Twitter blocked users from sharing a link to the story for a little over two weeks, citing violations of its policy about hacked material.
(Some were dismissed on merits.) Raskin, constitutional law prof, isnt having it. Gaetz pushes the talking point about dismissals on procedural grounds. Raskin pressed Gaetz on fact that the pro-Trump post-election lawsuits failed, even among his appointees. Letters from the committee’s Republicans requesting information from Facebook and Twitter said that the companies “knowingly and deliberately used its platform to control election-related information accessible to the American people shortly before the 2020 election, and that Twitter did so to the primary benefit of then-Vice President Biden.”Īt the height of the 2020 campaign season, the New York Post published a story about “smoking gun” emails from Hunter Biden’s laptop that included communications with Ukrainian executives. Tweet text: Adam Klasfeld KlasfeldReports Rep. House Judiciary Republicans on Thursday launched an investigation into Facebook and Twitter for suppressing a New York Post article about the story in 2020, building on document preservation requests that Rep. At the time, there were widespread concerns about the authenticity of the contents and concerns that the material was hacked. The contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop first came to light in 2020 after former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, then serving as President Trump’s personal attorney, gave information to the New York Post, saying that they came from a laptop that Hunter Biden left at a Delaware computer repair shop. Later in the hearing, “after consultation with majority staff,” Gaetz successfully entered into the record “content from, files from, and copies from the Hunter Biden laptop.” The request prompted discussion between Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) and his staff, who objected to the request pending further investigation. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) during that hearing requested to enter the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop into the congressional record. Holding an external hard drive in his hand, Rep. Vorndran repeatedly answered that he had no information about it. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) last week presented records of Biden’s dealings with a Chinese company on the Senate floor, part of a probe by the senators into the Biden family’s business dealings.Īt a Tuesday oversight hearing, Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee asked Bryan Vorndran, assistant director of the FBI’s cyber division, about Hunter Biden’s laptop. It’s also likely a sign of what’s to come if Republicans win back the House and Senate majorities this fall - which would given them the chair’s gavels on panels and subpoena power.
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