{"id":1762665,"date":"2022-12-05T05:08:45","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T10:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1762665"},"modified":"2022-12-05T05:08:52","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T10:08:52","slug":"former-dni-john-ratcliffe-on-twitter-files-james-baker-an-olympic-champ-on-interfering-in-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-dni-john-ratcliffe-on-twitter-files-james-baker-an-olympic-champ-on-interfering-in-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Former DNI John Ratcliffe On \u2018Twitter Files\u2019: James Baker An Olympic Champ On Interfering In Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><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%2Fformer-dni-john-ratcliffe-on-twitter-files-james-baker-an-olympic-champ-on-interfering-in-elections%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=1762665&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>Former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe reacted to Twitter\u2019s release of internal company documents late last week by saying that one of the key players in the social media company\u2019s decision to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story in 2020 is \u201cthe Michael Phelps of gold medal winning performances when it comes to election interference.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ratcliffe made the remarks during an interview on Fox News Sunday night with Trey Gowdy.<\/p>\n<p>Musk released internal company communications through journalist Matt Taibbi about the company\u2019s censorship of the story and about how the company removed tweets at the behest of the Democratic Party, a decision that he made because he said it was \u201cnecessary to restore public trust\u201d in the platform.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you happen to remember, there was a letter signed by some so-called national security and intelligence officials warning that the Hunter Biden laptop might be Russian disinformation?\u201d Gowdy asked. \u201cDo you recall that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah. So, Trey, as you know, not just me, but the Attorney General and the FBI director, we all put out statements back in October of 2020, alerting the American people that the Hunter Biden laptop was not Russian disinformation,\u201d Ratcliffe responded. \u201cAnd we did that, because we wanted the American people to be aware of the issues as they as they came up to an election, to be fully informed. And unfortunately, what we are seeing through what\u2019s happened with Elon Musk and the Twitter files, is that the truth about this issue was suppressed and lies were amplified and lies in the form of election interference from the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Adam Schiff, who said this was Russian disinformation and coordinated with former intelligence officials to amplify that lie through social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked about a Twitter employee James Baker\u2019s role in all of this and whether it was the same James Baker who was at the FBI, Ratcliffe confirmed that it was the same person.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, the same James Baker that, to remind your viewers was general counsel for Jim Comey at the FBI, who helped write an exoneration memo for Hillary Clinton before she was ever interviewed by the FBI for having hundreds of classified emails on her server, that same James Baker then met with the Clinton campaign officials to hand carry evidence, supposed evidence about Russian collusion, the Steele dossier, the Alpha bank connections with the Trump campaign into the FBI and the Department of Justice to launch an investigation that went on for years,\u201d Ratcliffe said. \u201cThat\u2019s the same James Baker that ultimately at Twitter said statements from the FBI, the Department of Justice, and the Director of National Intelligence that say this is not Russian disinformation, apparently aren\u2019t clear enough, and we need to suppress this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo yeah, I think these Twitter files are revealing that you know, James Baker is the the Michael Phelps of gold medal winning performances when it comes to election interference,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>TRANSCRIPT:<\/p>\n<p><em>TREY GOWDY: Welcome back to Sunday Night in America. The threat from China is not going away. Our next guest warned us of that two years ago. What can or should be done about China? And do you remember the Hunter Biden laptop? Some self identified national security experts said it might be Russian disinformation. Turns out it was just liberal Twitter employees trying to help a Democrat win the presidency. So that\u2019s our choice, Russian disinformation or electioneering by Twitter lawyers? Joining us now is the former Director of National Intelligence, a former congressman from the great state of Texas and a former United States Attorney, John Lee Ratcliffe. Director, let\u2019s start with China. What concerns you the most? What\u2019s the latest? What should our viewers be looking out for as it relates to China?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>JOHN RATCLIFFE, FORMER DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE: Well, I would say, Trey, that we should be most concerned about the Biden foreign policy approach to our nation\u2019s number one adversary. Look, you\u2019ve mentioned the op-ed that I wrote two years ago, if anything, I underestimated the level and timing of China\u2019s aggression. I mean, look, just four months ago, we had the Chinese Communist Party state-run media advocating to shoot down the plane carrying the Speaker of the House and members of Congress if they dared land on the island of Taiwan more than more than 100 miles from China\u2019s border. You know, China views us as an enemy or an adversary and, you know, the the current administration keeps referring to China as a competitor. And you know, until we start to take this seriously and project strength, you know, the threat of China is going to continue to get greater as time goes by.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>GOWDY: All right, Director, I want to switch gears: Do you happen to remember, there was a letter signed by<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe reacted to Twitter\u2019s release of internal company documents late last week by saying that one of the key players in the social media company\u2019s decision to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story in 2020 is \u201cthe Michael Phelps of gold medal winning performances when it comes to election &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":1762668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1762665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762665","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\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1762665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1762668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1762665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1762665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1762665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}