Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee revealed new Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) chat logs on Tuesday that show the FBI imposed a “gag order” on the Hunter Biden laptop story that was released in October of 2020 by The New York Post.
In a series of posts on X, formerly Twitter, the House Judiciary GOP said that while the FBI had possession of Hunter Biden’s laptop, the FBI “refused to tell Big Tech the truth” when the New York Post published the Hunter Biden laptop story.
The House Judiciary GOP pointed to a report from October of 2024 that outlined the “FBI’s months-long campaign to ‘pre-bunk’ the New York Post story on the Biden family’s corruption” prior to the 2020 election between President Donald Trump and former President Joe Biden.
House Republicans noted that the committee’s previous report indicated that the FBI attempted to discredit The New York Post’s story as “Russian disinformation” before it was published and that the FBI continued to discredit the outlet’s story following its publication on October 14, 2020.
In Tuesday’s posts, the House Judiciary GOP revealed that “one FBI analyst tried to tell Twitter that the laptop was real—until his bosses shut him up” on the morning of the story’s publication.
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The House Judiciary GOP wrote, “An internal FBI chat log newly obtained by the Committee shows the FBI deliberately withheld information about the FBI having Hunter Biden’s laptop and an ongoing criminal investigation involving the Biden family’s corruption: ‘do not discuss biden matter.’”
“The internal FBI chat log also shows how far senior FBI officials went to silence this analyst. After the meeting, a senior FBI lawyer put a ‘gag order’ on the analyst,” the House Judiciary GOP added. “The analyst was also ‘admonished’ by FBI staff, who lamented that he still wouldn’t ‘shut up.’”
The House Judiciary GOP noted that “big tech” was able to successfully censor The New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story due to the FBI refusing to comment on the story and the “truth-telling analyst” being issued a “gag order” by the agency. As a result, House Republicans said more than 30 million Americans voted in the hotly-contested 2020 presidential election in the week that Facebook demoted the Hunter Biden laptop story.
“Fortunately, President Trump, @AGPamBondi, @FBIDirectorKash have ended the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force, which was responsible for this ‘prebunking’ operation,” the House Judiciary GOP added. “We will continue to work with them to increase transparency and end the weaponization of federal law enforcement.”
Pictures of the FBI chat logs obtained by the House Judiciary GOP were shared Tuesday on social media.
Source: American Military News
