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Nikki Haley ‘Primes’ CPAC Audience With Jabs at Don Lemon, Hunter Biden as Well as Joe Biden
OXON HILL, Md.—Nikki Haley made her pitch for a new generation of leadership in remarks Friday to conservatives gathered just outside the nation’s capital. This change is imperative for standing up to China and other enemies abroad, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said. “China thinks the American era has passed. So do…Fred Lucas -
6 Takeaways From House Hearing on Twitter’s Suppression of Hunter Biden Laptop Story
A key House committee put former Twitter executives on the record Wednesday about the suppression of the New York Post’s reporting on the Hunter Biden laptop story just weeks before the 2020 presidential election. “Twitter, under the leadership of our witnesses today, was a private company the federal government used to accomplish what it constitutionally…Fred Lucas -
‘Fact-Checkers’ Not Interested in Tracking Hunter Biden’s Aid to Other Dissolute Bidens
In mid-January, a hullabaloo broke out about an application form Hunter Biden signed in 2018 to seek a rental in California. It listed the address on his driver’s license to Joe Biden’s house in Wilmington, Delaware—the same house where they just found classified documents. The form also suggested the “monthly rent” on his “current residence”…Tim Graham -
Hunter Biden Scandal-Squashing Was Historic
After the final hearing of the Nancy Pelosi-picked House Jan. 6 panel, Time magazine sent out an email to its audience, under the headline “Trump should be prosecuted, Jan. 6 Committee declares in historic criminal referral.” To our leftist media elite, everything the Democrats do to promote themselves is “historic.” Is it surprising to anyone…Tim Graham -
FBI Paid Twitter More Than $3M Amid Pressure Campaigns, Gaslighting on Hunter Biden
Twitter's suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story may or may not have swung the 2020 election in Joe Biden's favor, but the new "Twitter Files" are shining a glaring light on the FBI's influence on Twitter and other Big Tech companies, which put its attempt to discredit the Hunter Biden laptop story in perspective….Tyler O’Neil -
Twitter Execs Didn’t Have a Good Explanation for Censoring Hunter Biden’s Laptop, New Emails Reveal
After Twitter CEO Elon Musk teased a massive reveal Friday afternoon, journalist Matt Taibbi released a Twitter thread revealing the confusion at the social media company after it censored the New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story in the lead-up to the 2020 presidential election. Taibbi’s Twitter thread, which Musk retweeted, revealed that Twitter’s top…Tyler O’Neil -
GOP’s Hunter Biden Probe Is Legit
As a tactical concern, the House GOP’s decision to open an investigation into Biden family corruption is questionable. It promises limited political return. It would serve Republicans, and the country, far better if the House focused on a hyper-politicized Justice Department that targets the political opposition, labels concerned parents “domestic terrorists” and ignores violence aimed…David Harsanyi -
House Republicans Ask Zuckerberg for Documents Related to FBI and Suppressed Hunter Biden Story
House Republicans sent a letter Thursday to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg requesting all documents and communications between the FBI and Facebook before the 2020 election. Reps. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, and James Comer, R-Ky., ranking member of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, led the letter also signed by 33 other…Samantha Aschieris -
Facebook Suppressed Hunter Biden Laptop Story After FBI Warning
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in an interview released Thursday that Facebook suppressed the New York Post’s report about Hunter Biden’s laptop after the FBI warned the tech giant about misinformation. Asked by podcast host Joe Rogan about Facebook’s approach to the Hunter Biden report, published in October 2020, Zuckerberg said, “The background here is…Katrina Trinko -
FBI Agents Were Told Not to Look Into Hunter Biden’s Laptop, Whistleblowers Say
FBI officials obstructed the investigation into Hunter Biden’s laptop prior to the 2020 election by instructing agents not to further examine the laptop, whistleblowers purportedly told Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis. Federal authorities took the laptop from a Delaware computer repair shop in December 2019 after being alerted to its presence by the store owner. However,…Trevor Schakohl -
FBI ‘Aggressively’ Pursuing Hunter Biden Investigation, Director Wray Says
FBI Director Christopher Wray referred to “malign foreign influence with, potentially, public corruption” during a Senate committee hearing Thursday where participants described Hunter Biden’s alleged misconduct in overseas business dealings in a hypothetical manner. When asked specifically about the case of President Joe Biden’s son, Wray described it as an “ongoing investigation that I expect…Fred Lucas -
Hunter Biden, the Invisible Government, and the Laptop From Hell
In 1912, President Theodore Roosevelt warned, “Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics, is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.” This nearly 100-year-old warning…Armstrong Williams -
When Will Big Tech, Big Media Apologize for Lying About, Censoring Hunter Biden Story?
