We now know with certainty that the FBI actively worked to alter the outcome of a U.S. presidential election.
As the larger ramifications of their actions are being digested, some additional questions come to mind. How did the FBI know the New York Post was about to run a story on the laptop? Was the FBI’s coverup of Hunter Biden’s laptop also related to President Donald Trump’s first impeachment trial? And why is it that the FBI had a physical office located within Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau since June 2016?
And finally the big question: Was the subsequent FBI investigation of Hunter Biden designed to actually protect him and his father, President Joe Biden—and, perhaps more importantly, protect the FBI?
In a letter to Inspector General Michael Horowitz, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) recently disclosed that whistleblowers alerted him that “FBI officials intentionally undermined efforts to investigate Hunter Biden.”
Johnson noted that after the FBI obtained Hunter Biden’s laptop, “local FBI leadership told employees, ‘you will not look at that Hunter Biden laptop.’”
The supposed reason given for this inaction? The FBI was “not going to change the outcome of the election again,” which is certainly some strange logic to use, because by choosing not to investigate the Hunter Biden laptop, the FBI did, in fact, directly impact the outcome of an election.
But as we now know, the truth is far worse than Johnson’s letter indicates. During a now-infamous interview with Joe Rogan, co-founder and CEO of Meta Platforms Mark Zuckerberg casually admitted that the FBI approached FaceBook—just before the New York Post broke its story on the Hunter laptop—warning of a pending dump of Russian disinformation.
Bear in mind that the New York Post story broke in October 2020. The FBI had physical possession of Hunter Biden’s laptop since at least December 2019—almost a full eleven months—and they had likely seen the laptop’s data several months earlier when they were contacted in July 2019 by the computer shop that first had the laptop. The FBI knew for a fact the laptop was real.
By Jeff Carlson and Hans Mancke
