On Oct. 14, 2020, The New York Post published an exclusive, blockbuster story that flew in the face of then vice-president Joe Biden’s claim he had never spoken to his son, Hunter, about the latter’s overseas business dealings..According to emails obtained by The Post, Hunter introduced Joe to Vadym Pozharskyi, a top executive at Ukrainian energy firm, Burisma, less than a year before the elder Biden pressured government officials in Ukraine into firing a prosecutor who was investigating the company..Hunter Biden was on the Burisma board of directors at a reported salary of US$50,000 a month..An earlier email from May 2014 shows Pozharskyi asking Hunter for “advice on how you could use your influence” on the company’s behalf..Less than eight months after Pozharskyi thanked Hunter Biden in an email for the introduction to his dad, Joe Biden admitted to pressuring Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk into getting rid of prosecutor General Viktor Shokin by threatening to withhold a US$1 billion loan guarantee during a December 2015 trip to Kiev..“I looked at them and said: I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money,” the elder Biden infamously bragged to the Council on Foreign Relations in 2018..“Well, son of a bitch. He got fired.”.The email obtained by The Post was just a small piece of a massive trove of data recovered from a laptop computer Hunter dropped off at a repair shop in the state of Delaware in April 2019, which he never returned to pick up.. Hunter emailHunter email .Other material extracted from the computer included a raunchy, 12-minute video that appears to show Hunter, who’s admitted to struggling with addiction problems, smoking crack while engaged in a sex act with an unidentified woman, as well as numerous other sexually explicit images, according to The Post’s story..The material was exposed in a series of articles that were ignored by the mainstream legacy media which either refused to acknowledge the laptop story, or claimed it was Russian disinformation, well into this year..Social media was also complicit in the cover up..When The Post tweeted a link to the story, Twitter suspended its account, saying the story violated its rules against "hacked" materials. Facebook also limited sharing of the story..The day after Twitter blocked The Post's stories, then-CEO Jack Dorsey posted that "straight blocking of URLs was wrong, and we updated our policy and enforcement to fix.".However, The Post's account remained locked for weeks, with Twitter demanding the Hunter Biden laptop tweets be deleted..At the time, Donald Trump was facing off with Joe Biden to become president of the United States and many voices have been raised saying the election results would likely have been different if the computer had been given full coverage..In a survey in August by Technometrica Institute of Policy and Politics, 78% of Americans said Trump would have won the 2020 presidential election if voters had known the truth about Hunter Biden's laptop..A Rasmussen Reports poll in September showed 63% of likely voters said the story is "important," including 44% saying the story is "very important.".Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., the ranking member on the House Oversight Committee, which just announced a full investigation into Hunter Biden, wrote to Elon Musk in October, asking that he provide all company documents related to the social media company's suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story.."We believe open communication and access to information is a fundamental principle for any free people, and the American people deserve to know the reason Twitter suppressed or censored the Biden laptop story shortly before the 2020 election," Comer wrote to Musk.."Committee Republicans are concerned Twitter inappropriately censored the Hunter Biden laptop story to influence the 2020 Presidential Election.".On Wednesday, Musk agreed Twitter should release all internal discussions concerning the censoring of The Post's story that exposed information on Hunter Biden's laptop before the 2020 presidential election..Musk commented on a post that asked followers to "raise your hand if you think @Elonmusk should make public all internal discussions surrounding the censorship of the Post's coverage.”."This is necessary to restore public trust," Musk tweeted late Wednesday night.
