Two former Politico reporters have revealed how the company would seek to kill negative stories about Joe Biden and his son Hunter.
Marc Caputo and Tara Palmeri, who now work for Axios and Puck News, discussed on her podcast Somebody’s Gotta Win how the mainstream media had lost credibility and public trust.
Among the reasons for this they say was the determination to label things as “misinformation” in order to protect Joe Biden and the Democratic Party ahead of the 2020 presidential election.
Some of the stories that were spiked by the bosses at Politico included the notorious Hunter Biden laptop story and evidence about his corrupt business dealings with the Ukrainian energy company Burisma.
Here is a transcript of their exchange:
CAPUTO: Politico did that terrible, ill-fated headline: 51 intelligence agents, or former intelligence agents, say that the Hunter Biden laptop was disinformation, or bore the hallmarks of disinformation.
Turns out that story was closer to disinformation because the Hunter Biden laptop appeared to be true.
PALMIERI: But then Facebook also pulled all stories down about the Hunter Biden laptop, and I think Twitter did at the same time, too.
CAPUTO: Correct, they punished The New York Post, that didn’t help. I mean, Politico, my former employer and I knew at the time, didn’t do itself any favors. I was covering Biden at the time, and I remember coming to my editor and saying, ‘Hey, we need to write about the Hunter Biden laptop.’
And I was told this came from on high at Politico: Don’t write about the laptop, don’t talk about the laptop, don’t tweet about the laptop. And the only thing Politico wound up writing was that piece that called it disinformation, which charitably could be called misinformation, at the least.”
PALMIERI: Yeah, I mean, I had a hard time — you know I wrote some pretty serious reporting on Hunter Biden, which actually ended up getting him prosecuted — the story on the gun” replied Palmeri, delving into her own trouble to publish stories that could hurt the elder Biden’s political prospects.
CAPUTO: Yeah! And I remember you consulted with me cause you had, you did the original report on the gun and you came to me like, ‘How do I write about this?’ I’m like, ‘Honestly, I don’t know.’
PALMIERI: Cause it was hard to get it done. I spent three months on it, I went to the laptop shop, and I did all of the reporting in Delaware, and I did all of that. But yeah it had, it had to be like much, it had to be 100% nailed down.
I had everything, you know, the police reports, every, like, you know, I’m a solid reporter. But I do wonder if it could have, if it would have been published a little quicker if it was a different type of story. It was the beginning of his administration, it was a honeymoon period — you know what I mean?”
CAPUTO: Since we’re spilling tea about our former employer, I still have a copy of the story on my external hard drive. In 2019, a rival presidential Democratic campaign of Joe Biden’s gave to me the tax lien — the oppo research — the tax lien on Hunter Biden for the period of time that he worked at Burisma.
And I wrote what would have been a classic story saying, you know, ‘The former vice president’s son was slapped with a big tax lien for the period of time that he worked for this controversial Ukrainian oil concern, or natural gas concern, which is haunting his father on the campaign trail.’
That story was killed by the editors, and they gave no explanation for that either. So that general experience, you know, obviously the public doesn’t know about those things, but as a reporter having witnessed the way in which the two candidates —
PALMIERI: We just get called, like, ‘the terrible mainstream media.’ It’s like you don’t understand the process there.
CAPUTO: Well, you also don’t understand the dumb decisions of cowardly editors that are made above us.
Watch the exchange below:
In essence, Politico acted far more as an organ of the Democratic Party propaganda machine than its supposed role as an impartial news outlet.
Now that the Biden era is over and the media have lost whatever remaining credibility they still had, we can expect to see many more revelations about how supposedly neutral networks and publishers helped tip the scales in favor of Joe Biden over the coming months and years.
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