Politico accused of suppressing story about Biden corruption
Former Politico reporters Marc Caputo and Tara Palmeri have come forward with claims that their former employer actively suppressed negative stories about Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, and the infamous Biden laptop scandal during the 2020 presidential election. Caputo and Palmeri, both seasoned political journalists, disclosed that Politico’s editorial leadership issued a clear directive to avoid coverage of the controversial laptop.
In October 2020, just weeks before the U.S. presidential election, the New York Post’s Emma-Jo Morris published a story alleging that Hunter Biden, son of then-candidate Joe Biden, had left a laptop at a Delaware computer repair shop. The laptop purportedly contained emails suggesting that Hunter had introduced his father to a Ukrainian businessman from Burisma, an energy company where Hunter served on the board. These emails raised questions about potential conflicts of interest and corruption.
“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 revealed Thursday. “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.”
Palmeri echoed Caputo’s account, relaying the challenges she faced in reporting on the Biden family. “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—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.”
Caputo also shed light on a story he had written regarding a tax lien against Hunter Biden, which was ultimately shelved. “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.”
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I suspect that one of the reasons for suppressing the story about the Biden family's corruption was the anti-Trump bias at the time. Note the reporters did their job and had the facts and editors suppressed the story.
See also:
Ex-Politico Reporters Accuse Outlet of Suppressing Negative Biden Stories
Former Journalists Claim Stories About Joe and Hunter Biden Were Stifled During 2020 Campaign:
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