Last week, the New York Post published a plethora of leaked emails from Hunter Biden, showcasing his relationship with Ukraine and Ukrainian energy company Burisma.
The story made national headlines as social media companies attempted to scrub the links from their platforms, citing that the content was “misinformation.”
The article expounded upon a treasure trove cache of emails and photos allegedly retrieved from Hunter Biden’s laptop that he left at a Delaware computer store.
According to Piers Morgan,
I do know that the response from Joe Biden so far has done nothing to make me think it's false. Crucially, there has been no denial of the fact that these emails are genuine. And if they are, then they raise important questions. The potentially most explosive part of the story is a 2015 email supposedly sent by a top Burisma adviser, Vadym Pozharskyi, thanking Hunter for giving him the chance to meet his dad Joe while he was Vice-President.
Joe Biden has continually denied these claims, which makes one believe if he has been lying to the American public the entire time.
Piers Morgan took notice to the Biden campaign response to the emails, and alleged meetings that took place between Joe Biden and a Burisma executive.
Biden campaign spokesman Andrew Bates responded to the Post allegation by saying: 'We have reviewed Joe Biden's official schedules from the time and no meeting, as alleged by the New York Post, ever took place.'
I'm not a lawyer, but this sounds to me like a very narrow form of wording designed to allow some wriggle room should proof of such a meeting emerge.
In another email, a reference is made to “the Big Guy” who will receive a 10% equity deal from a Chinese equity firm.
Again, I don't know if this is true. But the Biden's camp statement was also very revealing for what it didn't say: i.e. that the emails are fake, or that 'the big guy' isn't Joe Biden. Without any such denials, we're inevitably led to the conclusion that they may be real, and if they're real, then how does Joe Biden explain them without confirming he has misled the American people about his involvement with Hunter's inarguably dodgy dealings with foreign national firms in Ukraine and China
Following the explosive release of this article by the New York Post, social media outlets were quick to label it as fake news and suspend users for posting the link to the article.
Just hours after the Post story appeared, Facebook announced it would be limiting its spread on the social media platform while it used independent fact-checkers to verify the paper's allegations. Even more extraordinarily, Twitter than summarily banned anyone from posting a link to the story, including the New York Post itself. By taking these unprecedented actions, the tech firms were effectively abandoning any pretence at protecting free speech or the First Amendment.
Biden has failed to address if the emails or genuine or not. He has danced around the question, or laughed if off in a self righteous manner.
If you are running for the highest office in the land, you are expected to answer the tough questions.
US mainstream and social media companies have reacted to this story in an outrageously partisan and deeply sinister manner that is diametrically opposed to how they would have reacted if the name 'Biden' was swapped for 'Trump.' Shame on all of them. And when Trump, as he surely will, starts beating Biden over the head with the allegations in the final debate on Thursday, will the NBC moderator hold the former Vice President to an answer or will she let him off the hook? Because so far the way Joe Biden's reacted to it smacks of someone with something to hide. And this issue is not going to just disappear if he wins the presidency. The Republicans will use it as a stick to constantly beat him with just as they used Whitewater against the Clintons, and just as the Democrats themselves used alleged Russian collusion against Trump. Sooner or later, the truth will out.
To read the full story, visit Daily Mail.
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