White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre refused to comment on whether the president’s 2020 campaign communicated with Twitter, after it was revealed that there had been at least some correspondence with the social media giant.
Jean-Pierre continued to deflect questions about the bombshell “Twitter Files” report, calling it a “distraction” on Monday, “old news” during her press briefing on Tuesday, and declined to comment on Wednesday when asked if Biden’s team ever communicated with the Twitter team that Hunter Biden’s laptop was hacked, either formally or informally.
“I can’t speak to decisions made by the campaign from here. It was a political campaign, so I can’t speak to that from here – I’m covered by the Hatch Act,” Jean-Pierre said, invoking an excuse for not answering reporters’ questions.
“So I’m just not going to comment on the question that you’re asking me,” the press secretary added.
However, she did defend Twitter’s previous management and it’s right to make company policies related to the moderation of content.
The “Twitter Files,” as they have been called, revealed that Twitter, in October 2020, used their policy on “hacked materials” to knowingly suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story, claiming without proof that the hard drive was infiltrated by foreign agents.
Internal communications at Twitter show that at least one government official, the FBI, and several individuals with ties to Biden were involved with or aware of the story being suppressed.
Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH) claimed on Wednesday that government officials had at least an “indirect” role in suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop story, vowing to get to the bottom of the FBI’s involvement in hiding the story.
Twitter Files author Matt Taibbi said that the government was not directly involved in covering up and suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop story.
“[T]here’s no evidence – that I’ve seen – of any government involvement in the laptop story. In fact, that might have been the problem,” Taibbi wrote in his lengthy thread kicking off the Twitter Files on Friday.
Rep. Jordan will be serving as chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and intends to open up a slew of probes, including into the president’s son, Hunter Biden.
In addition, Taibbi added to the Twitter Files on Tuesday, revealing that Twitter Deputy General Counsel Jim Baker, who formerly worked as FBI general counsel, was “vetting” files without the knowledge of Twitter’s new leadership.
Taibbi explained that he and author Bari Weiss had been encountering “obstacles” for new searches, discovering that Baker was “the person in charge of releasing the files.”
Baker was promptly fired by Twitter’s new CEO Elon Musk the same day.
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