{"id":1410982,"date":"2022-03-30T17:14:57","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T21:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1410982"},"modified":"2022-03-30T17:15:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T21:15:00","slug":"media-fail-to-question-white-house-spox-who-called-hunter-biden-laptop-russian-misinformation-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-fail-to-question-white-house-spox-who-called-hunter-biden-laptop-russian-misinformation-in-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Fail to Question White House Spox Who Called Hunter Biden Laptop &#039;Russian Misinformation&#039; in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmedia-fail-to-question-white-house-spox-who-called-hunter-biden-laptop-russian-misinformation-in-2020%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1410982&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The White House press corps failed Wednesday for the second day in a row to ask White House communications director Kate Bedingfield about Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop story, now verified by several major media outlets despite her earlier denials.<\/p>\n<p>As Breitbart News has previously reported:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In October 2020, Bedingfield, serving as\u00a0Deputy Campaign Manager and Communications Director for Joe Biden, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/10\/22\/biden-campaign-claims-hunter-biden-bombshells-russian-misinformation\/\">told<\/a> reporters that stories about Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop were \u201cRussian misinformation.\u201d She accused President Donald Trump specifically: \u201cI think we need to be very, very clear that what he\u2019s doing here is amplifying Russian misinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Biden campaign applauded social media companies like Twitter and Facebook for suppressing stories about the laptop \u2014 and even blocking the news outlets that published those stories \u2014 though the stories later turned out to be true.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Bedingfield appeared Tuesday and Wednesday in place of White House spokesperson Jen Psaki and deputy spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre, who are absent due to positive coronavirus tests.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Wednesday, the Washington Post reported that it had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2022\/03\/30\/hunter-biden-laptop-data-examined\/\">verified<\/a> the data on Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/30\/hunter-biden-china-laptop\/\">reported<\/a> that he had shady business deals with Chinese companies, trading on his father\u2019s name to earn millions of dollars. These stories were initially <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/10\/14\/email-reveals-how-hunter-biden-introduced-ukrainian-biz-man-to-dad\/\">reported<\/a>\u00a0in October 2020 by the\u00a0<em>New York Post<\/em>, Breitbart News, and other outlets, but were suppressed by the establishment media and by big tech companies. Disgraced former CNN president Jeff Zucker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/the-media\/2022\/03\/30\/cnn-admits-hunter-bidens-laptop-is-authentic-532-days-after-initial-reporting\/\">dismissed<\/a> the laptop story at the time as a \u201cBreitbart \u2026 rabbit hole,\u201d and CNN\u2019s Brian Stelter was among many journalists who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/2020-election\/2020\/10\/21\/dont-you-dare-cnns-brian-stelter-defends-media-ethics-on-russia-collusion-hoax\/\">applauded<\/a> the censorship.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, CNN finally admitted that the laptop stories were true, following the\u00a0<em>Washington Post<\/em> story, which added forensic evidence to the\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>\u2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/16\/us\/politics\/hunter-biden-tax-bill-investigation.html\">admission<\/a> earlier this month, without additional evidence, that the stories were true.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">CNN: \u201cHunter Biden was trading on his father&#8217;s name to make a lot of money.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Joe Biden knew about this and let it happen. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qIpUOq6nRh\">pic.twitter.com\/qIpUOq6nRh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1509175391105265671?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 30, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The\u00a0<i>Washington Post<\/i>\u2018s own White House correspondent also failed to ask Bedingfield about the Hunter Biden story:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Not a single question in today&#8217;s White House briefing about the Washington Post story authenticating Hunter Biden&#8217;s laptop. Not even by the Post itself.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomBevanRCP\/status\/1509251931457433601?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 30, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Psaki also falsely <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jrpsaki\/status\/1318382779659411458\">called<\/a> the Hunter Biden laptop \u201cRussian disinfo,\u201d citing a letter by 50 former U.S. intelligence officials. She has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/17\/jen-psaki-refuses-to-confirm-authenticity-of-hunter-biden-laptop\/\">dodged<\/a> questions since, though materials on the laptop <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/10\/15\/emails-reveal-how-hunter-biden-tried-to-cash-in-big-with-chinese-firm\/\">implicate<\/a> President Joe Biden in his son\u2019s financial dealings.<\/p>\n<p><em>Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of <\/em>Breitbart News Sunday<em> on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the recent e-book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Neither-Free-nor-Fair-Presidential-ebook\/dp\/B08PNN54BB\">Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election<\/a>. His recent book, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.centerstreet.com\/titles\/joel-b-pollak\/red-november\/9781546099840\/\">RED NOVEMBER<\/a><em>, tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joelpollak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@joelpollak<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House press corps failed Wednesday for the second day in a row to ask White House communications director Kate Bedingfield about Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop story, now verified by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1410982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1410982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1410982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1410982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1410982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}