Ex-Politico reporters reveal cowardly editors buried bombshell Hunter Biden laptop stories fueled misinformation narrative involving ex-prez
A pair of former reporters at venerable DC-focused outlet Politico slammed “cowardly editors” at their ex-outlet for burying stories about Hunter Biden’s laptop — as well as other major stories — contributing to a false narrative that “misinformation” was being spread about Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden before the 2020 election.Puck News scribe Tara Palmeri hosted Axios senior politics reporter Marc Caputo on her “Somebody’s Gotta Win” podcast for Inauguration Day to discuss their mutual frustration with what they saw as Politico’s mishandling of Biden family coverage.“Politico did that terrible, ill-fated headline: 51 intelligence agents, or former intelligence agents, say that the Hunter Biden laptop was disinformation, or bore the hallmarks of disinformation,” Caputo carped.“Turns out that story was closer to disinformation because the Hunter Biden laptop appeared to be true.”“But then Facebook also pulled all stories down about the Hunter Biden laptop, and I think Twitter did at the same time, too,” added Palmeri.“Correct, they punished The New York Post, that didn’t help,” Caputo went on, referring to The Post being locked out of its Twitter account due to what was later revealed as back-channel pressure from the FBI.“I was covering Biden at the time,” he added.
“And I was told this came from on high at Politico: Don’t write about the laptop, don’t talk about the laptop, don’t tweet about the laptop.”A Politico rep pushed back on the characterization in a statement to Mediaite, which first reported on the airing of grievances.“Seems like a case of false memory, given that across the years they referenced, POLITICO journalists lead the way on wide-ranging reporting on the business dealings of Joe Biden’s closest relatives,” the rep noted.“Ben Schreckinger was probably the top reporter in the country reporting on these matters—he literally wrote the book on it,” added the rep, referr...