Remember when Trump spent the entire 2020 campaign saying China had dirt on the Biden family and everyone acted like he was ranting about UFOs? Well, according to newly revealed government documents, those warnings were apparently spot on. Whoops.
Emmy-winning investigative journalist Catherine Herridge went digging through freshly declassified materials connected to China's 2020 election influence operation and found government records that explicitly reference Chinese blackmail attempts aimed at the Biden family. The real kicker? She said it only took her a couple of hours to find them. A couple of hours! Meanwhile, the entire legacy media apparatus apparently couldn't be bothered to spend 120 minutes looking into something that might have, oh I don't know, been relevant to a presidential election.
Herridge told Katie Pavlich on NewsNation that the records were connected to the President's Daily Brief, adding that she could conclude it was probably about targeting Biden's family. She described the media's failure to investigate as "willful blindness," which is honestly the nicest way anyone has ever said "they stuck their fingers in their ears and hummed really loud."
Let's rewind to October 2020, when the New York Post dropped the Hunter Biden laptop story with documented evidence of the Biden family's financial connections to Chinese Communist Party linked companies. What happened next was a masterclass in coordinated see no evil. Fifty one intelligence officials signed a letter calling it Russian disinformation. Twitter and Facebook buried it faster than you can say "algorithmic suppression." Network television pretended it didn't exist. And the FBI, which had possession of the laptop since December 2019, just sat there quietly while Americans headed to the polls. Cool, cool, cool.
These revelations come just one week after Trump's primetime address dropped some additional bombshells, including that China compromised 220 million American voter files, that CIA analysts intentionally watered down their assessments of Chinese election meddling, and that an FBI counterintelligence official named Nikki Floris literally described herself as running a "shadow government" to keep certain intelligence away from the White House. Nothing screams "functioning democracy" quite like that.
Herridge also connected another fun dot. Back in August 2020, Floris gave Senators Johnson and Grassley a so called "defensive briefing" supposedly about Russia. Senator Johnson believes the whole thing was engineered to steer them away from the laptop story and create a convenient framework for labeling it as disinformation before it could impact the election. Subtle stuff, really.
So let's tally this up. China had leverage over the Biden family through documented financial ties to CEFC and other CCP connected entities. Intelligence assessments flagged this. Those assessments were then buried, softened, or suppressed by career officials who apparently decided they knew better than the American voter. The FBI had the laptop. The CIA had reports. The President's Daily Brief mentioned blackmail. And the journalists who looked the other way? They owe the public one heck of an explanation. Don't hold your breath waiting for it.
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