The following is an excerpt from Just The News.
Records newly released by the National Archives show efforts to suppress negative stories about the Biden family’s business deals long predate the Hunter Biden laptop controversy, dating back to 2015 when an aide to then-Vice President Joe Biden boasted she got a reporter to “only use” negative information “if her editors hold a gun to her head.”
The emails come from the Obama administration archives and were forced into the public through litigation by the America First Legal nonprofit public interest law firm. They chronicle efforts by Biden’s then-aides in the vice president’s office to suppress stories about Huter Biden’s relationship with the Ukraine energy compamy Burisma Holdings during a Biden trip to Ukraine in December 2015.
Stephen Miller, the president of America First Legal, said the records suggest the news media has been complicit in burying negative news about the Biden family for at least a decade.
“Joe Biden and the Biden vice presidency were intimately involved in the Hunter Biden Burisma affair,” Miller said on the Thursday edition of the “Just the News, No Noise” TV show. “They were intimately aware of it. They were intimately aware of the ethical objections, and they were intimately involved in trying to spin and control the press about it.”
You can read the full set of released documents at this link: NARA-Release-2_Supplement.pdf
The records obtained by Miller’s group reveal that Joe Biden personally approved quotes in December 2015 to address his son’s overseas business dealings even though the president has claimed he had no knowledge about what his son did.
“VP signed off on this — will give this quote to both reporters in my name shortly,” then- vice presidential press official Kate Bedingfield wrote in one of the emails.
That email corroborates an audio tape released last year that captured Joe Biden calling his son to reassure him the White House had managed to quiet the story about the foreign business deals.
The emails cover a frantic month in December 2015 as reporters began asking questions about Hunter Biden’s business relationship with Burisma just as Joe Biden was heading to Ukraine for a key U.S. policy meeting.
The emails show the White House was using a strategy designed to stop some reporters from publishing by offering them quotes that downplayed the questions.
“Really frustrating,” Bedingfeld wrote as she approved some statements to be released to the inquiriung press. “That said, so long as it doesn’t elevate and trigger someone else to write, it’s actually a good and straightforward response.” (Continued…)
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