{"id":1413185,"date":"2022-03-31T14:15:11","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T18:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1413185"},"modified":"2022-03-31T14:15:21","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T18:15:21","slug":"kate-bedingfields-long-disinformation-campaign-about-hunter-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kate-bedingfields-long-disinformation-campaign-about-hunter-biden\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate Bedingfield&#039;s Long Disinformation Campaign About Hunter Biden"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fkate-bedingfields-long-disinformation-campaign-about-hunter-biden%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=1413185&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--><p class=\"subheading\">Reporters welcomed White House communications director Kate Bedingfield to the briefing room on Tuesday, despite her long history of misinformation about President Joe Biden\u2019s son Hunter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know I am not the redhead you\u2019re accustomed to seeing at this podium,\u201d Bedingfield joked at the top of the briefing, as she filled in for the coronavirus-stricken press secretary Jen Psaki. \u201cBut I hope you will hang with me nonetheless.\u201d<\/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<p>Bedingfield is a familiar face on team Biden, serving him for years including in 2015, when the Hunter Biden story about his corrupt ties to the Ukrainian energy company Burisma first hit the <em>New York Times.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Bedingfield\u2019s response to the scandal then is familiar to reporters still asking questions about it today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHunter Biden is a private citizen and a lawyer,\u201d she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/12\/09\/world\/europe\/corruption-ukraine-joe-biden-son-hunter-biden-ties.html\">said<\/a> at the time, insisting that Biden had no involvement with Burisma and was an anti-corruption crusader.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_20466002\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-1317858004.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki (L) and White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfield (R) wait for President Joe Biden to deliver remarks on the COVID-19 response and vaccination program in the Rose Garden of the White House on May 13, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Alex Wong\/Getty)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Returning to team Biden for his 2020 presidential campaign, Bedingfield repeatedly defended Hunter from growing scrutiny over his connections with foreign business deals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s not forget that this was covered on A22 of The Times in 2015, because it did not fall outside the White House\u2019s ethical guidelines and was simply not a major story,\u201d Bedingfield said for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/nation-world\/what-joe-biden-actually-did-in-ukraine\">another<\/a> 2019 New York Times article on Hunter\u2019s role in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The renewed focus on the story, she claimed, was only because of Trump who she insisted was \u201clying\u201d about the Biden family and Hunter\u2019s role in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>She taunted the New York Times for covering the story, accusing them of laying out additional scrutiny on the family on behalf of Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s different now?\u201d she asked. \u201cIt\u2019s that Donald Trump is aggressively lying about it every day in the hopes that it winds up on the front page.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">After all the lies, coordination, and working arm-in-arm with extreme-Left Big Tech right before the election, the Establishment Media FINALLY admits the bombshell Hunter Biden laptop is authentic. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qmbxuVuX8t\">https:\/\/t.co\/qmbxuVuX8t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1509366255567974404?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 31, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Biden disinformation campaign continued in 2020, as the team tried to pre-empt Trump\u2019s attacks on Hunter before the final presidential debate.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIf we see tonight from Donald Trump these attacks on Vice President Biden\u2019s family, I think we need to be very, very clear that what he\u2019s doing here is amplifying Russian misinformation,\u201d Bedingfield <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KThomasDC\/status\/1319344962773929990\">told<\/a>\u00a0reporters before the debate.<\/p>\n<p>Bedingfield <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2020-election\/live-blog\/2020-10-22-trump-biden-election-n1244210?icid=election_nav\">said<\/a>\u00a0Trump was acting as a \u201cbully\u201d by attacking Hunter Biden and the family and taunted the opposing campaign for featuring it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBe our guest,\u201d she said. \u201cHe\u2019s been trying to land this for 18 months. It got him impeached. It hasn\u2019t worked.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>When asked about Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop, Bedingfield <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2020-election\/live-blog\/2020-10-22-trump-biden-election-n1244210?icid=election_nav\">said<\/a> she wouldn\u2019t even \u201cdignify\u201d the question with a comment.<\/p>\n<p>The latest confirmation of the authenticity of the laptop by the<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/16\/us\/politics\/hunter-biden-tax-bill-investigation.html\"> New York Times<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0<em>The<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/31\/wapo-admits-hunter-profited-4-8m-from-chinese-energy-deal\/\"><em>Washington Post,<\/em><\/a> and even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/03\/30\/politics\/hunter-biden-federal-investigation-heats-up\/index.html\">CNN<\/a> raises the pressure for the Biden team to finally respond to some more questions.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The feckless Establishment Media have blocked and tackled for years for Hunter and Joe Biden\u2013and they&#8217;re not stopping now. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6vAp6msO9f\">https:\/\/t.co\/6vAp6msO9f<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1509521855484510215?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 31, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Bedingfield is scheduled to be at the White House podium on Thursday but her time to be held accountable on camera for her lies and disinformation is limited to when Psaki returns from coronavirus leave.<\/p>\n<p>When asked by Trump\u2019s recent call for Russian President Vladimir Putin to release any damaging information he had about Hunter Biden and the Biden family, Bedingfield had a prepared answer to make the president\u2019s long-time scandal all about Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat kind of American, let alone an ex-president, thinks that this is the right time to enter into a scheme with Vladimir Putin and brag about his connections to Vladimir Putin?\u201d She asked. \u201cThere is only one, and it\u2019s Donald Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reporters welcomed White House communications director Kate Bedingfield to the briefing room on Tuesday, despite her long history of misinformation about President Joe Biden\u2019s son Hunter. \u201cI know I am<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"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-1413185","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\/1413185","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1413185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413185\/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=1413185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1413185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1413185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}