President Joe Biden says he never talked business with his son. Maybe he didn’t. Maybe that Ukrainian gas company paid Hunter Biden half-a-million dollars because he has unique business skills that no one else noticed. It’s possible. But unlikely. Now a Justice Department investigation may tell us whether Hunter Biden is a sleazy opportunist who…John Stossel -
Why the Sudden Hunter Biden Epiphany at Washington Post?
Just when you thought the Hunter Biden scandals had died in darkness, The Washington Post published more than 6,300 words on March 30 admitting that a notable fraction of his laptop contents was authentic. Why now? Why not last year? Why did liberal outlets act like everyone expressing concern about Biden was a Trump-adoring kook?…Tim Graham -
Censorship of Hunter Biden’s Laptop Confirms Need to Rein in Big Tech or Cease to Be Free People
On the precipice of the regime-defining 2020 presidential election, Facebook and Twitter committed their “Pearl Harbor attack” against the incumbent president, Donald Trump, and in dutiful favor of the regnant regime’s favored candidate, Joe Biden. In an October move that would presage the collapse of the “public”-“private” distinction during the Biden presidency—as seen in press…Josh Hammer -
Hunter Biden Laptop Revelations Uncover Depth of Elite Institutional Corruption
America’s most powerful, elite institutions now cooperate to misinform the public and suppress dissent. It’s hard to think otherwise during the arc of the Hunter Biden laptop story that turned out to be true. Last week, The New York Times reporters wrote that they authenticated email “obtained by The New York Times from a cache…Jarrett Stepman -
Hunter Biden Laptop Revelation Shows War on ‘Misinformation’ a Sham
Nothing makes Washington elites clutch their pearls like the specter of “misinformation.” “I make a special appeal to social media companies and media outlets: Please deal with the misinformation and disinformation that is on your shows,” President Joe Biden said in January, talking about the COVID-19 pandemic. “It has to stop.” Yet when the “misinformation”…Katrina Trinko -
17 Months Late, Millions Short at NY Times on Hunter Biden’s Laptop
Michael Isikoff, once the top investigative reporter for Newsweek, tweeted something unintentionally humorous about a New York Times story. “In the category of — didn’t see this coming,” he wrote, “The @nytimes confirms the authenticity of Hunter Biden emails derived from his laptop that had been previously dismissed as Russian disinformation.” The obvious joke about…Tim Graham -
Americans Deserve Answers on Hunter Biden’s Beijing-Backed Cobalt Mine Deal
Instead of fixing runaway inflation, rising energy prices, and supply chain issues for the American people, the “Bare-Shelves Biden” administration is attempting to persuade you that Hunter Biden’s business dealings are a thing of the past. It wants you to believe there’s nothing in the president’s son’s suspicious international business dealings the American people should…James Comer -
Hunter Biden’s Cobalt Deal With China Increases Cost of His Father’s Push for Electric Cars
Presidential son Hunter Biden’s most recent controversy—assisting a Chinese company’s purchase of a large cobalt mine—is linked directly to a top Biden administration policy of promoting electric vehicles. Cobalt, a relatively rare and expensive mineral, is an essential part of batteries used to power electric automobiles. The COVID-19 pandemic also made U.S. officials and the…Fred Lucas