Hunter Biden could be charged with federal crimes in a story once deemed Russian disinformation in the press, and experts discuss where it ranks in recent media scandals.
MSNBC justice correspondent Ken Dilanian said Friday it was"perfectly legal" for Hunter Biden to take money for foreign governments as long as he wasn’t inappropriately handling information from his family.That same day, CNN anchor Jake Tapper shut down Republican concerns that Big Tech’s censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop story"rigged" the 2020 election, and divided the party into two groups during his commentary.
The panel went on to claim that OPEC+cuts and gas prices were a much bigger midterm issue to most Americans. He also slammed liberal media outlets for their differing coverage of major stories involving Hunter Biden and former President Trump, especially with regard to the former’s laptop. "The media should’ve dug more into the Hunter laptop story in 2020. They didn’t because they didn’t want to hurt Joe Biden. [But] there was and still is a massive Russian disinformation campaign going on here, the goal was always to help elect Trump," he told Fox News Digital.
Liberal pundits, reporters and anchors across MSNBC, CNN, The New York Times, and more promoted the narrative that then-candidate Trumpleading up to the 2016 election, but the Robert Mueller investigation was unable to substantiate the weighty charges.
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