On Wednesday, Congress begins their first public hearings on President Joe Biden’s family, including his son Hunter and his ties (revealed in his infamous laptop) to foreign companies.
These hearings give the broadcast networks a new opportunity to actually cover these new developments, especially the ones linked to Joe “Big Guy” Biden.
At NewsBusters we’ve been documenting (here, here, here, here, here, here and here) how the Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) news networks have been censoring the revelations from Hunter’s laptop on their evening, morning and Sunday roundtable shows.
It’s not just the salacious stories being ignored (drug use, illegal gun possession, hookers, nude photos) that would’ve been widely covered if it was a Republican President’s son. There are the more pertinent cases that put a lie to President Biden’s 2019 claim: “I’ve never spoken to my son [Hunter] about his overseas business dealings!”
The following are 10 brand new Hunter breaking stories the networks have censored:
Finally! Hunter Admits Laptop Was His
On February 1, the New York Post reported the following:
So much for “the laptop ‘could be’ mine.”
First son Hunter Biden’s lawyers admitted late Wednesday that the infamous laptop that the now-52-year-old abandoned at a Delaware computer repair shop in the throes of his crack cocaine addiction does indeed belong to him.
The revelation came in a petulant letter from Hunter’s lawyers seeking a criminal probe into what they called attempts to “weaponize” its contents.
In the 14-page letter to Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings, Biden’s attorney Abbe Lowell claimed that repair shop owner John Paul Mac Isaac “unlawfully” accessed Hunter’s laptop data and worked with former President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani to “weaponize” sordid and incriminating contents on it against Joe Biden.
ABC, CBS, NBC evening and morning show coverage: 1 minute, 45 seconds. Only NBC’s February 2 Today show has covered this story, so far. NBC’s Kristen Welker reported on Hunter’s “aggressive new legal strategy” asking the Department of Justice and Delaware Attorney General to “criminally investigate some of former President Trump’s allies — you know these names Rudy Giuliani, Steve Bannon.” ABC and CBS haven’t aired a second on this latest story.
Hunter Email on Ukraine Awfully Specific, Raises Questions About His Access to Classified Docs In Biden House
On February 3, the Washington Examiner reported the following:
Some Republicans worry that Hunter Biden might have been the recipient of classified information, which he then used to advance his foreign business interests while his father was vice president.
At the center of the new questions is an April 13, 2014 email found on the laptop, of course, from Hunter Biden to business partner (and later convicted fraudster) Devon Archer. The email was sent a few months after Hunter Biden was discharged from the Naval Reserve for cocaine use.
It was an analysis of the political and business outlook in Ukraine, where both Biden and Archer were trying to secure cushy positions, for at least $50,000 per month, on the board of the corruption-plagued energy company Burisma. The email was unusually long and unusually detailed for a Hunter Biden missive. It showed a depth of knowledge and inside information about Ukraine that seem unlikely Hunter Biden would possess.
Miranda Devine, author of the book Laptop From Hell, has posted screenshots of the email. Hunter Biden began by saying he had done “some research.” He went into the Ukrainian presidential race, Russian activities and intentions, the future of Ukrainian energy exploration, International Monetary Fund loan guarantees, the possible role of Kazakhstan, the future of pipelines, European Union policy, the activities of various oligarchs, corporate structure, and much, much more.
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Putting the memo in the context of what Hunter Biden was doing at the time, [Sen. Ron] Johnson said, “It’s obvious that Hunter Biden is selling access to information. And does that have anything to do with some of the classified documents that then-Vice President Biden was squirreling away in his residence? I don’t know, but it looks incredibly suspicious.”
ABC, CBS, NBC evening and morning show coverage: 0 seconds.
Hunter Email Offered to Sell Intel on Russian Oligarchs to Alcoa
On January 30, the New York Post reported the following:
A Hunter Biden email sent to an American aluminum company and promising information on Russian oligarchs is raising fresh concerns about the first son’s access to classified documents recently discovered in his father’s Wilmington, Del., home as lawmakers prepare to investigate allegations of influence peddling.
Documents dating back to 2011 on his notorious “laptop from hell” showed Hunter offered to sell intelligence on Russian oligarchs to the US aluminum firm Alcoa Inc. for $55,000, according to The Post’s exclusive October 2021 report.
