Everybody remembers the infamous letter signed by 51 former intelligence community officials saying stories about Hunter Biden's laptop and its contents were likely part of a Russian disinformation campaign. The letter was yet another attempt to interfere with the 2020 election and protect the Democrat candidate.
Four years ago today, Politico published its infamous “Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo” article. The bullshit Hunter Biden laptop letter — signed by 50+ ex-intel officials — falsely claimed Russian involvement. The October Surprise goal was to help Joe Biden defeat Trump. https://t.co/mIrfTSRAfF pic.twitter.com/MTxDIzDlC2
— Jerry Dunleavy IV 🇺🇸 (@JerryDunleavy) October 19, 2024
Not surprisingly, to this day some of the people who signed the letter are on news programs and promoted as experts and not the activists they really are.
Naturally CNN's chief media tater was all over it as well:
October, 2020. Brian Stelter does an entire segment on how a fake news story is crafted.
— MAZE (@mazemoore) September 4, 2024
"Manufacturing a storyline." From Russia to TV, by Brian Stelter.
The story that Stelter was calling fake? The Hunter Biden laptop story.😂 pic.twitter.com/f1H1D3sD9o
The story is still posted at Politico's website and hasn't been updated. At the time even the Democrat allies poorly disguised as late night "comedians" got in on the act.
After the Hunter Biden laptop story broke in 2020, Colbert ran numerous skits about the laptop being a Russian hoax.
— MAZE (@mazemoore) July 18, 2025
The skits were all, like Colbert, unfunny and dishonest. pic.twitter.com/MRNo7N2GvE
But the Left had a narrative to keep pushing, and they did, all while censorship ran rampant and people had their accounts suspended or banned for passing along factual information.
Do any reporters care to ask those dozens of former intel officials or the media that parroted their BS about what Hunter Biden just told Gavin Newsom? Biden again confirmed the laptop was very real:
HUNTER BIDEN: “The only thing that the laptop proved…is that I was a degenerate crackhead doing degenerate crackhead things.” pic.twitter.com/oMkiYvCRPb
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 12, 2026
The laptop proved a lot more than that, dude, up to and including how far the Democrats and their media water carriers would be willing to go in order to suppress factual information just ahead of an election.
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