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In my new book, Ashli: The Untold Story of the Womenof January 6, I profile ten women who went to Washington that day, only eight of whom survived. In trying to discern what prompted these women to drive as long as 35 hours to attend the “Save America” rally, I saw one common theme continue to surface.
Lisa Eisenhart spoke for many when she told the London Times on January 7, 2021, “If they’re going to take every legitimate means from us, and we can’t even express ourselves on the Internet, we won’t even be able to speak freely, what is America for?”
On the day before she was shot and killed, Ashli Babbitt made a similar point when she retweeted a post from @FJD1911. It read simply, “I’m a small fry and I’m being censored.” No single act of censorship enraged the future J6ers, I discovered, as did the the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story.
After five years of successfully deceiving at least half of the American people, the apparatchiks of the Democrat-media-intel community matrix asked America to accept the most flagrant disinformation campaign in anyone’s memory.
There was nothing spontaneous about it. On October 14, when they saw the New York Post headline, “Smoking-Gun Email Reveals How Hunter Biden Introduced Ukrainian Businessman to VP Dad,” their operatives were ready to roll.
The apparatchiks had known since December 2019 that this story might drop. That was when Mac Isaac alerted the FBI to a laptop Hunter Biden had abandoned at his computer repair shop in Delaware. Before handing it over, Isaac made a copy of its contents. Had he not done so, we would still be unaware of the role the “Big Guy” played in the Biden family’s seamy global enterprises.
In an August 2022 interview with Joe Rogan, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg casually shared the inside scoop on how Facebook came to defuse the New York Post bombshell. Fearing the story might break at any time, the FBI reached out to Facebook, Twitter, and other social media platforms well before the 2020 election and warned them of a potential Russian pre-election “hack and dump” operation.
On the day the Post story broke, representatives from the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force met with Facebook execs. As would later be confirmed at a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing, and even more emphatically at the current Hunter Biden trial, the FBI knew the laptop was, in fact, Hunter Biden’s.
Zuckerberg did not need to have his arm twisted. He and his wife, Priscilla Chan, had already invested $300 million, in CNN’s words, toward “enhancing access to voting in the United States.” CNN failed to add that the Zuckerbucks enhanced access almost exclusively in Democratic districts.
Without protest from the FBI, Facebook promptly “deamplified” the Post story, dramatically reducing its circulation. On the same day the story broke, the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force also leaned on Twitter. The Twitter people needed little persuasion—some 98 percent of their political donations went to Democrats. They were all in for Biden, and Twitter blocked not only the Post story but also the Post itself.
At a House Judiciary Committee hearing, James Baker, the disgraced FBI general counsel who took a comparable job at Twitter months before the 2020 election, was asked about his role in silencing the Post. To virtually every salient question regarding the laptop, Baker pleaded memory loss.
“You were entrusted with the highest level of power at Twitter, but when you were faced with the New York Post story, instead of allowing people to judge the information for themselves, you rushed to find a reason why the American people shouldn’t see it,” said committee chair James Comer. “You did this because you were terrified of Joe Biden not winning the election in 2020.”
The apparatchiks were just warming up. A May 10, 2023, report by the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of Intelligence filled in the details of the plot’s master stroke. It was hatched on October 17, 2020, when Biden campaign advisor—now secretary of state—Antony Blinken contacted Michael Morell.
Morell had served as acting director of the CIA under Obama. At Blinken’s request, Morell began assembling the draft of a statement that would dismiss this epic October surprise as more of the same old Russian disinformation.
Morell had a motive. He was in the running for the post of CIA director. Needing a Biden win to secure it, Morell went to work lining up co-conspirators. “Thereafter,” reads the subcommittee report, “Morell contacted several former intelligence officials to help write the statement, solicit cosigners, and help with media outreach.”
On October 19, Morell emailed Nick Shapiro, his former deputy chief of staff, asking him to place the statement in major publications. “On background,” Shapiro was to tell reporters that Morell, in talking to Russian intel experts, “was struck by the fact that all of them thought Russia is involved here.” In truth, Morell had talked to no Russian intel experts before organizing the draft.
Politico bit first, running a story on October 19 under the bold headline, “Hunter Biden Story Is Russian Disinfo, Dozens of Former Intel Officials Say.” As Morell testified to the House subcommittee, one major purpose of the statement was “to help Vice President Biden in the debate.” In an October 19, 2020, email, Morell told former CIA director John Brennan he wanted to “give the [Biden] campaign, particularly during the debate on Thursday, a talking point to push back on Trump on this issue.”
During the October 23 debate, when Trump played the laptop card, Biden countered with the Russia card as planned. “Look, there are fifty former National Intelligence folks who said that what this, he’s accusing me of is a Russian plan,” said a well-rehearsed Biden. “They have said that this has all the characteristics—four—five former heads of the CIA, both parties, say what he’s saying is a bunch of garbage. Nobody believes it except him, his, and his good friend Rudy Giuliani.”
In an estimate more conservative than many, Trump pollster John McLaughlin found that 4.6 percent of Biden voters would not have voted for Biden if they had known about the contents of Hunter’s laptop. Even if those people had simply not voted, their absence at the polls would have handed several swing states to Trump.
Kept purposefully in the dark, too many Americans chose to believe Biden and his co-conspirators. “On November 3, 2020, the American people went to the polls to elect the president of the United States with the false impression that Hunter Biden’s laptop was Russian disinformation,” the House subcommittee concluded three years too late. “The American people cannot get back the 2020 election.”
The J6ers wanted the election back in January 2021. “The thing that propelled us,” said J6er Christine Priola of herself and her fellow protestors, “is that we were tired of not being heard.” Christine is one of the six women I profile who have been imprisoned. Two, including a great grandmother, await sentencing. Two more—Ashli Babbitt and Rosanne Boyland—were killed that day. The most overt criminal act any of the ten committed was to break a window.
Meanwhile, the real criminals, the 51 intelligence officials who lied about the laptop and helped rig the election, walk around freely. So too does the man for whom they lied.
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