Politico helped rig 2020 election for Biden, say whistleblowers
Politico interfered with the 2020 presidential election by suppressing negative stories about the Biden family, former employees allege.
‘Don’t write about the laptop, don’t talk about the laptop’
Marc Caputo was a reporter at Politico in 2020 when the New York Post published the scandalous story about Hunter Biden’s laptop, which exposed the Biden family’s corruption. On Thursday, Caputo told former colleague Tara Palmeri on a podcast that he was ordered not to report on the story.
“I was covering Biden at the time, and I remember coming to my editor and saying, hey, we need to write about the Hunter Biden laptop,” Caputo said. “And I was told this came from up high at Politico: ‘Don’t write about the laptop, don’t talk about the laptop, and don’t tweet about the laptop.’ The only thing Politico wound up writing was that piece that called it disinformation, which charitably could be called misinformation at the least.”
Caputo added that during the Democratic primary in 2019, one of Biden’s rivals gave him a tip about Hunter Biden but Politico’s editors blocked the story.
“In 2019, a rival presidential Democratic campaign of Joe Biden’s gave to me the tax lien, the oppo research—the tax lien on Hunter Biden for the period of time that he worked at Burisma. I wrote what would have been a classic story, saying, the former vice president’s son was slapped with a big tax lien for the period of time that he worked for this controversial Ukrainian oil concern, or natural gas concern, which is haunting his father on the campaign trail.”
Palmeri: ‘I had everything’
Palmeri corroborated Caputo’s allegations, saying Politico barred her from revealing how Hunter Biden falsely denied abusing drugs on a firearm application. Hunter Biden was later prosecuted for the crime but was ultimately pardoned by his father.
“I wrote some pretty serious reporting on Hunter Biden, which actually ended up getting him prosecuted—the story on the gun,” Palmeri said. “I spent three months on it. I went to the laptop shop, and I did all of the reporting in Delaware. But yeah, it had to be 100% nailed down. I had everything [including] the police reports. I’m a solid reporter, but I do wonder if it would have been published a little quicker, those different types of stories.”
Election fallout
Politico and other legacy media outlets joined forces with social media platforms and the intelligence community to censor the Hunter Biden story. Because of that censorship, almost 50 percent of Biden voters knew nothing of the Hunter Biden scandal at the time of the election. About 17% said they would not have voted for Biden had they known, according to a survey from The Media Research Center.
According to a lawsuit, a partnership of the world’s largest mainstream news outlets and tech companies called the Trusted News Initiative decided to sideline or ban any reporting that treated the Hunter Biden story as credible.
MSNBC: Another Democrat mouthpiece
Politico is not the first mainstream media outlet to be outed as a mouthpiece for a Democratic candidate.
MSNBC served as a mouthpiece for the Democratic Party and the Kamala Harris campaign, one of the network’s producers admitted on hidden camera.
Basel Hamdan, a writer and news producer for MSNBC’s “Ayman Mohyeldin Reports,” unwittingly told an undercover reporter in October that MSNBC was serving as the Kamala Harris campaign’s bullhorn.
“What have they done to help the Harris campaign?” the reporter asked Hamdan.
“Amplify her message. What her message of the day, is their message of the day,” he replied. “It hammers home the point that I’m making, that this news network is indistinguishable from the [Democratic] Party,” Hamdan added, explaining how the show’s guests are usually Democratic Party or campaign operatives.
“[Is MSNBC] just the Democratic Party’s mouthpiece?” the woman asked.
“Exactly,” replied Hamdan, who said the network’s personnel are “doing all they can” to ensure Harris is elected.
MSNBC anchors are so “cozy with Democratic politicians,” he explained, that the two groups are “just in total agreement about everything” and often finish each other’s sentences.
Hamdan also appeared to take a dim view of MSNBC viewers, who he said are brainwashed and have become “dumber over the years” due to the network’s heavy propaganda.
“From Trump on, they really narrowed their audience’s mind to the point where even when guests go on their show to criticize Democrats, people get mad at the guests,” he said.
“Viewers get mad at the guests or the hosts if the hosts were to criticize Democrats,” Hamdan added.
