A Politico story from October of 2020 citing “dozens of former intel officials” who dismissed the Hunter Biden laptop story as Russian disinformation is still posted and hasn’t been updated:
More than 50 former senior intelligence officials have signed on to a letter outlining their belief that the recent disclosure of emails allegedly belonging to Joe Biden’s son “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.”
The letter, signed on Monday, centers around a batch of documents released by the New York Post last week that purport to tie the Democratic nominee to his son Hunter’s business dealings. Under the banner headline “Biden Secret E-mails,” the Post reported it was given a copy of Hunter Biden’s laptop hard drive by President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who said he got it from a Mac shop owner in Delaware who also alerted the FBI.
We all know how that turned out.
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The answer to that could also be “maybe a little of both,” but the media had their marching orders and were off and running:
Flashback SUPERCUT!
Media regurgitate CIA lie that Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation pic.twitter.com/cmG6enu1sQ
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) November 21, 2022
From @GrabienMedia's 20 Most Mortifying Media Moments of 2020 montage https://t.co/p1f6jq2s67
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) November 21, 2022
Amazingly most of the people in those clips accused Trump of colluding to alter the outcome of an election. So much projection.
Anything you'd like to add, @JoeNBC, @KenDilanianNBC, @brianstelter @DavidChalian, @NPR, @SRuhle, @amanpour, @aronberg? https://t.co/vf8eLOxlpZ
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) November 21, 2022
Trump’s nickname for the national media was spot-on:
Enemy of the People, indeed. https://t.co/aAoJelUTAL
— William Moore (@Lord_WilliamII) November 21, 2022
The media have gone far out of their way to prove that too.
Incredible that US media almost universally claimed the Hunter Biden laptop story was "Russian disinformation".
If US media wants to see the purveyors of disinformation, propaganda, and lies – especially regarding Russia – I suggest they look in the mirror. https://t.co/TKKMqqdMeK
— Empire Of Lies (@berningman16) November 21, 2022
And yet they wonder why trust in the media has gone down the toilet.
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Related:
CBS News discovers that claims about Hunter Biden’s laptop aren’t ‘Russian disinformation’ after all
Flashback: Leslie Stahl tries hard to convince Trump the Hunter Biden laptop ‘can’t be verified’
Must-read thread lays waste to MSM/Twitter for torching *their own* cred over Hunter Biden’s laptop
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