As his father served as former President Barack Obama’s second-in-command, Hunter Biden offered to provide a “statistical analysis of political and corporate risks, elite networks associated with Oleg Deripaska, the Russian CEO of Basic Element company and United company RUSAL,” which had just signed a metal supply agreement with Alcoa.
ABC, CBS, NBC evening and morning show coverage: 0 seconds.
Hunter Had a Home Office in Same Delaware House as Classified Documents
On January 28, the New York Post reported the following:
Hunter Biden apparently turned his father’s Wilmington, Del. mansion into a high-powered and possibly compromised home office, wheeling and dealing with some of the same nations whose names have turned up in classified documents recently discovered at the home, according to experts and leaked cellphone texts.
Hunter Biden listed the idyllic Wilmington home as his address following his 2017 divorce from ex-wife Kathleen Buhle — even claiming he owned the three-bed, four-and-a-half-bath lakefront property on a July 2018 background check form as part of a rental application. The home is also listed as his billing address for a personal credit card and Apple account in 2018 and 2019.
At least 12 classified documents — some dating back to President Biden’s career in the Senate — were found on its premises in recent weeks. The multiple texts and conversations from 2018 contained in Hunter’s iPhone show he apparently aimed to convert part the property into his new office.
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His presence in the home presents both a potent business opportunity — and a glaring security risk, experts said. “Having access to US classified material makes it much easier to leverage your business operations. You know things others don’t know or can’t know. That’s one very distinct possibility,” Jim Hanson, president of WorldStrat and information operations consultancy, told The Post. “He’s a degenerate junkie cavorting with foreign prostitutes. How could that go wrong in a place where a bunch of documents are stashed everywhere?” Hanson added.
ABC, CBS, NBC evening and morning show coverage: 0 seconds.
Joe Biden’s Niece Offered $85K Job from Major Biden Donor, She Called it “Below Minimum Wage”
On January 26, the New York Post reported the following:
A major donor to President Biden offered his ne’er-do-well niece a job in Los Angeles to help her get back on her feet in the summer of 2018, only for her to scoff at the $85,000 annual salary as “below minimum wage,” according to emails and text messages found on Hunter Biden’s laptop.
The drama unfolded as Caroline Biden, then 31, pleaded guilty on July 26 of that year to racking up over $100,000 in charges on a stolen credit card. She was sentenced to two years of probation, which she wanted to serve in California near her beloved cousin Hunter.
With Caroline needing a job in La-La Land for the probation department to allow her to move west, Hunter’s uncle and sometime business partner Jim Biden asked him to convince his daughter to take the offer from the Masimo Corporation, according to messages seen by the Washington Free Beacon.
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Masimo, an Orange County-based medical device company, is headed by Joe Kiani, who the Daily Mail reported donated nearly $3 million to Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign, super PAC, and inaugural committee.
ABC, CBS, NBC evening and morning show coverage: 0 seconds.
Joe Biden Named In Email Found on Hunter Laptop In Seeking Multi-Million Dollar Natural Gas Deal with China
On January 20, the UK Daily Mail reported the following:
Joe Biden was named in an email found on Hunter Biden’s laptop discussing a 25 million-ton gas deal with China, DailyMail.com can reveal exclusively.
In October 2017, Hunter and his uncle –Joe’s brother Jim Biden – were brokering a multi-million dollar deal to supply gas from Louisiana to the country on behalf of their business partners, Chinese energy giant CEFC. At the time Joe Biden had finished his term as vice president and had yet to announce any plans to run for president in 2020.
A Louisiana-based lawyer on the other side of the deal wrote in an October 27, 2017 email that he had arranged “a call from Joe Biden and Hunter Biden on Monday morning to discuss the purchase of the 5 million tons of gas.”
ABC, CBS, NBC evening and morning show coverage: 0 seconds.
Hunter Allegedly Refused to Pay Female Assistant, Unless She Sent Him Nude Pics
On January 31, the UK Daily Mail reported the following:
Hunter Biden threatened one of his cash-strapped young female staffers with withholding her pay if she didn’t FaceTime him for sex. Shocking texts between the President’s son, 52, and his young assistant, who was 29 at the time, show Hunter asking for video sex sessions and sending her cash via Apple Pay after she pleaded that she was struggling to make rent.
The woman, who DailyMail.com has chosen not to identify, worked as an assistant at Hunter’s law firm, Owasco, in 2018 and 2019. She is the fourth employee he is known to have had a sexual relationship with.
