who concocted the “disinformation” yarn, that it was not “Russian disinformation.”
BREAKING: Former Politico reporters Marc Caputo and Tara Palmeri reveal their previous employer blocked negative stories about Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, and the infamous Biden laptop.
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Laptop Story Killed
Caputo and Palmeri discussed their views on the laptop and other of Hunter Biden’s scandals on her YouTube podcast. Title: “How Politico Suppressed Biden Stories.”
“I mean, Politico, my former employer, and I knew at the time, didn’t do itself any favors,” Caputo said in the interview, which appeared yesterday:
I was covering Biden at the time, and I remember coming to my editor and saying, “Hey, we need to write about the Hunter Biden laptop.” And I was told — and this came from on high at Politico — “Don’t write about the laptop, don’t talk about the laptop, don’t tweet about the laptop.” And the only thing Politico wound up writing was that piece that called it disinformation, which charitably could be called misinformation, at the least.
Bertrand’s story, “Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say,” remains proudly published at the website with no correction or clarification. The 51 officials, including James Clapper, former director of national intelligence, and communist John Brenner, former CIA director, said the laptop — uncovered by the New York Post and later confirmed by Hunter himself — “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.”
“If we are right, this is Russia trying to influence how Americans vote in this election, and we believe strongly that Americans need to be aware of this,” the 51 Biden cutouts wrote.
That was false, yet Politico and the rest of leftist mainstream media, determined to defeat Trump, ran with it.
Gun Story Suppressed
For her part, Palmeri complained that she spent three months on the Hunter Biden gun story. Hunter’s wife, Hallie, found the Colt Cobra 38SPL in Biden’s truck and tossed it in a dumpster behind a grocery. Palmeri and reporter Ben Schreckinger disclosed that the Secret Service interfered in the local investigation about the gun. The agency tried to seize the form that Biden was required to fill out to buy the firearm. And for good reason. The smartest guy whom Joe Biden knows lied on the federal form to purchase it. He claimed he wasn’t a drug addict.
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