WATCH: Fox Reporter Asks About ‘Twitter Files’ At White House Briefing — Claims They Show FBI ‘Suppressed’ Hunter Biden Story
Fox News and Fox Business correspondent Hillary Vaughn asked about the latest “Twitter Files” dump at a White House briefing, claiming it showed “the FBI was involved in suppressing” the Hunter Biden story.
Twitter CEO Elon Musk recently authorized and assisted in the release of an information dump by Matt Taibbi and several other writers that has been taken up by those concerned about the treatment of the Hunter Biden laptop story but panned by many others as an overhyped and misleading packaging of cherry-picked internal documents that did not amount to much upon further scrutiny.
At Monday’s press briefing, Vaughn asked about the latest tranche of the Twitter files, a Twitter thread by Michael Shellenberger entitled “TWITTER FILES: PART 7 The FBI & the Hunter Biden Laptop.”
Vaughn asked White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre about the claims made by Shellenberger:
MS. VAUGHN: The latest “Twitter Files” show that the intelligence community was actively involved in discrediting the Hunter Biden laptop story. Does it bother the President and those at the White House that a government agency like the FBI was involved in suppressing a legitimate news story?
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Again, I’m just going to refer you to the FBI. I’m not going to comment from here about that.
But a review of Shellenberger’s tweets, as well as the report that Vaughn filed minutes later on Fox Business, the only direct reference to Hunter Biden is from a declaration quoted by Shellenberger in which Yoel Roth says he met regularly with the feds about potential disinformation and other issues, and that “in these meetings that there were rumors that a hack-and-leak operation would involve Hunter Biden.”
The rest of Shellenberger’s thread makes the case that by warning social media companies about the potential for hack-and-leak operations, the feds — The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI — were “priming” them to treat the Hunter Biden story as a suspect.
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