Months after numerous mainstream media outlets called the Hunter Biden laptop story fake news and Russian disinformation, the New York Times last week confirmed that the story was, in fact, authentic.
MSNBC host Ali Velshi had claimed that Rudy Giuliani was “the target of a Russian intelligence operation” to concoct the story, and said the story was “unraveling to reveal allegations of disinformation, dirty tricks and a federal probe over Russian efforts to disparage Joe Biden.”
Biden campaign adviser Symone Sanders said that if Trump would amplify the story it should be viewed as “Russian misinformation,” and another MSNBC host, Jason Johnson, said the story was “so obviously a Russian operation.”
Similar comments were made by CNN’s Brian Stelter, the supposed “media critic” on the network, who now refuses to acknowledge his massive blunder. Stelter also hypothesized that the laptop story was fabricated and is a “classic example” of the “right-wing media machine.”
Stelter’s colleagues Jake Tapper and Wolf Blitzer also criticized the story, with Tapper saying right-wingers were going “crazy” about the story and saying the allegations were “too disgusting to even repeat.”
NPR’s managing editor for news said, ‘We don’t want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories,’ he said, ‘and we don’t want to waste the listeners’ and readers’ time on stories that are just pure distractions.’
Numerous other mainstream outlets also made it a point to discredit the story, including CBS’ 60 Minutes program, the Washington Post, the New York Times, and Politico.
While major new outlets were killing the story, two of the biggest social media platforms, Twitter and Facebook, were making sure you couldn’t read it. Users on Twitter and Facebook were not permitted to display or share the New York Post story, the same story which the Times has now backed up. In the crucial days leading up to the election, Twitter even suspended the New York Post’s Twitter account.
The truth has now come out, but the reality is that the mainstream media’s insistence on giving a legitimate story – the biggest story of the 2020 presidential campaign – no credence may have very well cost Donald Trump a second term in the White House.
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No no no. Trump colluded with Russia. Trump commanded Zelensky to investigate Hunter Biden. Marie Yovanovitch would never lie. Trump must resign immediately. We must impeach Trump. Trump is evil. Trump is a racist. Trump is a white domestic terrorist supremacist. Trump Trump Trump. The Bidens are as clean as the wind driven snow. Merrick Garland is a personal servant of the Biden family.
All those newsmen who stopped this story, should be fired. They should also lose the right to be a news reporter. There should be consequences to acts of this nature.
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You are the main stream media it’s the only place you get your news from don’t try fooling anyone your not.
It appears a four year old wrote this story.
The immoral lying adulterer lost the election because he bungled the response to covid, period. Nothing to do with Russia or Hunter Biden.
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You’re just a hater of President Trump.
His personal life is not relevant to his service to this country. He handled Covid quite well, too, including sending a navy hospital ship to NY and shutting the airspace to Chinese flights against the advice of some.
The election was stolen from him in so many ways that it’s dizzying to even try to sort it all out.
The media was “out to get him” since the moment he announced his candidacy the first time (2016) and never stopped hounding him since then including the whole “Russian Collusion” hoax.
This story is a good example of the evil of the media, which has totally corrupted its purpose which is to report actual news without any overt agenda.