Documents on his abandoned laptop show Hunter put his lover and brother’s widow Hallie Biden on his company payroll, as well as her sister Liz Secundy, with whom he also had an affair, texts reveal. He also hired his daughter’s basketball coach, reportedly former stripper Lunden Roberts, but ended her employment and stopped responding to her messages after she told him she was pregnant with his child. Roberts eventually had to sue him for child support.
Messages and emails involving his now 33-year-old assistant first appear on Hunter’s laptop in June 2018, when he flew her from Los Angeles to Washington DC. Hunter filmed and photographed her having sex with him around that time and saved the images on his laptop. The part-time model and fitness instructor was given important administrative tasks at his company, such as receiving Burisma board documents for Hunter to sign.
ABC, CBS, NBC evening and morning show coverage: 0 seconds.
Hunter Had Access to Joe’s Corvette That Was Garaged Next to Classified Docs
On January 18, the New York Post reported the following:
Newly published photos show Hunter Biden had access to Joe Biden’s beloved Corvette that the president says was kept in a “locked garage” alongside classified documents from his time as vice president.
The pictures, obtained from Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop and verified for authenticity by the Washington Free Beacon on Wednesday, cast doubt on the 80-year-old president’s claims that the top-secret papers discovered in a garage at his 6,850-square-foot Wilmington, Delaware, mansion were properly secured.
The snaps, taken on an iPhone just outside the president’s home, show Hunter Biden in the driver’s seat of his father’s Goodwood Green 1967 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray convertible in July 2017, the newspaper reported.
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Last week, President Biden admitted that a batch of documents were found in his Delaware garage next to his prized Corvette.
ABC, CBS, NBC evening and morning show coverage: 0 seconds.
Former Intel Official Admits He Thought Hunter Laptop Story Was Real But Signed Letter Disavowing It Anyway
On January 16, the New York Post reported the following:
A former top intelligence official who signed on to a letter attacking The Post’s bombshell 2020 reporting on Hunter Biden’s laptop as Russian disinformation has now admitted he knew a “significant portion” of the recovered files “had to be real” – but doesn’t regret dismissing the exposé.
Douglas Wise, a former Defense Intelligence Agency deputy director, was one of 51 erstwhile intelligence brass who issued the public letter on Oct. 19, 2020 — five days after The Post began a series of reports on the now-first son’s shady overseas business dealings.
“All of us figured that a significant portion of that content had to be real to make any Russian disinformation credible,” said Wise — who didn’t respond when The Post reached out for an explanation in March of last year, but found his tongue when he spoke to The Australian.
The Oct. 19 letter — whose signatories included former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, former Director of National intelligence James Clapper, and former CIA Director John Brennan — went out of its way to cast doubt on the legitimacy of The Post’s scoop, devoting five paragraphs to explaining “factors that make us suspicious of Russian involvement” while slipping in the caveat that “we do not know if the emails … are genuine or not and … we do not have evidence of Russian involvement.”
ABC, CBS, NBC evening and morning show coverage: 0 seconds.
Hunter’s Art Dealer Stonewalls House GOP Investigation
On December 30, the New York Post reported the following:
First son Hunter Biden’s New York City art dealer Georges Berges is calling on Congress to give his famous client a break after getting a series of demands for information from House Republicans.
Berges, whose eponymous SoHo gallery reps the 52-year-old Hunter, has ignored three letters from incoming House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) asking for the names of art buyers and details of communications with the White House.…
“It is important that we learn who has purchased Hunter Biden’s artwork and whether the purchasers intended to benefit from President Biden’s elected office,” Comer wrote in his most recent letter to Berges. “When the son of the sitting President of the United States is the recipient of such high-dollar sums with no accountability or oversight, it raises concerns that the buyers may be purchasing the pieces with the intent of gaining favor with the Biden family.”
ABC, CBS, NBC evening and morning show coverage: 0 seconds.
The revelations keep coming and the Big Three networks keep ignoring them. There’s no question ABC, CBS and NBC have been hiding the Hunter scandals to help out their friends in the Biden administration. Can they keep censoring it, even as Congress begins daily hearings?
For this study MRC analysts looked at the ABC, CBS, NBC evening and morning shows and their Sunday roundtable programs from December 29, 2022 through the morning of February 6, 2023.
