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Mon Apr 4 22:08:02 PDT 2022


Media 'Caught In A Cover-Up' Of Hunter Biden’s Laptop Story

https://www.theepochtimes.com/media-caught-in-a-cover-up-of-hunter-bidens-laptop-story-sen-johnson_4380698.html
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/04/01/white-house-refuses-to-rule-out-joe-biden-pardon-for-hunter-biden/
https://rumble.com/vzk0gi-sen.-johnson-media-is-being-caught-in-a-cover-up.html
https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/3065176
https://www.theepochtimes.com/joe-bidens-campaign-refutes-hunter-biden-email-report-saying-he-met-with-burisma-executive_3539264.html

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) on April 3 claimed that some major media
outlets have been “caught in a cover-up” regarding the Hunter Biden
laptop story.

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) speaks during a hearing in Washington on
Jan. 24, 2022. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Johnson’s remarks come shortly after The Washington Post and The New
York Times published articles verifying and acknowledging the
authenticity of Hunter Biden’s laptop, nearly two years after it was
first reported by the New York Post shortly before the 2020 election.

However, the New York Post’s reporting of the scandal was promptly
suppressed by social media sites including Facebook and Twitter, the
latter of which also locked the NY Post’s account for more than two
weeks, citing the outlet’s alleged publication of “hacked material” as
its justification.

In an editorial titled “The Hunter Biden story is an opportunity for a
reckoning,” The Washington Post blamed the reluctance among some media
to publish the story on the possibility of it being one of the
“unwitting tools of a Russian influence campaign in 2016” among other
things.

The Post’s editorial board also stressed that President Joe Biden
himself had not “acted corruptly.”

Johnson told Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Morning Futures” that the
recent admissions by both The New York Times and The Washington Post
prove “how complicit the media was” in concealing Hunter Biden’s
laptop before the 2020 presidential election.

“I really think what the New York Times and Washington Post stories
prove is how complicit they have been and continue to be in the
cover-up,” Johnson said. “And, you know, quite honestly, they’re not
impartial. They are the defenders of the Democratic Party of the
radical left. You know, The Washington Post learned a lot from their
coverage of Nixon. When you get caught up in a cover-up—and that’s
what happened, the media get caught up in a cover-up. They are caught
with their lies.”

Johnson said that some outlets had participated in “what they call a
limited hangout or in [President Richard] Nixon’s case, a modified
limited hangout. You’ve let out just enough information, just enough
truth to try and get you by the moment.”

A modified limited hangout is a public relations or propaganda
technique in which the individual or official involved releases some
information that was previously hidden, albeit still retaining
important key facts, in an effort to prevent more important details
from being exposed.

According to former Central Intelligence Agency official Victor
Marchetti, the technique results in the public being “so intrigued by
the new information that it never thinks to pursue the matter
further.”

“We can’t allow our intelligence agencies, the Department of Justice,
the FBI, or the media to get away with this,” Johnson said on Sunday.
“This is serious business. This is incredible corruption at the
highest levels of government and within our media.”

“We are all being snookered by them. This has been a—from my
standpoint—a massive diversionary operation to, you know, to try and
take the American public’s attention away from their wrongdoing, their
lies, their cover-ups.”

The GOP senator added that “now, we have actual bank records that
verify what we reported” and that Hunter Biden’s “laptop is obviously
a treasure-trove of additional corroborating evidence as well.”

According to a recent article for The Washington Post, which hired two
security experts to authenticate what is purportedly Hunter Biden’s
laptop, documents, and messages on the device, Biden pursued a deal
with a Chinese Communist Party-linked emergency firm, CEFC China
Energy, and its executives “paid $4.8 million to entities controlled
by Hunter Biden and his uncle [James Biden].”

Further emails related to his work for the Ukrainian gas company
Burisma Holdings, for which he was a board member.

Former President Donald Trump previously claimed that Joe Biden, while
still vice president, threatened to withhold $1 billion from Ukraine
unless a prosecutor investigating Burisma Holdings was ousted.

White House chief of staff Ron Klain told ABC News’ “This Week” in an
interview on Sunday that Biden believes his son didn’t break the law
with regards to his overseas business ties in China, Ukraine, and
other countries.

“Of course, the president is confident that his son didn’t break the
law,” Klain said.

Biden himself has also stated that his son “did nothing wrong at Burisma.”


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