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A former FBI employee is likely to take the hot seat after it was revealed over the weekend that FBI officials had weekly meetings with Twitter prior to the 2020 election in order to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story.
Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., joined “Fox & Friends First” Monday to discuss why James Baker, a former FBI general counsel previously involved in the Russia collusion investigation, will now likely face questioning before Congress after becoming Twitter’s deputy counsel.
“Baker and [former Twitter executive] Vijaya Gadde are probably the two most high-profile Twitter employees that we want to hear from,” Comer told co-hosts Ashley Strohmier and Griff Jenkins. “My advice to them is, prior to coming before the Oversight Committee in January or February, as quick as we can get them in front of the oversight committee, is they need to look very hard to try to find evidence as to why they suppressed this story.”
FBI officials reportedly met with Twitter employees weekly leading up to the 2020 election, briefing them on “hack-and-leak operations” pertaining to Hunter Biden.
These warnings came ahead of Twitter censoring the New York Post’s bombshell October 2020 report on Hunter Biden’s business dealings found on his laptop, citing its “hacked materials” policy. At the time, the FBI had been in possession of his laptop for nearly a year.
“This was a cover-up at the highest levels of the government to protect Joe Biden,” Comer said. “Let’s remember what they’re protecting here. They’re protecting the laptop and the contents of the laptop, which show not only did Joe Biden know full well what his son and his brothers were doing with respect to influence peddling with our adversaries, it shows that Joe Biden was very involved with this effort and this is something that should concern every American.”
Comer, who is set to chair the House Oversight Committee when the GOP takes control next month, insisted there is more information to come on Big Tech’s censorship of conservative voices after Twitter CEO Elon Musk released the bombshell Twitter files over the weekend…. (Read more)
