Facebook execs suppressed Hunter Biden laptop scandal in order to curry favor with Biden-Harris admin: bombshell report

WASHINGTON — The FBI warned awesome US tech companies up of The Post’s first reports connected Hunter Biden’s laptop successful October 2020 that Russian agents were preparing a strikingly akin archive dump — and erstwhile the scoop materialized, Facebook executives discussed calibrating censorship decisions to please what they assumed would beryllium an incoming Biden-Harris administration, a legislature investigation found.

The caller specifications — contained successful an interim study by nan House Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee connected nan weaponization of authorities — are emerging arsenic erstwhile President Donald Trump leads successful polls up of nan Nov. 5 predetermination and arsenic his friends impulse a house-cleaning astatine nan FBI and imaginable caller regulations aliases antitrust actions to punish and restrain platforms for illustration Facebook.

“FBI tipped america each disconnected past week that this Burisma communicative was apt to emerge,” an unidentified Microsoft worker wrote connected Oct. 14, 2020, nan time The Post published nan first successful a bid of bombshelll stories connected nan Biden administration’s overseas dealings, according to nan legislature report.

Internal Facebook communications, including a chat log, show that labor quickly discounted The Post’s reporting because it was nan “[e]xact contented expected for hack and leak.”

“Right connected schedule,” different Facebook worker concurred.

“Obviously, our calls connected this could colour [sic] nan measurement an incoming Biden management views america much than almost thing else…” Facebook’s then-Vice President of Global Affairs Nick Clegg wrote connected nan aforesaid time to Vice President of Global Public Policy Joel Kaplan.

The Post spent astir a period verifying nan authenticity of laptop files up of their publication, though it’s unclear to what grade nan FBI was alert of that activity arsenic it prepared its prebuttal.

The FBI has possessed Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop since December 2019 and knew that files cited by The Post successful its sum came from a Delaware machine repairman and not nan Kremlin — but, aft downplaying nan world exclusive to Big Tech, nan FBI kept silent publically arsenic 51 ex-intelligence officials suggested and then-candidate Joe Biden outright alleged that nan files originated successful Russia.

The Post’s reporting showed that Biden, while vice president, interacted pinch world business associates of his boy Hunter and relative James —including successful countries wherever he helped steer US policy, specified arsenic China and Ukraine.

The reports were widely, if belatedly, corroborated by different news outlets and nan files were moreover utilized by national prosecutors successful tribunal — but only aft Biden defeated Trump successful November 2020 by constrictive swing-state margins, which immoderate Republicans opportunity was successful portion owed to nan unreality of suspicion complete nan laptop.

Repairman-turned-whistleblower John Paul Mac Isaac provided nan laptop, which Hunter grounded to retrieve, to nan FBI successful December 2019, believing it had important accusation astir world corruption. He later provided copies of nan aforesaid files to The Post.

Congressional Republicans impeach nan FBI and tech platforms of collaborating to conclusion Trump successful nan past predetermination — a cognition that societal media institution labor were alert of astatine nan time.

“[W]hen we get hauled up to [Capitol] [H]ill to attest connected why we influenced nan 2020 elections we tin opportunity we person been gathering for YEARS pinch USG [the US Government] to scheme for it,” a Facebook worker wrote successful an July 15, 2020, connection published successful nan caller report.

The FBI told immoderate Twitter labor on nan time of nan first laptop communicative that nan instrumentality was real, but that connection did not look to beryllium wide circulated internally, and a akin acknowledgement has not emerged involving Facebook.

“[I]f nan FBI’s intent was genuinely to thief societal media companies combat existent overseas power operations, nan FBI should person shared nan azygous astir important fact: nan influence-peddling allegations successful nan Post communicative were based disconnected of real, reliable information, including accusation successful nan FBI’s possession,” says nan Republican-drafted report, compiled nether subcommittee president Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio),

“The FBI grounded to do so. While nan FBI yet conceded that it had nary denotation that nan allegations successful nan Post communicative were Russian disinformation — only aft an FBI supplier mistakenly revealed to Twitter that nan laptop was ‘real’ — nan FBI still withheld nan truth that it had seized and authenticated Hunter Biden’s laptop months prior.

“As a result, Twitter and Facebook continued to censor nan astir important news communicative of nan predetermination cycle, limiting nan scope of allegations of Biden family corruption and yet benefitting nan Biden-Harris campaign.”

The study blasted nan FBI — led then, arsenic now, by Director Christopher Wray — arsenic different legislature Republicans responsibility nan bureau’s domiciled successful investigating alleged Iranian hacking of Trump’s run successful this election.

House Republican Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY) denounced connected Sunday successful a station to X “the FBI’s heavy corruption regarding overseas predetermination interference from Iran targeting President Trump” and alleged “a corrupt coverup” — a connection retweeted by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.).

Trump friends besides stay furious astir nan FBI’s hard-charging and leaky investigation of Trump’s alleged links to Russia successful nan 2016 predetermination — which turned up nary grounds of a conspiracy aft dominating much than half of Trump’s word of agency — and nan bureau’s domiciled successful a brace of unprecedented criminal prosecutions of nan erstwhile president for allegedly mishandling nationalist information records and challenging his 2020 nonaccomplishment to Biden.