{"id":158730,"date":"2025-01-24T07:08:26","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T15:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=158730"},"modified":"2025-01-24T07:12:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T15:12:53","slug":"how-politico-suppressed-biden-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=158730","title":{"rendered":"How POLITICO suppressed Biden stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Pm3XiIKD910?si=O8l4xsh0IFnINmHH\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/the-morning-jolt\/former-politico-reporters-lament-dumb-decisions-of-cowardly-editors-that-helped-biden\/\">Jim Geraghty writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWe always knew that large swaths of the mainstream media were going to treat Joe Biden with kid gloves for much of his presidency. Part of this was the usual preference for Democrats over Republicans. A lot of this was the widespread belief among media elites that Donald Trump\u2019s first term had been an unparalleled catastrophe, and Biden needed all the boosting he could get to keep Trump from coming back. And perhaps a bit of this was a na\u00efve belief that Biden really was the kindly ice-cream-eating grandfather that his team wanted America to see.<\/p>\n<p>Forgive the long except from our old friend Isaac Schorr, writing at Mediaite, but the whole exchange just gets more revelatory as it goes on.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n\u201cPolitico 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. Turns out that story was closer to disinformation because the Hunter Biden laptop appeared to be true,\u201d he observed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut then Facebook also pulled all stories down about the Hunter Biden laptop, and I think Twitter did at the same time, too,\u201d jumped in Palmeri.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCorrect, they punished The New York Post, that didn\u2019t help. I mean, Politico, my former employer and I knew at the time, didn\u2019t do itself any favors,\u201d said Caputo. \u201cI was covering Biden at the time, and I remember coming to my editor and saying, \u2018Hey, we need to write about the Hunter Biden laptop.\u2019 And I was told this came from on high at Politico: Don\u2019t write about the laptop, don\u2019t talk about the laptop, don\u2019t tweet about the laptop. And the only thing Politico wound up writing was that piece that called it disinformation, which charitably could be called misinformation, at the least.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, I mean, I had a hard time \u2014 you know I wrote some pretty serious reporting on Hunter Biden, which actually ended up getting him prosecuted \u2014 the story on the gun\u201d replied Palmeri, delving into her own trouble to publish stories that could hurt the elder Biden\u2019s political prospects.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On March 25, 2021, Palmeri and her colleague, Ben Schreckinger, wrote a story with the headline, \u201cSources: Secret Service inserted itself into case of Hunter Biden\u2019s gun.\u201d (That story is now behind a paywall.) On September 14, 2023 \u2014 nearly two-and-a-half years later \u2014 the U.S. Department of Justice charged the president\u2019s son with making a false statement in the purchase of a firearm, making a false statement related to information required to be kept by Federal Firearms Licensed Dealer, and possession of a firearm by a person who is an unlawful user of or addicted to a controlled substance. He was convicted on all three charges on June 11, 2024. Hunter Biden was scheduled to be sentenced on December 12, 2024, but after emphatically promising for more than a year that he would not pardon his son, on December 1, President Biden pardoned his son for all crimes committed between January 1, 2014, and December 1, 2024, announced it via a brief written statement, took no questions, and then flew to Angola.<\/p>\n<p>Back to the Caputo and Palmeri conversation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n. . . I spent three months on it, I went to the laptop shop, and I did all of the reporting in Delaware, and I did all of that. But yeah it had, it had to be like much, it had to be 100% nailed down. I had everything, you know, the police reports, every, like, you know, I\u2019m a solid reporter. But I do wonder if it could have, if it would have been published a little quicker if it was a different type of story,\u201d reflected Palmeri. \u201cIt was the beginning of his administration, it was a honeymoon period \u2014 you know what I mean?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince we\u2019re spilling tea about our former employer, I still have a copy of the story on my external hard drive. In 2019, a rival presidential Democratic campaign of Joe Biden\u2019s gave to me the tax lien \u2014 the oppo research \u2014 the tax lien on Hunter Biden for the period of time that he worked at Burisma,\u201d recalled Caputo. \u201cAnd I wrote what would have been a classic story saying, you know, \u2018The former vice president\u2019s 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.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat story was killed by the editors, and they gave no explanation for that either,\u201d he said. \u201cSo that general experience, you know, obviously the public doesn\u2019t know about those things, but as a reporter having witnessed the way in which the two candidates-\u201d\u201cWe just get called, like, \u2018the terrible mainstream media.\u2019 It\u2019s like you don\u2019t understand the process there,\u201d interjected Palmeri.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, you also don\u2019t understand the dumb decisions of cowardly editors that are made above us,\u201d agreed Caputo. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For what it\u2019s worth, Politico called the accounts of Caputo and Palmeri \u201ca case of false memory.\u201d The fact that they both remembered editors at Politico either refusing to run or dragging their feet on running stories critical of the Biden family makes it hard to believe this was misremembered or an isolated case.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Geraghty writes: We always knew that large swaths of the mainstream media were going to treat Joe Biden with kid gloves for much of his presidency. 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