Republicans call for new probe into Hunter Biden laptop

A rising variety of Republicans across the nation are demanding a brand new investigation into Hunter Biden after the New York Occasions confirmed the authenticity of a laptop computer whose contents had been printed by The Put up 17 months in the past.

Although The Put up solely revealed in September 2020 the existence of Hunter Biden’s laptop computer and the possibly compromising materials contained there, the story was censored by social media firms on the behest of the Democratic Social gathering. Mainstream media shops — together with The Occasions — attacked or ignored The Put up revelations, whereas the Biden administration falsely instructed it was a part of a Russian disinformation marketing campaign.

Greater than 50 intelligence company officers publicly tried to discredit the protection saying it had “the traditional earmarks of a Russian info operation” — and none supplied any apology when contacted by The Put up this week.

Upstate Republican Rep. Claudia Tenney mentioned Saturday that the episode demanded congressional motion.

“Huge Tech’s censorship of a narrative the liberal media has now acknowledged to be true simply proves {that a} Republican Home majority should take significant motion to rein in Huge Tech censors subsequent 12 months,” she mentioned. “All choices must be on the desk, together with probes into their conduct and its influence on the Democratic course of.”

In a tweet, Saturday, Republican Nationwide Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel additionally demanded “accountability” from Huge Tech on the difficulty.

“It’s unhappy. We’re all speaking about disinformation in Russia and different totalitarian nations and we’re studying that we’ve got it proper right here at house,” Staten Island GOP Rep. Nicole Malliotakis mentioned.

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) informed The Put up, “Essentially the most fundamental accountability requires firing these accountable for the ‘Russian disinfo’ lie in regards to the Biden household’s corruption, together with and particularly the previous intelligence officers who had been elevated to the highest of cable information as a result of they pushed wild and unsubstantiated Russia conspiracy theories about President Trump.

“Moreover, Huge Tech leaders who participated in censoring the reality ought to reply to Congress and the American individuals in sworn testimony,” he mentioned Saturday.

The laptop computer — which Hunter left on the Delaware computer-repair store of John Paul Mac Isaac and contained proof that he was colluding with deep-pocketed firms in China and Ukraine and giving a reduce to his father — ultimately made its option to Trump lawyer and former Mayor Rudy Giuliani. He introduced it to The Put up in September 2020. The Put up authenticated the pc and its contents in interviews with Mac Isaac and Biden cronies whose emails had been discovered on the arduous drive.

The coverup helped swing the election to Biden. Shops and social media solely admitted they had been fallacious after the election, which Biden received with 51% of the favored vote. Virtually 50 % of Biden voters knew nothing of the laptop computer scandal on the time of the election and virtually 10 % mentioned they might not have voted for Biden had they recognized, in line with a survey from The Media Analysis Heart.

Hunter Biden is already dealing with a sprawling federal probe into his tax filings and enterprise dealings world wide, the New York Occasions lastly reported this week.

“Do I really feel vindicated?” Giuliani informed The Put up Saturday. “I don’t want The Occasions to make me really feel vindicated. Even when The Occasions needed to apologize — which they wouldn’t — I might shove it proper again of their face. They’re a disgraceful publication.”

“That is simply one other instance of the media being fast to silence something that will shine a lightweight on the corrupt Biden household,” Dr. Mehmet Oz, a number one GOP Pennsylvania Senate candidate, informed The Put up. “As Pennsylvania’s subsequent Senator, I’ll assist an investigation into the findings of Hunter Biden’s laptop computer and any efforts to cowl it up.”

Authorized consultants mentioned a brand new Hunter Biden probe may probably implicate his father President Biden.

“There’s very damning proof that Hunter Biden offered his father’s entry when his father was the vice chairman of america and that’s on his laptop computer and there’s even proof that then Vice President Joe Biden could have been in on this,” mentioned Mike Davis, a former chief counsel for nominations for the Senate Judiciary Committee.

“The president wants to obviously state proper now that he won’t intrude in any federal probe into his son Hunter, and he won’t use his presidential powers — together with the pardon energy — to rescue his son if there are costs introduced in opposition to Hunter.”