Nearly one year after the Hunter Biden laptop story sparked a political firestorm, Politico confirmed some of the material first reported by the New York Post in the final weeks of the presidential election.
was warned that Russians were"using" his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, who was given the laptop before providing its contents to the press, to spread false claims about the Bidens.
"We don't want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don't want to waste the listeners’ and readers’ time on stories that are just pure distractions," NPR managing editor Terence Samuel told McBride."And quite frankly, that's where we ended up, this was … a politically driven event and we decided to treat it that way."Unlike NPR, CNN wasn't nearly as transparent with its efforts to spike the Hunter Biden story.
Apparently such messaging was received by CNN star anchor Jake Tapper, who dismissed the allegations against Hunter Biden as"too disgusting" to repeat on-air and that the"rightwing is going crazy." A tense exchange took place on"60 Minutes," when veteran journalist Lesley Stahl laughed off Trump's claim that Biden was"in the midst of a scandal" in an interview that aired just days before the election."No, c'mon," Stahl continued to reject the president's claim, before lecturing him, "This is '60 Minutes' and we can't put on things that we can't verify.
"The President's also expected to bring up Hunter Biden and unverified emails of his business dealings, described by many intelligence experts as having hallmarks of a foreign disinformation campaign," Jackson. "The Biden campaign says they're ready for the attack, hoping to flip the script to argue the President's more obsessed with Biden's family than American families.
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