Despite what you are continually told, Donald Trump’s presidency was a string of policy successes. If you’re inclined to scoff at that assertion, well, that’s almost certainly due to perhaps the Donald’s greatest success: he single-handedly broke the mainstream media.
By November 2016, the mainstream media had stopped even pretending to report the news and fearlessly tell the truth. Instead, they openly and repeatedly lied to our faces about everything from (non-existent) “Russian collusion” to praise for white supremacists that the president never said.
But the biggest, fattest lie told by the mainstream media was a lie mostly by omission, in the lead-up to the 2020 election.
When Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, pulled a classic crackhead move and left his laptop with repairer Mac Isaac, and took off again, never to pay the bill after 90 days, as per law, the laptop and its contents became Isaac’s legal property.
This is where things get interesting. As the presidential race started to heat up, Isaac realised there was incriminating evidence on the laptop that linked the Bidens, father and son, to shady business dealings in the Ukraine.
After seeking advice from his father, a retired US Air Force colonel, Isaac contacted the FBI in mid-October 2019. Seven weeks later the FBI took possession of the laptop and its hard drive. Thankfully Isaac kept a hard-drive copy for posterity and, having gained an intimate insight into how the Bidens operate, his own personal protection.
And just as well he did — because the FBI’s only move was to disappear the laptop and apparently pretend it had never existed. So Isaac contacted two Republican Congressmen — who, being “Never Trump” RINOs, also ignored him.
It took Rudy Giuliani and the New York Post to even try and bring the shocking contents of the laptop to public attention.
Try.
Six hours after publication, Facebook pulled the plug on the article being shared, insisting that it must be ‘fact-checked’. Twitter immediately followed suit by suspending The Post’s official account with the explanation that the newspaper breached the social media platform’s rules by “distributing hacked material”. Facebook never revealed the results of its fact-check, while Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, an ardent and generous Democrat partisan, subsequently acknowledged the material on the laptop had not been hacked and its suppression of stories and posts had been the wrong decision.
Dorsey could afford to make such an admission at that stage because the damage had already been done with the eager complicity of the mainstream media, which variously reported the hard drive’s contents as a hoax, a Trump dirty trick and, of course and inevitably, Russian disinformation. Had the story involved one of Donald Trump’s children we can be certain it would have been front-page fodder for weeks. Instead, down the memory hole it went. As Devine relates, citing a leaked recording obtained by Project Veritas, CNN boss Jeff Zucker explicitly instructed his network’s political editor/director, David Chalin, to make sure reports disparaged the story loudly and often.
Even worse than the mainstream media’s open prostitution to the Biden campaign were the sleazy actions of the Deep State.
50 former senior intelligence officials—led by John Brennan, the former director of the CIA under Obama, and James Clapper, the former director of National Intelligence—published a letter claiming the laptop’s contents “has all the earmarks of a Russian information operation”. There was only one problem.
That problem was that none of them had actually seen the contents of the hard drive.
More notably, Clapper is a proven serial liar. He lied under oath to Congress about Obama’s secret and illegal domestic spying program, and he lied to the Australian National Press Club, in 2017, about “Russian collusion”.
That these actions could be classified as “election interference” is difficult to dispute. Especially when one realises the final result came down to less than 45,00 votes spread over three states.
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As is obvious to anyone who tries to discuss Hunter’s laptop with Democrat supporters, almost 50% of Biden voters polled after the election knew nothing about the story — well done, I guess, the mainstream media. But, more importantly, 10% said they wouldn’t have voted for Biden if they’d known.
That would have translated to over 4 million votes — more than enough to overthrow the election result in any number of states and thus change the entire election outcome.
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